Emma Swindell (11)

Emma Swindell

1869 - 1945

Emma Swindell, early 1930s

Father	Joseph Swindell
Mother	Hannah Ashmore
Husband	William Slack Flint
Children	Edwin, Joseph, May, Ellen

Emma was born in Tideswell on 18th October 1869 ⁽¹⁾, the fourth child of Joseph and Hannah. Her older siblings were John Thomas aged 5 ⁽²⁾, Mary Ellen aged 3 ⁽³⁾ and Samuel aged 1 ⁽⁴⁾. She was baptised in Tideswell church on 5th December 1869 ⁽⁵⁾. She appears in the census of 2nd April 1871 with her parents and 3 older siblings living at Crow Holt in Tideswell ⁽⁶⁾.

Just a couple of weeks later, on 16th April, her next sister Elizabeth was born ⁽⁷⁾, and she was followed in about the summer of 1872 by a brother William ⁽⁸⁾. Unfortunately Emma's sister Elizabeth died in 1876 aged just 5 years old ⁽⁹⁾. Her brother Henry was born in autumn 1877 ⁽¹⁰⁾, followed by Hannah in summer 1879 ⁽¹¹⁾. Hence by the April 1881 census ⁽¹²⁾, Emma was still living with her parents at Crow Holt in Tideswell, along with older brothers John Thomas & Samuel, younger brothers William and Henry, and sister Hannah. Her other sister, 15 year old Mary Ellen, was living elsewhere in Tideswell with her aunt Elizabeth Harrison (her mother's sister). Emma's youngest brother Advent was born shortly after the census, around the summer of 1881 ⁽¹³⁾.

The summer of 1884 would have been unpleasant for Emma as both her elder brothers, John Thomas and Samuel, died around this time ⁽¹⁴⁾. In 1888 she and her future husband William were the witnesses at her sister Mary Ellen's wedding ⁽²⁹⁾. The rest of the family were still together at Crow Holt in the census of April 1891 ⁽¹⁵⁾, when Emma was said to work as a cotton winder. However when she married, less than three months after this, she didn't give an occupation ⁽¹⁶⁾.

Her marriage to William Slack Flint took place at Tideswell Church on 27th June 1891, when her brother William and sister Mary Ellen were the witnesses ⁽¹⁶⁾. She must have been at least six momths pregnant at the time, because her first child Edwin, was born three months later ⁽¹⁷⁾. Their next child Joseph Swindell was born in 1895 ⁽¹⁸⁾. Sometime in the next four years, She and William moved into the White Hart Inn, on Queen Street ⁽¹⁹⁾ and were living there when their daughter May was born in May 1899 ⁽²⁰⁾⁽³⁰⁾. May's birth came less than a fortnight after Emma's father had died ⁽²¹⁾. Their youngest child Ellen was born in the autumn of 1900 ⁽²²⁾

The census of 1901 lists Emma, her husband William, and their four children all living in the White Hart, along with a lodger called Joseph Dale ⁽²³⁾. Emma's cousin James Francis Drabble (son of her Aunt Hannah Drabble, nee Swindell) was living next door. Three months after this, Emma's mother died aged 62 ⁽²⁴⁾. She, William and family moved to St John's Road sometime in the next decade ⁽²⁸⁾, then again to Millers Dale, probably just before the First World War ⁽²⁵⁾, where William was injured in an accident at work in about 1916.

Little is known of the next three decades, other than that they continued to live at Rock View in Millers Dale. Her husband William died there in 1943 ⁽²⁶⁾, and Emma died less than 2 years later, aged 75, on 10th June 1945 ⁽²⁷⁾. Her death certificate gives her place of death as 3 Baslow Road, Bakewell. This is now the address of Newholme Hospital, so it was undoubtably a hospital of some description then too.

