Swinnerton Family History

The Journal of the Svvi nnerton Society

Butterton Grange - Built for Thomas Swinnerton in 1830

VOLUME THREE NUMBER NINE APRIL 1979 ISSN 0508 - 6755

THE SWINNERTON SOCIETY

A ncn-profit makmg organisation devoted to the research and publtut11111 'if ~\\ 11111t·1 tu11 family record~ and the welfare of Swynnerton Church.

A member ol the Fedcrat1<111 of Family Hi,tury Sonetie~.

PRESIDENT

The Rt. Hon. Lord Stafford Swynnerton Park

Staffs.

VICE-PRESIDENTS

Frank Swinnerton Esq.

Sir Roger Swynnerton CMG.QBE.MC. Sir Peter Swinnerton Dyer FRS.

H. Norman Swinnerton ASc. (America)

COUNCIL

J. W. Swinnerton MBE.TD.BSc.(Econ.) Col. J .C.A.Swynnerton OBE.

The Rev.B.T.Swinnerton LCP.CF. The Rev. Edward Swinnerton

S. K. Armitstead MA. C.L.Swinnerton Esq. (Treasurer)

SECRETARY & EDITOR

Lt.Col.I.S.Swinnerton TD .JP .DL. Owls Barn, Bridgnorth Rd., Stourton, Nr. Stourbridge, W .Mid.

r<S>- <ll><8><&><8><8>1 ~ A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SOCIET'r~

~ Research into the family history was started in · the

i l 870's by the Reverend Charles Swinnerton MA. FSA. Over the course of the years he wrote a number of articles and papers ahl)Ut the family and gathered together many Swinnertons from all over the world. His principal work was "A History of the Family of Swinnerton" (jointly with the Rev. & Hon. Canon Bridgman) and published as Part II of Vol. VII of the "Collections for a History of Staffordshire" by the William Salt Archaeologi~al Society. Interest in the family history became dormant after his death in 1928 until revived by the present Secretary in 1952. The Society was revived in l %9 and today has a worldwide

~ membership.

~:;::;;: P" annum S1udenlf & Senil" CTlizens;:

From the Editor's desk 'Genealogy and Heraldry are not, as many people erroneously suppose; sciences to flatter human vanity and mere exalters of lineage; they are fundamentally sciences auxiliary to history and have undeniable practical value ......• '

' When man becomes aware of his past, he acquires a sense of responsibility, he feels himself to be a link in an unbroken chain which he is bound to preserve, to increase if he can and, ultimately, to transmit, with respect, everything noble and worthy that he has received.'

(DON ANTONTO STURMENDT, speaking at the 3rd International Congress of Gen ealogical and Herald ic Scie nce s, 1956, Madrid)

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EXCHANGING INFORMATION

Recently our indefatigable researcher in North America, BILL SWINARTON, has appeared in the HIGINBOTTOM Family Bulletin also. He has found several Higenbottom entries whilst searching for ours and has sent sent them on to the Editor, Mr. F rank Higenbottam who, in the past, has sent many Swinnerton items to me.

With my copy of the NORRINGTON family newsletter at Christmas, I received a copy of a Swinnerton Marriage Allegation from London dated 29th March 177 4. In, in turn, have just sent Mr. John Norrington, the editor, a Norrington reference I came across in a book I was reading. ·1 have also just sent a photocopy of part of a book on the PALGRAVE Community of Canada to Derek Palgrave, editor of the Palgrave Newsletter. This, in fact, was also sent to me by Bill Swinarton as it contained a reference to Swinarton Mills. And so it goes on. We all try and help each other and a constant interchange of information is taking place between various family societies - an excellent thing.

I would like to quote from the editorial of the Norrington Family Newsletter (No. 9 Winter 1978-79 ). The Editor says to his readers "You will have noticed how much more of the contents of the Newsletters are now the result of your contributions rather than our own research and this is a very healthy sign which we hope will continue ".

