Warlands - Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight Record Office holds a series of records relating to the Warland family on the island from 1617. These are recorded under the series 'JER/BAR - Barrington/Simeon Families of Swainston' > 'JER/BAR/3 - Swainston Estate' > Shalfleet Parsonage, Warlands, Mainland Properties, Family Papers, Other Properties, Miscellaneous'. Each item in this series relating to the Warland family is listed below.

Waleran and Warland

It is tempting to assume that the surname Warland is somehow derived from Waleran. There is no basis for making this connection. However, the name Waleran became Walrond and was also shown as Warland, as can be seen below.

Note that a similar spelling change happened in Belgium from the 1600s, where a Wallerand (first name) became Walrand and Warland.

Who were the Trenchards - and Waleran Trenchard

The Victoria History of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, published in 1912, contains some details about the Trenchard family.

For nearly three centuries the Trenchard family held Shalfleet in chief. It is possible that Payne Trenchard, collector of danegeld in the Isle of Wight about 1135, held the manor in the 12th century. Payne was succeeded in his estates before 1164 by his grandson Robert, who was still living in 1189; he was succeeded by his son Henry. In the reign of Henry III Henry Trenchard, the son of this Henry, held the manors of Shalfleet and Chessell in demesne and John his son held of him the eighth part of a fee in Shalfleet.

Hordle, Hampshire is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 when it belonged to Oidelard, who held it of Ralph de Mortimer. In the 13th century, the family of Trenchard acquired a great part, if not the whole, of this estate. A portion of it was granted by Waleran Trenchard to one Ralph Bardolf, who sold it to Amice wife of the sixth Earl of Devon; she in about 1250 gave it to Breamore Priory to be held by them of Waleran. Thus two separate manors were evolved, one the Trenchard Manor and the other that held by Breamore Priory; the overlordship of both belonged to the lords of Christchurch.(Source: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Trenchard-40)

In 1260, the Trenchards held the capital manor in Shalfleet on the Isle of Wight. Waleran Trenchard and his wife Alice appear in a deed dated 1260. [Excerpta e Rot. Fin. [Rec. Com.], ii, 336)

In 1278 Henry Trenchard complained that Amice Countess of Devon and her men took thirty of his oxen at Chessell and detained them at her manor at Thorley and kept imprisoned Nicholas de Baseville till Henry ransomed him for 100/. Moreover, they broke his park of Chessell and rescued the beasts lawfully impounded therein and drove off the deer from his park at Shalfleet.

Henry Trenchard was succeeded by his son John, who died about 1302, leaving the estate to his son Henry, a minor, who eight years later settled the manor on himself and Eleanor his wife and his heirs. This Henry Trenchard was hardly of a law-abiding nature. In 1309 the Abbot of Tilchfield complained that Trenchard besieged his abbey, so that neither he, nor the canons, nor the servants of the abbey could business or bring in victuals.

Henry 1 felled his trees, entered his free warrens, hunted therein, took away game and his goods, and assaulted his servants. Trenchard was excommunicated. In 1320 Sir Ralph de Gorges informed the king that, although Trenchard had been outlawed in July 1318, Sir Henry Tyes, constable of the castle of Carisbrooke, maintained him and had bought from him 'the fair manor of Shalfleet' and other lands which should have escheated to the Crown. Sir Henry Tyes stated in defence that Trenchard had made him a life grant of the manor before the pronouncement of the outlawry. In the end Trenchard was evidently pardoned, since he was holding the manor in 1328, and on his death in 1349 it passed to his son and heir Giles. His second wife Joan survived him and married Richard Aleyn, and in 1365 she brought a suit against her stepson Giles for a third of Shalfleet Manor, which she claimed as her dower. He refused on the plea that Henry his father 'was not seised of the said manor on the day he married Joan, nor afterwards.'