Brief details of her children:

Edwin was born in summer 1891. Very little is known of him except that he married a woman called Emily, had at least one daughter Dorothy, and at the time of his father's death he was living in Wakefield.
Joseph Swindell was born in summer 1895. He married a woman named Marion, and at the time of his mother's death he was living in Peak Dale. He didn't have any children.
May was born in 1899 in Tideswell. In 1925 she married Fred Allen, a policeman originally from close by in Flagg, but then living in South Normanton. Soon afterwards they moved to Repton, where they had two children - Joyce and Fred. Her husband died young in 1929, whilst she was pregnant with their third child Dorothy. Upon being widowed, she moved back to Millers Dale where her parents lived, and stayed there for the rest of her life, dying aged 80 in 1979, having never remarried.
Ellen ("Nellie") was born around the autumn of 1900. She married John Oliver and they had two children, Raymond and Freda. She died in 1980.

Sources:

Birth Certificate from Registration District of Bakewell states:

When and where born	Name	Sex	Name and surname of father	Name, surname and maiden surname of mother	Occupation of father	Signature, description and residence of informant	When registered
Eighteenth October 1869, Tideswell	Emma	Girl	Joseph Swindell	Hannah Swindell, formerly Ashmore	Carpenter (Master)	Hannah Swindell, Mother, Tideswell	Fifteenth November 1869

Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell includes the entry:

When baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parents Name		Abode	Quality, Trade or Profession
		Christian	Surname
1864 September 25^th	John Thomas	Joseph & Hannah	Swindell	Tideswell	Wheelwright

Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell includes the entry:

When
baptized Child's
Christian Name Parents Name Abode Quality, Trade
or
Profession

Christian Surname

April
25^th
[1866] Mary
Ellen Joseph
&
Hannah Swindell Tideswell Carpenter

Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell includes the entry:

When baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parents Name		Abode	Quality, Trade or Profession
		Christian	Surname
July 5 [1868]	Samuel	Joseph & Hannah	Swindell	Tideswell	Wheelwright
Born 17 May 1868

Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell includes the entry:

When
baptized Child's
Christian Name Parents Name Abode Quality, Trade
or
Profession

Christian Surname

1869
Nov
26 Emma Joseph
&
Hannah Swindell Tideswell Carpenter

Born Oct 18

Census of 2nd April 1871 reads:
Place: Crow Holt, Tideswell

Joseph Swindell	Head	Mar	33	Joiner	Derbyshire, Tideswell
Hannah Do	Wife	Mar	32	Joiner's Wife	Do, Monyash
John T Do	Son	.	6	Scholar	Do, Tideswell
Mary E Do	Daur	.	5	Scholar	Do, Do
Samuel Do	Son	.	2	~~Scholar~~	Do, Do
Emma Do	Daur	.	1	.	Do, Do

Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell includes the entry:

When baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parents Name		Abode	Quality, Trade or Profession
		Christian	Surname
May 3^rd [1871]	Elizabeth	Joseph & Hannah	Swindell	Tideswell	Wheelwright
Born 16 April 1871

Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell includes the entry:

When baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parents Name		Abode	Quality, Trade or Profession
		Christian	Surname
1872 October 6^th	William	Joseph & Hannah	Swindell	Tideswell	Joiner
Born Aug^t 24 1872

Elizabeth does not appear on any later records, so it is almost certain that she was the Elizabeth Swindell age 5 whose was buried in Tideswell on 20th June 1876.

Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell includes the entry:

When baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parents Name		Abode	Quality, Trade or Profession
		Christian	Surname
1877 November 27^th	Henry	Joseph & Hannah	Swindell	Tideswell	Wheelwright
Born Nov 13^th 1877

Hannah was aged 11 at the census of 5th April 1891, and her birth was registered in the 3rd quarter of 1879, so her date of birth must have been between 6th April and the end of September 1879.

