tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65360161860924069112024-03-13T15:04:19.198-07:00Swinfield BlogNews, information and stories about Swinfields worldwide.Geoff Swinfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04831517940388882786noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536016186092406911.post-43155757217850261022023-12-30T05:34:00.000-08:002024-01-01T01:39:44.397-08:00Happy 2024 to all Swinfields<p> A very Happy New Year for 2024 to all Swinfields wherever
you may be! </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">As we end 2023, we think back on what has happened in this
past year. Of course, we had to say goodbye to members of our families. I am aware
of three Swinfields who all passed away in September. One was Jeanette (nee
Morgan) born in 1937, the widow of Derek Swinfield (1935-2021) of Family 3. The
other two were William “Bill” Swinfield, born 1946, and Reginald “Reg” Swinfield,
my own father, born in early 1925, both of Family 5. </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">I wrote about my Dad’s life and career in a <a href="https://swinfieldblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/reginald-ernest-swinfield.html">Blog of January 2015</a>. Since 2008 he has lived in a care home and has three great-grandchildren,
Lexia, Reggie and Vinnie. When he died, he was the oldest Swinfield in the World,
then being 98. That mantle, as far as I’m aware, has now passed to Arthur Henry
Swinfield of Family 3, who was born in July 1928. If anyone can advise me
otherwise, I would love to know. If you would like to add a Blog of the life of
any of your recent ancestors, please send me the basic information and I will
put in together for you. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Of course, these losses will have been replaced by new members
of our family through the babies born during 2023. If there have been any that
you know of, again I am always delighted to hear about them. Again, tell me please.</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">During the second half of this year, I have been revisiting
the four main Swinfield pedigrees that I have compiled over the past five decades
since I started researching the family’s history in 1972. I have been adding the
information about our ancestors and relatives that can be found in the decennial
census returns of England and Wales for 1841 to 1921 and in the 1939 Register. This
includes addresses where they lived, occupations, relationships, ages, and
places of birth. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzHZJbt0H4ImkAIpgoO_Z6bONKLz3EVMK12zOeYUsUn5ExZHGkmaUL5mGR8Gdiw-oa98XDTKVbCqT2HfUMe6W61892t-s-BTAtOQIOTDWV0F-s_h3I0Ec-zKLOUmEDsnp5rGywuw0tGJ1FY7Qv2-sI_VJ70nhjfbaB1Fjg598l_ImigZ2mkCtDpSyYSw/s2922/1911%20John%20Anthony%20Swinfield.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="711" data-original-width="2922" height="98" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzHZJbt0H4ImkAIpgoO_Z6bONKLz3EVMK12zOeYUsUn5ExZHGkmaUL5mGR8Gdiw-oa98XDTKVbCqT2HfUMe6W61892t-s-BTAtOQIOTDWV0F-s_h3I0Ec-zKLOUmEDsnp5rGywuw0tGJ1FY7Qv2-sI_VJ70nhjfbaB1Fjg598l_ImigZ2mkCtDpSyYSw/w400-h98/1911%20John%20Anthony%20Swinfield.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1911 census of 40 Parry Street, Leicester, for John Anthony Swinfield (1878-1964) and his family</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>For 1921, it even tells us who they worked for: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX4MUNdBZ7ZejhaRFboeCki8z8Mw3qreWpmdGeAdmGbPzq3m9Z81YKh6oOq9am4IcSEu_t5Ay76lXH5OURjZNiiRc6896VsMgNfwg7y55QTkpLeyemd-YYng6FyOIWT_LMVewRBhVyGTJQBUI7kJgKsYMO24wa0wgF8jQG0y8TdwpBLTdd0nBg-AGY2w/s5185/John%20Anthony%20GBC_1921_RG15_15068_0233%20(1)%20-%20done.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1732" data-original-width="5185" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX4MUNdBZ7ZejhaRFboeCki8z8Mw3qreWpmdGeAdmGbPzq3m9Z81YKh6oOq9am4IcSEu_t5Ay76lXH5OURjZNiiRc6896VsMgNfwg7y55QTkpLeyemd-YYng6FyOIWT_LMVewRBhVyGTJQBUI7kJgKsYMO24wa0wgF8jQG0y8TdwpBLTdd0nBg-AGY2w/w400-h134/John%20Anthony%20GBC_1921_RG15_15068_0233%20(1)%20-%20done.