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Jane SWAN
1844 - 1900 (56 years)
Has 20 ancestors and 8 descendants in this family tree.
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Name Jane SWAN Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born 3 Mar 1844 St. Gregory by St. Pauls, London, England 
- GRO ref: SWAN, Jane q1 1844 London RD 2 215; GRO online index shows mother's maiden name as Field
Jane's birth Cert shows birth at "St Gregory by St Pauls". I guess this refers to the secular parish the home was in: St. Gregory by St. Pauls was one of the churches destroyed by the fire of London and not rebuilt. She may well have been born at home which was 25 Addle Hill.
On censuses her birth is shown as in Blackfriars (1851), London (1871), Lambeth, Surrey (1881), Southwark, London (1891) (Not yet found Jane in 1861)
While Blackfriars and London are consistent with the information from her birth certificate, Southwark and Lambeth are a surprise - both are fairly close, Southwark in particular, but the other side of the Thames. Perhaps the confusion arose because Jane was only a baby when the family moved to Maidenhead, so she may only have known what she'd been told (quite likely she didn't have a copy of her birth certificate).
Birth certificate for Jane Swan Baptised 14 Apr 1844 St. Andrew by the Wardrobe Church, Blackfriars, London, England Gender Female Residence From 1845 to 1848 Maidenhead, Berkshire, England - Presumably she was living with her parents when 2 siblings were born in Maidenhead.
Residence From 1849 to 1858 Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England - I would guess Jane was living with her parents / father until going into service - at age of 12 or 14 or so.
Education 1851 Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England Scholar Occupation 1871 Stevenstone House, St. Giles in the Wood, Devon, England Lady's Maid - A Jane Swan, age 26, born "London, Middlesex" was Lady's Maid with the Rolle family (husband was a landowner and magistrate) in 1871.
Is this my Jane? FreeBMD suggests there was only one Jane Swan born in London 1842 - 1846, though of course not all births were registered, especially so soon after registration came in.
A Lady's Maid was a job with a higher status than that of most servants, and hence Jane was listed after the housekeeper and nurse but before the other 9 maids. Her job was attending on the mistress of the house - 34 year old Gertrude J. Rolle, who was born in Scotland.
You can read about Stevenstone House on the listed buildings website and there is a picture here. The house was built in 1868 - 72 so would still have been being completed when Jane was there; it was said that "The richest man in Devon [the Hon. Mark G. K. Rolle] built himself the ugliest house"!
Residence From 1872 to 1873 “The Feathers Inn”, Taplow Common, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England - The family were living at Taplow Common when John Charles was born - I guess they were with Jane's father at The Feathers.
Residence 1881 15, Princes Row, St. George’s Hanover Square, London, England - Neither Jane nor John is shown as having any occupation at this time. I guess they can't have lived like this for long (if they were and weren't doing some illicit), so may not have lived here long.
Occupation 1891 91, St. George’s Square, London, England Cook - With her husband the servants for a German metal merchant. Her son had left home by this time, her daughter was present at the time of the census but shown as a visitor.
Buried 1900 The Cemetery, Margate, Kent, England - have pic of gravestone
My grandparents grave in Margate
The grave of my paternal grandparents and one great grandmother in Margate Cemetery.Died 11 Nov 1900 The Golf Club House, Hengrove, Margate, Kent, England Cause: Apoplexy, Hemiplegia, Cardiac failure - Died of "Apoplexy [Paralysis due to stroke] Hemiplegia [Paralysis of one side of body] Cardiac failure" (death certified by C Webb U.R.C.S)
Death registered by her son C. Inman of "St. Ann's", Lewes, Sussex whoh was in attendance.
Reported in the BMD column in the Thanet Advertiser of 17 Nov 1900 (p.5, col. 5), under 'Deaths':
"Margate - Nov. 11, at Hengrove, Jane Inman, aged 54.