Giles Trenchard left Shalfleet at his death to his daughter Margaret, who was thrice married; her third husband John Pershute apparently survived her and was seised of the manor in accordance with a settlement of 1403, but he died before 1428, in which year her son Thomas Deepdene was the owner. Thomas died before 1438, leaving as his heir his daughter Agnes the wife of Edmund Brudenell, whose daughter and heir Alice married Richard Waller of Groombridge (co. Kent).

Alice died in 1487 leaving as her heir her son John, who in 1496 was expelled by the escheator because John Trenchard of Chessell was supposed to have died in September 1495 seised of the manor. Waller won the suit, but died in July 1497, leaving a son and heir John, who died seised of Shalfleet in 1526, leaving a grandson and heir Richard. Richard Waller died in 1552 and was succeeded by his son William, 31 who conveyed the estate about 1575 to Anthony Kcmpe, by whom it was sold in 1591 to Thomas Worsley for £900. From this date the manor remained in the Worsley family until 1780, when it was sold by the Worsleys to the Barringtons, and so passed by marriage to the Simeons, and descended like Swainstone (q.v.) to Sir Edmund Charles Simeon, bart., the present lord of the manor.

Until the early half of the 14th century the manor of CHESSELL followed the descent of the manor of Shalfleet. However, before 1346 it had been acquired by John Gymminges, who in 1349 settled it on himself and Alice his wife, with remainder to John son of John de Lisle of Gatcombe, who died seised of it in March 1349. In 1443 John Bramshott, who had succeeded to the Lisle property, sued William Fauconer and others for the manor of Chessell, but quitclaimed the same in the July of the following year.

This transaction seems to have been for purposes of conveyance to the lord of Shalfleet, with which Chessell subsequently descended and in which it became merged.

The map below shows the area where Shalfleet is located on the Isle of Wight.

Isle of Wight Records

10 March 1617 - JER/BAR/3/12/96

Title: Grant

Description: Of the mannor, capitall messuage, farm and lands in Shalfleet als. Shallifleete and Walrond Trenchard [p. Shalfleet], now in occ. of (1), sold to him by Sir George Trenchard of Wolveton, Dorset, knight, Thomas Trenchard, his son and heir, and John Trenchard of Warmewell, Dorset, Esq., his other son on 17 January 1617. Consideration: £440. (1) Barnabey Eden of Shalfleet, I.W., gent. (2) Barnabey Leighe of Shorwell, I.W.

24 September 1618 - JER/BAR/3/12/98

Title: Grant

Description: Of a capital messuage and farm of Shalfleet als. Shalloweffleet and Waldron Trenchard and the rents and services payable from the land held by John Cheverdon, by John Clarke and Joane, his wife, and John Hatch and Alice, his wife, by James Rookeley, by David Hickes and John Urrey, and by Edward Kinge, ps. Shalfleet, Brixton and Carisbrooke; also lands (70a), ps. Brixton and Shalfleet, in occ. of Thomas Budden, gent., in the right of Parnell, his wife; also a fullering mill and land (16a), p. Carisbrooke, in occ. of John Kingswell, gent.; also of a cottage, garden and land (3a), p. Carisbrooke, in occ. of James Rookeley; also of meadow land (8a) and common pasture in Shalfleet and Feltham, in occ. of John Tagg; also of the woods and trees on the manor sold by Sir George Trenchard to several persons, excepting the premises already sold to (1) by Sir George Trenchard, Thomas, his son and heir, and John Trenchard Esq. (1) Barnabey Eden als. Sampson of Shalfleet, I.W., gent. (2) Barnabey Leigh of Nourthcourte, p. Shorwell, I.W., Esq.

20 August 1691 - JER/BAR/3/12/99

Title: Lease for 2000 years by way of a Mortgage

Description: Of a capital messuage and lands called Shalfleett als. Shallow Fleet Farm als. Shalfleet Feild (60a), p. Shalfleet, late in occ. of William Barton; also of a messuage and lands called Waldron Trenchard als. Warlands als. Waldens, p. Shalfleet (60a), late in occ. of Barnabas Leigh, gent., decd., brother of (1), all lands now in occ. of (1), to secure £500. (1) Frances Trickett of Shalfleet, I.W., widow. Matthew Trickett' of Shalfleet, I.W., gent., her son and heir. (2) Benedict Ball of Whippingham, I.W., clerk. Enclosed: (a) Bond for the repayment of £500 by (1) to (2), 20 August 1691.

