NameWilliam Warburton 
Birth1799, Urmston, Lancashire
Christening20 Oct 1799, Flixton, St Michael, Lancashire Age: <1
Census1851, Wilmslow, Cheshire Age: 52
MemoWilliam (51) is an annuitant lodging in Holly Lane with John Owen (60) a farmer of 20 acres, born in Urmston, his wife Mary (44) from Heaton Noris, and daughter Ellen (18) from Etchells.
Death1872, Urmston, Lancashire Age: 73
Notes for William Warburton
William’s death was registered in 1q 1872 Salford 8d 5, aged 73. Cenuses show he was a schoolmaster who never married and was blind by 1871. In 1851 he was lodging in Wilmslow with John Owen, a farmer who was also born in Urmston.
In February 1854 William was lodging with his brother Samuel, Samuel’s wife Ann, and Ann’s great niece Mary when they were appeared in a number of newspaper articles about the Butter Boggart of Old Lostock (see the Warburton Website for details). William was an unemployed schoolmaster at the time.