Robert Warland (1694 - 1758) was the fourth son of John Warland (1650 - 1730) and Mary Henslow (1660 - 1753) who married in Portsmouth, Hampshire in 1679.
Robert Warland (born 1694) married Joan Hancock at Canford Magna on 12 February 1722. Joan was possibly the Joane Hancock, a 'base child' (i.e., illegitimate) daughter of Dorcas (?), who was baptised on 20 August 1699 at St Mary Thorncombe). It is not known if this Robert is related to or is the same person as the following Robert. Further research is required.
Robert Warland 'of Merly' (originally called Myrle, a manor in the tithing of Great Canford) married Ann King (1701 - 17 April 1784) on 7 February 1724. Ann (or Annie) King was the daughter of Christopher King. Robert and Ann had the following children, all born in the Canford Magna area:
See below for further details of the children listed above.
On 1 January 1739, Robert Warland (1694 - 26 September 1758) 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 in the re-negotiated 1808 version 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.
It is worth noting that the 99 years expired in 1838, when a number of Warlands left the Canford Magna area and migrated to Australia.
William Dean (1723 - 1760) was the son of William Dean and Elizabeth Hookey (further details unknown). He married Elizabeth Pottle on 30 July 1741 at West Parley Dorset. Elizabeth Dean (nee Pottle) she died in 1748. They had no children.
William then married Mary Pelley/Pelly (1728 - 1770) in Canford Magna in 1750. They had two children:
Mary Dean (nee Pelley) would marry into the Warland family after the death of William Dean. See below.
Robert Warland (born 1694) died in 1758.
In 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 it among themselves. John Warland was a maltster in Wimborne and it is not known why he was excluded from the deal.
Robert and Ann Warland's second son, the Maltster John Warland (1726 - 1794) married Elizabeth Batt (1734 - 9 August 1790) on 14 November 1758 in Wimborne Minster. See this page for the transcript of John and Elizabeth's marriage settlement. John and Elizabeth Warland had the following children:
Note that there are two Robert Warlands, first cousins born around the same time - the one above born 1761 and the one below, born 1759.
Robert Warland (1731 - 1782), the son of Robert Warland and Ann King (and brother of John Warland (1726 - 1794), married Ann French (? - ?) on 28 May 1759 in Canford Magna. The witnesses were John French and Richard French. They had two children:
Ann Warland (nee French) may have died after the birth of Mary. Details are yet to be found or confirmed, but it seems to tie in with Robert re-marrying the widow Mary Dean in 1763 - see below.
William Dean died in 1760. His widow Mary (nee Pelley) then married Robert Warland.
Robert Warland (1731 - 1782), the third son of Robert and Ann Warland (nee King), married the widow Mary Dean (1728 - 1770) on 2 June 1763 in Canford Magna, Dorset. The witnesses were Thomas Pelley (possibly Mary's brother or other relative) and John French.
Robert and Mary Warland had the following daughters in addition to Mary's step children (perhaps still living with them) and Robert's children Robert and Mary (which doesn't quite make sense if he and Mary had another child named Mary. This needs to be researched further).
Penelope Warland was the daughter of Robert Warland (1694 - 1758) and Ann King (1701 - 1784). She married John Place (1730 - 1800) on 1 or 7 November 1766 at St Andrews, Kinson, Bournemouth, Dorset and they had one son:
Click the link above for details of the Place, Coombe and Pilkington lines.
Penelope's brother Henry Warland, who died in 1819, left money in his will to Matthew Wasse Place and Matthew's son Henry Place. See below for more details.
Mary Warland (baptised 28 December 1761, the 'daughter of Robert and Anne' (assumed to be Anne French above), married William Fry at Canford Magna on 23 October 1781. Both were recorded 'of this parish'. The witnesses were Joseph Card and John French. The following children have been found:
Note that a Mary Fry was born to William and Elizabeth Fry in Chettle, Dorset, and was baptised on 7 October 1781.
Robert Warland (born 1731), the husband of Mary (nee Pelley) died in 1782.
In his will, Robert appointed his brothers John Warland [1726 - 1794] and Christopher Warland [1736 - 1816] to be trustees in his affairs. However, Robert Warland did not '... make any particular disposition of the said Leasehold premises'.
It appears that nothing was done about the leasehold premises until 1790, see below.