Census of 3rd April 1881 reads:
Place: Crow Holt, Tideswell

Joseph Swindell	Head	Mar	43	Joiner	Derbyshire, Tideswell
Hannah Do	Wife	Mar	41	~~Joiner's Wife~~	Do, Monyash
John T Do	Son	Unm	16	Railway Ticket Collector	Do, Tideswell
Samuel Do	Son	.	12	Scholar	Do, Do
Emma Do	Daur	.	11	Scholar	Do, Do
William Do	Son	.	8	Scholar	Do, Do
Henry Do	Son	.	3	Scholar	Do, Do
Hannah Do	Daur	.	1	.	Do, Do

Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell includes the entry:

When baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parents Name		Abode	Quality, Trade or Profession
		Christian	Surname
1881 September 18	Advent	Joseph & Hannah	Swindell	Tideswell	Joiner
Born July 26 1881

Samuel was buried in Tideswell on 3rd July 1884, and his brother John Thomas on 25th September 1884.

Census of 5th April 1891 reads:
Place: Crow Holt, Tideswell

Joseph Swindell	Head	M	53	Joiner & Wheelwright	Derbyshire, Tideswell	Employer
Hannah Do	Wife	M	51	.	Do, Monyash	.
William Do	Son	S	18	Apprentice Joiner & Wheelwright	Do, Tideswell	Employed
Emma Do	Daur	S	21	Cotton Winder	Do, Do	Employed
Henry Do	Son	.	13	Scholar	Do, Do	.
Hannah Do	Daur	.	11	Do	Do, Do	.
Advent Do	Son	.	9	Do	Do, Do	.

Marriage Certificate from Registration District of Bakewell states:

1891 Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of Tideswell in the County of Derby

When married	Name and Surname	Age	Condition	Rank or Profession	Residence at the time of marriage	Father's name and Surname	Rank or Profession of father
1891 June 27th	William Slack Flint	22	Bachelor	Labourer	Tideswell	Alfred Flint	Labourer
1891 June 27th	Emma Swindell	21	Spinster	-	Tideswell	Joseph Swindell	Wheelwright

Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after banns

in the presence of William Swindell, Mary Ellen Moseley

Parish Register of St John the Baptist's, Tideswell includes the entry:

When baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parents Name		Abode	Quality, Trade or Profession
		Christian	Surname
1891 October 8^th	Edwin	William Slack and Emma	Flint	Tideswell	Labourer
Born 5 Sept^r 1891

Parish Register of St John the Baptist's, Tideswell includes the entry:

When baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parents Name		Abode	Quality, Trade or Profession
		Christian	Surname
1895 September 19^th	Joseph Swindell	William Slack and Emma	Flint	Tideswell	Quarryman
Born August 6^th 1895

In 1895 Kellys Directory of Derbyshire lists the White Hart's proprieter as Lawrence Holmes Handley, but by the time of her daughter May's birth in 1899 ⁽²⁰⁾, William and Emma were living there.

Birth Certificate from Registration District of Bakewell states:

When and where born	Name	Sex	Name and surname of father	Name, surname and maiden surname of mother	Occupation of father	Signature, description and residence of informant	When registered
Fourteenth May 1899, White Hart Inn, Tideswell, RD	May	Girl	William Slack Flint	Emma Flint, formerly Swindell	Licensed Victualer and Limestone Quarrier	Emma Flint, Mother, White Hart Inn, Tideswell	Twentieth June 1899

Death Certificate from Registration District of Bakewell states:

When and where died	Name	Sex	Age	Occupation	Cause of death	Signature, description and residence of informant	When registered
Second May 1899, St John's Road, Tideswell	Joseph Swindell	Male	61 years	Wheelwright and joiner (Master)	Pyclitis, General Exhaustion and Cardiac Failure. Certified by J H Parke MRCS	Mary Ellen Moseley, Daughter, present at the death. Market Square, Tideswell	Second May 1899

Parish Register of St John the Baptist's, Tideswell includes the entry:

When baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parents Name		Abode	Quality, Trade or Profession
		Christian	Surname
1900 October 25	Ellen	William Slack & Emma	Flint	Tideswell	Quarryman
Born September 16^th 1900

