John Warmington was born in about 1766 probably in Hook Norton in Oxfordshire. His father was Joseph Warmington, farmer and yeoman. The Warmington family can be traced back several hundred years in north Oxfordshire and are probably linked with the village of Warmington just north of Banbury.
His mother Mary Warmington died in 1774, when he was only about 8. His grandmother Mary Young died a few months later and her will of that year allows a few insights into the family. It mentions his elder sister Sarah.
In 1777 John Warmington is recorded as starting an apprenticeship as a butcher in nearby Banbury, a career that was to take him to the City of London and the Butchers company there.
On 30 May 1785 in Banbury he married, Elizabeth Devonshire, the second daughter of Abraham Devonshire, the younger, and his first wife, Ann Rolls. The Devonshire’s were a non conformist family involved in the wool trade.
The Warmingtons were also dissenters, probably Baptists. Hook Norton had a longstanding Baptist community. John Warmington’s grandfather was John Young, who was probably the John Young who helped build the first full time Baptist Church in Hook Norton in 1717.
John Warmington’s business interests extended far beyond butchery to take in the allied trades of hides, tanning and cattle breeding. By 1783 John Warmington and his wife Elizabeth moved to the East End of London on the edge of the City which was a centre for many London dissenters. Six of their nine children were born and baptized in Cripplegate. By 1801 the family moved out to the more rural village of Plaistow that continued to have a collection of like minded individuals.
He was admitted to the freedom of the City of London in 1787. On 2nd January 1792 the London Gazette records the dissolution of a partnership between Thomas Holbeach and John Warmington of Fore Street, Cripplegate. Here John Warmington is described as a “Hyde Salesman”
John Warmington is recorded as being a Baptist ‘Minister’ involved in the newly founded North Street Chapel in Plaistow in 1807. He had helped found this chapel with Robert Humphrey Marten who was a close neighbour up the hill at Broadway House. His eldest daughter, Eliza, married Robert Humphrey Marten’s eldest son, Robert Giles Marten.
John Warmington was a member of the City Livery Company, the Worshipful Company of Butchers, rising to be Master in 1815.
John Warmington was still alive in the 1841 census where he is described as a ‘Grazier’. Maps show he certainly owned several pastures around Balaam Street in Plaistow where the current day eponymous Warmington Street is located in E13.
The only other mention of John Warmington is in the testimonial writtten by Robert Humphrey Marten in 1810 concerning a ‘city’ scheme to insure cattle. This was a venture, seemingly supported by John Warmington, that failed and cost RHM an investment of £100. In announcements in the London Gazette there can be found mention of a John Warmington, who is a director of the Hope Assurance Co of Ludgate Hill. This, we can conclude, is almost certainly him. He appears to have been a director from about 1800 until his ‘disqualification’ in 1843.
He died on 25 July 1845 in Plaistow and left a number of distinguished grandchildren. He is recorded as being 79 years of age. In the absence of a baptism record, this is the only concrete indication of his actual birth year.
The descendants of Robert Giles Marten are documented on this site. His daughter Caroline married into the Eisdell family, important tanners, in Colchester. His son Edward Warmington married Mary Payne, an important Quaker family with which the Warmingtons intermarried several times. Edward’s descendants include Sir Cornelius Marshall Warmington QC and a Warmington baronetcy.
Family of John WARMINGTON and Elizabeth DEVONSHIRE
Husband: | John WARMINGTON (c. 1766-1845) |
Wife: | Elizabeth DEVONSHIRE (c. 1763-1833) |
Children: | James WARMINGTON (b.1786, bur.1789) |
| John WARMINGTON (b.1787, bur.1788) |
| Alfred WARMINGTON (b.1788, bur.1788) |
| Joseph WARMINGTON (1789-1868) |
| Caroline WARMINGTON (1791-1850) |
| Eliza WARMINGTON (1793-1865) |
| John WARMINGTON (1796-1860) |
| James WARMINGTON (1800-1878) |
| Ann Devonshire WARMINGTON (1801-1881) |
| Edward WARMINGTON (1803-1871) |
| Ebenezer WARMINGTON (b.1805, bur.1832) |
| Samuel Young WARMINGTON (1806-1834) |
Marriage | 30 May 1785 | Banbury, Oxfordshire |
Husband: John WARMINGTON
