Family History Notebook

Marion Agnes Swindall

Born 1861 in Ghent

Married

Children

?

Buried

Notes

1    In 1891 Marion is an 'inmate' at  The London Female Preventive and Reformatory Institution in Euston Road. This was set up to 'rescue' women who were earning an income as prostitutes ("for receiving young women who have fallen from virtue, and are anxious to make an earnest endeavour to enter on an honourable and useful life").

For more information see http://www.victorianlondon.org/publications/terriblesights-10.htm.

  In 1901 she is being looked after by the Sisters of Mercy at Bedfont, Middlesex.

2    At a wild guess she had married Thomas Charles Swindall in 1887.

The birth of a Thomas Charles Swindall was registered at St Pancras in the first quarter of 1867 (FreeBMD 1b 47).

The marriage of a Thomas Charles Swindall was registered in the second quarter of 1887 at St Saviour (FreeBMD 1d 165). The page in the register has only three names - Edward May, Mary Ann A Ramsdale and Thomas Charles Swindall. The next page has only one name - Charlotte Esther Olner.  This does not support the hypothesis.

I have not found Thomas Charles in the 1891 or 1901 census though the marriage of a a Thomas Charles Swindall was registered in Islington in the fourth quarter of 1907 (FreeBMD 1b 683).