Person:Mary Allen (340)

Mary Allen was baptised on 28th August 1743 at Kirkby la Thorpe in Lincolnshire, daughter of Mary Allen, formerly Draper, and her husband Thomas Draper, a labourer. When Mary was eleven years old, her mother died.

Mary was married on 8th June 1772 to Thomas Swinton. They had at least three children born in the late 1770s, although none of them were baptised as babies.

Mary died at the age of 37. She was buried at Kirkby la Thorpe on 4th December 1780. A note on her burial describes her as "wife of Thomas Swinton commonly so called a Dissenter". Mary's father survived her.

Thomas died less than five years later. Their three children were all baptised on the same day in 1787, a couple of years after Thomas's death.

1. ↑ Church of England. Parish Church of Kirkby-le-Thorpe (Lincolnshire). Parish registers, 1660-1979. (Lincoln, England: Lincoln Archives Office, 1993).

   Baptisms 1743 / Mary Daughter of Thomas Allen & Mary his wife was baptiz[e]d Aug[u]st 28th

2. ↑ Church of England. Parish Church of Kirkby-le-Thorpe (Lincolnshire). Parish registers, 1660-1979. (Lincoln, England: Lincoln Archives Office, 1993).

   Burials 1780 / Mary Wife of Thomas Swinton commonly so called a Dissenter, aged 37 was buried Decemb[e]r 4th