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].