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Where did the Irish Swain family come from? What is the Irish Swain family crest and coat of arms? When did the Swain family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Swain family history?
Irish names tend to vary widely in their spelling and overall form. The original Gaelic form of the name Swain is Mac Suibhne, which is derived from the word "suibhne," which means "pleasant."
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Pronunciation, rather than spelling, guided scribes and church officials when recording names during the Middle Ages. This practice often resulted in one person's name being recorded under several different spellings. Numerous spelling variations of the surname Swain are preserved in these old documents. The various spellings of the name that were found include MacSweeney, MacSweeny, MacSwine, MacSwiney, MacSwyne, MacSwyny, MacWhinney, MacWhinny, MacWhinnie, MacSwiny, McSweeney, Swiney, Swinney and many more.First found in County Donegal. The name is derived from Suibhne O'Neill, who was a chieftain in Argyll, Scotland. His descendants migrated to Ireland as gallowglasses (mercenaries) prior to 1267. The three great septs of this name finally established themselves in Tirconnell in 14th century; they were known as MacSweeney Fanad, MacSweeney Banagh, and MacSweeney na dTuath, who were commonly referred to as 'MacSweeney of the Battleaxes.' They later became attached to the MacCarthys in the south and acquired their own territories and castles in Muskerry in County Cork.
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This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Swain research. Another 386 words(28 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Swain History in all our PDF Extended History products.
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This is a small excerpt from our full listing of settlers for the name Swain. Our PDF Extended History provide the complete listing from our dbase of over 500,000 settlers!
A massive amount of Ireland's native population left the island in the 19th century for North America and Australia in hopes of finding more opportunities and an escape from discrimination and oppression. A great portion of these migrants arrived on the eastern shores of the North American continent. Although they were generally poor and destitute, and, therefore, again discriminated against, these Irish people were heartily welcomed for the hard labor involved in the construction of railroads, canals, roadways, and buildings. Many others were put to work in the newly established factories or agricultural projects that were so essential to the development of what would become two of the wealthiest nations in the world. The Great Potato Famine during the late 1840s initiated the largest wave of Iris immigration. Early North American immigration and passenger lists have revealed a number of people bearing the name Swain or a variant listed above:
Swain Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century
- Jeremy Swain, who arrived in Charlestown, Mass in 1638
- Richard Swain, who landed in Boston, Mass in 1638
- Francis Swain, who landed in New England in 1645
- James Swain, aged 21, arrived in Jamaica in 1684
- Robert Swain, who landed in New England in 1684
Swain Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
- John Swain, who landed in Nantucket, Mass in 1703
- Eleanor Swain, who arrived in Virginia in 1715
- William Swain, who landed in America in 1760-1763
Swain Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- Charles Swain, who landed in Mississippi in 1842
- John, Swain, who landed in Mississippi in 1842
- James H Swain, who landed in Mississippi in 1842
- Isaac Swain, who arrived in Mobile, Ala in 1850
- J M Swain, who landed in San Francisco, Cal in 1851
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- Dominique Ariane Swain (b. 1980), American film actress
- Louisa Ann Swain (1801-1880), the first woman to vote in a general election in the United States
- Brett Andrew Swain (b. 1985), American NFL football wide receiver
- David Lowry Swain (1801-1868), 26th Governor of North Carolina (1832 to 1835)
- Mack Swain (1876-1935), American actor and vaudevillian
- Richard Swain (b. 1975), New Zealand rugby league player
- Diana Swain (b. 1965), Canadian CBC television journalist
- Gladys Swain (1945-1993), French psychiatrist, best remembered today for her book Le subject de la folie (1977)
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- John Quigg, Jr. (1779-1814), Immigrant 1802, His Ancestors and Descendants by Sylvia Cecilia Fuson Ferguson.
- Old European Progenitors and Mayflower Ancestors of the A.T.F. and Mary Swain Fuller Family by Jean Fuller Butler.
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- Robb H. Amanda and Andrew Chesler. Encyclopedia of American Family Names. New York: Haper Collins, 1995. Print. (ISBN 0-06-270075-8).
- Land Owners in Ireland. Genealogical Publishing. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-1203-3).
- Matthews, John. Matthews' American Armoury and Blue Book. London: John Matthews, 1911. Print.
- Fitzgerald, Thomas W. Ireland and Her People A Library of Irish Biography 5 Volumes. Chicago: Fitzgerald. Print.
- Skordas, Guest. Ed. The Early Settlers of Maryland an Index to Names or Immigrants Complied from Records of Land Patents 1633-1680 in the Hall of Records Annapolis, Maryland. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992. Print.
- Harris, Ruth-Ann and B. Emer O'Keefe. The Search for Missing Friends Irish Immigrant Advertisements Placed in the Boston Pilot Volume II 1851-1853. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1991. Print.
- Hickey, D.J. and J.E. Doherty. A New Dictionary of Irish History form 1800 2nd Edition. Dublin: Gil & MacMillian, 2003. Print.
- McDonnell, Frances. Emigrants from Ireland to America 1735-1743 A Transcription of the report of the Irish House of Commons into Enforced emigration to America. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-1331-5).
- Weis, Frederick Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard and David Faris. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650 7th Edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0806313676).
- Browning, Charles H. Americans of Royal Descent. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing. Print.
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The Swain Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Swain Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.
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