Census (page 1, page 2) of 31st March 1901 reads:
Place: White Hart, Tideswell

William S Flint	Head	M	31	Publican & Limestone Quarryman	worker	.	Derbyshire, Tideswell
Emma Do	Wife	M	31	.	.	.	Derbyshire, Tideswell
Edwin Do	Son	S	9	.	.	.	Derbyshire, Tideswell
Joseph S Do	Son	S	5	.	.	.	Derbyshire, Tideswell
May Do	Daur	.	2	.	.	.	Derbyshire, Tideswell
Ellen Flint	Daur	S	6 months	.	.	.	Derbyshire, Tideswell
Joseph Dale	Boarder	S	28	Lime Stone Quarryman	worker	.	Derbyshire, Tideswell

Death Certificate from Registration District of Bakewell states:

When and where died	Name	Sex	Age	Occupation	Cause of death	Signature, description and residence of informant	When registered
Seventh July 1901, St John's Road, Tideswell	Hannah Swindell	Female	62 years	Widow of Joseph Swindell, a Wheelwright Master	Thyroid Tumour, Laryngeal Obstruction, Certified by J H Parke MRCS	J Flint, Son, in attendance, Upper End, Peak Dale, via Stockport	Eleventh June 1945

Information from living relatives.

Death Certificate from Registration District of Bakewell states:

When and where died	Name	Sex	Age	Occupation	Cause of death	Signature, description and residence of informant	When registered
Third October 1943, Rock Cottage, Millers Dale, Tideswell, Bakewell, RD	William Slack Flint	Male	74 years	Limestone Quarryman (formerly)	1(a) Cerebral haemourhage Certified by Humphrey Brookes MB	Edwin Flint, Son, 57 Savile Street, Wakefield	Fifth October 1943

Death Certificate from Registration District of Bakewell states:

When and where died	Name	Sex	Age	Occupation	Cause of death	Signature, description and residence of informant	When registered
Tenth June 1945, 3 Baslow Road, Bakewell	Emma Flint	Female	75 years	Rock View, Millers Dale, Tideswell, RD. Widow of William Slack Flint Limestone Quarryman	1(a) Exhaustion (b) Senile dementia (3) Myocardial degeneration Certified by E W Evans MRCS	J Flint, Son, in attendance, Upper End, Peak Dale, via Stockport	Eleventh June 1945

Census of 2rd April 1911 reads:

William Slack Flint

Head

Married

Lime Stone Quarryman

Worker

Tideswell, Derbyshire

Emma Flint

Wife

Married

Tideswell, Derbyshire

Edwin Flint

Son

Single

Cotton Dowller

Cotton Mill

Worker

Tideswell, Derbyshire

Joseph S Flint

Son

Single

Labourer General

Worker

Tideswell, Derbyshire

May Flint

Daughter

School

Tideswell, Derbyshire

Ellen Flint

Daughter

Tideswell, Derbyshire

Number of Rooms: 5
Postal Address: St John Rd, Tideswell, Buxton

Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell includes the entry:

1888 Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of Bakewell in the County of Derby

When married	Name and Surname	Age	Condition	Rank or Profession	Residence at the time of marriage	Father's name and Surname	Rank or Profession of father
1888 February 11^th	John Thomas Moseley	27	Bachelor	Quarryman	Tideswell	late Samuel Moseley	Shoemaker
1888 February 11^th	Mary Ellen Swindell	21	Spinster	Winder	Tideswell	Joseph Swindell	Wheelwright

Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after banns

in the presence of William Slack Flint, Emma Swindell

Parish Register of St John the Baptist's, Tideswell includes the entry:

When baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parents Name		Abode	Quality, Trade or Profession
		Christian	Surname
[18]99 Thirsday June 14	May	William Slack & Emma	Flint	Tideswell	Quarryman & Innkeeper
Born 14 May 1899

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