Warlands in the Oxford area (Noke, Fencott, Bletchingdon, Islip, Kidlington, and Buckinghamshire)

While the first reference to 'Warland' (as a type of land) appears just to the south east of Oxford, at Cowley, the first recorded references to the name Warland are in the general area to the north and north-east, including the towns and villages of Noke, Fencott, Bletchingdon, Islip and Kidlington. This page is about Warlands who lived in that area.

Sources

The information in this section has been derived from various sources as indicated below:

From 1565 - Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire

Long Crendon is around 5 kms south east of Oakley and around 10 kms west of the other locations in Oxfordshire where other Warlands were recorded - see map below.

Phillis Warland, the daughter of Edward Warland, was baptised at Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire, on 19 August 1565.

Edward Warland married Anne Freeman on 12 November 1573 in Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire on 12 November 1573. It seems likely that Edward's first wife, the mother of Phillis, died and he re-married.

Members of the Warland family are recorded in Buckinghamshire until 1690.

From 1574 - Noke

Noke is a small village, around 13 - 15 kilometres north of Oxford, surrounded by farming land.

Noke Church

There was a church at Noke at least by 1191, when a priest was first recorded. By the 1500's the Noke parish was considered quite poor and it was difficult to attract able rectors. In 1574, Robert Warland became rector of Noke. It is not known if Robert came from Noke or another location. He was not a graduate and was only considered 'tollerable' [sic], and yet he remained for 62 years until his death in 1636. 'All that is known of his ministry is that he began the parish register, and that in 1584 he was several times summoned because his chancel was ruinous. He left at his death in 1636 an estate of over £171, but he was a married man with children and his neglect of the church fabric may have been due to his family obligations.' For more information about the Noke Parish, see this page.

As noted, Robert Warland was a married man with children, it is therefore quite likely that Robert Warland is the father (or, more likely, grandfather) of at least two children born in Noke just after 1600 (possibly when the parish register started):

The closeness of the dates suggest that William was the brother of Josias.

A John Warland was buried in Noke in 1617.

Josias Warland (probably the one baptised in 1602) married Avis Page in 1630. Based on the dates, the next two Warlands to appear in the St Giles church records in Noke may be Josias and Avis' children:

A William Warland was buried in 1632 in Noke. This could be either (a) William Warland baptised in 1607, or (b) the possible child of Josias, William, who was born in 1631. He may also be William Warland of Elsfield, a Lease Holder in 1629, recorded in the 'Index of Oxfordshire People in Deeds and Charters' by Hassell (1966) (M.S. Rolls, Oxon 84) (Source: Oxford family, 1700's).

1603 and 1613 - Warland Deaths in Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire

Anna Warland, an Anglican and the relative of Thome [sic] Warland (relationship stated to be 'Uxor'), was buried at Wotton Underwood in Buckinghamshire on 28 August 1603.

Isabella Warland, whose marital status was 'vidua' (widow), an Anglican, was buried on 20 September 1613 at Wotton Underwood.

Willa Warland, whose marital status was also 'vidua', also an Anglican, was buried on 29 September 1613 at Wotton Underwood.(Ref PR246/1/1)

Around the same time, an Anne Warland was born to John Warland, baptised 24 January (year not clear).

From 1629 - Various Warlands in the Oxford area

The following information was provided by Gerald J Gracey Cox to Shirley Warland in the early 1990's. The 'Index of Oxfordshire People in Deeds and Charters' by Hassell (1966) has the following entries:

1633 - Birth of Joane Warland, Wotton Underwood

Joane Warland, the daughter of John Warland, was baptised on 13 October 1633 at Wotton Underwood.

From 1640 - Kidlington

Kidlington is about six kilometres to the north west of Noke. It is a much larger town compared with Noke. According to the Kidlington Parish Register, at least two children, probably siblings, were born in and baptised at Kidlington after 1640 to a William Warland, who may be the same person as William Warland born in Noke in 1607:

Two further Warland children were born to (as yet) unknown parents in Kidlington in 1668 and 1670:

Based on the dates they are probably brothers and may, possibly, be the children of William baptised in 1640.

1658 - Death of John Warland in Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire

John Warland, no relative shown, was buried in Wotton Underwood on 30 August 1658.

1675 and 1676 - Death of Anne Warland and William Warland in Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire

Anne Warland, the daughter of John and Elizabeth Warland, an Anglican, was buried on 23 September 1675 at Wotton Underwood.

William Warland, the son of John Warland, was buried on 27 February 1676 at Wotton Underwood.

1667 - Noke (continued)

Josias Warland, probably Avis Page's husband born in 1602, was buried in Noke in 1667.

From 1676 - Noke (continued)

In 1676, one Robert Warland married Jane Bignell in Noke. Three children born or baptised soon after this date may be the children of Robert and Jane:

Three Warlands were buried in 1685 in Noke:

The following Warland deaths were recorded in Noke from 1691 to 1753:

1683 - Death of Thomas Warland in Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire

Thomas Warland, no relative shown, was buried in Wotton Underwood on 1 April 1683.

1690 - Death of John Warland in Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire

John Warland, no relative shown, was buried in Wotton Underwood on 15 February 1690. (Ref PR246/1/2)

From 1744 - Fencot - Edmund Warland marries Mary Johnson

Fencot is small village about five kilometres north east of Noke. Based on names and dates it appears possible that Robert Warland, the son of Robert Warland and Jane Bignell and baptised in Noke on 12 November 1680, may have moved to Fencot in the late 1600s where he married and had a son named Edmund Warland. One Edmund Warland was recorded as an apprentice to John Paxton, Woolmen's Company, in 1710.

Edmund Warland (date of birth not known) married Mary Johnson of Murcot possibly in Fencot around 1745. Edmund Warland was certainly living in Fencot before 1746.

