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Waters Upton churchyard MIs: SWINNERTON

[IN MEMORY OF?]
ROBERT BLANTERN,
OF THE HARE BUTTS,
WHO DIED NOVEMBER 14TH 1879
AGED 72 YEARS

ALSO OF MARY ANN
RELICT OF THE ABOVE,
WHO DIED AUGUST 31ST 1882
AGED 75 YEARS.

ALSO OF JOHN
SON OF THE ABOVE,
WHO DIED JUNE 26TH 1882
AGED 37 YEARS.

ALSO OF MARY ANN
DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE
AND WIFE OF HENRY SWINNERTON
OF BERRINGTON,
WHO DIED DECEMBER 22ND 1892
AGED 58 YEARS.

Although Mary Ann Blantern, daughter of Robert Blantern and his wife Mary Ann, was baptised at Great Bolas on 12 Nov 1834, it appears that she was actually born in the parish of Waters Upton. Mary’s marriage to Henry Swinnerton was registered at Newport, Shropshire in the March quarter of 1881 and took place at High Offley in Staffordshire. The 1881 census shows the newly married couple living in Wolverhampton, where Henry was working as a master butcher. By 1891 however Mary Ann was a widow and living alone, on her own means, at Waters Upton.

For more on Mary Ann’s parents, see Memorial Inscriptions: Blantern.

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