Sarah SWANTON
(b. 1812)
Sarah SWANTON was the youngest and second daughter of Thomas SWANTON, a 'Cotton Spinner' and Elizabeth MORRIS. Sarah was born on 3 March 1812 in Hindley, Lancashire a few miles to the south east of Wigan.
Sarah was baptised at All Saints' Church, Hindley on 24 May 1812 and married William SIDEBOTHAM (b. 1798, Stockport, Cheshire) on 12 September 1830 in the Parish of Deane, near Bolton, Lancashire.
By 1851 Sarah and William had moved to New Bridge Lane, Stockport, where William worked as a 'Cotton Spinner' in one of Stockport's cotton mills.
Sarah and William had the following children:
- Emma SIDEBOTHAM, b. 1832, Stockport, Cheshire
- Sarah Ann SIDEBOTHAM, b. 1837, Stockport, d. Wigan, Lancashire
- William SIDEBOTHAM, b. 1839, Heaton Norris, Stockport
- Elizabeth SIDEBOTHAM, b. 1841, Heaton Norris, d. 1911, Wigan
- Ann SIDEBOTHAM, b. 1845, Stockport
- Henry SIDEBOTHAM, b. 1851, Stockport, d. 1915, Wigan