Edmund and Mary Warland had the following children:

From 1754 - Noke - Robert Warland marries Jane Andrews

A Robert Warland married Jane Andrews in Noke in 1754. It is not yet known if or how Robert Warland is linked with the other people on this page. They may be the Robert and Jane Warland who both appear to have died in Noke in 1762.

1762 to 1770 - Deaths in Noke

The following Warland deaths were recorded in Noke from 1762 to 1770:

From 1771 - Fencott - Edmund Warland (1746 - 1819) marries Alice Dutton

Edmund Warland (also recorded as Walland)(1746 - 1819), the eldest child of Edmund and Mary Warland (nee Johnson), married Alice Dutton (c1743 - 10 September 1821). They had four children:

1776 - Islip - John Warland (1749 - 1832) marries Sarah Jenkins

John Warland (1749 - 1832), a carpenter, the son of Edmund Warland (born around 1720s, based on other dates) and Mary Warland, appears to have moved from Fencott to Islip, about 2 kms north west of Noke, by the mid 1770s. John Warland married Sarah Jenkins/Jenkyns (c. 1746 - 1793) in Bletchington on 22 November 1776. They had the following children:

From 1781 - Bletchindon - Thomas Warland (1753 - 1831)

John Warland's brother, Thomas Warland (July 1753, bap 15 July 1753 - March 1831 at Bletchingdon) also appears to have moved to Bletchingdon. He married Ann Clark and they had the following children:

Aside from the links shown, nothing further is currently known about this family. (Census records to be checked)

1796 - Charlton on Otmoor - Edmund Warland (1771 - 1839) marries Elizabeth Smith

Edmund Warland (1771 - 1839) was the eldest son of Edmund Warland/Walland (1746 - 1819) and Alice Dutton. Edmund Warland married Elizabeth Smith (1779 - 1856) of Foscott near Idbury on 27 June 1796. They had the following children (who may have been born in Charlton-on-Otmoor or the Fencott and Murcott area near Noke, and then Noke from 1809 - see below for reasons):

January 1809 - Edmund Warland and family removed from Fencott and Mercott

Edmund Warland and his wife Elizabeth and their first six children listed above are mentioned in a church document dated 10 January 1809 (text below), indicating that, as their clearly appear to have fallen on hard times and were considered to be poor, they were to be removed from the 'Parish or Township of Fencott and Mercott' and sent 'to the said Parish of Noke'. It seems possible, given the family origins in Noke, that they were being sent 'back' to that area.

To the churchwardens and overseers of the Poor of the Parish or Township of Fencot and Mercott(?) in the said County of Oxford, and to the churchwardens and overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Noke in the said County of Oxford and to each and very one of them.

Upon the complaint of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish or Township of Fencot and (word not clear, possibly Mercot) aforesaid in the said County of Oxford unto whose Names are hererunto set and Seals affixed, being two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of Oxford and one of us of the Quorum, that Edmund Warland and Elizabeth his wife and his six children namely Mary aged twelve years, George aged ten years, Robert aged eight years, Thomas aged six years, Elizabeth aged four years and Edmund aged six months have come to inhabit in the said Parish or Township of Fencott and (?Mercott) not having gained a legal Settlement there, nor produced any Certificate, owning them to be settled elsewhere; and that the said Edmund Warland, Elizabeth his wife and his above named six Children are actually become chargeable to the said Parish or Township of Fencott and Mercott. Therefore we, the said Justices, upon due Proof made thereof, as well upon the Examination of the said Edmund Warland upon Oath, as otherwise, and likewise upon due consideration had of the Premises, do adjudge the facts to be true and do likewise adjudge, that the lawful Settlement of them the said Edmund Warland, Elizabeth his wife and his above named six children is in the said Parish of Noke in the said County of Oxford.

We do therefore require you the said Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish or Township of Fencott and (?Mercott) or some or one of you, to convey the said Edmund Warland, Elizabeth his wife and his above named six children from and out of your said Parish or Township of Fencott and Mercott to the said Parish of Noke and them to deliver to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor there, or to some or one of them, together with this our Order, or a true Copy thereof, at the same time shewing to them the Original. And we do also hereby require you the said Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Noke to receive and provide for them as Inhabitants of your said Parish.

Given under our Hands and Seals the tenth Day of January in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Nine.

See below for further information about the children of Edmund and Elizabeth Warland.

1807 - Islip - John Warland marries Elizabeth Beasley/Bazeley

John Warland (1781 - 1866), the son of Edmund and Alice Warland (nee Dutton), married Hannah Beasley/Bazeley (1770 - 1858), a nurse, in Islip on 11 June 1807. John Warland was a carpenter. They had the following children:

From 1813 - Noke unplaced individuals

The following unplaced Warland children were born in Noke after 1811, according to church registers.

Noke church registers record that a Mary Warland married William Jones in 1822, and that Jacob Warland died in 1836.

1814 - Background to Otmoor, near Noke

According to the book 'Spotlight on the Agricultural Revolution', by Christopher Martin, "Sometimes (but not often) there was violent opposition to a scheme. Otmoor in Oxfordshire (near Noke) was commonland, used by cottagers to rear large flocks of geese. In 1814, a proposal to drain and cultivate the common was torn from the church door.

One of the scheme's advocates criticized the local poor: 'In looking after a brood of goslings, a few rotten sheep, a skeleton of a cow ... they acquired habits of idleness and dissipation and dislike to honest labour'. When the enclosure was made, resentment turned to defiance: a thousand men, women and children smashed the new hedges. Troops were called and arrests made. For several years the 'war' continued, moonlit nights being a time for breaking down the fences." (From the book 'Spotlight on the Agricultural Revolution by Christopher Martin').

