FAMILY HISTORY: SWARBRICK

THE MARRIAGE OF FRANK & EVA ETHEL BELFIELD:

 

BRIDE:
Name: Eva Ethel Swarbrick, age 25, spinster, weaver, of 23 Hammond Street
Father: James Swarbrick, joiner
Mother: Amelia Ellen Green
Birthdate: 4 May 1896
Birthplace: Preston, Lancashire, England

 

GROOM:
Name: Frank Belfield, age 28, bachelor, lamp maker, of 24 Frank Street
Father: Thomas Belfield, clerk
Mother: Ada Brook
Birthdate: 3 July 1891
Birthplace: Birmingham, England

 

THEIR WEDDING:
Date: 25 October 1919, by Licence
Place: St. Thomas' Parish Church (C of E)
Location: Preston, Lancashire, England
Priest: Herbert P Hiscoke, Vicar
Witnesses: John Sefton Matthews and Lily Swarbrick

 

HER ILLEGITIMATE CHILD:
Amelia Swarbrick Born: 30 May 1918 (infant)

 

THEIR CHILDREN: (none)

 

DEATHS:
Amelia Swarbrick [22 days] Buried: 20 Jun 1918
Eva Ethel Belfield (Mrs) [59 yrs] Died: 22 Oct 1955
Frank Belfield [85 yrs] Died: c. 1976

 

NOTES:
1: "Lilly" Swarbrick was almost certainly Eva Ethel's elder sister, Elizabeth Gertrude Swarbrick.
2: I suspect that Frank Belfield remarried some years after Eva Ethel's death.
3: The birth of Frank Belfield was registered in Birmingham, 3rd Quarter, Volume 6d, page 172.
4: The above information is taken from the original registers of St Thomas' Parish Church, and the National Probate Index, both held at the Lancashire Archives; as well as birth, marriage and death indexes on-line at www.freebmd.org.uk.

 


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