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1921 census of 40 Parry Street, Leicester, </span>f<span style="font-size: x-small;">or John Anthony Swinfield (1878-1964) and his family</span></blockquote><p><br /></p></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAuiN89-fxo7QTurBnBxH30SpS3twMgSZtolMaTEHJdfkDXy5l3mLPbkFlMYy7ghGPnkMmpRCrmkc0JQ7S1G1o7SQCXXvf5sYOE55t-HBQ0kQFTSilW30eGlrgjAz0LrQF_40QDnxvuNUQZbTErdhe4t1pvobXVbGQtGsj3OmoLzTKx3IxgfUFSNpGrQ/s3309/8%20John%20Anthony%20Swinfield.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="3309" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAuiN89-fxo7QTurBnBxH30SpS3twMgSZtolMaTEHJdfkDXy5l3mLPbkFlMYy7ghGPnkMmpRCrmkc0JQ7S1G1o7SQCXXvf5sYOE55t-HBQ0kQFTSilW30eGlrgjAz0LrQF_40QDnxvuNUQZbTErdhe4t1pvobXVbGQtGsj3OmoLzTKx3IxgfUFSNpGrQ/w400-h149/8%20John%20Anthony%20Swinfield.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1939 Register for 8 Uppingham Road, Leicester, for John Anthony Swinfield (1878-1964) <br />and his wife Amelia (Penn) (1878-1953)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAuiN89-fxo7QTurBnBxH30SpS3twMgSZtolMaTEHJdfkDXy5l3mLPbkFlMYy7ghGPnkMmpRCrmkc0JQ7S1G1o7SQCXXvf5sYOE55t-HBQ0kQFTSilW30eGlrgjAz0LrQF_40QDnxvuNUQZbTErdhe4t1pvobXVbGQtGsj3OmoLzTKx3IxgfUFSNpGrQ/s3309/8%20John%20Anthony%20Swinfield.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><p class="MsoNoSpacing">Unfortunately,
the equivalent censuses for Australia do not exist.</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">This information for your part of the family can now be seen
on the Swinfield family trees on the Ancestry website through these links:</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/tree/165927401" target="_blank">Swinfield Family 1 & 4A</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/tree/167179706" target="_blank">Swinfield Family 5 & 2</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/tree/166006600" target="_blank">Swinfield Family 3 & 4</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/tree/167088828" target="_blank">Swinfield Family 12</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Once you are on the relevant family tree, "Tree search" for or "find" the deceased
person whose information you seek. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Also, there have been suggestions that it’s time for another
Swinfield Gathering to take place in England this year. The last one was held
at Barwell, Leicestershire, in September 2015. Is it now time to meet again, nine
years later? What do you think? Would you like to come along? Let me know your thoughts. <span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">E-mail: <a href="mailto:geoffswinfield@gmail.com">geoffswinfield@gmail.com</a> </span></span>Geoff Swinfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04831517940388882786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536016186092406911.post-84781885429747287202022-06-21T07:05:00.002-07:002022-06-21T07:07:26.757-07:00Swinfield Family 3A has a new source of genealogical information <p><span style="font-family: times;">H<span style="font-size: 12pt;">aving conducted research in the
history of the Swinfield family for 50 years, since I began my study in 1972, I
thought that I knew of all the main sources of information which are available
for its investigation. You never should say that there is nothing else to look
at! </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Recently, I became aware, during recent online correspondence with Linda Swinfield of New South Wales, of a privately-printed work which includes a very significant account of the genealogy of the branch of the family which I call Swinfield Family 3A. The book is entitled </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">Caroline Eleanor
Burrows/Ferrier nee Meredith 1813-1893 Burrows Descendents</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> and was compiled
and produced by Val Ferrier of Waratah in 2000. Why did this contain such a