1816 - Kidlington - John Warland of Bletchingdon marries Elizabeth Sellwood

John Warland (1786 - ), the son of John Warland (1749 - 1832) and Sarah nee Jenkins, of Bletchingdon married Elizabeth Sellwood of Kidlington at Kidlington church on 26 February 1816 (previously noted as 16 April 1820). The pair may have had a child before they married, based on the details for their children listed below (source: St Sepulchre cemetery web page for Henry Saunders Warland):

1817 - Yarnton - John Cooper of Yarnton marries Ann Creek

This family group is included because it links with Henry Saunders Warland.

The yeoman farmer John Cooper of Yarnton married Ann Creek of Lower Heyford at Lower Heyford church on 8 November 1817. They had several children(source: St Sepulchre cemetery web page for Henry Saunders Warland):

1827 - Noke - Robert Warland marries Elizabeth Porter

Robert Warland (1801 - 1876), the son of Edmund and Alice Warland (nee Dutton), married Elizabeth Porter in Noke in 1827. They had the following children:

The parents of the following children, previously (until 3 October 2023) linked with Robert and Elizabeth Warland, is still unclear.

1835 - Islip - John Warland marries Jemima Young

John Warland (1814 - 1896), the son of John and Hannah Warland (nee Beasley), married Jemima Young (27 December 1812 - 30 October 1836) on 3 October 1835 in Islip. Jemima was the daughter of Andrew and Ann Young (nee Ash). They had one son:

Jemina Warland (nee Young) died on 30 October 1836, possibly in connection with the birth of her son John.

John Warland then married Harriett (surname not known)(about 1816 - 1900) in 1838. They had four children:

1837 - Noke - Thomas Warland marries Harriet Ward

Thomas Warland (born 1816 according to the 1841 census), a farmer, married Harriet Ward (also born in 1816 according to the 1841 census) in 1837 according to Noke church records. The identity of Thomas' parents is not yet known but it seems likely he is connected with other Noke Warlands. Thomas and Harriet Warland had two children:

1838 - Yarnton - Death of Ann Cooper (nee Creek)

Ann Cooper (nee Creek), the wife of John Cooper of Yarnton who married in 1817, was buried at Yarnton on 14 July 1838.

1839 - Death of a Warland in Noke

An unnamed Warland died in 1839 according to Noke church records.

1841 - Unplaced Oxfordshire - John Warland (born 1815) marries Arabella Warland

Although no more than speculation, an as-yet-unplaced John Warland (born 1815 in the 1841 census) married an Arabella Warland (born 1812) in Oxfordshire and had the following children, as recorded in the 1851 census. Their names (John, Thomas and Edmund) all indicate a potential connection with Noke Warlands. He could potentially be John Warland, born 1813, son of Edmund and Elizabeth Warland (nee Smith). Further research is required to confirm this.

This family, with children as listed below, appears again in the 1861 census in Warwickshire - see below.

1841 - Henry Warland (born 1820) marries Emma Beckley

Henry Warland (1820 - 1899) was the eleventh child of Edmund Warland (1771 - 1839) and his wife Elizabeth Smith (1779 - 1856) of Foscott. Henry Warland married Emma Beckley (1823 - 1860) in 1841. Henry and Emma Warland had the following children:

After the death of Emma Warland (nee Beckley) in 1860, Henry Warland married Mary Herbert (1824, Kirtlington - ) in 1862.

1841 census - Noke - Thomas and Harriet Warland

The Thomas and Harriet Warland who married in 1837 (see above) are recorded in the 1841 census along with their two children Sarah and John and a servant named Ann Beckett.

1841 census - Islip - John and Hannah Warland

John and Hannah Warland (both born 1781, married 1807) are recorded in the 1841 census at Rectory Square, Islip with their youngest son William Warland (16), their grandson John (Ash) Warland (4), and a man named William Beesley aged 90. William Beesley is almost certainly Hannah's father. Several other people are recorded in this location in the 1841 census:

Hannah is recorded living with her husband John Warland, by this date a 'pauper carpenter' in the 1851 census.

1841 census - John Cooper and family at Yarnton

John Cooper, a farmer, and three children including his daughter Ann Cooper (aged 20 who would married Henry Saunders Warland in 1847) were recorded in the 1841 census living at Yarnton.

1843 - Woodstock - William Warland (born 1824)

William Warland (believed to be the one born on 1 August 1824 to John and Hannah Warland (nee Beasley) Warland from Islip - see above) was a wheelright by trade. He married Emma Elizabeth Charlwood (also noted as Charwood) on 10 July 1843, at St Peter's Church, Oxford, UK. They then appear to have moved to Woodstock, about 10 kms west of Islip, close to Blenheim Palace.

William and Emma Warland had the following children, all born in Woodstock:

1844 - Noke - Death of Alfred Warland

Noke church registers record that an Alfred Warland died in 1844. This may have been Alfred Warland, son of Edmund and Elizabeth Warland (nee Smith) baptised on 26 May 1816.

1845 - Yarnton - Death of John Cooper

John Cooper, the farmer from Yarnton and father of Ann Cooper, was buried at Yarnton on 11 December 1845. Ann Cooper had moved to Summertown by 1847.

1846 - Henry Saunders Warland a grocer in Oxford

Henry Saunders Warland (1820 - 1909), the son of John and Elizabeth Warland (nee Sellwood), set up business as a grocer at the south end of the Woodstock Road in Oxford in 1846.

1847 - Oxford - Henry Saunders Warland marries Ann Cooper

Henry Saunders Warland, of St Giles’s parish in Oxford, married Ann Cooper of Summertown at the Summertown Church on 13 December 1847. They had the following children:

See below in 1864 for Henry Saunders Warland's second marriage.

