Birth: 1717 Pudsey, Calverley, Yorkshire, UK
Father: John Gaunt 1689-1735
Mother: Sarah Saxton 1686-1738
Christening: 4 December 1717 All Saints Chapel, Pudsey, Calverley, Yorkshire, UK
Marriage: 29 August 1742 St Wilfrid, Calverley, Yorkshire, UK
Husband: Stephen (Stiphen) Swithenbank (Swithinbank) 1715-1797
Death: August 1796 Marsh, Pudsey, Calverley, Yorkshire, UK
Burial: 26 August 1796 Pudsey Congregational Chapel, Calverley, Yorkshire.
Mary Swithenbank 1742/4-1744
Betty (Elizabeth) Swithenbank 1747-1754
Sarah (Sally) Swithenbank (Swithinbank) [Waterhouse] 1752-a1791
Stephen Swithenbank 1758-1761
The christening of Judith Gaunt is in the IGI on 4 December 1717 in Calverley, Yorkshire, father John Gaunt. The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. There are two submitted entriesin the IGI with the same infomation one adding Pudsey and the other Puesley as the location.
The same information is in the Calverley Parish Records adding she was born in Pudsey and it was at All Saints Chapel, Pudsey.
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 for Judith Gaunt baptised 4 December 1717 at Calverley, St Wilfrid, father John Gaunt. "Decb 4 Judith fila of John Gaunt of Pudfey ? Bapt."
There are four submitted entries in the IGI for the marriage of Judith Gaunt and Stephen Swithenbank on 29 August 1742. Two spell his surname Swhitenbank. Two give her birth in about 1721 in Pudsey, Calverley, Yorkshire. Three give the location in Calverley, Yorkshire.
Calverley Parish Records contain an entry for the marriage of Judith Gaunt and Stephen Swithenbank, both of Calverley, on 29 August 1742 at St Wilfrid.
Entry in the Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 for the marriage of Judith Gaunt and Stephen Swithenbank on 29 August 1742 at Calverley, St Wilfrid. "Marriages in 1742 [...] August [...] 29 Stephen Swithenbank and Judith Gaunt both of this parish by banns".
The children were born in Pudsey. The IGI entry for Mary is for a christening and the Calverley Parish Record entry is for a burial, both on the same date. The christening entry for Sarah, burial entry for Elizabeth (who I guess was christened Betty) and the burial record for her son Stephen state her husband was a clothier in Pudsey.
There is an entry in Calverley Wills for the will of Abimelech Hainsworth, a clothier of Farsley, dated 22 September 1770 and proved 28 April 1776 where the bequests to his children (Abimelech, Mary, Martha and John) include "Property and land at Owle Coats hill Pudsey (presently occupied by Stephen Swithenbank)". This could at Owlcotes Shopping Centre, Stanningley which is just north of the Ring Road
Calverley Parish Records contains an entry for the burial of Judith Swithenbank of Marsh on 26 August 1796 aged 78 at Pudsey Congregational Chapel. A note adds "Entry Swedenbank"
Pudsey was part of the parish of Calverley and is about 6 miles west of Leeds and SE of the Ring Road. Marsh is just west of Pudsey.
Judith Gaunt was Felicity's fifth great grandmother.
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