wealth of information about those called Swinfield, especially the branch that
has lived in New South Wales from the mid 19th to the end of the 20th century?</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Val's quest was to identify the
descendants of Caroline Meredith, who was born on 17</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> November 1813
in Sydney, NSW, as the daughter of Frederick Meredith and his wife, Sarah Mason,
who he married in 1811. Frederick was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Fleet">First Fleet</a> as a steward on the “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_(1782_ship)">Scarborough</a>”
arriving in Sydney on 26th January 1788. He eventually became the first Chief Constable of
the Sydney Police and died there in 1836. There is a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/58060176063">Facebook Group</a> where his descendants engage in discussion of his family's history. In an attempt to locate branches of Caroline’s descent, from the 16 children that she had by her two
husbands, John Burrows (1794-1859) and Frederick Robert Ferrier (1813-1882), she sent out many “information sheets” on which living relatives could
provide their genealogical information. She then compiled a spiral bound book of 236
pages of text, photographs and pedigrees just for the Burrows descendants.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The fifth section of this epic
work, pages 177-235, recounts the descendants of the seventh of the eight children
who Eleanor had by John Burrows. That was Ellen Sophia (1840-1890) who was to
marry John Swinfield (1838-1903) on 25</span><sup>th </sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;">June 1858 at St Andrews
Scots Church, Sydney. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3uJzifLK3QhRLPreMCWKEphPnnI6sIV5-vurU7O7ASNn8maI7cPMUKC7L3ikS8kU9kqzN7l6bsG87XeyjnW7FgwCxcCYtgKRG5JHBXUPUWYlCKyh47rdscDFNbBWfNsYYelEIkBW4LerwtILJkOuoT7kbC1G4qOOr4QnD9_XnddYA2MleOoYKJQE/s1080/1856%20marriage%20John%20Swinfield%20-%20cropped%20.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="1080" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3uJzifLK3QhRLPreMCWKEphPnnI6sIV5-vurU7O7ASNn8maI7cPMUKC7L3ikS8kU9kqzN7l6bsG87XeyjnW7FgwCxcCYtgKRG5JHBXUPUWYlCKyh47rdscDFNbBWfNsYYelEIkBW4LerwtILJkOuoT7kbC1G4qOOr4QnD9_XnddYA2MleOoYKJQE/w400-h194/1856%20marriage%20John%20Swinfield%20-%20cropped%20.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1858 marriage of John Swinfield & Ellen Sophia Burrows</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">John had arrived on <a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Walmer_Castle%2C_Immigrant_Voyage_to_New_South_Wales_1848">30</a></span><sup><a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Walmer_Castle%2C_Immigrant_Voyage_to_New_South_Wales_1848">th</a></sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Walmer_Castle%2C_Immigrant_Voyage_to_New_South_Wales_1848"> December 1848</a> aboard
the “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmer_Castle_(1836_ship)">Walmer Castle</a>” as the 10 year-old son of William Swinfield (1804-1876) and
his step-mother Sarah (Williamson) (1816-1861). </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOtUN6HHevjVe56Hl2mOveUozGz7rbbWfjnc-zlQRH-Kh9QnasUN6JTSw-82RKDFKVPca38QJPsxqMLfnyuVxpa-x2W8XsvYPH62iH0Tx8vLby1dRzw-DKZ4kvTLAzwn1z2TAHmu_60aabBVUqn-oWL9xkSnyrYWcftI3Oft9pB8qKIj9l2WlAjHQ/s1520/Walmer%20Castle%20passengers%201848%20-%20cropped.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="941" data-original-width="1520" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOtUN6HHevjVe56Hl2mOveUozGz7rbbWfjnc-zlQRH-Kh9QnasUN6JTSw-82RKDFKVPca38QJPsxqMLfnyuVxpa-x2W8XsvYPH62iH0Tx8vLby1dRzw-DKZ4kvTLAzwn1z2TAHmu_60aabBVUqn-oWL9xkSnyrYWcftI3Oft9pB8qKIj9l2WlAjHQ/w400-h248/Walmer%20Castle%20passengers%201848%20-%20cropped.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">John Swinfield arriving in 1848 with his family<br />(NSW State Archives: NRS5316/4_4786)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">John had been born at Hartshill
