FAMILY HISTORY: SWARBRICK

THE LIFE OF ISABELLA JOSEPHINE SWARBRICK

CENSUS INFORMATION:

 

Isabella is listed with her parents up to and including the 1891 Census, when she was a 15 year old girl. You can view these early records on her parent's Census page.

By 1901 Isabella was living as a boarder at the home of her sister Mary Agnes Atkins. However, on the night of the census Mary Agnes and her two daughters were visiting at the home of her older sister Margaret Farrell in Southampton while Mary's husband Frederick and sister Isabella stayed behind in Staffordshire:

 

1901 CENSUS OF HANLEY, STAFFORDSHIRE:
NAME: RELATION: CONDITION: SEX: AGE: OCCUPATION: BIRTHPLACE:
Frederick Atkins Head Married M 30 Clothier's Manager Charminster, Dorset
Isabella Atkins (sic) Boarder Unmarried F 25 - Preston, Lanc.
Edith Bostock Servant Unmarried F 18 Servant, Domestic Hanley, Staff.
NOTES:
1: Living at 10 Church Street, Hanley, Staffordshire. (RG13-2599, folio 33, page 9)
2: Isabella Swarbrick was incorrectly record as Isabella Atkins on the Census Return.
3: Lanc, is an abbreviation of Lancashire and Staff. is an abbreviation of Staffordshire.
4: The above information is from the census returns on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk.

 

By the time of the 1911 Census Isabella Josephine was still living with her sister Mary Agnes, but now in London:

 

1911 CENSUS OF WANDSWORTH, LONDON:
NAME: RELATION: CONDITION: SEX: AGE: OCCUPATION: BIRTHPLACE:
Isabella Swarbrick S-i-L Unmarried F 35 - Preston, Lancashire
NOTES:
1: Living at 18 Grandison Road, Clapham Common, Wandsworth, London, a 4 room upper flat.
2: For the full Census record see Mary Agnes Atkin's Census page.
3: S-i-L is my abbreviation for Sister-in-Law.
4: The above information is from the census returns on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk.

 

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