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These are some photos from Newsletters that are not included elsewhere.
Martha featured in Issue 2 of the Newsletter. She was the illegitimate daughter of Alice Warburton and John Wilde. She went to Australia in around 1855 but returned to England in 1864 with her first husband, William Kenworthy and four children.
They lived in Mossley, Lancashire but William died in 1865 and Martha returned to Australia where she married Bartholemew Castalaneli in 1868 and had four more children. She returned to England in 1880 without Bartholemew but returned to Australia where she died in Tasmania.
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Sir Robert was born in an Afghan fort during the First Afghan War before escaping to India with his mother, and elder brother. He became famous for his exploits on the North West Frontier where he was the Political Officer in charge of the Khyber Pass. His story is told in Issue 3 of the Button Files.
The Liguria featured in the diary of Henry Warburton from Issue 4 of the Button files. It describes Henry’s voyage on the Liguria from Australia to England.
Adrian’s story is told in Issue 5 of The Button Files. The photo is from 1943 and is from Warburton’s War by Tony Spooner.
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The Story of the Poynton Clan is in Issue 6 of the Button Files. Many members of the clan worked in the coal mines of Poynton. The last pit closed in 1935.
Sir George Warren’s Sough was an early (18th century) coal mine in Poynton, Cheshire.
James Edward (Choppy) Warburton was a runner and cycling trainer who achieved notoriety for supposedly using drugs on his cyclists. His story is told in Issue 6 of The Button Files. Here he is with Jimmy Michael of South Wales in 1895.
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Choppy (right) in his running days.
Choppy with his three world champion cyclists. Left to right: Arthur Linton, Choppy, Jimmy Michael, and Tom Linton.
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The story of Ringway and Hale Chapels appeared in Issue 7 of The Button Files.
This additional picture of Adrian is from Issue 8 of The Button Files.
Winefred believed her mother was a Warburton. The story is told in Issue 10 of The Button Files, in a letter from Ann Wills.
John’s story is told in Issue 10 of The Button Files.
Mary Warburton’s Obligation was an Obligation to produce an Inventory. It was sent to me by Ann Cooper and described in Issue 11 of The Button Files.
The Inventory Mary was obliged to produce was written in a different hand.
This coat of arms id from the Cheshire Visitation of 1613, and is very similar to the arms portrayed in both paintings.
Annie’s mother was Martha Warbitten (Warburton) of Glasgow, who married James Main. Her story is in Issue 13 of The Button Files.
The large Smith family of Audley, Staffordshire were described in Issue 13 of The Button Files. Charles Smith and Louisa nee Warburton had 17 children, 12 of whom are shown in this picture with their parents.
They are: back row from left: Henrietta (Tet), Frank, Wilmotina (Tina), Robert, Nancy, Edmund, James, Minnie, Charles, and Maria
Front row: Mary (Polly), Charles, Louisa, and Harry.
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This Smith family tree was prepared by David Owen, a descendant of Robert.
This picture featured in the story of a highway robbery in Bowdon in Issue 14 of The Button Files.
William is on the right of the picture. Information from Heather Jones, William’s great granddaughter, was included in Issue 14 of The Button Files.
I was alerted to a marvellous document that resides in Manchester University Library concerning the marriage of Wise Piers Warburton, the builder of Arley Hall. It appeared in Issue 14 of The Button Files.
This picture was sent to me by John Warburton. It shows his great grandfather Thomas Warburton (on the right) with Sir Gilbert Greenhall, First Lord Daresbury, at the Warrington Horse Show. See Issue 15 of The Button Files.
Doreen Warburton is in the blonde wig second from left, From the left are Noelene Brown, Doreen, Betty Lucas (seated), Lorraine Bayly, and Carole Skinner (far right). Doreen’s obituary is in Issue 15 ofThe Button Files.
Leslie was a cricketer in the Lancashire League. His story is in Issue 16 of The Button Files.
Samuel is from the Tottington clan. This is the first of 4 photos from the Tottington clan shown in Issue 17 of The Button Files. Samuel married Jane Ann Smith at St Anne, Tottington in 1910 and had two daughters, Ethel (b 1910) and Lena (b 1912). Ethel was the mother of Janet Holden who sent the photographs.
Lena and Ethel Warburton in Tottington about 1917. Lena married twice and lived to 101 years. She married Sam Groome at St Ann, Tottington in 1948, and died in 1974.
This photo of pupils of St Anne school was taken around 1916.
This photo of Richard Warburton (1831-1913) of the Tilston clan, with his daughters Celia and Margaret, was provided by Lorna Bowdon, Margaret’s great great granddaughter. It appeared in Issue 17 of the Button Files
Margaret married a Danish Sea Captain named Rasmus Madsen.
This photo appeared in Issue 17 of The Button Files. It was sent to me by Susan North. It is of her paternal grandmother Emily Ryder nee Warburton b 1878, together with her eldest son Harry and and two others, yet to be identified.
Emily was born in Bury, one of 9 children of George Thomas (Thomas) Warburton and Dorothy nee Haslem of the Cardiff and Bury family. I believe this makes her the great great aunt of Sam Warburton the ex-Wales rugby captain. She married Susan’s grandfather Richard/Harry Ryder around 1916.
This cutting appeared in Issue 17 of The Button Files with a request for further information.
John Warburton is a Machine Builder and Cotton Manufacturer from Manchester, England who had established an extensive Cotton Manufactory at North-Bolton, near Hartford, Connecticut to produce Knitting Cotton that no other manufacturer can furnish at better quality, or lower price.