I absolutely agree - readers of either journal please note

*** *** *** *** The editor of another of our contemporaries (Hugh Cave writing in 'The Caveman') has quoted Ecclesiasticus XLIV to his readers - yes, do look it up !

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With this issue comes a revised tree of the Early Swinnerton Emigrants to America. This should be bound in with Vol. 2 No. 8 (after Page 32) as it is intended to replace the large temporary tree issued then.

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THE SWINNERTONS OF BETLEY

In SFH. 1 ( p. 13) we quoted the Rev. Charles Swynnerton as saying that WILLIAM SWINNERTON the younger ( WS. 14) had 7 sons and 4 daughters of whom ''one son WILLIAM still survives at Betley ''. (This was said in 1886, of course ~ )

Further research in the Betley registers shows that his first marriage (to Frances Ryles) took place on the 2nd February 1832 and it reveals that MARGARET (MS. 46) d. of Thomas and Esther (same Table 2b) had an illegitimate son SAMUEL who was baptised on the 16 July 1842 and that MARY (MS. 35) married Benjamin Barrow on 21 September 1825.

Turning to Table 2a (SFH. 1 No. 4 p. 10) we also now know that SARAH (SS. 22), daughter of John & Elizabeth married Charles Warham on 5 March 1817 at Betley.

(We are indebted once again to Mrs. Rosalie Price and also to Mr. F. C. Markwell for the above information)

From the Bishop's Transcripts of Wybunbury, Cheshire (for which extract thanks to Mrs. P. M. Litton) we learn that William married Elizabeth there on 14 Feb. 1839. The full entry reads :-

William Swinnerton of full age, widower; Gardiner (sic) of Betley in Co Stafford. Father- William Swinnerton, gardi ner (sic) married Elizabeth Bromfield of full age Spinster, housekeeper of Chorlton. Father - john Bromfield, Farmer. Witnesses: Thomas Shaw and Sarah Bromfield.

Note that she is called Bromfield whereas the 'Staffordshire Advertiser' of 2 March 1839 says :-

A few days ago at Wybunbury by the Rev. ].Hayes, Mr William Swinnerton, gardener and seedsman, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr. BLOOM FIELD of Hunters ton.

I have no means of knowing, at present, which spelling is correct but Elizabeth signed her own name in the Register at Wybunbury so we must assume it is Bromfield.

We now have a proven descent from this family to the present day. HENRY SWINNERTON (HS. 43 Table 2b) married twice. His first wife, who he married at the Ebenezer Chapel, Newcastle-under-Lyme on 9 May 1858, was ANN MACHIN, aged 24, daughter of John Machin of Madeley. Henry was then 25 and described himself as a Blacksmith of Madeley. She died childless in 1877 at Newcastle, aged 43.

His second wife who he married at St. Peter's, Stoke on Trent on 23 December 1880 was HARRIET DA YSON, 36, a spinster, daughter of Thomas Da.yson, a farmer of Great Fenton. William was then 46, a widower and again described himself as a Blacksmith also of Great Fenton.

In both cases he gave his father as THOMAS SWINNERTON - gardener, although the Census had listed him as a gamekeeper.

By his second wife, Harriet, he had an only son, THOMAS (TS.100) b.11.11.1881 at Madeley who became a Wheelwright. He married Gertrude Pearce on 19 May 190.2 at Madeley and it is his second son ARTHUR (AS. 89) who is our member today.

Thus we have a proven four-generation descent and if we can just find the baptism of THOMAS (TS. 26) proving conclusively that he was a son of WILLIAM ( WS. 4) we can give Mr. Swinnerton a descent of many more generations.

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American Miscellany The following extracts are part of the vast amount of American & Canadian material assembled over the last two years by our 'hlcmber W.R. (Bill) Swinarton of Ontario.

WHO'S WHO in AMERICAN ART (American Federation of Arts)

Edited by D:> rothy W Gi I bert 1962

SWINNERTON, EDNA HUESTIS (Mrs. Raddlffe Swln· nertonJ-Minlafure Painter 333 East 681h St., New York 21, N.Y.