1851 census - Oxford - Henry Saunders Warland and family

Henry Saunders Warland (aged 31), a grocer, and his wife Ann Warland (nee Cooper (aged 31) were recorded in the 1851 census living at the south end of the Woodstock Road (then called St Giles’s Road West) with their first three children: Sarah Warland (aged 3), John Warland (aged 2) and Ann Warland (aged six weeks). Henry’s younger brother Frederick Clarke Warland was also living with them, and they had a 20-year-old housemaid and a 16-year-old nursemaid.

1851 census - Oxfordshire - William and Emma Warland

Emma Warland, the wife of William Warland (born 1824, the son of John and Hannah Beasley), and her children are recorded in the 1851 census in Oxfordshire, but William appears to be in Suffolk in that year.

1851 census - Noke - Edwin Warland and siblings, and John Warland

In the 1851 census, Edwin Warland (born 1829) the son of Robert and Elizabeth Warland (nee Porter)) was recorded as a 'sawyer' (following his father's occupation perhaps). His brothers Edward Warland (born 1834) and Edmund Warland (born 1835) are recorded as agricultural labourers. Ann Warland (died 1845), Emma (born 1833) and Alice Warland are no longer recorded, but a Rhoda Warland with a birth year of 1843 (aged 8) is listed with a relationship to Robert and Elizabeth Warland.

Also in 1851, a John Warland, a scholar, is recorded as a visitor staying with John Ward, a farmer employing 10 labourers. This may be the son (bap 31 January 1841 - ) of Thomas and Harriet Warland who are not listed in this census for this location. It may be that they had left Noke for a period of time, leaving their son John to stay with John Ward.

September 1855 - Emma Warland blinded by gunshot wound

An Emma Warland was blinded by a gunshot wound in Noke in September 1855. It is believed that Emma Warland was the daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Warland (nee Porter), born in 1833.

The following is the text of the article from the Oxford Chronicle and Berk dated 15 September 1855, provided by a relative in the UK.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT FROM THE DISCHARGE OF A GUN: On Thursday afternoon week an accident occurred at Noke, near Islip, from the incautious use of fire arms, which has resulted in severe injury to a respectable young woman named Emma Warland. It appears that the unfortunate young person had left her situation in Oxford with the intention of being married, and while at home on the above day, the young man to whom she was about to be united entered her father's house, and took down a gun, which had been loaded some days, and went into the garden for the purpose of firing it into a damson tree. The gun, owing to its not having been used for some time, did not go off so soon as it should have done; the poor girl at this time came up the garden, and when about 11 yards from her lover (who was still endeavouring to cause the charge to explode), she received the full contents in her face and neck. She was immediately taken up in an insensible state, and it was found she had received very severe injury; the face was shockingly mutilated, losing several teeth, and it is feared her eye sight. Mr Tredwell, a respectable farmer, with great kindness conveyed her to the Radcliffe Infirmary, where her wounds were properly dressed, and we are happy to hear she is going on favourably. It should be also mentioned that the young man was deeply affected by the unfortunate experience.

Emma Warland subsequently gave birth to two children between 1855 and 1865. See below from 1865.

1856 - Death of Elizabeth Warland

Noke registers record the death of Elizabeth Warland in 1856. This may have been Robert Warland's wife Elizabeth (nee Porter). (It is speculation to wonder if her death was in any way indirectly the result of the injury to Emma).

1859 - Edward Warland marries Susanna Lapper (Noke)

Edward Warland (1834 - 1900), the son of Robert and Elizabeth Warland (nee Porter), married Susannah Lapper on 12 June 1859 in Noke. They had the following children:

1859 - John Ash Warland marries Elizabeth Clarke

John Ash Warland, the only son of John and Jemima Warland (nee Young), married Elizabeth Clarke in Sherborne Dorset in 1859. They had the following children:

John Ash Warland then married Elizabeth Neal (about 1837 - 31 July 1913 (will)) on 6 December 1880. A child named Ernest Frederick Neal is recorded against Elizabeth Neal; it is presumed this is a son from a previous relationship.

1861 census - Noke - Thomas and Harriet Warland, Robert and Elizabeth Warland

By the time of the 1861 census, Thomas Warland (whose parents are not yet identified) and his wife Harriet Warland appear to have returned to Noke with their daughter Sarah Warland (born 1847) and are living at number 8 ('Farm'). Thomas Warland is recorded as a 'farmer of 84 acres employing 2 men and 1 boy'. They have a George Tipping, a 'carter', living with them.

Possibly their son John Warland, the scholar recorded in 1851, is still living with John Ward ('a farmer of 400 acres employing 10 labourers') at number 29 ('Blewbury Charity Farm') but is now (curiously) recorded as a grandson, and 'farm bailiff'. It is not known how John Warland could be the grandson of John Ward unless perhaps John was Harriett's father (her maiden name was Ward).

Robert and Elizabeth Warland (nee Porter) are recorded living at number 23 with their sons Edwin Warland (a sawyer like his father) and Edmund Warland, a daughter Emma Warland, and their grandson Joseph James Warland (bap 2 January 1853 - ), a scholar. Joseph James Warland is believed to be the son of Edwin Warland (but to be confirmed)

1861 census - Oxfordshire - Emma Warland (nee Charlwood/Charwood)

By the time of the 1861 census, Emma Warland (nee Charlwood/Charwood), the wife of William Warland (born 1824) appears to have moved to Middlesex (London area) with their children. They are recorded as follows:

William Warland no longer appears in the census, suggesting he may have died by this time. However, there is a new group of Warlands in Suffolk; their relationship with William Warland's presence there in 1851 is not known. Note that presence of a Thomas Warland, aged 30, at this point; the closest match to this name in 1851 is Thomas Warland, relation of John and Mary Warland, born 1832 (aged 19) in Lancashire. It would make sense that, if Emma Warland's husband William had died, one of his relatives (a brother [possibly?) may have come to live with the family. Further research is required.