Samuel Warburton (1821? – 1904) was transported to the West Indies, and then to Western Australia, where he married a 13 year old girl. Descendants of two of his sons have been DNA tested with surprising results. His story was covered in Issues 17 and 18 of The Button Files.
Renie Adams (née Warburton) was one of the first WAAF Radar Instructors at the training school set up by Jack Ratcliffe in Forres School in Swanage in 1941. She married John Adams in 1943 who later became the Chief Scientist for Civil work in the Ministry of Technology and subsequently was Director of CERN in Geneva. Her story is in Issue 17 of The Button Files.
Robert Watson-Watt was a pioneer of Radar. He personally chose Renie Warburton amongst the first 20 WAAF officers to be trained as RADAR operators.
This letter was published in Issue 18 of The Button Files. It was one of several loaned to me by Marian Yeager (nee Martin) that are collected in a paper called Captain Eliot Warburton’s Letters to Marian Martin. It can be found on the Papers page of the website.
This is the first of two cuttings published in Issue 18 of the Button Files. The were sent by Jim Maddox that reveal a story of litigation and its aftermath.
Nurse Mary Warburton was the subject of a famous search and rescue in the outback of British Colombia in 1926. Her story is in Issue 18 of The Button Files.
This article covering the rescue, and eventual fate of Nurse Mary Warburton was a part of an insert in the Daily Colonist entitled “The Islander – The Daily Colonist Magazine”. This issue was published Victoria, BC: 19 October 1969.
Fred was a socialist and early member of the Communist Party. His story is told in Issue 18 of The Button Files.
Fred’s parents Bennett and Grace Warburton and their 13 children circa 1904, The 13th child, also Grace , was born in 1901, and looks about 3 or 4. Judging by relative ages, Fred is probably the boy directly behind little Grace. It is assumed the eldest son, Charles Henry is the centre of the back row, and James Alfred (Alf), great grandfather of Any Halton who provided the photo, and a communist like Fred, is one of the two on either side of Charles.
Leroy (Roy) was the uncle who braved scarlet fever to cheer up his 5 year old niece Earlene Warburton (later Johnson) who was quarantined over Christmas. The story is told in Issue 18 of The Button Files.
Abram was born in Pleasant Grove, Utah, the son of John Warburton and Sarah Green. He was the father of Leroy Warburton.
Adrian Warburton has sent me the following photos., which appeared in Issue 19 of The Button Files.
Anne Maria Warburton was born in 1854 to George Warburton and Maria nee Dodd of the Nottinghamshire clan. She married an American, William Henry Sherburn at Worksop Priory in 1870. William was a merchant from Wisconsin and the couple subsequently moved to America.
I’m not sure who these two people are. I guess Grandpa Sherburn might be Anne Maria’s son, but the photo doesn’t include the lady’s name. She doesn’t look too dissimilar to Anne Maria, but I can’t be sure.
Alexander Bannerman Warburton (1852-1929), a lawyer, politician, judge, and author, was briefly Premier of Prince Edward Island in 1897. His story appeared in Issue 19 of The Button Files.
Audley’s story appeared in Issue 20 of The Button Files.
Commanded by Audley Lyne Warburton at Pearl Harbour.
This and the next two photos were sent to me by Lionel Toole. They appeared in Issue 20 of The Button Files.
James Warburton was born on on February 1st 1850 in Macclesfield. He can be found in the Greater Hale Barns clan.
He was a master tailor who married Martha Jane Toole in 1874. They emigrated to Paterson, New Jersey in 1886. James died in 1907.
There were close links between Paterson and Macclesfield from 1830 onwards, based on a shared involvement in the silk industry. By 1900 there were 3,000 Macclesfield people living in Paterson. It seems that as a tailor, James was not directly involved in the silk industry though it was probably an important raw material in his tailoring business. The Macclesfield-Paterson link can also be seen in the Wilmslow clan.
The house at 152 Governor Street where James Warburton and his wife Martha lived in Patterson, New Jersey in 1892/3.
James Warburton’s burial site in Paterson, New Jersey. He died in 1907.
Margo Duran sent me this picture of her great grandmother. It appeared in Issue 20 of The Button Files.
From left to right are William Henry Warburton with his daughters Clarice and Beatrice, and sons William and Warren. A fifth sibling, Marion, was a very young child who died in the great influenza outbreak after WW1. William Henry’s wife Sarah Ellen nee Hoyles is not in the photo as she passed away on the 13th day of February 1942.
William Henry and Sarah Ellen were originally from Bolton. Along with their first born infant child Clarice they booked passage on the Titanic with the dream of emigrating to America, but in a twist of fate Clarice got very sick and they were not allowed to board. The Titanic steamed off without them. On the 15th day of April, 1912 in the North Atlantic, she hit an iceberg and sank with the loss of over 1500 souls.
Later that year William Henry and his family successfully emigrated to Boston on the White Star Line steamship Cymric. The photo and story were provided by William Henry’s grandson Warren, son of Warren.
The story appeared in Issue 20 of the Button Files.
Dame Anne Warburton was Britain’s first female ambassador. I posted on both her obituary in June 2015, and her biography in December 2018, but neither post appeared in The Button Files, and there was no photo, until I rectified the situation in Issue 20 of The Button Files.
This photo is now in the Other Artefacts Gallery. It also appeared in Issue 20 of The Button Files.
