Events
Date of Birth: 22 November 1747.
The birth is recorded in the baptism record.
Date of Baptism: 6 December 1747.
Place of Baptism: St Mary the Virgin, Prescot, Lancashire.
The baptism is recorded in the parish register.
Date of Burial: 5 March 1782.
Place of Burial: Prescot, St Mary.
The burial is recorded in the parish register.
Relationships
Father: John Cromton.
Mother: Mary Hardman.
See the Commentary section.
Spouse: Lionel Swift. Married 25 November 1771 in Rainford.
The marriage is recorded in the parish register.
Children:
(Baptisms are recorded in the parish register of Prescot St Helens.)
John Swift (born 19 January 1772 - died 21 March 1849) married Ellen Parr 14 May 1799 in Billinge, Lancashire.
Mary Swift (born 13 July 1773).
William Swift (born 2 January 1775 - died 1850) married Elizabeth Jump 28 April 1806 at St Mary the Virgin, Prescot, Lancashire.
Alice Swift (born 11 May 1776) married John Ansdale 27 March 1803 in Billinge.
Thomas Swift (born 14 October 1777 - died 1852) married Margaret Ashton 24 November 1806 in Upholland, Lancashire.
Ellen Swift (born 19 October 1778).
Peter Swift (born 4 October 1779 - died 28 July 1816).
Joseph Swift (born 21 December 1781 - died 24 June 1837) married Anne Hughson 20 July 1807 in Prescot, Lancashire.
Evidence
Baptism (Prescot, St Mary, parish register):
December 1747
Eccleston Ellin daughter of John Cromton farmer & Mary his wife was born the 22d of November & Christened --- 6
Marriage (parish register):
Lionel Swift of Eccleston Husbandman and Ellen Crumpton of the same place Spinster were married in the parochial Chapel of Rainford by publication of Banns this 25th Day of November 1771 by me Rich.d Hunt Min.r
This Marriage was solemnized between us Lionel [his X Mark] Swift Ellen [her X Mark] Crumpton
In the presence of James Smith James Spencer
Burial (Prescot, St Mary, parish register, March 1782):
Eccleston - Ellin wife of Lionel Swift Farmer bur:d the …. 5
Commentary
Ellen’s parentage
Ellen was married in 1771 and had several children baptized in Prescot starting in 1772. The 1747 baptism of an Ellen Crumpton in Prescot in 1747 is the only baptism of an Ellen Crumpton in the Prescot area in the period.
The baptism entry records Ellen’s parents as John and Mary Cromton. A 1754 lease and release makes clear that John orginally came from Little Leaver, near Bolton, and that his father was a papermaker. From the Bolton parish registers, we can see that a John Crompton married Mary Hardman in 1739, and the couple had children baptized in Bolton in 1742 and 1745. John was a papermaker at this time. He appears to have moved to Eccleston, near Prescot, in about 1746 and become a farmer there.
References
Parish registers for Prescot, St Mary’s. Digital images on Ancestry.com [accessed 24 September 2016].