B. Troy, N.Y., Nov. 26. 1882. Studit!d: Emma. Willard A. Sch.; Cornell Univ .; ASL. Member: Pa. Soc: .. Min. P .: Am. Soc . Min . P. AM•ard: medal, Pa. Soc. Min. P., 1951. Work: many portrait commissions; permanent coll. PMA. Exhibited : Pan-Pt.cific Exp ., 1915; Chica{;o V./orld's Fair, 1933; .\.'>MP; Pa . Soc. Min. P ., from 1906 to present time.•

INTERNATIONAL AUCTI~ RECORDS 1969VOL111 EMayer

PAINTINGS

SWYNNERTON Annie, 1844-1933.

Portra it of Lady Mercy Morter, 1920, 8B X 59 in . 4 5 9 ( $ l 7 6 l G n s. 7 (1

DI RECTORY of DI RECTORS 1972 -73

SWl~ARTO~. Albert G.; Swinarton E o·E']s L~d ., 207-24 h St., Fort Mac­I t-o : . A lt a .: cir . Cr<.'stbrook Forest In­d t:stries Ltd . H nm e : 353-18th St. , Fort

- l\focL~o :~ . Alta .

CRESTBROOK FOREST INDUSTB.D:S LTD. P.O. Box HOO, Craabroolr., B.C.

Directors - Rikinobu Naku.aki, chm. and chief. exec. oHicer; Takao Ishikawa, vice­chm.. and vice-pres. finance; Victor C. Brown, pres.; Kenltichi Hoshino, vice-pres. and treas.; Joseph H. Konst. sec.; Donald L. Burns, Chester Chastek, Alfon.e A.. Fabro, Mataauburo Kinoshita, Kiyoshi Kojiro, Nob­uyasu Matsushita, Albert G. Swinarton. Oth­er E:s:ec. Officers - Clement Garside, sen. mp-.; D. V. McDougall, controUw.

WHO WAS WHO in AMERICA 1961 - 68 (Volume lV)

SWINERTON, Alfred B .. builder; b. San Francisco, Calif .• July 17. 1883; s. Wllllam A. and Minnie A. S.; student Mt. Tamalpals Military Acad., 1893· 116, Stanford U., 1900-03, U.S. Naval Acad .. 1903; m Jane Thomas Hotaling, Jan. 7, 1915; chlldren­Jane, William Arthur. Began as estimator, Lind~rcn Co., builders, San Francisco, 1908; vice-pres. ~md­gren & Swinerton, Inc.. builders, San Ji'ranc1sco, 1912-21. pres., 1921-32, chmn. bd. since 1032; chm,n. bd. Englneeril, Ltd., since 1938. llis company has b111lt Barco pipe llne, Colombia; Naval works, Panama Canal Zone; U.S. Army Chem. Warfare Arsenal, ~la.; Standard OU Bid&. and Matson Bldg., San Franmco, etc. Clubs: Pacifte-Unlon, Bohemian. San Francisco Galf (San Fr9ndsco); 11Jnks. Twenty-Nine (N.Y. ). Home: 309 Mannella Rd .. Woodside, Cal. Office: ~00 Bush St., San Francisco. Died May 13, 19G3.

INDEX to ARTIST! C BIOGRAPHY ( \t>I. 2 - I - Z )

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SWillliEn'rON, Edna Hucsti:1, lSL> 1 SG4, American miniaturist; WA 5-8

SWINNERTON, J;~mcs, 1875- , Am­erican illustrator, cartoonist, painter; WA 3

PRESBYTERIAN MINISTERIAL DIRECTORY (1898)

SWINNERTON. 'Jeorge Brown, New Bo-/i11, 1\'. Y.-Bon1, )."t:wark, N. J.; Ham. C., N. \'., B. A., l:.4!12, :\1. A . , '0;); Stud. Htf. T. S., 1 yr.; Anh. T . S., ~- Y., 'ti.); Lie. :\pril, •o.:;, Phy. of Otsego; Onl. June, '95, hy s:1111e; S. S. Laurene:;, )..". Y .. '~3-04; S. S. \':aldu1 :he. Ch . , Buffalo, N. Y., 'H-l--95; P. :'\l:w HL:rlin, N. \' . , 'U5-; Author, Press Ar­ticles .

