Joseph and Anne Swinnerton nee Weston and their children Edward Swinnerton and Anne Catherine Swinnerton
Joseph Swinnerton was born in1800 in Caldecote, Warwickshire, the eldest child of Thomas and Elizabeth Swinnerton nee Berry, who farmed there. He was baptised at Caldecote on 2 November 1800. Whilst the rest of the family remained in the north of the county, Joseph married Anne Weston in Stoneleigh on 1 May 1832, and at the time of their first son's baptism in 1833, they were farming at Cryfield. They continued to farm there, and had two sons and two daughters. Joseph, who farmed more than 200 acres, including in 1866 Grange Farm at Stivichall, died in his 67th year on 6 September 1867. He was buried at Stoneleigh on 10 September, newspaper reports naming him as "of Cryfield."
Anne Weston was born in Stoneleigh and baptised on 13 May 1803, the second daughter of
James and Mary Weston nee Clarke. Her family had also originated in the northern part of the county, at Whitacre and Shustoke, and they were also farmers. Her parents, who came to farm at Stivichall Grange, and six of her siblings are buried at
D 6.7 and her elder sister
Mary, who married
Thomas Richard Farmer, at
D 16.4. Her elder brother Edward continued to farm at Hoar Hall, in Over Whitacre. Anne died on 12 October 1895 and was buried on 16 October.
Farming was very much in the blood, then, across Warwickshire, with the Westons and the Swinnertons continuing to have a significant presence in Stoneleigh.
Edward Swinnerton, the oldest of Joseph and Anne's four children, was born in 1833, being baptised at Stoneleigh on 2 February. He took over the farm at Cryfield after his father, but remained unmarried; in 1891 his mother and sister Mary Elizabeth lived at Cryfield House with him. He died on 16 October 1894, a year before his mother, and was buried at Stoneleigh on 19 October.
The fourth member of the family to be commemorated on this tomb lived for just a short while:
Anne Catherine Swinnerton's birth was registered in Warwick district in 1840 (no baptism has been found) and she died on 7 November 1842. She was buried, aged just two, on 10 November.
[William Weston Swinnerton, Joseph and Anne's younger son, farmed at Stivichall Grange until his death, and was succeeded there by his son, William Edward. The connection with north Warwickshire survived, since William Weston Swinnerton's other son, Joseph Weston Swinnerton, farmed at Whitacre until his death in 1957. See burials at
E 4.8
Mary Elizabeth Swinnerton, the youngest child of Joseph and Anne, remained unmarried and lived with their brother Edward. After his death in 1894 she carried on the farm at Cryfield herself, employing a farm bailiff. She died aged 88 in 1935 and is buried at
B1.12.]