in Warwickshire, England, on 22</span><sup>nd</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> July 1838. His mother Sarah
(Ballard) had died in 1845. John and Ellen Sophia Swinfield had ten children of
their own, born from 1858 to 1879 in Sydney.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Three of their issue died as
infants and although two of their other children grew up and married, they had
no issue who survived infancy. Of the five children, whose living descendants
are documented in Val’s book, four were sons. Those were Henry Swinfield (1858-1923),
Albert William (1866-1934), Arthur Thomas (1868-1917) and James Ernest
(1871-1923). All have living Swinfield lines of descent.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS--9BLhuo3GuJlHGuNTOOuJ4XsIolsYsOTuc51eGmFWVA1F31pjWvqxh83mhPDhKhq8naAgniSuBCmZy6O0Z5MOJYUrGHP3QJBH6m3MqYhVtLMl7aGU5sL5RV6s2xQrN_J2aavv7-pTvv9nErVDYewogzgKRVDHW5QYsrurE6zW4CFXMAxCr4tpg/s3264/Val%20Ferrier's%20book%20-%20text.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS--9BLhuo3GuJlHGuNTOOuJ4XsIolsYsOTuc51eGmFWVA1F31pjWvqxh83mhPDhKhq8naAgniSuBCmZy6O0Z5MOJYUrGHP3QJBH6m3MqYhVtLMl7aGU5sL5RV6s2xQrN_J2aavv7-pTvv9nErVDYewogzgKRVDHW5QYsrurE6zW4CFXMAxCr4tpg/w320-h240/Val%20Ferrier's%20book%20-%20text.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQSZ5CeLZhIoD-0EpMaPXFcKDHLrjAnWQxUEqQSGhi3315KF7eppw_sDW_Hukr_nVHl8cWeFdcuMLacgd2SfT8_8vZykZMoouLfSzeHEd9cAoHzWW8JGv-Tw3_vtYse7RfHsWuysCgPS_-9yuwI0DPJCD2dpWxZcFE0C34-h6i7hDTQRCdt68GeIA/s3264/Val%20Ferrier's%20book%20-%20pedigree.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQSZ5CeLZhIoD-0EpMaPXFcKDHLrjAnWQxUEqQSGhi3315KF7eppw_sDW_Hukr_nVHl8cWeFdcuMLacgd2SfT8_8vZykZMoouLfSzeHEd9cAoHzWW8JGv-Tw3_vtYse7RfHsWuysCgPS_-9yuwI0DPJCD2dpWxZcFE0C34-h6i7hDTQRCdt68GeIA/w300-h400/Val%20Ferrier's%20book%20-%20pedigree.jpg" width="300" /></a><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWcN9c73JPr7YcWNmkm03bNyhqYRp_0dNzXRkiswl5I-mSh4wWY_iSBcfu6a8C8zQXnV1rrxh5m8d86rQoz0G6k-q04KZJYZhNJBPggqbgSXqeSndDGA2f5jBee76cWLKsYqEGZ7DBPu2-FJZ3rE6OvKmWUTXoTQnIIFP152eU01zq7ibd9NpR7JU/s3264/Val%20Ferrier's%20book%20-%20photograph.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWcN9c73JPr7YcWNmkm03bNyhqYRp_0dNzXRkiswl5I-mSh4wWY_iSBcfu6a8C8zQXnV1rrxh5m8d86rQoz0G6k-q04KZJYZhNJBPggqbgSXqeSndDGA2f5jBee76cWLKsYqEGZ7DBPu2-FJZ3rE6OvKmWUTXoTQnIIFP152eU01zq7ibd9NpR7JU/w240-h320/Val%20Ferrier's%20book%20-%20photograph.jpg" width="240" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWcN9c73JPr7YcWNmkm03bNyhqYRp_0dNzXRkiswl5I-mSh4wWY_iSBcfu6a8C8zQXnV1rrxh5m8d86rQoz0G6k-q04KZJYZhNJBPggqbgSXqeSndDGA2f5jBee76cWLKsYqEGZ7DBPu2-FJZ3rE6OvKmWUTXoTQnIIFP152eU01zq7ibd9NpR7JU/s3264/Val%20Ferrier's%20book%20-%20photograph.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"><br /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWcN9c73JPr7YcWNmkm03bNyhqYRp_0dNzXRkiswl5I-mSh4wWY_iSBcfu6a8C8zQXnV1rrxh5m8d86rQoz0G6k-q04KZJYZhNJBPggqbgSXqeSndDGA2f5jBee76cWLKsYqEGZ7DBPu2-FJZ3rE6OvKmWUTXoTQnIIFP152eU01zq7ibd9NpR7JU/s3264/Val%20Ferrier's%20book%20-%20photograph.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"><br /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWcN9c73JPr7YcWNmkm03bNyhqYRp_0dNzXRkiswl5I-mSh4wWY_iSBcfu6a8C8zQXnV1rrxh5m8d86rQoz0G6k-q04KZJYZhNJBPggqbgSXqeSndDGA2f5jBee76cWLKsYqEGZ7DBPu2-FJZ3rE6OvKmWUTXoTQnIIFP152eU01zq7ibd9NpR7JU/s3264/Val%20Ferrier's%20book%20-%20photograph.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"><br /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWcN9c73JPr7YcWNmkm03bNyhqYRp_0dNzXRkiswl5I-mSh4wWY_iSBcfu6a8C8zQXnV1rrxh5m8d86rQoz0G6k-q04KZJYZhNJBPggqbgSXqeSndDGA2f5jBee76cWLKsYqEGZ7DBPu2-FJZ3rE6OvKmWUTXoTQnIIFP152eU01zq7ibd9NpR7JU/s3264/Val%20Ferrier's%20book%20-%20photograph.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">NSW has no publically-available census for the 20</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
century as I referred to in my <a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.com/2022/06/a-census-of-england-and-wales-has-been.html">blog about the 1921 census</a> of England and Wales.