1861 census - Warwickshire - John and Arabella Warland

In the 1861 census, John Warland is recorded as a wood sawyer (an occupation common to other Warland men in the Oxfordshire area), while his wife Arabella's occupation was recorded as 'tend cramin' (meaning unknown).

Neither John nor Arabella Warland appear again in UK census results, suggesting they either died or left the UK.

1861 census - Oxfordshire - Henry Saunders Warland and family

According to the previously quoted St Sepulchre cemetery website, at the time of the 1861 census Henry Warland (aged 41) described himself as a farmer as well as a grocer. His farm was in Kidlington (probably the one belonging to his parents who were still alive). Henry and his wife were still living over their Woodstock Road shop with their children Sarah Warland (aged 12), John Warland (aged 11), Ann Elizabeth Warland (aged8), Henry Warland (aged 7), Mary Warland (aged 4), and Frederick Warland (aged 2). Henry’s brother Frederick was still living with them and working as a grocer’s assistant. The family continued to employ a nursemaid and house servant.

1863 - Death of Ann Warland (nee Cooper)

Ann Warland (nee Cooper), the wife of Henry Saunders Warland died at their Woodstock Road home at the age of 44 on 2 July 1863. She was buried at St Sepulchre’s Cemetery on 7 July 1863 (burial recorded in the parish register of St Giles’s Church).

1863 - Noke - Baptism of Edith Warland

An Edith Warland was baptised in Noke on 28 April 1863 according to Noke church records.

1864 - Henry Saunders Warland re-marries

On 29 August 1864 at All Saints Church Birmingham, the widower Henry Saunders Warland married his second wife, the widow Mrs Rebecca Sophia Holland, née Hamlyn, the youngest daughter of H. W. Hamlyn, Esq. of Winson Green near Birmingham. The marriage was announced in Jackson’s Oxford Journal. Details about Rebecca may be found on this page of the St Sepulchre Cemetery website.

Henry and Rebecca Sophia Warland had one child George Warland (1865 - 1877).

According to the St Sepulchre cemetery website, Henry Saunders Warland’s seven surviving children continued to live with him and his new wife. His daughter Mary Esther Warland attended the ladies’ seminary run by the Misses Howe and Beaufoy at 60 St Giles’s Street, and was successful in the junior section of the Oxford Local Examinations in 1870, the first year that girls were admitted; and in 1871 she passed the senior examinations.

1865 - Emma Warland (born 1833) granted a paternity order

Emma Warland (born 1833), who had been blinded by a gunshot wound in 1855, was granted a paternity order for two children in 1865 against one Joseph Jones (a labourer) and was awarded 1s 8p per week for each child. Based on the 1881 census, these children were probably:

See below from 1876 for a continuation of Emma's story

1867 - John Warland marries Jane Fanny Mayo

John Warland (born 1841), believed to be the son of Thomas Warland (parents not yet identified) and Harriett Warland, married Jane Fanny Mayo in 1867. They had five children who do not appear to have been born in Noke:

1867 - Walter Warland migrates to the United States

Walter Warland, believed to be the son of William and Emma Warland (nee Charlwood/Charwood) born in 1851 in Old Woodstock, is believed to have migrated or been taken (employed by someone) to the United States in 1867. He may be the Walter Warland, aged 16 with the occupation of 'Boy', who arrived in New York on board the Rhine (2nd Cabin, not steerage, suggesting his ticket was paid by others) on 4 November 1867. There were no other passengers on the ship named Warland so it is assumed he may have been employed by someone.

Walter's older brother Robert Kenneth Warland (born 1846), migrated to the United States in 1891. See this page on William and his older brother Robert Kenneth Warland in the United States.

1869/1871 - Death of John Warland and Ann Warland of Yarnton

John Warland, the previously noted farmer from Yarnton who married Ann Cooper in 1820, died aged 83 in 1869. Ann Warland (nee Creek) died in 1871 aged 79.

1871 census - Noke - Thomas and Harriet Warland

By the time of the 1871 census, Thomas and Harriet Warland are no longer recorded in Noke.

1871 census - Noke - Robert and Elizabeth Warland

Robert and Elizabeth Warland (nee Porter) are still at number 23 in Noke. Their son Edwin is still a sawyer, and their daughter Emma is now recorded as being blind (from the gunshot wound in 1855). They now have two grandsons: Joseph James Warland (bap 2 January 1853 - ) a labourer, Albert Joseph Warland (bap 30 August 1863 - ) a scholar, and a granddaughter Alice Warland (bap 1 October 1865 - ).

Note that a John Bannister (born 1843) was living at number 19 in Noke and would have known the Warland family well. See below for the next reference to John Bannister in 1879.

1871 census - Noke - John Warland

John Warland, previously recorded as a scholar and then 'farm bailiff' at number 29 (now 'Upper Farm'), is now listed as the head of the household, and a 'farmer of 91 acres employing 2 men and a boy'. His wife is Jane Warland (nee Mayo), and their sons included Mark Henry Warland and John Herbert Warland, neither of whom appear to have been born in Noke.

1871 census - Surrey, London - Emma Warland

In the 1871 census, the wife of William Warland (1824 - ?), Emma Warland is now recorded in Surrey. Thomas Warland (born 1831), thought to be William's younger brother, does not appear. Daughter Emma Warland (born 1848) does not appear but may be married by this time. Robert Kenneth Warland (now 24) is recorded in London. It is not clear where William (born 1844) was at this date but Walter Warland (born 1851) had left for America in 1867. See this page for details.

