George Edward Longbottom

  General Notes:

This couple started married life in Little Preston and baptised their fir st three children in Swillington. They had shifted back to Kippax by 19 05 when they are recorded at Station Lane. This becomes Station Road in 19 08 and Orchard House, Station Road in 1916.

1891 Census RG12/3880 Great & Little Preston : George E. Longbottom, 23, C oal Miner, Clara 23 - born in Kippax

1901 Census RG13/4432 Swillington : Ratten Row, George E. Longbottom 33, c oal miner, born in Allerton Bywater, Clara 33 born in Kippax, William 7, b orn in Swillington, Annie 3, born in Leeds, Edgar 1 born in Swillington

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Coal Miner.

George married Clara Wilson, daughter of William Wilson and Ann Hick, on 28 Feb 1891 in St Mary & St Nicholas, Kippax, Yorkshire England. (Clara Wilson was born on 25 Aug 1868 in Kippax, Leeds, West Yorkshire England.)