Swindells family

Cotton millers of Manchester & Bollington


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Mrs Swindells died 1839. Martin (II*) Swindells died at Pott Hall 11 March 18431.

Martin Swindells junior departed from Bollington in 1876, died 1880. He converted to Methodism in 18512. 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.

* 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.

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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