_ ?W,IN~ERTON,_He~.ry I!·• ~~u-~'l Val-11), ,\ . J .-Born, Catskill, ::-.;. \ . , I rm. U., B. A .. :;\£.A., ],'fi::, l'h.D .. l"n., 'ii; l'rin. T. ~ . • 'llli; Or<I. ,\pril. 'tii, Phy. of Passaic; S. ~ · ~ol. Ch .. \\"ilmi11gton. Dd., 'lifl; S. 8. l\lor­nl'\ 1lk, l'a . , 'ti7-f i ~; 1'. Chern· \"alky, N. Y .• 'ti~- ; Author. " Hi!'torv Pl;n. Ch . , Cherry \"alky." 'it'\, (J •uh., J. -L. ~awycr, Cherry \"alley, N. \'.)

WHO'S WHO in AMERICA 1976 - 77 (Vol.2 L - Z)

SWJ~ARTON, ROBERT WALLACE, in,ei;tment banker; b. Bronx. ~ . Y .. July 22. 1926; ~ . Herbcrt Lincoln ~nd Floren1:e (S1ein) S. : B.S. m ;. gna cum Iaude. Wa~hi:igton and Lee l '. . 1950: m. Rosamond \\' . Ha, riwn. June 25, 1949; children-Patrice. Robert Wallace, Susan, Scott. Account exec. Dean Witter & Co .. '\ . Y .C.. 1950-57 . municipal b(lnd mgr., 1958·60. sales mgr. partner. 1961-63. nat. dir. research, 1963-68. dir. transaction ~ervice, I 969-. also 'ice chmn .. 1972- . d ir.. mcm . exec. com. Mem. SEC Adv Ccm. ~iem . So.: . \'alley Hosp. ScT\cd with CSAAF, 19U-46. Mcrn. '.'aL As~n . Security Dealers (.nee. com .• dir., di~t. ,·ice-chmn.). Secunties Industry Assn. Am., -"-lpha Kappa Psi, Beu Gamma Sigma . Club!;: Bond (treas. 1975-76). '-lunicipal Bond. Bankers of Am. (~ . Y . C.) : Cppcr Ridge.,..ood Tennis \Ridge•·ood. !'11 .J.) (pres. 1%6-67. 1rw.tee 196S·i0J. Home: 501 KnolJ,.·ood Rd RiJge,.·ocx.J :\J 07450 Office: 14 Wall St :-.;ew York C ity XY 10005

MANTLE FIELDING'S DICTIONARY of American Painters, Sculptors and Eng ravers 1965

SWINNERTON, J'a.m81. Pa.inter of South· western scenery; bis specialty is the American ilesert lands. He was born in California, ar.d studied in Xew York. Among his b~!lt known paintings are ''Coming Storm, Moj:l'>e Desert,'' "Clouch in )fonument Valley, :!\o!'th _.\rizona.," and ''Here Ends the Trail.''

INDEX of ARTISTS Daniel Trowbridge Mal let

1948

SWYNNERTON, ANNIE LOUISA. Mrs.: Joseph w· illiam Swrnnerton. Eng. l\t anch ~.: ster 18·l5-lY33 Harling Island.

l.1-M-Obit. N. Y . papers, 10-25-1933. SWY.N0.:ERTO.N, Ju~EPH WILLIAM . (S)

Eng . ac. 187 3 in London. B.

SUPPLEMENT to MALLET'S INDEX of ARTISTS 1948

SWINNERT00.", GuY. Arner. ad . PJ1o Alto, Calit. 717.

-SWINNERTON, JAMES. (111.-P) Amer. b. Eureka, Calif. 1875; ad. Hollywood,

Calif. W.