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This lack of data can be supplemented by
some information found in the <a href="https://www.ryersonindex.org/">Ryerson Index</a> of newspaper obituaries and death
announcements. If the family can be contacted, and I am in contact with
representatives of many NSW families, they can, of course, help with vital
information about the more recent generations.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">The
most important new information concerns the descendants who were born after
1921. 1921 is the latest year which can currently be searched through the online
state <a href="https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au/lifelink/familyhistory/search/births?2">birth index for NSW</a>. The limitation is due to a 100 year confidentiality
regulation. In the absence of the birth index information from 1922 to the
present, clues from the <a href="https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au/lifelink/familyhistory/search/marriages?4">marriage index</a>, which are now available to as late as
1971, and the <a href="https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au/lifelink/familyhistory/search/deaths?6">death index</a> which can be searched to 1991, it is almost
impossible to build trees to the present-day</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Now that we have access to the
wealth of information gleaned and compiled by Val Ferrier to as late as 2000,
this reveals other Swinfield lines of descents through those people who were born in the last
eight decades of the 20</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> century where an “information sheet” was
completed and returned. All the new names, dates and places have now been added
to my databases and the pedigree for Swinfield Family 3A. Thank you Linda and Val!</span></span></p>Geoff Swinfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04831517940388882786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536016186092406911.post-63524819353311609892022-06-15T04:17:00.003-07:002022-06-15T04:31:44.889-07:00Ray Swinfield (1939-2019) <p><span style="font-family: times;">O<span style="font-size: 12pt;">n the morning of Friday, 17</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> June 2022, an
auction will take place at </span><a href="https://www.gardinerhoulgate.co.uk/" style="font-size: 12pt;">Gardiner Houlgate</a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> at Corsham in Wiltshire of the musical
instruments of the pre-eminent jazz flute player, Ray Swinfield (1939-2019). 38
lots, numbered 1611-1648 in the </span><a href="https://auctions.gardinerhoulgate.co.uk/catalogue/257cd3b56b3c9a90bd7673747e9dde97/63b778f7668dabe928d3800924a99077/musical-instruments/?currentPageNo=2" style="font-size: 12pt;">sale catalogue</a><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, are his collection being sold by
his widow Lindy.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">I was contacted by Lindy Burrows Swinfield in August
2021 to share family history information about her late husband. Ray had died in
October 2019 in London where he had lived since he first visited in 1964. Lindy
had written an obituary of husband which was published in <a href="https://londonjazznews.com/2019/10/23/r-i-p-ray-swinfield-14-dec-1939-4-oct-2019-in-tribute/">London Jazz News on 15<sup>th</sup>
June 2022</a>. As can be seen, he played with all the greats of jazz music. He also
worked on many film soundtracks, commercials, TV and West End shows and pop music
recordings. <a href="https://www.wiltshirelive.co.uk/news/wiltshire-news/jazz-flute-featured-tvs-mr-7177205">Two of his most popular claims to fame</a> are that he played on the 1967
Beatles song <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Lane">Penny Lane</a> as well as on the much-repeated childrens’ TV programme
<a href="https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/february/mr-benn/">Mr Benn</a>, originally of 1971-1972. </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0bGmGuw8UsDy6lyOCnv-tu_tdTSBaJ_JZ2aaOsWrrkYP12WEXvHenfvmPbiS4q_yPq3lM3U5kLQIE2lIBLkaGkNwYKIcF1IzZx6g0mvJ1Gv4_VDsLxXL0zkljYKY6jT8OpGBcek9PXoXg2_razqxbfq6rFPnmWag9tJWXjhDDI_-kLKx6i_FAPWc/s119/Ray%20Swinfield%20(1939-2019).jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="119" data-original-width="119" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0bGmGuw8UsDy6lyOCnv-tu_tdTSBaJ_JZ2aaOsWrrkYP12WEXvHenfvmPbiS4q_yPq3lM3U5kLQIE2lIBLkaGkNwYKIcF1IzZx6g0mvJ1Gv4_VDsLxXL0zkljYKY6jT8OpGBcek9PXoXg2_razqxbfq6rFPnmWag9tJWXjhDDI_-kLKx6i_FAPWc/w200-h200/Ray%20Swinfield%20(1939-2019).jpg" width="200" /></a></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Ray was born on 14</span><sup>th</sup> December 1939 in Sydney, NSW, Australia as the only child of Raymond
