Probably son of John and Ann Swindell born on the 17th of June 1801, baptised on the 7th of April 1802 at St Mary's, Stockport, Cheshire1.
Married Cecilia Anna Maria Bronton Sparkes on the 9th of January 1827 at Aldeburgh with Hazlewood, Suffolk (d18633)
Children2
?John4, born c1827
Ann, born 1828/9
Mary, born 1830/1
Susannah, born 1832/3
Thomas Sparkes, born 1834/5
Elizabeth, born 1835/6
Miriam Martha, born 18388
Married Martha A. Bolwell 18667
Cecilia was living, with her children, in Ipswich at the time of the 1841 census. John is not listed at the same address. In 1851 John and Cecilia were running a boarding school - the Mill Hill Academy 11- at Newmarket, Cambridgeshire 9. In 1871 John had remarried and was a teacher of languages in Lambeth, London. Not found in the 1861 or 1881 census
Death registered in the 3rd Quarter of 1882 in Lambeth, London aged 81 (Free BMD: Lambeth 1d 281)
1 There are many John Swindell s born in Cheshire at this period but this is the only one in Stockport - which John Swindell consistently states on the census returns.
2 Information from the census. John is possibly the carrier and gilder in Upper Brook Street, Ipswich in the 1841 census - but if so, why is he not living with his wife? (NB Cecilia is mis-transcribed in index as Celilin).
3 The death of Cecilia Swindell is registered in the second quarter of 1863 in West Ham, London (Free BMD: 4a 16)
4 A John Swindale, who died in 1860 in Plymouth, Devon had a daughter Ellen Marian Sparkes Swindale. It seems likely therefore that he was a son of John and Cecilia given 'Sparkes' as a middle name, as was Thomas. However he was a Sergeant in the Royal Artillery when he died which means he could not have been born after 1841. The sequence of births in the 1841 census leaves no gap for John but he could have been a first-born, away with his father in 1841 or at school. Not found in 1841 or 1851 census.
5 Connected with the Swindale House listed in Aldeburgh in the 1851 census?
6 No John Swindell baptisms found in FFHS Suffolk. Nor Ann Swindell (including variants)
7 The marriage of John Swindell is registered in the district of Wandsworth (London) in the second quarter of 1863. (FreeBMD Wandsworth 1d 612) The marriage of Martha A. Boswell is indexed on the same page. In 1871 John Swindell's wife is recorded as Martha A.
8 The birth of Miriam Martha Swindell was registered in the district of Plomesgate (which includes Aldeburgh) in the first quarter of 1838 (FreeBMD Plomesgate 12 349) No marriage found. Death of a Miriam Swindells aged 66? recorded in Hayfield, Cheshire in 1901 - probably not he same person.
9 The following year (1849) he (Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892), Baptist preacher and religious writer) became an articled pupil at John Swindell's school in Newmarket, studying French and Greek. His brother, James, recalled that they enjoyed ‘the best education that nonconformity could command’ (The Sword & the Trowel, June 1892, 301). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
10 August 8th 2007 Newmarket
Local History Society
Hello, My name is Eileen Sullivan from Kyabram Victoria Australia.
I have found my great grandfather Alfred Camps Sparkes on the 1851
Census in Newmarket as a 10 year old student at No. 116 (think must be
Paradise Row as the School master at that number looks like John
Swindell and on an information site for academies in Newmarket in 1851,
John Swindell was in Paradise Row.
Alfred Camps Sparkes father was a Ship's Master and in 1851 his mother
and siblings were in Southhampton. Not sure why he was at a boarding
school so far from home. My only conclusion is that he may have had a
relative of the surname Camps in that area.
As a matter of interest Alfred was in a group of 5 men who were the
first to find gold in South Gippsland Victoria, Australia.
I was wondering where I would be able to find information on this school
and if there are any old photographs of Paradise Row.
Regards Eileen Sullivan.
11 Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican Clergy in the South Pacific 2008 edition
BAILEY, Ebenezer,
(c1880)
BAILEY-CHURCHILL
assumed as surname
born 24 Aug 1838 Haddenham Cambridgeshire
died 14 Jan 1898 ‘aged 60’ Tattershall
[registered Horncastle] Lincolnshire
-1851- parish school All Saints Newmarket (13)
(n d Mill Hill Academy Newmarket under the Revd
John SWINDELL
1856 baptised by the Revd SJ CHEW at Harvey Lane chapel
Leicester - family information from Baptist sources)
There is no other indication that John Swindell was ordained.