Robert and Ann Warland's fifth son William Warland (1733 - 1794) married Dorothy Eyers (or Ayers) (1758 - 22 March 1830, Canford Magna) in 1782. They and had the following children, all born in the Canford Magna area:
Robert Warland (1761 - 1821), the first son of the maltster, John Warland (1726 - 1794) and Elizabeth Batt (1734 - 1790), married Sarah Stickland in 1783 in St James, Poole, Dorset, England. There is a note on the FindMyPast record 'The marriage register shows that Sarah was a minor, the marriage was agreed with the consent of her parents. Witnesses were Henry Warland, Margaret King, Margarett Stickland'.
How old was Sarah if she was considered a minor? According to this online discussion Age at Marriage Minor on the British Genealogy website, for many years civil law and ecclestiastical law were out of step with each other.
So far only two Sarah Stickland births have been found in the period 1760 to 1775. The most likely is Sarah Stickland, born in 1763 (so likely just under 21 at the time) to Thomas and Mary Stickland. Sarah was the daughter of Thomas Warland and Mary Barbor who married in Buckland Newton on 11 September 1758 (witnesses were James Ridout and Richard Lane). Thomas and Mary Stickland (nee Barbor) had the following known children all baptised at St James, Poole:
Other Stickland children were baptised around the same time at St James Poole, to Philip and Sarah Stickland (e.g., George Stickland, baptised 18 May 1757, John Stickland, baptised 12 November 1758, and Philip Stickland, baptised 11 October 1761). This suggests that Sarah (who married Thomas) may have been named after her aunt, and that the name George was popular with both.
Robert and Sarah Warland had the following children. It appears from the place of births that the first three children were born in St James, Poole, before the family moved 'back' to Wimborne Minster.
Note - The Warland and Stickland families were connected for several generations - see this page in relation to the 'Almer' Warlands.
Mary Warland (born 1766), the daughter of Robert Warland (1731 - 1782), married Edward Tory ('of Christchurch in Hants') under licence on 4 August 1784 at Sturminster Marshall; there is also a record of marriage at Wimborne Minster on 10 August 1784. The witnesses to the 10 August ceremony were Christopher Warland (possibly her uncle born 1736) and Jane Warland (likely her younger sister born 1768, although it is not clear if she would have been eligible to be a witness as she was 16 at the time. Jane married William Mackrell in 1790.
The following children have been found for Edward and Mary Tory. It appears they baptised some of the children at the same time:
Likely connected with the marriage of Mary Warland and Edward Tory, on 9 August 1784, an indenture was created between Edward Tory, Mary Tory (nee Warland), and John and Christopher Warland 'being the settlement executed previously to the marriage' of Edward and Mary Tory.
In 1786 Thomas' son, John Webb, became the Lord of the Manor and had one daughter, Barbara Webb (1762 - 1819). Barbara Webb married Anthony Ashley [Cooper], 5th Earl of Shaftesbury. Barbara's father, John Webb, died in 1797. Barbara and Anthony Cooper's daughter, Lady Barbara Cooper (1788 - 1844), married William Francis Spencer [Ponsonby] (1761 - 1811), 1st Baron De Mauley, and had issue. Lady Cooper died in 1844 and was buried at Wimborne St Giles, Dorset.
Jane Warland (born 1768), the daughter of Robert Warland (1731 - 1782) and sister of Mary Warland who married Edward Tory in 1784, married Edward Mackrell, a butcher of Sturminster Marshall Parish on 24 June 1790 in Wimborne Minster. The witnesses were S Reeks, Mary Fryer and Mary Dean (her mother). Given that Jane's sister Mary appears to have married first in Sturminster Marshall, it seems possible that she met Edward then. So far no children have been found from this marriage. However, a William Mackrell married Susan and they had a son named Edward Tory Mackrell, baptised on 26 August 1828. Is this a coincidence of names?
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 (Warland)(,) the wife of the said Edward Tory(,) and Jane (nee Warland) the wife of the said William Mackrell', and possessed it.
Christopher Warland (born 25 June 1736) was the son of Robert Warland (1694 - 1758) and Ann King (1701 - 1784). He married Sarah Willis/Welles (c. 1750 - 11 May 1812) in Hampreston on 10 July 1792. For details of his life click the link, relating to the story of Nanny/Nancy Ann Warland, Elias Barnes and the Barnes family.