Walter Swinfield (1912-1984) and Gertrude Brigid (Murphy) (1907-1995). His
grandparents married at Balmain and later lived in the Leichardt area of Sydney
where they had their five children. As such, Ray junior was the
great-great-great-grandson of William Swinfield (1804-1876), who arrived in
Sydney on 30<sup>th</sup> December 1848. As such, he was the progenitor of the NSW line of Swinfields
who still live there today. He had arrived from Warwickshire with his family
aboard the “Walmer Castle”.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">On looking back through my much earlier correspondence
with other Swinfields in the 1970s and 1980s, I found that I had first heard
from Ray back in 1973/4 in response to a circular that I had sent to all
Swinfields listed in the English telephone directories. He then lived in
Kingston upon Thames and was able to provide a brief outline of his pedigree which
he had gleaned from his father who still lived in Australia. Later Ray wrote
again in January 1988. As Lindy had told me, Ray was very interested in his
family’s history! Ray was able to provide me with a fairly detailed outline of
his family’s story which had been sent to Ray’s widowed mother “Dot” or “Dollie”
and Raymond junior in late 1987 by his uncle Arthur Norman Swinfield (1905-2000).
Ray’s mother had moved to live with her son in Kingston after the death of her
husband in Sydney in 1984. Both his father and uncle have <a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.com/p/monumental-incriptions.html">commemorative plaques</a> in Australian cemeteries.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Besides Lindy Jennifer Burrows, whom Ray married in
1996 in his native Australia, he had previously been married in 1970 in the Merton
Registration District of south London to a widow whose maiden name was Rosemarie
Hood. Through her he gained a step-daughter, Caroline Angela Louise McDonald-Peattie,
who had been born in 1964. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Ray Swinfield died on 4<sup>th</sup> October 2019
after a long battle over two decades against the debilitating diseases of
Parkinson’s and later Dementia. He had played his last musical note in public,
ironically, on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson_(TV_series)">Parkinson</a> TV show in 2007. </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>Geoff Swinfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04831517940388882786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536016186092406911.post-13807608554971693682022-06-14T07:21:00.002-07:002022-06-14T07:25:39.863-07:00How many Swinfields were there in 1921? A census of England and Wales has been taken every ten years since 1801. In the first four censuses, those of 1801 to 1831, the government was only interested in obtaining a headcount of how many people were living, divided up by sex and age groups. Occasionally the enumerators recorded the name of the head of each household. <div><br /></div><div>In 1841, for the first time, the names of all those in the two countries were to be recorded in the household where they were on the night of the 6th June. Their occupation, if any, was stated and the age of adults was generally "rounded down" to the nearest five-year interval. Those of children under 15 were stated “accurately”. For those born in England and Wales, the question was asked "was this person born in this county?" to which the answer was either yes or no. </div><div><br /></div><div>Every ten years, from 1851 to 1911, the census in very late March or the first week of April, with the information compiled being recorded into enumerators' books for each census district. This varied from census to census. Generally, for all those residing in each household, we learn their relationship to the head of the household, marital status, age in years, or perhaps months, weeks or even days in the case of new-born babies, occupation and place of birth, usually expressed as the county and parish, hamlet or sometimes even a street. In 1911, for the first time, each householder completed and signed their own return. He or she was required to state, in the case of a married couple, how long their union had lasted, how many children it had produced and the number who were then living or had died. In more recent