Death certificate for Jane Swan Siblings2 brothers and 2 sisters Patriarch & Matriarch 
Thomas SWAN, b. Est 1727, d. Mar 1803, Thaxted, Essex, England (Age ~ 76 years) (2 x Great Grandfather) 
Ann, d. Yes, date unknown (2 x Great Grandmother)Notes - Addr when born: 25 Addle Hill (1844) (this is in the City of London very close ot St. Andrew's)
A painting of a pub in Addle Hill in 1868 can be seen here.
Person ID I94 All | Teresa's direct ancestors, England: Kent Group (in Go(a)tham One-Name Study), All in the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study , The Inman eighth - ancestors and descendants of Philip Inman and Sarah née Craven Last Modified 1 Oct 2022
Father John SWAN, b. 1 Nov 1819, Little Sampford, Essex, England , d. 7 Mar 1873, Taplow Common, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England (Age 53 years)
Other Partners: Susanna ("Susan") Ford WARE m. 26 Jun 1859Mother Martha FIELD, b. 1816, Wallington, Surrey, England , d. 25 Dec 1854, Taplow House Lodge, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England (Age 38 years) Married 27 Apr 1843 St. Sepulchre’s Church, Middlesex, City of London, London, England - Both of age, bach and sp, of Thames Street. The witnesses, William and Jane Field were proably 2 of Martha's half siblings, unless Jane was her step-mother. All signed.
website for St. Sepulchre's Church
Certificate for the marriage of John Swan to Martha Field Family ID F50 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family John INMAN, b. 12 Sep 1846, Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England , d. 21 Jul 1931, 17, Belmont Road, Harrogate, Yorkshire, England (Age 84 years)
Other Partners: Rose Annie DOLLIMORE m. Dec Q 1910Married 1 Nov 1872 St. George’s Church, Hanover Square, London, England - How did John and Jane meet? At the time of the census, i.e. 2nd / 3rd April 1871 Jane was working in Devon; their 1st child was conceived in about May 1872. But families such as the Rolles would generally be in London for the London Season, which started after Easter and went on until 12th August. In 1872 Easter was 31st March, so it may be supposed that Jane accompanied her mistress to London soon after that, and met up with John in London. It would seem likely that she already knew him rather than that a quick courtship led to the pregnancy.
Was John working in Devon too - perhaps for the Rolle family? Or did he accompany his employee on a visit to Jane's and they met as a consequence? If he did work for the Duke of Westminster he could have met when Jane was living in Taplow or visiting her parents there - maybe she had worked in Taplow before taking up the position with the Rolle family.
In 1871 the butler working for the Rolle family, George Mount, was, like John, Yorkshire born. However, George came from Wentworth, about 50 miles from Knaresborough so it is unlikely that he knew John in Yorkshire. (He was also about 13 years older than John) Having their Yorkshire roots in common, though, may have led to a friendship between George and John and may have led to John being introduced by George to Jane.
Witnesses to the marriage: James Kidgers and Margaret Swan (Margaret being Jane's sister)
I had wondered if there had been other children of the marriage, though my grandmother's apparent concern to visit the grave of her sister suggested not. Whilst Inman is a common name in Yorkshire, it was not common 'down south', but with the family living in London there were too many Inman births to be sure, without a mother's maiden name in indexes. With the introdution of this in the new GRO online index (new in Nov 2016) it seems there were no others. (Searching from 1871-1895, but the quality does leave something to be desired; there is no sign of the birth of their son John)
Certificate for the marriage of John Inman to Jane Swan
Actual PR entry (i.e. with original signatures) can be viewed on AncestryChildren3 children Photos 
John Inman and his first wife Jane Inman nee Swan (my great grandparents)
Unmarked but believed to be this couple by older family members - none of whom would have known Jane but who would have remembered JohnLast Modified 19 Oct 2018 Family ID F49 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- GRO ref: SWAN, Jane q1 1844 London RD 2 215; GRO online index shows mother's maiden name as Field