George Swindle
Son of John Swindle and Mary Stout, baptised on the 27th of November 1827 at Garrigill, Cumberland. 4
Married Hannah 1Bell (born c 1829, died 31 March 1875) 2 around 1852.3
Children
Living, unmarried, with his mother at Middle House, Garrigill at the time of the 1851 census working as a lead miner.
Emigrated in July 1862 to Australia on the Mistress of the Seas. Had probably travelled out in 1857 aboard the Red Jacket (with a possible earlier trip in 1854 aboard the Lightning) and then returned for his wife and children5. Settled at Creswick, Victoria (north of Ballarat) 2
Notes
1 Information supplied by Mary Pattinson via J. Bryan Swindle via Joan Shrewsbury.
2 Letters and information supplied by Janet Garlick
3 Unmarried 1851, John born 1853.
4 If his age of 26 at the time of the 1851 census is correct he would have been born around 1825. His older sister Susan was baptised in 1824. However he gave his age in 1862 as 35.
5 George is not listed with his wife and children in the 1861 census.