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Swerbrick, Albert

Swerbrick, Albert

Posted: 13 May 2015 12:43AM GMT
Classification: Query
I am looking for birth, marriage and death records for Albert Swerbrick.

He was born in Parham around 1859 and married Mary Jane Dowker but have no idea what year or where.

I believe he died around 1892. Mary Jane (Jennie) went on to marry John Herron in 1893.

Albert's sister (Eliza) was my great-grandmother.

Can anyone help?

Re: SWERBRICK , Albert

Posted: 13 May 2015 4:04AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: SWERBRICK, DOWKER
1881 Canada Census shows
Albert SWERBRICK age 22 years born Ontario
Mary J SWERBRICK age 18 years -born Ontario nee DOWKER
Stella SWERBRICK - age 0 born Ontario
Should help - determine the date of marriage

Family Search Org Online - has 11 listings for Albert SWERBRICK

Re: Swerbrick, Albert

Posted: 13 May 2015 12:47PM GMT
Classification: Query
1891 census has Marry J Swerbrick with 4 children in Addington. No mention of Albert altho' it does say M rather than W on the form. Census would have been taken around April.


Did not find a marriage or death for Albert on Ancestry.ca
Try church records.

Re: SWERBRICK , Albert

Posted: 13 May 2015 12:50PM GMT
Classification: Query
Thanks for the info. However I was hoping to get some sort of documentation like his birth, marriage or death records. Have been able to find documents of some sort for his siblings but nothing for Albert. Why didn't I ask Grandma more questions when she was still with us. I'm sure there is a story there.

Thanks again...will keep digging

Re: SWERBRICK , Albert

Posted: 13 May 2015 9:10PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: SWERBRICK, DOWKER
Hi The reason I posted the info from the 1881 Canada Census - that showed Albert as being 22 years old - his birth year 1859 - which helps determine time frame to search.
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Do you know - What Religion the family practiced - Church Records / Baptisms - may show the date of birth - will show the date of baptism- names of godparents etc
Child born to Albert - was under one year old in the 1881 Census - A marriage could have been as close as 9 months previous to the birth of the child - giving you a limited time frame
Perhaps the following will be helpful
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/tracing/the_records.aspx

Re: SWERBRICK , Albert

Posted: 14 May 2015 6:26PM GMT
Classification: Query
Thank you for the link. I had not seen that before. I am obviously a newbie to genealogy and certainly appreciate the info you have given. It can be quite overwhelming and also frustrating at times - especially thinking that everything should be at hand on the computer. I'm looking forward to some trips to the various archives though. Should be interesting digging through the info.
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