1. BETTY (BS. 3) bp. Betley 31. 12. 1795 (b. 28 Dec. '94)

2. MARY (MS. 35) bp. Betley 11.10.1797

(b. 1 Aug.)

Benjamin Barrow 21. 9. 1825 Betley

WILLIAM SWINNERTON of Betley, Staffs. (WS.14)

(2nd son of Wm. Swinnerton of Betley)

Gardener & Farmer bp. 17. 5. 1772 ' ) b. 7 May ) all d. 12. 10.1839 ) at (bur.19 Nov.) ) Betley

Margaret (Mary) Cooper Of Madeley, Staffs.

b. c. 1761 m. 13. 10.1793

at Madeley d.

I , ----------,

JOSEPH WILLIAM = (1) Frances Ryles

SWINNERTON SWINNERTON 2 Feb.1832

(JS. 48) (WS. 24) Betley

bp. Betley b. c. 1805 d.18. 3.1838

13.4.1800 d. 26. 9. 1887 (2) Elizabeth

(b. 1 Mar) both at Betley Bloomfield

3. HANNAH (HS.44) of

= Hunterston at Wybunbury

John Johnson Feb.1839 Grocer, b. c. 1810 of Weston Audlem 30. 7. :!.832 at d. 12. 1. 1893 Stoke on Trent

I JOHN THOMAS Hilda Williams = (2) P. Bradshaw (JS. 256) b. 15. 10.1907 Madeley d. 1. 6. 1963

·r-··­MICHAEL (MS. 151)

b. 4. 9. 1943

ALISON JANE (AS. 90)

b.7.2.1974

1935 1973

Kathleen Mary Jepson 27. 11. 1965 b. 25. 4. 1946

JENNIE (JS. 253) b. 16. 4. 1976

. , . -., MARTIN JOHN

. (MS.152) b. 1 o. 1. 1952

SAMUEL = Susannah HENRY SWINNERTON Harding SWINNERTON (SS. 31) 2. 4. 1835 (HS. 15) b. c. 1807 Shrewsbury Of London d. 24. 10.1855 b. c. 1793 bp. Betley Little Drayton d. 26.7.1877 25.12.1815 Surgeon Little Drayton Corn Factor

MARGARET ELIZABETH SAMUEL (MS. 46) (ES. 95 ) (SS. 41) bp. 5. 4.1816 b. c. 1826 bp. 1830 Betley Betley

r SAMUEL MARY ESTHER (SS. 58) (MS.96) (ES.96) bp.16. 7.1842 b. c. 1821 bp. 10. 5.1836 Betley d. 26. 5.1837 Betley d.13.5.1847 Betley

T ---- 1 ARTIIUR = Muriel Hebe Cot.ton EVA MARY (AS. 89) I 29.11. 1941 Silverdale (ES.140) b.21.12.1913 b.17. 10.1917 Basford b.8.7. 1904 Madeley

Saridra Pearson 21. 6. 1975

. b. 27. 4. 1947

I RODERICK ALAN (RS. 85) b. 29. 6. 1943 Stone

Madeley

.....• Martin 3. 7.1971

THOMAS = Esther SWINNERTON Lunt (TS.26 ) I 14. 5.1815 b. c. 1796 I Betley Gamekeeper b. c. 1796

HENRY = (1) Ann Machin (HS.43) 9. 5.1858 :t\. U. L.

---, THOMAS (TS. 71)

bp.19.8.1833 d.26.5.1877 b. c. 1837 Betley aged 43 Blacksmith I (2) Harriet Dayson d. 2. 2.1901 23.12. 1880 S. O. T. Betley

THOMAS (TS. 100) b1 11.11.1881 Madeley d. 14. 1. 1956 Kidsgrove

I EDITH (ES. 139) b. 29. 1. 1906 Madeley

Mothershaw

I ANTHEA MARY (AS. 91) b. 8. 7. 1948 N. U. L.