Name: | John WARMINGTON |
Sex: | Male |
Father: | Joseph WARMINGTON (bap.1737, d.1797) |
Mother: | Mary YOUNG (b.1730, bur.1774) |
Birth | c. 1766 | Hook Norton1 |
Residence | frm 1786 to 1790 (age 19-24) | Fore Street, Cripplegate |
Residence | btw 1803 and 1820 (age 36-54) | Balaam Street Plaistow2 |
Occupation | 1807 (age 40-41) | Hide Dealer; Baptist Minister North Street Chapel with RH Marten |
Residence | 1820 (age 53-54) | Warmington Street E13 named after his residence |
Occupation | 1841 (age 74-75) | -; Census 1841 shows a Grazier in Plaistow |
Death | 25 Jul 1845 (age 78-79) | Plaistow3 |
Wife: Elizabeth DEVONSHIRE
Name: | Elizabeth DEVONSHIRE4 |
Sex: | Female |
Father: | Abraham DEVONSHIRE (1728-1799) |
Mother: | Ann ROLLS (1726-1770) |
Birth | c. 1763 | Banbury |
Death | Feb 1833 (age 69-70) | Plaistow, Essex |
Burial | 11 Feb 1833 | Bunhill Fields |
Child 1: James WARMINGTON
Name: | James WARMINGTON |
Sex: | Male |
Birth | 1786 | |
Burial | 30 Apr 1789 | Bunhill Fields |
Child 2: John WARMINGTON
Name: | John WARMINGTON |
Sex: | Male |
Birth | 27 Jul 1787 | St Giles, Cripplegate, London |
Baptism | 6 Aug 1787 (age 0) | Bicester Market End, Water Lane, (Ind) |
Burial | 19 Jun 1788 | Bunhill Fields |
Child 3: Alfred WARMINGTON
Name: | Alfred WARMINGTON |
Sex: | Male |
Birth | Sep 1788 | |
Burial | 29 Oct 1788 | Bunhill Fields |
Child 4: Joseph WARMINGTON
Name: | Joseph WARMINGTON |
Sex: | Male |
Spouse 1: | Hannah BLYTH ( -1821) |
Spouse 2: | Eliza Guyer HORSEY (1797-1875) |
Birth | 24 Oct 1789 | Cripplegate, London |
Occupation | | Butcher/Landowner |
Death | 16 Jun 1868 (age 78) | Lee Kent |
Child 5: Caroline WARMINGTON
Name: | Caroline WARMINGTON |
Sex: | Female |
Spouse: | Joseph Carter EISDELL (1786-1854) |
Birth | 28 May 1791 | Cripplegate, London |
Death | 4 Dec 1850 (age 59) | Plaistow (Mr Chaplin’s)5 |
Child 6: Eliza WARMINGTON
Name: | Eliza WARMINGTON |
Sex: | Female |
Spouse: | Robert Giles MARTEN (1792-1839) |
Birth | 22 Jan 1793 | Cripplegate, London6 |
Residence | 1841 (age 47-48) | Grove Place, Camberwell recently widowed |
Residence | 1851 (age 57-58) | DeCrespigny Terrace, Dulwich, Camberwell |
Residence | 1861 (age 67-68) | Woverhampton with son Henry |
Death | 4 Jul 1865 (age 72) | Parkfield House, Wolverhampton, Staffs |
Child 7: John WARMINGTON
Name: | John WARMINGTON |
Sex: | Male |
Birth | 10 Aug 1796 | Cripplegate, London |
Death | 1860 (age 63-64) | Smyrna |
Child 8: James WARMINGTON
Name: | James WARMINGTON |
Sex: | Male |
Spouse: | Mary BAYLISS (1808- ) |
Birth | 25 Apr 1800 | Streatham, Surrey |
Occupation | | Hide and Skin Broker |
Death | 1878 (age 77-78) | |
Child 9: Ann Devonshire WARMINGTON
Name: | Ann Devonshire WARMINGTON |
Sex: | Female |
Spouse: | William Dermer SADDINGTON (1808-1871) |
Birth | 19 Nov 1801 | Cripplegate, London |
Census | 1841 (age 39-40) | Unmarried daughter ‘Sarah’ living with father John in Plaistow |
Residence | 1881 (age 79-80) | Lee Kent7 |
Death | 12 Jul 1881 (age 79) | Lewisham, Kent |
Child 10: Edward WARMINGTON
Name: | Edward WARMINGTON |
Sex: | Male |
Spouse: | Mary PAYNE (1806- ) |
Birth | 6 Dec 1803 | Plaistow, Essex |
Occupation | 1851 (age 47-48) | Leather Dealer; Leather Seller presumably in partenership with JC Eisdell |
Death | 29 Mar 1871 (age 67) | Colchester Essex |
Child 11: Ebenezer WARMINGTON
Name: | Ebenezer WARMINGTON |
Sex: | Male |
Birth | 22 Jan 1805 | Plaistow, Essex |
Burial | 29 Aug 1832 | Bunhill Fields |
Child 12: Samuel Young WARMINGTON
Name: | Samuel Young WARMINGTON |
Sex: | Male |
Birth | 30 Aug 1806 | Plaistow, Essex |
Death | 18 Dec 1834 (age 28) | Plaistow, Essex |
Sources
1 | There is a Lee, Kent connection for the Devonshires and the Warmingtons – Robert Humphrey Marten of Lee is a descendant. |
2 | “Curwen, Old Plaistow, 1904”. |
3 | “The Gentlemans Magazine, 1845 p 323”. Text From Source: Obituary Aged 82 |
4 | Devonshire because of her daughters name and confirmed nby the Marten family tree. |
5 | “Gentlemans Magazine, 1850”. Text From Source: Wife of J C Eisdell of Colchester, aged 58, Obituary eldest daughter of the late John Warmington of Plaistow |
6 | Dissenters Birth Certificate MS7744/P/29 . |
7 | The 1881 census is the only one to give Ann Devonshire Saddington (nee Warmington) place of birth as Cripplegate. This ties in with the Marten family tree that gives her sister’s place of birth as Cripplegate too. This is a key link to the Devonshire name. |