New England Families - Ellen Swift

Ellen Swift

Birth Name	Ellen Swift
Gender	female
Age at Death	68 years, 4 months, 17 days

Narrative

There aren't any other children for Joseph and Ellen in the RI Births and Christenings at familysearch.org.

Events

Event	Date	Place	Description	Sources
Birth	April 18, 1816	England
	General Her date of birth is at findagrave.com. Maybe from the headstone or cemetery records?
Death	September 5, 1884	Woonsocket, Providence County, Rhode Island, United States		1a
	General Ellen Bentley Date of death: 5 Sep 1884 Place: Woonsocket, RI age: 68 Father: William Swift Mother: Hannah Swift "Rhode Island, Deaths and Burials, 1802-1950," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F868-GH6 : accessed 27 Aug 2013), Ellen Bentley, 1816.			1a
Census	1870	Woonsocket, Providence County, Rhode Island, United States	1870 Ellen Bentley household
	General Woonsocket, Providence, Rhode Island dwelling 612, family 1012 Ellen Bentley, 49, born in England, keeping house, RE: $2000 Ellen Bentley, 16, born in Rhode Island, works in rubber factory John North, 24, born in England, woolen carder, Elizabeth North, 23, born in Massachusetts, at home, Hannah North, 2, born in Rhode Island 7 others all adults say they can read and write "United States Census, 1870," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MFF7-4DH : accessed 27 Aug 2013), Ellen Bentley, .
Census	1880	Woonsocket, Providence County, Rhode Island, United States	1880 John North household
	General United States Census, 1880," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M4S2-MY7 : accessed 27 Aug 2013) Woonsocket, Providence, Rhode Island Series T9, roll 1216, page 340B dwelling 37, family 64 John North, 35, head, woolen carder, cannot read, born in England, parents also Elizabeth North, 32, wife, keeping house, cannot read, born in Massachusetts, parents in England Hannah North, 13?, daughter Sarah L North, 9, daughter Emma North, 7, daughter Mary E North, 5, daughter Thomas J North, 4, son, Joseph North, 2, son, Bentley, Ellen, 64, mother in law, no occupation, cannot read, born in England, parents also Bentley, Ellen, 24, sister in law, works in rubber shop, born in Rhode Island, parents in England
Burial		Oak Hill Cemetery, Woonsocket, Providence County, Rhode Island, United States	Burial of Ellen Swift
	General Plot: N 0066, according to findagrave.com

Parents

Relation to main person	Name	Birth date	Death date	Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father	William Swift
Mother	Hannah
	Ellen Swift	April 18, 1816	September 5, 1884

Families

Family of Joseph Bentley and Ellen Swift

Married

Husband

Joseph Bentley ( b. about 1820 d. ... )

Event	Date	Place	Description	Sources
Marriage	February 5, 1845	Williamsburg, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States
	General Registered June 23, 1845 Married Feby 5th 1845, in Williamsburgh, by F.P. Tracy Pastor of the Methodist Church, Williamsburgh Joseph Bentley, single man, 25 years of age, millwright, son of Benjamin Bently, Leeds Eng Ellen Swift, single, 28, domestic spinster, daughter of Wm Swift, Yorkshire, Eng Both residing in Williamsburgh at the time of the marriage. "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1841-1915," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N4CC-GTW : accessed 28 Aug 2013), Joseph Bentley and Ellen Swift, 1845.

Children

Name	Birth Date	Death Date
Mary Ann Bentley	December 18, 1845
Sarah Elizabeth Bentley	about 1848	April 17, 1881
Ellen Bentley	August 3, 1855	February 18, 1890

Pedigree

William Swift
1. Hannah
  1. Ellen Swift
    1. Joseph Bentley

Source References

Rhode Island, Deaths and Burials, 1802-1950
1. - Citation:
    "Rhode Island Deaths and Burials, 1802-1950," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8HF-VR6 : 10 March 2018), Charles A. Hixon in entry for Selina North Hixon, 10 Nov 1938; citing Woonsocket, Rhode Island, reference 13; FHL microfilm 1,955,088.