Priscilla (Swaine) Glover (1799 - 1849)

Born 1799 in Derby, Derbyshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of William Heaford — married 21 Aug 1820 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom

Wife of Richard Glover — married 22 May 1824 in Beeston, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom

Descendants

Died 24 Dec 1849 at about age 50 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Priscilla Swaine was the daughter of Samuel and Mary Swaine. She was baptised on 11 February 1799 at St Peter, Derby, Derbyshire, and entered in the parish register as "Priscilla daughter of Samuel & Mary Swaine."^[1]

She married William Heaford, a needle maker, on 21 August 1820 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire.^[2] He died in February 1823.^[3]

She re-married Richard Glover on 22 May 1824 at St John the Baptist in Beeston, Nottinghamshire.^[4]

Their eldest child, William, was born in Beeston in about 1825.^[5] The couple then returned to Hartshorne, Derbyshire, where the next three children were born: Mary in 1827, John in 1830, and Samuel in 1832.

The family relocated to Leeds, Yorkshire, and the couple's youngest child, Joseph was born there in 1834. Richard Glover kept a tavern called the Mechanics Arms, first in Meadow Lane, Leeds, and then in Balloon Street, Holbeck, a densely populated industrial suburb of Leeds.^[6] The air was "loaded with the black vapours which issue[d] from the immense manufactories" and in 1834 Holbeck was considered "one of the most crowded, one of the most filthy, one of the most unpleasant, and one of the most unhealthy villages in the county of York."^[7]

In the 1840s they moved again, this time to Liverpool, Lancashire, and the family kept a boarding house at 11 Union Street. Priscilla died there on 24 December 1849, aged 51. Her death certificate records that she was the "wife of Richard Glover boarding house keeper" and the cause of death was a stomach tumor. The informant was John Glover.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ "Derbyshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812". Ancestry,com. Priscilla Swaine, baptism, 11 Feb 1799, Derby, St Peter, Derbyshire, Citing Derbyshire Record Office; Ref: D 1792 1/5. Ancestry Sharing Link Ancestry Record 61407 #3693842
2. ↑ Nottinghamshire marriages index 1528-1929 (available on Findmypast). Name: William Heaford. Marriage date: 21 Aug 1820. Spouse's name: Priscilla Swaine. Marriage place: Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England.
3. ↑ Nottinghamshire Burial Index. Name: William Heaford. Age: 23. Residence: York Street. Burial date: 13 Feb 1823. Denomination: Anglican. Church: St Mary, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. Archive: Nottinghamshire Archives. Document type: Bishop's Transcripts. Year range: 1822-1823.
4. ↑ Nottinghamshire marriages index 1528-1929 (available on Findmypast). Name: Richard Glover. Residence: Beeston. Marital status: widowed. Marriage date: 22 May 1824. Spouse's name: Priscilla Sleaford [sic]. Spouse's residence: Beeston. Spouse's marital status: widowed. Place: Beeston, Nottinghamshire, England. By licence or by banns: Banns. Witnesses: Thomas Thompson, Sarah Peasant.
5. ↑ "Nottinghamshire Baptisms Index 1538-1917", Findmypast, William Glover, 13 Mar 1825 (accessed 3 Jun 2020)
6. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1841," database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 3 Jun 2020), Richard Glover, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom; from "1841 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.
7. ↑ Edward Parsons, The civil, ecclesiastical, literary commercial and miscellaneous history of Leeds, Halifax, Huddersfield, Bradford, Wakefield, Dewsbury, Otley, and the manufacturing district of Yorkshire, London, 1834, volume 1, page 178-9. Google Books (accessed 3 Jun 2020)
8. ↑ England & Wales General Register Office, GRO Online Index - Death (accessed 3 Jun 2020), database entry for GLOVER, PRISCILLA. Age: 51. GRO Reference: 1849 D Quarter in LIVERPOOL Volume 20 Page 194