Swans of Northumberland

[mrsruz]

yes thanks.
Having an ancestor called Grace Darling Snowdon sort of gave the game away.
You will no doubt be aware that William Snow Downey died in Guiana when he was 19. So sad.


Marion

[mrsruz]

Sorry  Should have said William Swan Darling.

[belhay]

Just a bit more of Swans
 My ancestor was Margaret Swan born Blyth 1745 to Robert Swan and Mary Law they were married 1840 Horton    Robert was from Bedlington
another child was son Robert who married Dorothy Gilespie 
children of Robert and Dorothy  were James Joseph Robert John Priscilla Jane Lydia
Lydia married John Gledson
  Earsdon Headstones    George death 1848 age 56 Bebside farmer
                                    William death 1825 age 73 farmer Seaton Delaval brother john 1819 aged
                                    76  Anne wife of William death 1824 age 73

                           

[Anydogsbody]

Some familiar names there. Can you clarify dates, 1840 doesn't seem to fit.

Haven't visited this branch of my tree for a while so I was just refreshing my memory.

I have the father of Robert(1746) Swan who married Dorothy (1752) Gilhespie or Gilhespy as Robert (1698) Swan.

I have Robert (1698) Swan's wife as Lydia(1711) Turpin otherwise we substantially agree. What evidence do you have for Mary Law as wife of Robert(1698) Swan?

[belhay]

hi  I did research down at Woodhorn archives  for the dates but it is a while ago so I,ll look over
my hundreds of pages and hopefully find them
then get back to you       the headstones inscriptions although I,ve been going to Earsdon churchyard
for many years there is a lot of erosion now on the hillside so it,s difficult  to find anything that isn,t near the church gates

[belhay]

Hi finally got back to this topic My  robert Swan and Mary Law   I think this Robert although living |Blyth is not your Robert Swan  I think mine was son of John born 1705 at Bothal and is buried at Earsdon where as yours I think is the one buried at Horton

[sherekhan]

sorry its been ages since I have been on just thought I would catch up with everybody and say Hi
Paul

[PurdeyB]

I see this is an old thread which has resurfaced, but thought I would add that one of the many Isabel Swans married George Boutflour at Woodhorn on 29 March 1785. She is recorded on a family memorial stone as Isabella Swan, she died in September 1830. The stone is eroded and has been transcribed on FindMyPast as George of Cresswell Hall but it was Cleaswell Hill, a farm. Isabel(la) lived at Newbiggin by sea before her marriage and her father was William.

[phow]

Hi,
Can I resurrect this thread again! I'm at a complete dead end.

Robert  was born in Morpeth in 1833. I'm trying to find his parents and his marriage.

I can't find him in the 1841 census but assume he's in Morpeth. There's a young Robert Swan living in North Shields with his father Thomas who is a butcher/publican, but I don't think it's him, just because I don't think he ever left Morpeth.

In 1851 he is 18 years old, working as a shoemaker's apprentice. He lives in Back Way, Morpeth with his widowed mother Jane and his mother's cousin Stephen McMoran.


Robert is married in 1861, and he and his wife Margaret are still living with Robert's mother Jane in Damside, Morpeth. His mother is described as a 'butcher's widow'.

I think Stephen McMoran is the child of James McMorin, Shoemaker, b 1776 in Scotland / Terza Smith, b 1791 Morpeth.  Which would presumably mean that Robert's mother was Jane McMorin.
In 1851  William and Ellen Swan are living two doors away. William is a butcher.  Could Jane's husband be their son?

But I can't find Jane. Or her husband (Robert's father). Again, I've got stuck with all the Swans and all the butchers!

Any help is greatly appreciated!