.•.... Masters 9~ 8. 1975 N. U. L.

Gertrude Pearce 19. 5. 1902 Madeley b. 23.11.1877 d. 4. 6. 1974

-·-1 JENNIFER RUTH (JS. 257) b. 27. 4. 1950 N. U. L.

• • . . . . Whittaker 4.8.1973

~I~ oi er ; Ci) (I) t-.:1 < er ;· 5· 0

THE HOUSE of SEVEN GABLES by Nathanial Hawthorne 1851

p. 21. 'Certain it is, however, that there was a great consultation and dispute· of doctors over the body. One - JOHN SWINNERTON by name who appears to have been a man of eminence •...••... '

(ex. Richard de Swynnerton of California via Bill Swinarton of Canada who comments, 'Hawthorne had studied early American History and I suspect he came across the name of our Dr. John Swinerton and used it in the book.')

(Editor's Note: For Doctor John Swinerton - see SFH. 2. p. 1 7)

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TRINITY by Leon Uris. published by Doubleday & Co. Inc., New York.

p. 721. The "Gl~ry of Ulster" steamed down the River Foyle under the hand of Christopher HubOle, past the Pennyburn Light and to the dock where port-master D. E. SWINERTON, an off-duty U. V. F. Officer, waited with all the necessary documentations .......•.

(ex Mrs. Edythe Seeley of Canada) '

It is interesting to note that the author has here used the spelling with only one ' n' as used by the Irish branch.

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PALGRAVE - THE UNITED CHURCH & the COMMUNITY

Florence E. McLean & Rev. George A. Munday

Published by Palgrave United Church as a tribute to the founders of the Community & Church.

p.101 "COLUMBIA • . . • • . • . Swinarton' s Mills was an appointment on the Albion Branch Plan beginning in 1851 with no memberships listed for 2 years. But in 1853 21 members are listed. The name of the appointment became Columbia in 1853.

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THE CALENDAR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

1913 - 1914 Swinnerton. A. F. R. W. Toronto Non matriculated Swinne rton. A. A. Toronto

UNIVERSITY of TORONTO ARCHITECTURAL CLUB

F. A. Swinnerton Councillor.

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THE WARWICKSIIlRE SWINNERTONS - (Part III) S. K. Armitstead

Before dealing with the family of THOMAS (as promised in our article of November 1976) we should have a glance at the family of EDWARD, brother of THOMAS's son JOHN from whom so many of the present-day members of the Warwickshire branch descend.

Edward was born in 1757, 23 years after his eldest brother and he remained all his life in Fillongley where his wife, Mary (Perry) bore him six children of whom only three survived infancy. She died in her last confinement.

Their son Edward started life as a butcher at Green End, Fillongley but subsequently became a publican, naming his house the 'Butcher's Arms" after his previous trade. The pub is still so named today and stands in the middle of Fillongley opposite the church. His wife predeceased him by 16 years and he ended his days in the work­house in the next parish of Meriden - a not uncommon fate for a widower in those days. His grave (in which his wife had previously been buried) is in Fillongley churchyard with the simple inscription fl Sacred to the memory of Anne, wife of Edward Swinnerton died 1858. Also of Edward Swinnerton who died March 28 1874 aged 83 years. "

Their daughter MARY PERRY SWINNERTON who died aged 24, is also buried at Fillongley where her grave has the touching epitaph 11 All ye that my companions were, know that I am buried here. 11

They also had a son, THOMAS, who married a girl in the nearby parish of Bedworth. At that time he described himself by the rather grueso~ title of '1 castrator 11

, but subsequently he is a farrier - a job which combined those of a modern blacksmith and veterinary surgeon. Their son, another THOMAS, seems to have remained with his grandfather in Fillongley where, like him, he started life as a butcher but then became a publican, taking over the Butcher's Arms. They had two daughters, one of whom married a railway signalman from Cirencester (the Swinnerton railway connection once again) but there this branch, ceases in the male line.

