The Family of George and Eleanor Swarbrick: Census Returns

1891 CENSUS OF PRESTON, LANCASHIRE:
NAME:	RELATION:	CONDITION:	SEX:	AGE:	OCCUPATION:	BIRTHPLACE:
George Swarbrick	Head	Married	M	26	Publican	Preston, Lancashire
Eleanor Swarbrick	Wife	Married	F	24	-	Preston, Lancashire
Eliza Murphy	Servant	Unmarried	F	22	Servant, Inn	Monmouthshire

NOTES:
1:	Living at The Swan Inn, 2 New Street, Preston. (RG12-3431, folio 119, page 4)
2:	Their seven year old daughter was staying with Eleanor's parents on the night of the Census.
3:	The above information is from the census returns on microfiche at the Lancashire Archives.

Sometime after 1891 George and Eleanor separated and Eleanor took their daughter Mary Jane to live with her family, who by then had moved to Chester. George stayed behind in Preston.

1901 CENSUS OF PRESTON, LANCASHIRE:
NAME:	RELATION:	CONDITION:	SEX:	AGE:	OCCUPATION:	BIRTHPLACE:
George Swarbrick	Boarder	Married	M	35	Barman	Preston, Lancashire

NOTES:
1:	Living at 87 Bedford Street, Preston, Lancashire. (RG13-3949, folio 81, page 47)
2:	Separated from his wife and children, George was boarding with another family. Still in the pub trade, his fortunes had come down from running his own pub to working in someone else's.
3:	The above information is from the census returns on microfiche at the Lancashire Archives.

1901 CENSUS OF CHESTER, CHESHIRE:
NAME:	RELATION:	CONDITION:	SEX:	AGE:	OCCUPATION:	BIRTHPLACE:
Eleanor Swarbrick	Stepdau.	Married	F	34	Barmaid	Preston, Lancashire
Mary J Swarbrick	Granddau.	Unmarried	F	17	Barmaid	Preston, Lancashire

NOTES:
1:	Living at 57 Bridge Street Row, Chester, Cheshire. (RG13-3370, folio 84, page 12)
2:	Eleanor was living with her mother and stepfather and working for them at their pub. Both Eleanor and Mary Jane were listed as Workers "at home". For the full entry see the page regarding her family.
3:	The above information is from the census returns on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk.

Although the age recorded in the GRO Death Index is off by a couple of years, an Eleanor Swarbrick died in Chester in 1907, and this may be why George Swarbrick described himself as a widower in 1911:

1911 CENSUS OF PRESTON, LANCASHIRE:
NAME:	RELATION:	CONDITION:	SEX:	AGE:	OCCUPATION:	BIRTHPLACE:
George Swarbrick	Boarder	Widower	M	44	Barman	Preston, Lancashire

NOTES:
1:	Living at 44 St John's Place, Preston, Lancashire.
2:	George was boarding in a large boarding house occupied by a total of 21 people on Census night.
3:	Although the information was only supposed to be recorded for mothers, the return records that George was the father of one child and that the child was living.
4:	The above information is from the census returns on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk.