Birth: 1715 Pudsey, Yorkshire, UK
Father: John Swithenbank (Swiddenbank, Swidenbank, Swithenbanck, Swithinbank) 1681-1751
Mother: Sarah Raper 1679-1751
Christening: 31 December 1715 Pudsey All Saints Chapel, Calverley, Yorkshire, UK
Marriage: 29 August 1742 St Wilfrids, Calverley, Yorkshire, UK
Wife: Judith Gaunt 1717-1796
Death: April 1797 Pudsey Yorkshire, UK
Burial: 11 April 1797 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
Christening of Stephen Swithenbank in the IGI on 31 December 1715 at Calverley, Yorkshire, father John Swithenbank. The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. The same information is in the Calverley Parish Records adding his father lived in Pudsey and it was at Pudsey All Saints Chapel.
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 for Stephen Witherwick (sic) baptised 31 December 1715 at Calverley, St Wilfrid, father John Swithenbank. "Baptisms Anno Dom 1715 [...] Novb [this section is almost illegible and the month is determined by the number of the days] 31 Stephen ? of John Swithenbank of ? ? Bapt".
There are four submitted entries in the IGI for the marriage of Stephen Swithenbank and Judith Gaunt on 29 August 1742. One gives his birth in about 1717 and his marriage in Pudsey, Calverley, Yorkshire. One spells his surname Swhitenbank born about 1717 in in Pudsey, Calverley, Yorkshire but does not give a location for the marriage. Another two give the location in Calverley, Yorkshire.
Calverley Parish Records contain an entry for the marriage of Stephen Swithenbank and Judith Gaunt, both of this parish, at St Wilfrids on 29 August 1742.
Entry in the Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 for the marriage of Stephen Swithenbank and Judith Gaunt 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 his son Stephen state he 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)"
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Select Land Tax Records, 1704-1932 for stephen Swithenbank for Hainsworths - 3[s] 4[d] in 1781, for Hainscub? - 3[s] 4[d] in 1782, proprietor William Waterhouse - - 8[d] in 1783 and proprietor Willm Waterhouse - - 8[d] in 1785, all in Pudsey, Morley.
His wife was buried on 26 August 1796 in Pudsey Congregational Chapel living in Marsh.
Calverley Parish Records contains an entry for the burial of Stephen Swithenbank on 11 April 1797 aged 82 at Pudsey Congregational Chapel.
There is are sixty one entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Stiphen Swithenbank.
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.
Stephen Swithenbank was Felicity's fifth great grandfather.
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