Birth: 1752 Pudsey, Yorkshire, UK
Father: Stephen (Stiphen) Swithenbank (Swithinbank) 1715-1797
Mother: Judith Gaunt 1717-1796
Christening: 23 November 1752 St Wilfrid, Calverley, Yorkshire, UK
Marriage: 28 August 1769 St Wilfrid, Calverley, Yorkshire, UK
Husband: William Waterhouse c1749-a1791
Death: After 1791
Elizabeth Waterhouse 1770
Sarah Waterhouse [Farrar] 1772-a1793
Mary Waterhouse 1775-1775
Rebecca Waterhouse [Jones] 1776-a1796
Rachel Waterhouse [Harper] 1779-a1799
William Waterhouse 1782-1834
Judith Waterhouse 1784
Anne Waterhouse 1787
Nelly Waterhouse 1788-1788
Joseph Waterhouse 1790
Phoebe Waterhouse 1791-1792
Christening of Sarah Swithenbank in the IGI in 1752 in Calverley, Yorkshire, father Stiphen Swithenbank. The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. There is an entry in Calverley Parish Records (which has the statement "The original Baptism register for the period 1748 to 1755 is very confusing. Entries are very hard to interpret, some entries are duplicated in different years, the dating is unclear and the condition of the register also makes the period difficult to decipher. Other versions that appear on the IGI site and elsewhere, bear little resemblance to these records.") for Sarah Swithenbank on 23 November 1752, father Stephen Swithenbank of Pudsey, a clothier at St Wilfrid.
There is a submitted entry in the IGI for the birth of Sarah Swithinbank on 12 April 1749 in Holbeck, Yorkshire, parents John Swithenbank and Ann Norton, and her marriage to William Waterhouse on 28 August 1769. The same information is in the Pedigree Resouce File. However I believe these are the wrong parents. Another submitted entry gives the same information but adds the marriage is in Calverley. Another gives the marriage in about 1784.
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 for the banns of Sarah Swithenbank and William Waterhouse on 30 July 1769 at Calverley, St Wilfrid. "The Year 1769 Page 72 No 354 Banns of Marriage between William Waterhouse and Sarah Swithenbank both of this parish were published the three Sundays underwritten That is to fay, On Sunday, the 16th of July [...] On Sunday, the 23rd of July [...] On Sunday, the 30th of July".
There is an entry in the Calverley Parish Records for Sarah Swithinbank of Calverley and William Waterhouse, a mason of Calverley, on 28 August 1769 at St Wilfreds witnessed by John Ryley & George Gamble.
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 for the banns (sic) of William Waterhouse and Sarah Swithenbank on 28 August 1769 at Calverley, St Wilfrid. "Page 78 The Year 1769 No 208 William Waterhouse of this Parifh Mason & and Sarah Swithenbank of this parishSpinster Married in this Church by Banns this twenty eighth Day of August in the Year One Thoufand seven Hundred and Sixty nine [he signed his name, she made her mark] in the prefence of John Ryley & George Gamble".
All the children were christened at All Saints Chapel, Pudsey. For those up to and including Rebecca only the fathers name, William, is given. For Rachel and William the records give not only the parents names William Waterhouse and Sarah alias Sally Swithenbank and his employment as mason, and the grandparents names as Joseph Waterhouse and Stephen Swithenbank. For Judith only her father's and grandfather's names are given (William and Joseph Waterhouse). The same is given for Anne plus William's employment as a mason and her mother's name as Sarah. For Joseph his parents names are given as William, a mason, and Sarah Waterhouse. but his grandfather is given as Joshua Waterhouse. There is no entry for the christening of Nelly or Phoebe, but there is for their burials as an infant daughters of William.
There are 15 entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Sarah Swithenbank.
Pudsey was part of the parish of Calverley with its own chapel of ease and is about 6 miles west of Leeds.
Sarah Swithenbank was Felicity's fourth great grandmother.
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