We now return to THOMAS, the second son of JOHN and SARAH who, as we mentioned in our last article, was appointed executor of his father's will over the head of his elder brother, JOHN. We saw in his father's will that he was left the token shilling, having already been provided for. He set himself up as a farmer at Caidecote, a small model village on the outskirts .of Nuneaton which remains virtually unaltered to this day, with a large manor house (formerly the residence of the Townshend family) standing in a vast park with the parish church next door and well - planned dwellings for the workers on the estate.

THOMAS and his wife, ELIZABETH, had twelve children of whom the eldest, THOMAS succeeded to his father's farm and is described in the 1851 census as a miller employ­ing seven men and also a farmer of 475 acres employing 14 labourers - clearly a man of property. Of his three children, only the daughters married, the son THOMAS continuing to live in Caldecote until his death in 1915 at the age of 79. On a recent visit I was shown the site of the old Swinnerton Farmhouse which has now been pulled down.

Father THOMAS had five brothers in Caldecote, JOHN, JOSEPH, WILLIAM, ISAAC and EDWARD. JOHN and WILLIAM died unmarried at the ages of 21 and 42 res-pectively and are buried in Caldecote. JOSEPH married Annie Weston of Stoneleigh who appears to have been an heiress as JOSEPH died a very wealthy man with effects

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worth just under £ 30, 000 - a very large sum for those days. He himself moved to Stoneleigh (the present site of the Royal Showground) where he and his family are described as farmers and graziers ( i. e. stockbreeders).

JOSEPH' s first son, EDWARD, farmer and grazier like his father, was a bachelor who spent all his life at Stoneleigh, but the second son, WILLIAM WESTON SWINN­ERTON, had four children of whom the eldest, JOSEPH WESTON SWINNERTON, born in 1873, lived at Styvechalls Grange, Stoneleigh, until his retirement in 1912 when he moved to Over Whitacre where he became the local squire. He changed his surname by Royal Warrant to Swinnerton - Weston. He died, unmarried, in 1957. He had two sisters each of whom married and raised a family, and one brother, WILLIAM EDWARD SWINN ERTON, who was married but died childless. WILLIAM EDWARD' s widow died only last year and in her will she bequeaths " To the Warwick­shire Agricultural Sociery - the silver cup awarded by Chandos Leigh Esq. on the 24th day of September 1834 to JOSEPH SWINNERTON of Stoneleigh as the best ploughman (being a farmer's son), it being my wish that the said cup should be called " The Swinnerton Cup '' and awarded annually to the Society's best ploughman of the year''. The JOSEPH referred to was, of course, her husband's grandfather.

The next article will continue the story with an account of Swinnerton benefactions in the Nuneaton area and details of the branches still surviving today.

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A THERSTONE ( Warks) CENSUS for 1851 (on microfilm a~ Warwick Record Office)

Caldecote, Nr. Nuneaton Farm House, Ca ldecote.

Thos. Swinnerton Jane Swinnerton

270 acres.

WARWICK ADVERTISER

Jan. 28 1815

age 25 age 54

Farmer Mother

Isaac Swinnerton, age 19, youngest son of Mr. J. Swinnerton of Fillongley.

Apr.13 1816 Mr. John Swinnerton of Fillongley, age 59 years.

KELLY'S HANDBOOK to the Titled, Landed & Official Classes

1922 SWINNERTON Robert William MBE. 1918 Only son of Robert Swinnerton of Weddington, Warwick. b.1848. JP. 1900 Warks. Linden Lodge, Nuneaton.

SWINNERTON-WESTON Joseph Weston Elder son of William Weston Swinnerton of Styvechalls Grange, Warks. b.1873 assumed additional name of Weston be Royal License 1912. Over Whitacre House, Over Whitacre, Birmingham.

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A STRAY

Benjamin son of BEN JAMIN SWINNERTON, Officer of Excise baptised at St. Mary's Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire.

(ex. Mrs. Penelope Pattinson )

.... '

II"'" a.

