SWAN, John (1811-1891) — Manchester
Engraver, lithographer & printer; Baptist minister. Lithographed William Wright, Wright’s plan and specification herein given, consists of an improvement of those parts of the towns of both Manchester and Salford, that are situated on the confines of the River Irwell ca.1850.
Born in Scotland 8 Mar 1811, at Kilninver & Kilmelford, Argyll, the son of Archibald Swan (1777-1862), a farmer, and his wife Ann Campbell, who had married in 1803. Married Eliza Macbeth (1807-1887), the daughter of a tailor from Wirksworth in Derbyshire, 17 May 1838 at St. Peter’s Square Presbyterian (Scotch Church), Manchester. Employing two men and living in Stretford with his wife and four children in 1851. His ‘Four lectures on the doctrine, worship, government, and discipline, of the church of God’ was published in 1859 and by 1861 he had become the minister at Dobbs Lane Baptist Chapel, Yaxley, Derbyshire. In 1871 he was recorded as an occasional Baptist preacher and land-owner at Stockton Heath in Cheshire. He had retired by 1881, when living with his wife at Radley Hill, Lymm, also in Cheshire. He died there 8 May 1891. His will was proved by a daughter and her husband 7 Jul 1891, his personal estate initially declared at £668.9s.9d, and later increased to £908.12s.9d.
Crown Street, Salford — 1838
78 King Street, Manchester — 1841
63 King Street, Manchester — 1841-1848
— 88 York Street, Hulme (home) — 1841
65 King Street, Manchester — 1850-1853
— 5 Abbey Grove, Chapman Street, Hulme (home) — 1850
— 12 Clifford Street, Stretford (home) — 1851-1853
BBTI. Census 1841-1891. LHD.