26 August 1704 - JER/BAR/3/12/100

Title: Assignment

Description: Of Shalfleet farm and Warlands farm, p. Shalfleet, soon to be purchased by (1) from Frances Trickett of Shalfleet, widow, in trust to the use of (1), the current mortgagee. (1) Benedict Ball of Whippingham, I.W., clerk. (2) John Gilbert of Pan, p. Whippingham, I.W., clerk.

28/29 August 1704 - JER/BAR/3/12/101

Title: Lease and Release

Description: Of a capital messuage and lands called Shalfleett als. Shallowfleet farm als. Shalfleet feild (60a), late in occ. of William Barton, and of a messuage and lands called Waldron Trenchard als. Warlands als. Waldens, (60a), late in occ. of Barnabas Leigh, gent., decd., brother of (1); both now in occ. of (1), p. Shalfleet. Consideration: £900. (1) Frances Trickett of Shalfleet, I.W., widow. (2) Benedict Ball of Whippingham, I.W., clerk. (3) Ladd Hayles of London, gent. Also: (a) Exemplification of a Recovery of the above Conveyance, 28 November 1704.

16 January 1712/13 - JER/BAR/3/12/102

Title: Assignment of a Lease for 1000 years

Description: Of Shishford Parock (½a), a parock between Mill close and Lower Shalflett Feild, an adjoining parock called Shalflett Feild Mead (both 1½a), all p. Shalflett [previously leased by Barnabas or Barnaby Leigh to William Gosden, now decd., 2 May 1644]. Consideration: £46 1s. 6d. (1) James Crew of p. Shalfleet, I.W., blacksmith. (2) Francis Hicks of p. Calbourne, I.W., yeoman. [Former ref: SW 1676a]

20 November 1716 - JER/BAR/3/12/103

Title: Will of Benedict Ball of p. Whippingham, I.W., clerk

Description: Confirms Indenture of Release of 3 June 1701 between (1) himself, (2) Richard Reynolds, L.D. and Edward Hayles, gent., (3) Rt. Revd. Richard, Bishop of Peterborough, and (4) Benedict Ball the younger, his son, now decd., and Elizabeth Cumberland, spinster, daughter of (3), made upon the intended marriage between (4); and an Indenture of 4 June 1701 between (1) himself, (2) Richard Reynolds and Edward Hayles, and (3) Benedict Ball the younger. To Benedict Ball, his grandson, all lands not settled by the above Indentures, then to John Ball, his grandson, then to Frederick Ball, his grandson, in default of heirs. To Diana, his daughter, wife of Henry Deane of Wootten, I.W., clerk, one gold guinea. To John Ball, his grandson, one gold guinea. To Frederick Ball, his grandson, one gold guinea. To Benedict Ball, his grandson, all the residue and remainder of his Estate. William Stephens of Barton, I.W., Esq., and Edward Hayles of Newport, I.W., gent., named as Guardians of Benedict Ball in his minority (or of John or Frederick), and as Trustees.

22/23 January 1730/1 - JER/BAR/3/12/104

Title: Deed to make a tenant to the Precipe for the purpose of suffering a Common Recovery, between (1) and (2), and Release by way of a Recovery

Description: Of a capital messuage and lands called Shalfleet als. Shallowfleet farm als. Shalfleet field (60a), sometime in occ. of William Barton; also of a messuage and lands called Waldron Trenchard als. Warlands als. Waldens (60a), late in occ. of Barnabas Leigh, gent. decd.; both p. Shalfleet, and now in occ. of (1). (1) Benedict Ball of p. Whippingham, I.W., gent. (2) John Way of Lyons Inn, Middx., gent. (3) William Stephens the younger of Barton, I.W., Esq. Richard Serle. Also: (a) Exemplification of a Common Recovery, Hilary Term 1731.