1871 census - Oxfordshire - Henry Saunders Warland and family

At the time of the 1871 census, Henry Warland (aged 50), still described as a farmer as well as a grocer, was living over the shop at 7 and 8 Woodstock Road with his new wife Rebecca (aged 37) and the seven surviving children from his first marriage:

Also living with them were an apprentice grocer and a cook and a housemaid.

1871 census - Lancashire - Thomas Warland

There are several Warlands living in Lancashire in the 1871 census, including one Thomas Warland aged 33 and born in Dorset. His wife may have been either the Lucy Warland (aged 26) or Mary Ann Warland (aged 35); either of those two but more likely the latter, based on ages, may be the wife of John Warland (aged 35).

A William Warland (aged 49) and a Marka [sic] Warland (aged 50) are also recorded.

1872 - Henry Saunders Warland

In 1872 Henry Saunders Warland was noted as the Chairman of the Committee of the Assistants’ Early-Closing Association.

From 1872 - Noke births, deaths, marriages 1872 - 1879

The following Warland as yet unplaced births were recorded in Noke from 1872 to 1879:

The following Warland deaths were recorded from 1875 to 1880:

1875 - Robert Kenneth Warland marries

Robert Kenneth Warland married Julia Edey (nee Petley) (b.1855 Woodstock, UK - d. 1928 Winsted, CT, USA) on 25 December 1875 in Sudbury, Suffolk, UK. They had the following children:

1876 - Emma Warland (born 1833) legal action

Emma Warland (born 1833), who had been blinded by a gunshot wound in 1855, was an inmate of the Bicester Poorhouse in 1876. In this year she brought action against Joseph Jones, then the landlord of The Plough in Noke, as the father of an illegitimate child (likely Arthur Warland, noted in 1881 see below), presumably her third child. This action failed.

Emma's life appears to improve in 1879, see below.

1877 - Oxford - John Warland marries

John Warland (1849 - ), the eldest son of Henry Saunders Warland (1820 - 1909) and a wine merchant of St Giles’s parish, married Mary Carter (1854 - 1949) on 4 October 1877 at St Mary Magdalen Church, Oxford. Mary Carter was the daughter of the fishmonger John William Carter. John and Mary Warland had the following children:

1877 - Henry Saunders Warland's mare wins a prize

In 1877 a mare of Henry Saunders Warland, described as being of Oxford and Kidlington, won the first prize in Class 40 for colts at the Oxfordshire Agricultural Society Show, and second prize in the Bath and West of England Society show.

1879 - Achievements of the children of Henry Saunders Warland

On 11 October 1879, the third son of Henry Saunders Warland, Frederick William Warland, aged 20, was matriculated at the University of Oxford as a non-collegiate student (meaning that he could continue to live at home). He gave his father’s occupation in the matriculation register as 'Gentleman', even though he was still living over the grocer’s shop that he ran.

On 23 October 1879, Henry Saunders Warland's daughter Mary Esther Warland assisted her music teacher Edgar Mills in a piano recital at the Holywell Music Room, and later gave many piano solos.

1879 - Robert Thomas Warland (born 1858) marries Susan Blackmore

Robert Thomas Warland (1858, Islip - 1890, Gosport), the last child of Henry Warland (1820 - 1899) and Emma Beckley (1823 - 1860). Married Susan Blackmore (1860, Barnstable, Devon - 1918, Gosport) in 1879. They had three sons:

1879 - John Bannister marries Emma Warland (born 1833)

In 1879, John Bannister (born 1843), who lived at number 19 in Noke, married Emma Warland (born 1833), the daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Warland who lived at number 23 in Noke. Emma had been blinded by a gunshot wound in 1855 and had three children.

1881 census - Sudbury - Robert and Julia Warland

The 1881 census shows Robert Kenneth and Julia Warland living at 66 Melford Road, Sudbury St Gregory, Suffolk, with his parents-in-law William and Sarah Petley and their first two children:

Robert and Julia Warland migrated to the United States before 1891 - see below.

1881 Census - Suffolk - Two Warland families

Robert and Julia Warland and their two children are recorded in Suffolk in the 1881 census.

Two other Warlands, both young women and both recorded as boarders at Bungay Holy Trinity in Wharton Street are recorded:

1881 Census (Noke) - Robert and Elizabeth Warland

In 1881, Robert and Elizabeth Warland (nee Porter) are no longer listed in the census, having probably died in 1876 and 1878 respectively.

1881 census (Noke) - Emma Bannister (nee Warland)

Emma Bannister (nee Warland), the daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Warland who was blinded by a gunshot wound in 1855, and who was recorded in the 1871 census at number 23, is recorded at number 19 with John Bannister (born 1843), a carpenter. Three children are recorded in the household, at least two of whom are assumed to be Emma's children noted above.

Emma's older brother Edwin Warland (born 1830), a sawyer, is at number 20 ('Noke Lane'), apparently living by himself.

1881 census - Noke - John and Jane F Warland

John Warland (born 1841), believed to be the son of Thomas Warland (parents not yet identified) and Harriett Warland, and his wife Jane F Warland (nee Mayo) are recorded at 29 ('Upper Farm') and have the following children, all scholars:

1881 Census - Noke - Francis Warland

A Francis Warland was recorded as a servant at number 6 ('The Rectory'), the home of the Rector of Noke, John Thorpe and his wife Elizabeth. Louise Jane Mayo, a surname that appears in relation to Warlands (see above and below), is noted as their grandaughter'.

