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. |