1 October 1734 - JER/BAR/3/12/105

Title: Deed to lead the uses of a Fine

Description: Appointing (2) as Trustees to sell the properties, p. Shalfleet, and to purchase land of inheritance for (1) and his issue by his wife, after the repayment of his debts [£1190 4s. listed in schedule]. Also a covenant by William Stephens to produce title deeds, added at the end, dated 26 July 1735. (1) Benedict Ball of p. Whippingham, I.W., gent. Elizabeth, his wife. (2) William Stephens the younger of Barton, I.W., Esq. Richard Serle of Winchester, Hants., gent. Enclosed: (a) Final Concord, Hilary Term 1735.

12 April 1735 - JER/BAR/3/12/106

Title: Articles of Agreement

Description: To purchase a messuage and farm called Waldens and Shalfleet fields als. Shallowfleet fields, p. Shalfleet, now in occs. of Robert Thomas and [blank] Backetts. Consideration: £1570. (1) William Stephens of the Middle Temple, London, Esq. Richard Serle of Winchester, Hants., gent. Benedict Ball of Padmore, [p. Whippingham], I.W., gent. (2) William Jolliffe of p. Thorley, I.W., gent.

9/10 October 1799 - JER/BAR/3/12/107

Title: Lease and Release

Description: Of a messuage called Warlands, p. Shalfleet, and also of several closes (87a) being its northermost part, comprising Pond Close (6a 3r), Fatting Ground (6a 3r 35p), Home Ground (7a 7p), Marl Ground (3a 3r 8p), Ten Acres (10a 3r 31p), Upper Stubbs (6a 2r 36p), Lower Stubbs (4a 3r 6p), Lee Butt (2a 1r 1p), Furze Close (3a), Thistle Close (9a 3r 9p), Becketts Butt (1a 2r 7p), Long Mead (9a 1r 30p), The Mead (1a 2r 8p), New Orchard (2r 20p), Old Orchard (1r 23p), another called Furze Close (3a 25p), the lower end of Stubs (1a 3r 24p), the piece by the brook (2r 9p), Pound Close Coppice (4a 1r 1p), Lee Butt Row (1r, 20p), Thistle Close Row (1a 2r 4p), all in occ. of [blank] Young as tenant. Consideration: £900. (1) William Clarke of Newport, I.W., Esq. [husband of Hannah Jolliffe]. (2) Samuel Bailey of p. Arreton, I.W., yeoman.

24/25 March 1800 - JER/BAR/3/12/108

Title: Lease and Release

Description: Of a messuage called Warlands, p. Shalfleet, and also several closes (87a) being its northernmost part [for details see JER/BAR/3/12/107, 9/10 October 1799] Consideration: £910 10s. (1) Samuel Bailey of p. Arreton, I.W., yeoman. Hannah, his wife. (2) John Trevethick of Calne, Wilts., innholder (3) Barnabas Crew of p. Shalfleet, I.W., yeoman. Enclosed: (a-b) Final Concord (two copies) between (2), plaintiff, and (1), defendants, Easter Term 1800.

1810 - JER/BAR/3/12/109

Title: Abstract of the title to a farm and lands called Warlands, p. Shalfleet.

Description: [Recites Indentures of dates 25/26 July 1735-24/25 March 1800, covering the ownership of the Title by the families of Jolliffe and Clarke, and by Samuel Bailey.]

14 November 1814 - JER/BAR/3/12/110

Title: Grant

Description: Of two-thirds of the tithes of a messuage, farm and lands called Warlands, p. Shalfleet (90a), in occ. of William Trevethick as tenant. Consideration: £320. (1) John Trevethick, late of Calne, Wilts., innholder, now of Gurnard, I.W., yeoman. John Wilkinson of Portsmouth, Hants., surgeon. (2) James Wilkinson of Shalfleet, I.W., Esq. Elizabeth, his wife. (3) Thomas Trevethick of Gurnard, I.W., yeoman.

