Biography of Doris SWINNERTON
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Biography of Doris SWINNERTON
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Doris Swinnerton was born on 30 July 1908 at 101 Ponsonby Street in Liverpool which would remain the family home. Being a two-up-and-two-down terraced house was becoming very cramped, especially when sleeping for which they would 'top to tail'. She was listed with the family when the census of 1911 was taken.
Doris was the first of her siblings to attend Granby Street school and she played hockey there. She was in the Princes Gate gymnastics club with her sister Edie. Doris was described as very good looking and a shaving a lovely nature. She liked dancing as did her siblings and her brother Norman would chaperone her.
Doris married Thomas Alexander McClure on 29 August 1936 at St.James' Chapel in Much Woolton, Liverpool, on 9 September 1936. Beatrice (Bee) Smith was bridesmaid and a witness at the wedding. Doris' occupation was given as Shorthand Typist.
In the General Register taken in 1939, They were living at 98 Ince Avenue. Son Alexander Anthony was born in Walton Hospital on 18 December 1940. There was an air raid in progress and the hospital was hit by a bomb and caught fire. Doris could not be evacuated so her son was born under a bed where they were sheltering.
Doris contracted menagitis six months later and, as a consequence, died at her home in Neston on 30 June 1941. She was cremated and her ashes scattered at Landican Cemetery in Birkenhead.
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