The following information was provided by Osie Moss in the late 1980's.
A William Warland, probably born around 1605 - 1610, married Jane Weare in 1639 at Wimborne. Jane subsequently re-married Thomas CLARKE. It is not known if there were any children from this marriage.
Another William Warland, probably born around 1620 - 1625 (based on the dates below) had the following children from an unknown mother. It is not impossible, given the dates, that this William is the same as the one above, married for the second time probably around 1650/51 given the birth dates of the children shown below. The mother's name is not known.
A Nicholas Warland (?- 1662) married a woman (name not yet known) and was the father of another Nicholas Warland, probably born around 1675. Nicholas Warland (junior) married Jane CORBAN in 1697/1698 and died in 1721.
Nicholas and Jane Warland may have had a son by the name of Abraham Warland (c.1694 - 1765). Abraham Warland may be connected with the Abraham Warland who married Jane King in Kinson in 1725.
The earliest recorded Warland in Dorset known to be connected with Warlands in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, was John Warland, born around 1620 (or 1626) who married Mary (surname not known), probably before 1650 in Canford Magna. John and Mary (surname not known) had the following children:
John Warland senior died in around 1673. His wife Mary Warland died around 1683.
John Warland (1650 - 30 May 1730), the son of John Warland (born around 1620, died around 1673) and Mary, married Mary Henslow (1660 - 28 November 1753, Lake, Dorset) on 4 December 1679 in Saint Thomas, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. They had the following children:
The following details the known children and grandchildren of John and Mary's children listed above.
John Warland married Sarah Painter (1685 - 8 September 1769, Canford Magna, Dorset, England) in 1716 in Dorset and they had the following children, all probably born in Canford Magna:
John was buried in the grounds of Canford Church, Dorset, England.
William William first married Mary Lannon and had the following children.
William then re-married, another Mary, around 1735. They had the following children:
No other details are known of these children.
Henry Warland married Penelope Gerrard. No further information is known.
In 1724, Robert Warland married Ann King (1701 - 17 April 1784), the daughter of Christopher King. Robert and Ann had the following children, born in the Canford Magna area:
On 1 January 1739, Robert Warland (senior) entered into a 99-year leasehold contract with Sir Thomas Webb Baronet, then Lord of the Manor of Great Canford in the County of Dorset, taking over the following land that had previously been '... in the tenure of Giles Smith Gentleman' and then Winifred Smith, his wife. The land included in the contract was described as follows:
All that Messuage ['A dwelling house together with its outbuildings, curtilage, and the adjacent land appropriated to its use'] or Tenement commonly called or known by the name of Gillinghams and one parrock ['A croft, or small field'] thereto adjoining containing one acre, a Close adjoining containing six acres, another Close adjoining containing (four) acres, a Close called Hunny Mead containing two acres, a Close called Wounton (?) containing by estimation five acres, a Close called Coppice Close containing by estimation two acres and three roads, a Close called Barrows Hows containing by estimation ten acres in the meadow called Metterwood (?) four acres and in Simons Mead one acre with the rights members and appurtenances whatsoever to the said Messuage or Tenement Lands Hereditaments and premises belonging or in any wise appurtences which said Messuage or Tenements Hereditaments and Premises are situate at or near Lake in the said Parish of Great Canford.
Robert Warland senior died in 1758. According to the contract, in around 1760, Robert Warland's sons Robert Warland (1731 - 1782), William Warland (1733 - 1794), Christopher Warland (1736 - 1816), and Henry Warland (1742 - 1819) - but not their brother John Warland (1726 - 1794) took possession of the land, partitioning and dividing the land.
Robert Warland junior (1731 - 1782) died leaving a will that appointed John Warland [1726 - 1794] and Christopher Warland [1736 - 1816] his brothers to be trustees in his affairs. However, Robert Warland did not '... make any particular disposition of the said Leasehold premises'. Robert Warland's brothers then arranged for the leasehold to be transferred to them via the prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury 'in trust for them the said Mary (nee Warland) the wife of the said Edward Tory and Jane (nee Warland) the wife of the said William Mackrell', and possessed it.
On 4 August 1784, Robert Warland's daughter Mary Warland (born 1766) married Edward Tory. A few days later, on 9 August 1784, an indenture was created between Edward Tory, Mary Tory (nee Warland), and John and Christopher Warland 'being the settlement executted previously to the marriage' of Edward and Mary Tory.
After John Warland's death in 1794, the indenture became the sole responsibility of Christopher Warland. Perhaps, with his advancing age, Christopher then decided in 1808 to draw up a new contract to ensure that his niece Mary Tory would continue to receive 'the said rents and profits for her own separate use and not to be subject to the debts or engagements of the said Edward Tory her then intended Husband but her receipt alone notwithstanding her intended Coverture to be a sufficient discharge for the same and from and after her decease'.
Robert Warland's last child, Henry Warland (1742 - 1819) was said to have married Ann Eyers/Ayers (likely to have been a sister or relative of Henry's brother William's wife, Dorothy). After Henry died in 1819, it appears Ann Ayers went to live with her nephew Christopher, the son of her brother-in-law Christopher (1736 - 1816, see above). However, Henry's will makes no mention of a wife. His beneficiaries are shown as:
Witness to his will were: John Eaton (bricklayer); John Abbott (yeoman); William Freeman (Attorney's Clerk of Blandford Forum).
See also this page for a possible link with another Henry Warland, mariner, who had a son George Henry Warland, who in turn had two children Henry Carroll Warland who migrated to Australia.
Page created 2011, updated 31 August 2016. Copyright Andrew Warland