years, the censuses have been made available by the <a href="https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/">National Archives</a> (TNA) for public inspection and research after their 100th anniversary. </div><div><br /></div><div>Earlier this year, the enumeration taken in 1921 was released and can now be searched by name index and the householder’s return viewed on the <a href="https://www.findmypast.co.uk/1921-census">Find My Past (FMP)</a> website. Currently, it is only available on a pay-for-view basis although it can be seen free of change at TNA. The information seen is very similar to that recorded in 1911 but, in addition, where someone was working for an employer, that company or individual will be named. Of course, this is a very valuable resource for any family historian or genealogist who is seeking vital information about someone who was living in England or Wales in 1921. The census, which was originally to have been taken in late April, was delayed until 19th June due to the general social and industrial unrest of that year. </div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMcHgDBu-LCZKtNBR2CODTmSPiRg9uG_p5D3lDzyB_9vtVtBtFHaVl1KwP7wYv5EhwWrDiAYP5AbMbE7uFmxx2ychUkjlTSWhp1_c70p02sFMYRAMkHIpoKigetbN54GoHn3jTzsExdqlzf3ud3fnhDzw-SVe62trENJJSN5zJrY-6AKsC3Bg2nAk/s6510/John%20Swinfield%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3008" data-original-width="6510" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMcHgDBu-LCZKtNBR2CODTmSPiRg9uG_p5D3lDzyB_9vtVtBtFHaVl1KwP7wYv5EhwWrDiAYP5AbMbE7uFmxx2ychUkjlTSWhp1_c70p02sFMYRAMkHIpoKigetbN54GoHn3jTzsExdqlzf3ud3fnhDzw-SVe62trENJJSN5zJrY-6AKsC3Bg2nAk/w586-h296/John%20Swinfield%20(1).jpg" width="586" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1921 census of 67 Deburgh Road, Wimbledon, London S.W. 19 (RG15/3622, schd. 304<br /> for John and Mary Swinfield and their four children </td></tr></tbody></table> </div><div>How many Swinfields were enumerated in that year? Using the name index provided by FMP, together with some inventive use of searching techniques, it has been possible so far to locate and identify: </div><div><br /></div><div> 152 people indexed as Swinfield </div><div> 20 people identified as Swinfield-Wells or Swinford-Wells </div><div> 29 people who have now been positively identified as Swinfields but have been indexed as: </div><div> Salinfield (4), Sarsfield (6), Scourfield (1), Shinfield (2), Summerfield (6), Sunfield (2), </div><div> Swinford (3), Swinpold (2), Swinsfield (1) and even Thursfield (2) </div><div> In addition, 3 people are indexed as Swingfield but have yet to be identified </div><div><br /></div><div>Of the 104 males, 47 were married men or widowers, 22 were bachelors, 12 were teenage boys and 23 were boys under the age of thirteen. Amongst the 97 females, 48 were married woman or widows, 16 were spinsters over the age of nineteen, 9 were teenagers and 24 were girls who were 12 and younger. </div><div><br /></div><div>In Australia, mainly in New South Wales, the Swinfield surname has found a home since the emigration of two married brothers from Warwickshire with their families in 1848 and 1853.
The first census in Australia was taken of NSW in November 1828. Although many censuses were taken of that colony from 1846 onwards, at five or ten year intervals, until 1881, those were all destroyed by fire in 1882. All Australian colonies held censuses from 1881, every ten years, until after Federation in 1901. The first national census was in 1911. There was a census of the whole country in 1921 and again in 1933, 1947 and 1954. From 1961 onwards, a national census has been taken every 5 years. However, after the compilation of the statistical data, the household information is then destroyed as a matter of privacy. </div><div><br /></div><div>Thus, as there is no surviving 1921 census for NSW, we cannot compare the population of Swinfields from those records. However, an analysis of the online state birth indexes, which are now available to 1921, and the family trees and databases which I have compiled, it would seem that there were 64 Swinfields living there in 1921. There were 35 males with 15 of those being either a married man or widower. There were 3 unmarried men, 8 teenage boys and 9 boys aged from 0 to 12. Of the 29 females, who were then using our surname, 16 were married women or widows, 2 were unmarried adults, 4 teenage girls and 7 girls aged 12 or less. </div><div><br /></div><div>Thus, it can be calculated that the World population of the surname of Swinfield in 1921 was approximately 265.
