Birth: 1679 Pudsey, Calverley, Yorkshire, UK
Father: George Raper b1660-1698
Mother: Sarah Oates b1660-1715
Christening: 26 November 1679 St Wilfrid, Calverley, Yorkshire, UK
Marriage: 3 June 1706 Pudsey, Calverley, Yorkshire, UK
Husband: John Swithenbank (Swiddenbank, Swidenbank, Swithenbanck, Swithinbank) 1681-1751
Death: June 1751 Pudsey, Calverley, Yorkshire, UK
Burial: 1 July 1751 St Wilfrid, Calverley, Yorkshire, UK
Sarah Swithenbank 1706-1716
Hannah Swithenbank 1715
Mary Swithenbank 1711-1713
William Swithenbank 1713
Stephen (Stiphen) Swithenbank (Swithinbank) 1715-a1770
Sarah Swithenbank 1719
John Swithenbank (Swiddenbank) 1721
Mary Swithenbank 1723-1725
There is a submitted entry in the IGI for Sarah Raper christened on 26 November 1679 in Pudsey, Calverley, Yorkshire, parents George Raper and Sarah Oates. A similar entry places the birth in Udey, Calverley. A third submitted entry gives her christening on 26 November 1679 in Calverley, Yorkshire, no parents and marriage to John Swithenbank on 3 June 1706.
There is an entry in the Calverley Parish Records for the christening of Sarah Raper, daughter of George of Pudsey, on 26 November 1679.
There are two submitted entries in the IGI for the marriage of Sarah Raper and John Swithenbank on 3 June 1706 in Yorkshire, one specifying Calverley.
Similar information is in the Calverley Parish Records adding it was at St Wifrids and John was of Pudsey.
The children were born in Pudsey.
There is an entry in the Calverley Parish Records for the burial of Sarah Swithenbank, wife of John, a clothier of Pudsey at St Wilfrids on 1 July 1751.
There is an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for the birth of Sarah Raper in Yorkshire in 1685 and her marriage to John Swithenbank in Calverley 1706 and a son Stiphen. There are also two entries for her bith in Leeds on 21 August 1702, father Christopher Raper, her christening on 31 August 1702 at Saint Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire, her marriage to John Swithenbank in Pudsey in 1721 (there is no evidence of this marriage in the Calverley Parish Records), and a son John.
Pudsey was part of the parish of Calverley and is about 6 miles west of Leeds.
Sarah Raper was Felicity's sixth great grandmother.
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