Genealogy & Family History

Pedigree of Warton of Beverley

The Wartons were Hull merchants who became the wealthiest family in Beverley in the seventeenth century. They were lords of the manor of Beverley Parks and Beverley. Christopher Warton of Warton in the reign of Edward IV married Mary, daughter of William Lancaster, and was succeeded by a son, John Warton, in the reign of Henry VII. He married Mary, daughter of Sir John Pickering, and their son, Lawrence Warton, was described as being 'of Beverley' during the reign of Henry VIII. By 1657 they had a house built into North Bar. Michael Warton (1577-1655) outlived his son and his grandson, Michael Warton (1623-1688), inherited the estates, though they had been depleted through fines paid to Parliament for Royalism. His eldest son, Michael Warton (1649-1725), died unmarried and the estates were split up between the children of his two sisters in the eighteenth century. Papers at Hull University Archives comprise a seventeenth-century household account book which includes outgoings on apothecary's fees, quires of writing paper, servants' wages, estate accounts and rents as well as accounts for the funeral of Michael Warton in 1655. Reference DP/58, 64, 81.