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Mrs Swindells died 1839. Martin (II*) Swindells died at Pott Hall
11 March 1843[1].
Martin Swindells junior departed from Bollington in 1876, died
1880. He converted to Methodism in 1851[2].
The family were generous subscribers
to the Wesleyan Church.
George Swindells lived in 1885 at Pott Hall, Pott Shrigley. His
niece, Miss Emma F Brooke, made
notes of a conversation with George in April 1885. Gatley
busts of George and Elizabeth Swindells.
* There were four Martin Swindells in succeeding generations. We differentiate them by adding I, II, III or IV. Likewise, there were two Francis Swindells, marked I and II.
Brooke, Edward Hugh 1916 - 2002
Edward Hugh Brooke of Calgary, Alberta, Canada,
passed away at the Peter Lougheed Hospital on Friday 1st November
2002 at the age of 85 years. Edward was a farmer, a chemical engineer,
an Olympic
athlete
and
an accomplished painter. He was the son of the late Hugh Brooke
and Inez (Forel) Brooke of Didsbury AB, and brother of Stanley
and Cyril. His beloved older sister Evelyn (Trusler) passed away
just hours before, so that he followed her in death, as in life.
I am indebted to Lillian for this obituary.
References
1 Extract
from A Century of the Wesleyan Methodist
Church of Bollington, W.H. Lake (1908), p.48.
Copy in
Macclesfield Library.
2 Extract
from the same, p.54.
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