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Miscellaneous

BISHOP OF LONDON's MARRIAGE ALLEGATIONS MS 10091/131 VICAR GENERAL' s SERIES. (Guildhall Library, London)

London Diocese 29th March 1774

" I John Barfoot do solemnly sincerely and truly affirm and declare that I am one of the Dissentrs from the Church of England commonly called Quakers and that I am of the parish of St. Botolph Bishopsgate London a widower and intend to inter- · marry with Ann Swinnerton of the Parish of St. Martin on the Fields a widow and that I know of no lawful impediment by reason of any precontract, con sanguinity affinity or any lawful means whatsoever to hinder the saip intended marriage and pray a licence to solemnize the same in the parish church of St. Botolph Bishopsgate aforesaid and I further affirm and declare that I have had my usual place of abode in the said parish of St. Botolph Bishopsgate for the space of four weeks last past.

(Ex J. Norrington)

(J. B. signed) also Surrogate & Witness

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"

'' Elizabethan Life in Town and Country" by M. St. Clare Byrne, M. A.

"Most houses had their gardens even in the old and crowded quarters of the City. A .. London had grown and the noblemen gradually moved westwards, raising new palaces along the banks of the river between Westminster and the City, many of their old residences were acquired by the wealthier merchants who prized lovely gardens as much as their predecessors had done. In 1602, for example, we find the Marquis of Winchester offering his house near London Wall to the worthy John Swinnerton, knighted in 1603, Lord Mayor in 1612, at the price of some five thous­and pounds - this much to the dismay of Fulke Greville, Sir Philip Sidney's friend, and of Lady Warwick, neither of whom appeared to relish the idea of" such a fellow" for their next-door neighbour ~ * * Letter from Greville to the Countess of Salisbury; see Nichols " Progresses (Eliz. f' IV, 29; Talbot Papers, Vol. M, f. 75 "

(ex. J. K. Marfleet )

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DICTIONARY of EMIGRANT SCOTS INTO ENGLAND by James Beckett

John Campbell recorded in the 1871 Census as a lodger in the house of Mr. WALTER SWINNERTON at 17 Elizabeth Street, Cheetham, Manchester.

(Manchester Genealogist - July 1978. - Ex Mrs. P. M. Carroll )

AND AN EMIGRANT TO LONDON ~

Mary, daughter of THOS. and JANE SWINNERTON born 26th. September 1780 baptised November 12th. 1780 at St. George the Martyr, Southwark.

( ex Christine Vialls )

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FAMILY NOTES

We are sorry to hear from our member, George Arnold Swinnerton, of the death of his nephew ARNOLD KEYES, son of Marjorie Keyes (nee Swinnerton) and a cousin to the Editor. Mr. Keyes was born in the Midlands in 1924 and saw war service with the Royal Air Force as a pilot with Transport Command from 1942-47. In 1957 he emigrated to Canada where he became a very successful businessman and was General Manager of the Ogilvie Flour Mills, Feeds Division. On his retirement from business in 1977, besides managing his own farm at Ridgville, he was a Consultant on Agriculture and an adviser to the Canadian Government on Cattle Foods.

AMENDMENTS TO YOUR DIRECTORY

NEW MEMBER. We are particularly delighted to welcome Mrs. D. I. Cunningham of who is the great-granddaughter of the Rev. HENRY ULYATE SWINNERTON (see SFH. 2. p. 11).

Due to a printing error (being the last line it did not reproduce on all copies) the name of Miss 0. M. Swinnerton was missing from some copies. Would you please add after H. Norman Swinnerton :-

Miss O. M. Swinnerton,

We must apologies to our Vice-President, Sir Peter, that although he appears on the inside front cover his name did not appear in the body of the list of members. Would you please add :-

Sir Peter Swinnerton Dyer FRS. , .

You may have throught that the standard of printing in our last issue had suddenly deteriorated (pages 47-51) It was rather patchy .but this was due to the fact that it was a facsimile copy of the original report sent to me and as this in turn was a carbon copy it did not reproduce terribly well.

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