After the death of John Warland (born 19 December 1726) in 1794, the indenture became the sole responsibility of his brother Christopher Warland (born 1736). See below in 1808 for details of the new contract.
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, one named Henry Carroll Warland who migrated to Australia.
The Wimbourne Militia Lists for 1796 lists men who were 'liable to serve as Militia Men for the Borough of Wimbourn in the County of Dorset', Robert Warland is listed as a Malster (the same occupation as his father) with six children.
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 his brother William's wife, Dorothy). After Henry died in 1819 (or maybe before), it is believed that Ann Ayers went to live with her nephew Christopher, the son of her brother-in-law Christopher (1736 - 1816, see above).
As noted above, after the death of John Warland 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 for the land 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'. It is not known how this indenture relates to the original 1739 lease.
Henry Warland died in 1819. Although he was believed to be married to Ann Eyers/Ayers, his will makes no mention of a wife or children. His beneficiaries are listed as follows:
Witnesses to his will were: John Eaton (bricklayer); John Abbott (yeoman); William Freeman (Attorney's Clerk of Blandford Forum).
Robert Warland took his own life at the age of 60. According the the Inquisition into his death, Robert was said to have not been 'of sound mind memory and understanding' but 'lunatic' when, on 21 June 1821 he went to the storeroom adjoining his dwelling house and gave himself 'one mortal wound' with a knife to the throat and died. The members of the inquisition under William Castleman Gentleman Coroner were William Moore, Foreman, Thomas Moore, Joseph Crew, Edward Redhead, John Warland, John Fry, Joseph Hoskins, Barnet Eggs, Benjamin (Horth?), James James, Robert Bellows and James (Symonds? ruled out?) Blanchard.
Robert Warland was buried at Canford Magna on 25 June 1821. It is not yet known when his wife Sarah (nee Stickland) died but some records indicate it was the same year as Robert.
Robert's probate reads as follows:
Bond. Know all men etc etc. We Sarah Warland of Wimborne Minster in the county of Dorset, widow and relict of Robert Warland late of the same place, yeoman deceased, John Warland of Pamphill in the parish of Wimborne Minster aforesaid, carpenter, and Henry Warland of No 4 Milk Street in Cheapside in the city of London, Linen draper, are held and firmly bound unto Henry Bankes Esq Master of Arts Principal Official of the Peculiar and Exempt Jurisdiction of Wimborne Minster lawfully constituted in four hundred pounds etc etc. Dated ninth day of October in the 2nd year of George IV in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty One. Sealed and Delivered, J Baskett. Signed Sarah Warland, John Warland, Henry Warland.
The within named Sarah Warland was duely sworn administrix as usual and that the Goods chattels and credits of the deceased do not amount in value to the sum of two hundred pounds. In the presence of Robert Bate. J Baskett, Surrogate. The deceased was late as within described and died on the twenty first day of June 1821. J Baskett.
By the time Lady Cooper died in 1844, there were very few if any Warlands living on the Canford Magna estate - most of the farming Warlands had moved to other parts of England or to Australia. The Canford Magna estate was sold to Sir Josiah John Guest, a South Wales iron-master, and his wife Lady Charlotte Guest. Their son, Ivor Bertie Guest, was created 1st Baron Wimborne of Canford Magna and married Lady Cornelia Spencer-Churchill, eldest daughter of the Seventh Duke of Marlborough and the aunt of Winston Churchill. The great staircase at Canford Magna, elaborately carved in walnut by a Venetian craftsman, was installed towards the end of the 19th century in memory of Sir Henry Layard who married a daughter of the Guests and often stayed at the house. Canford House was sold in 1922 and it became a school. (Source: https://www.streets-of-bournemouth.org.uk/assets/sob/pdf/original/30007.pdf)
The Gentleman's Magazine of 1849 (Volume 31) noted the death on 11 December 1848 in the obituaries section of Edward Tory Mackrell, the second son of the late William Mackrell esq of Sturminster Marshall, Dorset. According to the Dorset OPC records, his parents were William and Susan Mackrell and he was baptised on 26 August 1828. This person must have had some connection back to the Tory/Mackrell connection already described above.
Page created 2008, updated 2 July 2022 (details of Robert's children, the death of Robert in 1821 and other edits). Copyright © Andrew Warland. (andrewwarland(at)gmail.com)