Alice Hewgrave

Events

Date of Baptism: 26 December 1717.

Place of Baptism: St Mary the Virgin, Prescot, Lancashire.

The baptism is recorded in the parish register.

Date of Burial: 30 January 1780.

Place of Burial: Prescot, St Helens.

The burial is recorded in the parish register.

Relationships

Father: Edward Hulgreave.

Alice’s baptism record names her father. Alice is named in her father’s will.

Mother: Mary Hinton.

Mary’s name is recorded in her marriage record and in Edward’s will.

Spouse: Lionel Swift. Married May 1735 in Warrington, Lancashire.

The marriage is recorded in the bishop’s transcripts to the parish register.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Ann Swift (buried 18 March 1735/6.

Peter Swift (born 29 January 1736/7) married Ellen Files 10 October 1762 in Ormskirk.

William Swift (born 13 March 1737/8).

Mary Swift (born 12 May 1739 - buried 9 September 1740).

Edward Swift (born 30 November 1740).

Mary Swift (born 27 March 1742).

Margaret Swift (born 23 September 1743).

Lionel Swift (born 8 March 1744/5) married (1) Ellen Crumpton 25 November 1771 in Rainford; married (2) Elizabeth Lyon 30 January 1785 in Prescot.

Henry Swift (born 13 August 1746).

Katherine Swift (born 25 April 1748).

Alice Swift (born 9 February 1749/50).

Betty Swift (born 27 August 1751).

John Swift (born 24 June 1753).

Thomas Swift (born 23 December 1755) married Martha Bryers 2 January 1785 in St Helens.

Ann Swift (born 30 January 1757).

Ellen Swift (born 3 February 1759).

James Swift (born 17 June 1762).

Evidence

Baptism (St Mary, Prescot, parish register):

December 1717

Eccleston: Alice daughter of Edward Hugrave --- 26:

Marriage (Warrington Bishop’s Transcripts, May 1735):

Lionel Swift of Sutton husbandman and Alice Hewgrave spinster [illegible]

Burial (Prescot St Helens parish register, 1780):

44 Alice wife of Linal Swift of Hardshaw Jan: 30

References

Parish Registers, Prescot, St Mary. Digital images on Ancestry.com [accessed 24 September 2016].

Parish Registers, Prescot, St Helens. Digital images on Ancestry.com [accessed 24 September 2016].

Warrington Bishop’s Transcripts. Digital images on Ancestry.com [accessed 24 September 2016].