SWINDLE - ST. PAUL THE APOSTLE CHURCH, WILLINGTON QUAY, NORTHUMBERLAND BAPTISMS (1860 - 1877)

Where              Baptised

Born

 

Dec                  1861                Margaret          Joseph              Swindle            Willington         Labourer          Thos E Lord

19^th                  Sep                     Ann                  &                                              Quay                                          Rector

                        1^st                                            Sarah

                        No. 100

 

 

                        1862

                        March              Mary                Mary                Swindle            Willington               -                 Thos E Lord

                        16^th                  Margaret                                                               Quay                                          Rector

                        No. 142

 

 

                        1863

                        Sep 6^th             Sarah               Joseph              Swindle            Willington         Smelter Thos E Lord

                        Born June         Dr of                    &                                              Quay                                          Rector

                                  19^th?                              Sarah

                        No. 327                                   Ann

 

 

                        1865

                        April                 Dryden             Francis             Swindle            Willington         Labourer          Thos E Lord

                        30^th                  Son of                  &                                               Quay                                         Rector

                        Born                                         Elizabeth

                        May 6^th

                           1862

                        No. 558

SWINDLE – ST. PAUL THE APOSTLE CHURCH, WILLINGTON QUAY, NORTHUMBERLAND (1860 – 1877)

 

                        1865

                        April 30^th          George             Francis             Swindle            Willington         Labourer          Thos E Lord

                        Born                 Frederic               &                                              Quay                                         Rector

                        March 4^th                                 Elizabeth

                        No. 559

 

 

                        1865

                        July 2^nd John                 Joseph              Swindle            Willington         Lead Smelter    Thos E Lord

                        Born                 Joseph                  &                                               Quay                                        Rector

                        March 24^th                               Sarah

                        No. 581                                   Ann

 

 

                        1867

                        Aug 18^th           Mary                Francis             Swindle            Stephenson       Lead Ore         Thos E Lord

                        Born                 Dr of                    &                                            Street            Smelter      Rector

                        Aug 1^st                                     Elizabeth

                        No. 832

 

 

                        1869

                        July 22^nd           Jane                 Joseph              Swindle            Stephenson       Lead                ?????

                        Born                                           and                                             Street           Smelter

                        June 23^rd                                  Sarah

                        No. 1021                                 Ann

 

 

1)      John Joseph Swindle

 

From Birth Certificate:

 

Born:                18/9/1867 at Stephenson Street, Willington (Note: Stephenson Street was actually in Willington Quay)

Parents:            Joseph Swindle and Sarah Ann Swindle formerly Coldwell

Father’s Occ:   Labourer at Smelting Works

 

Note:    This was the second John Joseph to be born to Joseph and Sarah Ann.

 

           

2)      Sarah Ann Swindle

 

From Birth Certificate:

 

Born:                17/7/1869 at Low Pit, Willington (Note: Willington is to the North of Willington Quay)

Parents:            George Swindle and Elizabeth Swindle formerly Harker

Father’s Occ:   Labourer at Smelting Works

 

                        Note: This is probably the girl whose death was registered June Qtr 1870 at Tynemouth. Aged: 0

 

 

3)      Mary Margaret Swindle

 

From Birth Certificate:

 

Born:                26/2/1862 at Quay Willington

Parents:            Mary Swindle

Fathers Occ:     “blank”

 

 

                        From Marriage Certificate:

 

                                    Married on:      10/3/1879 at St. Mary’s Church in the parish of Heworth, Durham

 

                                    David Thomas, 21, Bachelor, Iron Worker, Jarrow       Father: Benjamin Thomas, Heater?

                                    Mary Margaret Swindle, 17, Spinster, Jarrow   Father: John Thompson, Labourer

 

                                                Witnesses:        John Hutchinson and James Young.

 

 

                        Mary Margaret’s Parents.

 

Her father is not shown on the birth certificate or in the Church Baptism Register. The identity of Mary Swindle is not apparent. Swindles started to appear in the 1861 census living in Willington Quay with the family of Joseph and Sarah Ann. Also, there was Joseph’s brother, Thomas, who was staying with his sister Margaret who had married John Hutchinson. By the 1871 census, two other families are shown, that of Francis (Joseph’s brother) and Elizabeth and that of  George and Elizabeth. There was no Mary who was old enough to be the mother.

                                   

Mary is probably the sister of Francis, Joseph, Thomas and Margaret i.e. the children of Francis and Mary nee Henderson. 

Joseph had moved to Willington Quay, marrying there on 8/12/1856. Francis and Mary were living in a house in Nenthead according to the 1861 census. Francis married on 25/5/1861 in Nenthead and had presumably moved to Willington Quay sometime between the birth of their first child Dryden on 6/5/1862 in Nenthead, and the birth of their second son George Frederick on 4/3/1865 in Willington Quay. So Mary could have moved to Willington Quay after the marriage of Francis, perhaps to stay with her brother Joseph. Mary would have been 19 at the time of the birth and she later married John Thompson on 8/2/1868 in Wallsend. John Thompson was shown as Mary Margaret’s father on her marriage certificate although whether he was her true father is not known.

 

 

 

4)      Francis Swindle (1836 – 1887) was buried in Church Bank Cemetery, Wallsend:

 

 

1167        Swindle Francis    Foreman in Lead Works      50            14 Hill St,                   Feb 7^th 1887        John Hughes              Section D             305          Cons       Wallsend                                                                                                               Willington Quay

 

 

5)      Sarah Swindle was buried in Church Bank Cemetery, Wallsend:

 

 

3553        Swindle Sarah                       Spinster                 51            High St, Wallsend    12^th Dec 1898     H Robinson                Section H           481     Consd    Wallsend