History Notes

The Warmington Village Website receives many emails from people with family connections to the area, particularly those searching for ancestors. Occasionally they provide historical information on people who lived in the village many years ago. This information is reproduced below. I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the information, if you have any comments to add please contact us by using the feedback form. 

From Anne Rimes

I have put a few bits together about my Grandparents and the Upex family, it would be great if any one else recalls them. Their names were Charlie and Ellen Upex they go back many decades and lived at 17 Stamford Lane, granddad was in the church choir for 80 years.

They had 3 children George , Bill and Edith, my Nan also brought up my dad, his name was David Alan Upex. My Granddad’s relatives are on the roll of honour in Warmington church. My Nan and granddad were actually care takers of the wooden huts that you refer to and my granddad’s mum and dad lived on the green.

When it was my Nan and granddad’s wedding the village was flooded and they had to be taken to the ceremony on a milk float. My Nan passed away in 1983 and my granddad about 87. I have been trying to find the origin of the name upex for a long time, but to no avail, I think it used to be spelt upecks, as on the 1777 militia list, but has changed over time.

If anyone has more information on the Upex family I would be most interested they was so well known and loved by all who new them, thank you once again Anne rimes. PS my Nan’s maiden name was Sansby.

21 July 2006

From Phi Clark

I thought you might be interested in some old photos I have of Big Green. I was born at 20 Big Green and often visit Warmington when I occasionally return to England.
2 January 2005

Big Green 1956/7

That's me and dad (Ron) painting the chimney 1967

From Jon Bolton

My ancestor Francis Ireson built The Old Bakery where he was a baker, grocer and stonemason in the mid-19thC. You can still see the F.I. up on the front wall. Francis died in Warmington and has a fine stone in the churchyard. His daughter took over the bakery with her husband. There were other children, one of whom, also Francis, moved to Croydon in London as a builder and assisted in the foundation of the Salvation Army there, later founding the Wellingborough Branch.

His grandson, my grandfather, is now 89 and still lives in Wellingborough. In Warmington, they were Methodists and Francis came originally from Yarwell, a village full of Ireson stonemasons. There is a family story told by my great aunt (long deceased) about their conversion to Methodism when a pub was struck by lightening and "beer barrels were rolled down the hill" - not sure if there is any truth in it. I know that one of the other children kept a diary now in the possession of a distant relative.

From David Cooper

I did a certain amount of research a few years back on the history of  Warmington - and also Elton, as my great-grandfather married the daughter of William Ellaby (senior), the butcher in Elton, who lived in the big house on Stocks Green.

My family lived in Warmington from the early 18th to the late 19th century - my grandfather's grandfather's grandfather, Thomas Cowper the Elder, was a churchwarden and one of the farmers before the 1776? Enclosure and also one of the Enclosure Commissioners. On May 9 1762, Edward Rowell married Alice Cooper, not the pop singer but the daughter of Thomas Cooper the Elder.

The first record I have of Thomas Cowper in the Survey made around 1750 when he was the farm was shown as something like 115 acres. I do not know where Thomas Cowper the Elder lived in Warmington or his son and grandson, both named Matthew. His Great-grandson (my Great-grandfather, who later moved to London) lived for a while at the Angel pub and his Uncle, another Thomas (his gravestone is the only one I've been able to find in the churchyard) lived, I think, next door and another relative a little further down the road.

From Reg Winfield

In the 1940s we knew Orchard Close as the Brickyard Cottages, Mr & Mrs B Wiliamson, Mr & Mrs Wilf Langley, Mr & Mrs Langley (Wilfs Parents) & Mr & Mrs Kirk. I lived in the village in those days, the Brickyards were behind the cottages, hence the name.

I enjoy the old photographs of Warmington, who is the man with the bicycle out side the Red Lion, could it be Charlie Dixs, of Tansor?

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