1818 - JER/BAR/3/12/111

Title: Supplementary Abstract of the Title to two-thirds of the rectorial tithes of Warlands Farm, [p. Shalfleet].

Description: [Recites Indenture of 14 November 1814.]

26/27 April 1819 - JER/BAR/3/12/112

Title: Lease and Release

Description: Of a messuage called Warlands, p. Shalfleet, and also of several closes (87a) being its northernmost part [for details see JER/BAR/3/12/107, 9/10 October 1799]; also of two-thirds of the tithes. Plan included. Consideration: £2800. (1) John Trevethick of Gurnard, I.W., yeoman. (2) Thomas Trevethick of Gurnard, I.W., yeoman. (3) James Wilkinson of Shalfleet, I.W., Esq.

7/8 May 1819 - JER/BAR/3/12/113

Title: Lease and Release and Appointment, by way of a Mortgage

Description: Of a messuage called Warlands, p. Shalfleet, and also of several closes (87a) being its northernmost part [for details see JER/BAR/3/12/107, 9/10 October 1799]; also of two-thirds of its tithes, to secure £3140. [Recites Lease and Release of 5/6 May 1819, of the same, in Trust to the use of James Wilkinson, between (1) John Trevethick, (2) Thomas Trevethick, (3) James Wilkinson, and (4) Thomas Sewell.] (1) James Wilkinson of Shalfleet, I.W., Esq. (2) Thomas Sewell of Newport, I.W., gent. (3) John Trevethick of Gurnard, I.W., yeoman. John Wilkinson of Portsmouth, Hants., surgeon.

5/6 April 1824 - JER/BAR/3/12/114

Title: Lease and Release

Description: Of the Estate of James Wilkinson, Esq., decd., being a messuage and farm called Warlands (96a), p. Shalfleet, and also two-thirds of its tithes, and of an annual fee farm rent of £14 13s 4d payable out of the Rectory of Shalfleet, to the use of (3), barring (1) from the Estate. Consideration: £150. (1) Barton Reeves Wilkinson of Prince's Street, Haymarket, Middx., chemist. (2) John Davis of Adderbury, Oxon. Elizabeth, his wife, formerly Elizabeth Wilkinson, spinster. Eleanor Wilkinson, spinster. Harriet Wilkinson, spinster. Thomas Trevethick Wilkinson, gent. Sophia Wilkinson, spinster. Sarah Wilkinson, spinster. all of Shalfleet, I.W. (3) John Trevethick of Gurnard, I.W., yeoman. John Wilkinson of Portsmouth, Hants., surgeon. Also: (a) Attested copy, 29 April 1835.

1836 - JER/BAR/3/12/115

Title: Abstract of the Title to a farm and lands called Warlands, p. Shalfleet, I.W., and to two-thirds of the tithes and glebe land of Shalfleet.

Description: [Recites Indentures of dates 25/26 July 1735-19 June 1826.] With note of perusal by Lewis Duval, Lincolns Inn, 14 December 1836.

4 November 1836 - JER/BAR/3/12/116

Title: Agreement for the sale and purchase

Description: Of Warlands farm (80a), p. Shalfleet, and two-thirds of the rectorial tithes, and of two-thirds of the Rectory House and glebe lands of Shalfleet (73a). Consideration: £2500. (1) John Wilkinson of Purbrook, Hants., Esq. (2) Sir Richard Godin Simeon of Swainston, I.W., Bart.

28 May 1837 - JER/BAR/3/12/117

Title: Letter from Wm. Mortimer and Son to Henry Sewell, Esq., valuing the timber of Shalfleet Parsonage and Warlands farms at £118 and £70, totalling £188.

[After April] 1837 - JER/BAR/3/12/118

Title: Supplementary Abstract of Title to a farm and lands called Warlands, p. Shalfleet, and two-thirds of its tithes and of the glebe land of Shalfleet.

Description: [Recites Indentures of 14/15 April 1837, being a Release of any claim to the properties by the Trevethick and Wilkinson family to Sir Richard Godin Simeon.]

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