1881 census - Oxford - Henry Saunders Warland and family

At the time of the 1881 census Henry Saunders Warland (aged 61) was described as a grocer and wine merchant and a farmer of 125 acres, employing four men, one woman, and one boy. He was living over the shop in the Woodstock Road (with the address now given as 11 St Giles Road West) with his second wife Rebecca and four of his children from his first marriage:

According to the previously quoted St Sepulchre website, Henry Saunders Warland's son Henry Warland (born 1853) was working as a grocer’s assistant and living at 4 Athol Road, Bromley in 1881 with Hannah Biss (30) and her daughter Henrietta Biss (10). He recorded Hannah’s surname as Warland and described her as his wife, but in fact they did not marry until 1897.

1882 - Death of Charles Cooper Warland

Charles Cooper Warland the son of Henry Saunders Warland, died at 11 Woodstock Road at the age of 19 on 11 April 1882. He was buried at St Sepulchre’s Cemetery on 14 April (burial recorded in the parish register of St Giles’s Church). The register notes that the burial certificate was supplied by his father. His death notice in Jackson’s Oxford Journal read: 'April 11, at 11, St Giles’s Road West, Oxford, in his 20th year, Charles Cooper (Charlie), the beloved and youngest son of Henry S. Warland.'

1881 - 1885: Warland births in the Noke area

The following Warland births were recorded from 1881 to 1885:

1881 - 1885: Warland deaths in the Noke area

The following Warland deaths were recorded from 1881 to 1885:

Between 1881 and 1890 - Henry Saunders Warland moves, is bankrupt

According to the previously quoted St Sepulchre web page, at some point between 1881 and 1890, Henry Saunders Warland moved to 103 Woodstock Road.

The website notes that 'in 1890 Henry Saunders Warland went bankrupt, and there was a full report in Jackson’s Oxford Journal on 8 March that year. He was described as being a grocer of 13 and 103 Woodstock Road, and also a farmer in Kidlington. His gross liabilities amounted to over £4,846, and his deficiency amounted to over £1,997. He alleged that the causes of his failure were 'family losses in advances made to his brother and son at different times, and losses incurred in and about his farm'. The Official Receiver’s report stated:

This debtor tells me he started in business as a grocer, without capital, in 1846. He has for many years had a shop at 13, Woodstock-road, and for some years also had farms at Kidlington and Noke. Recently he has resided at 103 Woodstock Road. He has kept the usual business books. When he filed his petition he had two writs out against him for about £40l. and £33l. respectively. His preferential liabilities are—Three sets of rent, £95l. 15s.; rates and taxes, £11l. 16s. 8d.; and £1l. 13s. 1d. for drainage rate, due to the Thames Valley Commissioners, in respect of Kidlington Farm. I note that the debts of two large creditors for £500l. and £240l. respectively for money lent appear to be statute barred. On the other hand one of the mortgage creditors said to be fully secured may turn out not to be so. The deficiency account is made up of £107l. 12s. 3d. admitted excess of liabilities on 7th February 1889; of £210l. household expenses since then (no profit of business appears in such account); of goods supplied to his brother, Mr. John Warland, during the last 12 or 14 years, £700l.; of monies paid to his son, Mr. John Warland, about 12 or 14 years ago, £500l.; of losses incurred in farms during the last 10 or 12 years, £400l.; and of repairs and losses of rent, £80l. As to this account, I do not see that the debts from the brother or the son appear as owing and bad. But taking these as correctly stated they tend to show that debtor was largely insolvent years ago, and that actually in February 1889, his insolvency was nearer £1,70l than £1,60l. He does not propose to offer any composition. Owing to debtor’s illness, I was only able to obtain statement to-day.

1891 census - Henry Saunders Warland (born 1820) retires, family members

Henry Saunders Warland (now aged 71) is recorded in the 1891 as a retiree living at 31 Polstead Road in the parish of St Margaret with his wife Rebecca and two of his daughters: Elizabeth Ann Warland (aged 38), a governess, and Mary Esther Warland (aged 34), a teacher of music. They employed a servant girl.

Sarah Warland (born 1848) was employed by the Warneford Lunatic Asylum in Headington as a ladies’ companion.

Henry Warland (born 1853) and Hannah Biss were recorded living at 9 Knebworth Road, Stoke Newington with Henrietta Biss (20). He is hard to trace after that date.

Frederick Warland (aged 32) was a clerk in holy orders, lodging at Southfleet, Kent.

1891 Census - Noke

According to the 1891 census, John and Jane F Warland (nee Mayo) had moved to number 1 ('Upper Farm') with their children:

Arthur Warland, probably the son of John and Emma Warland (see 1881) was living at number 7 as a boarder and was an agricultural labourer.

The Bannister family is no longer recorded in Noke.

1891 census - Suffolk

The 1891 census records a James J H Warland (born 1866, London) in Suffolk.

Before 1891 - Robert and Julia Warland migrate to America

Robert Kenneth Warland (born 1846) and his family (except William (1877 - ) - see below) migrated to the United States by 1891. Robert Kenneth Warland was a harness maker by trade, a republican, a member of the Second Congregationalist Church. Robert's brother Walter Warland had already migrated to the United States in 1867 and is believed their brother William may also have migrated (details TBA). See this page for details of the family in the United States.

1892 - Headington - Death of Emma Bannister?

An Emma Bannister died in Headington, Oxfordshire in 1898. This person may be the same Emma Warland born in 1833 to Robert and Elizabeth Warland, blinded in 1855, who later married John Bannister. (Details TBA).

1895 - Kent - Frederick William Warland marries

Near the beginning of 1895, Frederick Warland (1858/9 - ), the son of Henry Saunders Warland, married Laura Pink (1860 - 1900) in the Dartford district of Kent. They had three children:

Laura Warland (nee Pink) died just after giving birth to Margaret Edith Warland. At the time of the 1901 census Frederick Warland and the two surviving children were living at Portobello House, Fawkham Road, West Kingsdown with his father-in-law Edward Pink (aged 73), who was a fruit and flower grower.

