Van Braam entered the British naval service and acted as lieutenant with Lawrence Washington, George Washington's elder half brother.
Lawrence Berry Washington (1811–1856), great-grandnephew of George Washington
Lawrence Washington, seven generations prior to George Washington and his family, arrived in Warton around 1300, and Robert Washington, Lawrence's great-grandson, is rumoured to have help build the clock tower of St Oswald's Church.
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