Frances Harriet (Baird) Swinton (1880 - 1955)

Born 5 Jun 1880 in Dublin, Ireland

Wife of John Edulf Blagrave Swinton — married 22 Nov 1910 in Chelsea, London, England

Died 4 Jun 1955 at age 74 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Biography

Frances Harriet Baird was born in 1880 in Dublin, the daughter of Sir William James Gardiner Baird, Bart., 7th Hussars, and Arabella Rose Evelyn Hozier.^[1][2][3]

On the 22nd November 1910, she married John Edulf Blagrave Swinton in St Luke's, Chelsea (London).^[4][5]

Frances Harriet Swinton née Baird died at Sydney in Australia, on the 4th June 1955, aged seventy-four years.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Ireland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1620-1911. Frances Harriet Baird born 5th June 1880 in Lower Baggot-street, Dublin; daughter of William James Gardiner Baird and Arabella Rose Evelyn Baird Hosier. Microfilm copy held by the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA (FHL film no. 256052); index online at ancestry.ca (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick by subscription, 2018-07-11).
2. ↑ London Evening Standard, 11 June 1880 (pg 1). Birth notice: “BAIRD.—June 5, at 71, Lower Baggot-street, Dublin, the wife of W.J.G. Baird, Esq., 7th Hussars, of a daughter.” Digital image online at The British Newspaper Archive, britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk (accessed by subscription, and transcribed by Alison Kilpatrick 2018-07-11).
3. ↑ 1939 Register (England and Wales). John E.B. Swinton, male, born 6 August 1894, married, Private Means; and Frances H. Swinton, born 5 June 1880, married, Private Means; enumerated at The Victoria Hotel in Sidmouth, Devon. Original record: 1939 Register (Series RG101), The National Archives, Kew, London, England. Enumeration district WFZK, registration district 269-2, schedule no. 2, sub-schedule no. 19 (ref. RG101/6835G). Digital image online at ancestry.ca (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick by subscription, 2018-07-11).
4. ↑ Church of England. Parish of St Luke, Chelsea (London). Marriage of John Edulf Blagrave Swinton, age 45, bachelor, Gentleman; resident of 4 Berkeley House, Hay Hill; son of John Edulf Swinton, Captain H.M. Army; and Frances Harriet Baird, age 30, spinster; resident of Walton House, Lennox Gardens; daughter Of William Gardiner Baird, Baronet, late Captain 7th Hussars; married 22nd November 1910 according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church, after Banns, by [—] Edmundson; witnesses: Arabella Baird, Newsl[—]d Lannington, [—] James Gardiner Baird, Kle.[?] A. Syrutax[?] [illegible]. Original record: Church of England Parish Registers. London Metropolitan Archives, London. (ref. p74/sav/014). Digital image online at ancestry.ca (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick by subscription, 2018-07-11).
5. ↑ Dod’s Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, &c. of Great Britain and Ireland for 1915. “Baird, 8th Bt., of Saughton Hall (Nova Scotia).” London: published for the proprietors, Dod’s Peerage Limited, by Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1915 (pp. 68-9).
6. ↑ National Probate Calendar, England and Wales. “SWINTON, Frances Harriet, of Oceanic Hotel, Coogee, New South Wales, Australia, and care of Lloyds Bank Limited (Cox and Kings Branch), 6 Pall Mall, Westminster, widow, died 4 June 1955 at The Prince Henry Hospital, Little Bay, Sydney, New South Wales; Probate: London, 24 September [1955] to Lloyds Bank Limited.” (ref. 1955, pg. 810). Digital image online at ancestry.ca (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick 2018-07-11, by subscription).