Another child, Alan William Warland, was born in 1905 to Frederick William Warland and an unknown woman. Alan William Warland married (first name not known) Philcox in 1934 at Westminster. They had one son, Peter Warland, who would also become a minister of the church.

Frederick William Warland married a third time in 1921 at St Olaves to Annie Hallett (1874 - 1950 (will)).

1900 - Thomas Frederick James Warland marries and has children

Thomas Frederick James Warland (1884, Gosport - 1920) was the son of Robert Thomas Warland (1858 - 1890) and Susan Blackmore (1860 - 1918). Thomas married in 1900 and had four children:

Violet and Gladys Warland went to Europe with a touring dance troupe in the early 1920s - see below for further information.

From 1901 - Suffolk - William John Warland - UK

William John Warland (15 April 1877, Colchester, Suffolk, UK - ?), the eldest son of Robert Kenneth Warland, apppears to have remained or returned to the Suffolk area. He was recorded, aged 23, as working in the 'Laster Boot Trade' in Sudbury, Suffolk.

William Warland married Elizabeth Young on 28 December 1908 in Colchester, Suffolk, UK and they had two children.

William and Elizabeth (aged 32) Warland are recorded with their daughter Muriel Elizabeth Warland (aged 1) living in the Colchester, Essex, in the 1911 census.

1901 Census - Noke

By the 1901 census, there were no Warlands recorded in Noke, the end of an almost 425 year connection with that village.

John Herbert Warland (born c. 1870, Noke, the son of John and Fanny Warland) was a baker in Oxford. He married Pollie WILLIAMS in 1901 and had at least five children including:

1901 census - Henry Saunders Warland

At the time of the 1901 census Henry Saunders Warland (now aged 81) described himself as a retired farmer and was living at Polstead Road with his wife Rebecca and his two unmarried daughters Elizabeth Warland (aged 48) and Mary Esther Warland (aged 44), who were still working respectively as a governess and a teacher of music.

1901 census - Middlesex (London)

In the 1901 census, a Henry J Warland (born 1886, London) is recorded as a student at Mutford, Kirkley, Middlesex.

1902 - Robert Henry Warland (born 1882) marries Mary Makateer

Robert Henry Warland (1882, Gosport - 1954) was the son of Robert Thomas Warland (1858 - 1890) and Susan Blackmore (1860 - 1918). Robert Henry Warland married Mary Makateer (1880, Islip - 1950, Gosport) in 1902. Robert and Mary Warland had the following children:

1903 - Frederick William Warland remarries

Frederick Wiiliam Warland, the son of Henry Saunders Warland (born 1820), and a minister of the church, married his second wife, Annie Allen, at St Margaret's Church, Oxford on 14 April 1903 when they were both living at 31 Polstead Road. They had one child, Allan William Warland (born 1905).

1906 - Oxford - Death of John Warland

John Warland (born 1849), the son of Henry Saunders Warland (born 1820) and husband of Mary Warland (nee Carter)(born 1854) died at the age of 57 on 7 April 1906. He was buried in the same grave where his two baby sisters had been buried fifty years earlier.

1909 - Oxford - Death of Henry Saunders Warland

Henry Saunders Warland (born 1820) died at 31 Polstead Road at the age of 89 on 2 March 1909. He was and was buried at St Sepulchre’s Cemetery on 4 March (burial recorded in the parish register of St Giles’s Church).

1911 census - Suffolk

The 1911 census records the following Warland family group. From the ages of the children it would appear that Robert and Ethel Warland married around 1907:

1911 census - Oxford - Rebecca Warland and children

At the time of the 1911 census Rebecca Warland (aged 80), the widow of Henry Saunders Warland, was living at 31 Polstead Road with her unmarried stepdaughters Elizabeth Ann Warland (aged 58) and Mary Esther Warland (aged 54), who were still working as a governess and a teacher of music.

According to the previously quoted St Sepulchre website, 'Ann Elizabeth Warland, later known as Elizabeth Ann (born 1852) is hard to trace after 1911, when at the age of 58 she was still living with her stepmother. She may be the Annie E. Warland who died in Oxford at the age of 85 in 1940, but the age is slightly wrong.'

Rebecca's daughter Sarah Warland (born 1848) was recorded as being a patient in a nursing home in Lewisham. She died in Faversham, Kent at the age of 76 in 1923.

Mary Esther Warland (born 1856) never married. She is probably the Mary E. Warland who died in the Ploughley district of Oxfordshire at the age of 93 in 1950.

At the time of the 1911 census Frederick William Warland was the Rector of Kingsdown, living at the Rectory with his wife Annie and his daughter Margaret Warland from his first marriage and son Allan Warland from his second.

1920s - Violet and Gladys Warland tour Europe and end up in movies

Gladys Warland (left) and her sister Violet Warland in the 1930s

Violet Warland (born 1903) and Gladys Warland (born 1906) were the daughters of Thomas Frederick James Warland (1884, Gosport - 1920). Both joined a dancing troupe that toured Europe in the 1920s. Gladys Warland was a dancer while Violet Warland was a singer. Gladys Warland appeared in two films in the 1930s:

1922 - Death of Rebecca Sophia Warland

Rebecca Sophia Warland, née Hamlyn, formerly Mrs Holland died at 31 Polstead Road at the age of 91 and was buried in the grave of her father on 5 May 1922.

1941 - Death of Frederick William Warland

The Revd Canon Frederick William Warland died at Norton Court, Chart Sutton, Kent on 5 August 1941 at the age of 82. His effects came to £2,443 8s. 1d., and his wife Annie was his executor.

Page added 1 September 2012, updated 4 October 2023 (significant re-working of the content taking into account 1987 research). Copyright © Andrew Warland. (andrewwarland(at)gmail.com)