</div>Geoff Swinfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04831517940388882786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536016186092406911.post-61816156807363832522021-12-24T04:37:00.000-08:002021-12-24T04:37:16.748-08:00Swinfield DNA testing in 2021 <p>During 2021 I have tried to encourage
interest in DNA testing amongst the more senior members of the different parts of
the Swinfield family. This is a very valuable tool for testing the relationships
between people who the genealogical records suggest are connected in a certain
way, joining previously unconnected branches of a family together and even
bridging apparently insurmountable gaps in a genealogy. It is particularly
useful when the identity of one or more parents or grandparents is unknown due
to an illegitimacy or adoption or when the father of a child is not the man
recorded in a genealogical document.</p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="color: black;">I wrote about the theory and practice
of using DNA testing in a One-Name Study in a <a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.com/2019/05/new-dna-tests-for-swinfields.html">Blog of May 2019</a>. As it can be used to learn
more about the make-up and thus the genetic ancestry of either men or women, autosomal
DNA (at-DNA) is ideally suited to testing the accuracy of the Swinfield family
trees and perhaps joining the currently unconnected lines together. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="color: black;">This year, four members of two
of the larger Swinfield lineages have taken autosomal tests with AncestryDNA. They
were chosen as excellent testees as, being amongst the older members of their families,
they will have more Swinfield DNA than their descendants. Where possible, testing
the oldest people in the living generations provides the most information about
how much of the “Swinfield DNA” has been passed down to them and through which
ancestral line. It will also tell them about their ancestors and relations on
many other lines of their ancestry through both their mother and father. The raw
DNA data generated by <a href="https://www.ancestry.co.uk/">AncestryDNA</a> can also be uploaded, if required, to other
testing companies, such as My Heritage and Family Tree DNA, and a third-party
website called GEDMatch to increase the number and range of matches. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="color: black;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqok0BdyR89Hlo8pmFLzd6glUrHzyJOonQR0oswzUyMXBgsQMtIGIp4HAZov1malD5i1M7Je2CDwH88FQ4w0qVbQDI6DcjWqMx74HPU5MiVWonHFj4eBYmtvRV7juUN2k9s-AyZKBRprf9h3VIWtprFwCkWGb_8HDrPXHqVqjg5f4fl_fTeI8IwPA=s3264" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqok0BdyR89Hlo8pmFLzd6glUrHzyJOonQR0oswzUyMXBgsQMtIGIp4HAZov1malD5i1M7Je2CDwH88FQ4w0qVbQDI6DcjWqMx74HPU5MiVWonHFj4eBYmtvRV7juUN2k9s-AyZKBRprf9h3VIWtprFwCkWGb_8HDrPXHqVqjg5f4fl_fTeI8IwPA=w200-h150" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Andrew and Geoff <br />studying the tree of Family 3 at <br />the Swinfield Gathering in 2014</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="color: black;">Three members of Swinfield Family
3 & 4 have been tested in 2021. They are Shirley Margaret Stott Despoja and
Ian George Swinfield, both part of Family 3C, and Andrew John Swinfield, who is
in Family 3A. Shirley, whose mother was a Swinfield, is a particularly
significant and valuable asset to the study as she is perhaps the only living great-granddaughter
of William Swinfield (1804-1876), the emigrant from</span> Warwickshire to Sydney, Australia,
in 1848. He was the founder of the very large Swinfield lineage of New South
Wales named Family 3.</p><p class="MsoBodyText">The “Swinfield DNA”, which has been inherited by
his descendants through two of his three wives, can be identified by those who
have tested today irrespective of the current surname which they now have. That
same DNA will be shared by descendants of his Swinfield relations who remained
in England after 1848. That same DNA is detectable in living descendants
of the lines which come from William’s brother, John Swinfield (1806-1874), who
followed him to NSW in 1853. Although it is probable that he no living descendants
who are now named Swinfield, he was the founder of the large Swinfield Family
4 whose members will have the DNA that he took with him from England. </p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgI4w9VcmtbraRkbxwrWLqgr-M_YRTdoJ7f5L_Dc2aBARwolksvzk4LF4_kjZVdrlnlYbt7RC1SpV9lgwqsS3snvGfydxn0E6rNQ5KyNH04ThYBq5Mc_pVIMG1aqoRMRz5koC1KB51VUZRTE8ZgMi0Sj1jF4gkvdx2KWaPCfBZ2dJshaOWiK__Jlkg=s1024" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgI4w9VcmtbraRkbxwrWLqgr-M_YRTdoJ7f5L_Dc2aBARwolksvzk4LF4_kjZVdrlnlYbt7RC1SpV9lgwqsS3snvGfydxn0E6rNQ5KyNH04ThYBq5Mc_pVIMG1aqoRMRz5koC1KB51VUZRTE8ZgMi0Sj1jF4gkvdx2KWaPCfBZ2dJshaOWiK__Jlkg=w200-h150" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Geoff and Derrick in October 2021</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: black;">The other person, who tested late
in 2021, is Derrick George Joseph Swinfield, my fellow Swinfield family
historian. As part of Swinfield Family 5, he is my genealogical 4<sup>th</sup>
cousin whom I first met in 1972. </span></p><p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="color: black;">His DNA is a very valuable asset to the research
project as he has inherited Swinfield DNA. </span>Sadly I am not his genetic 4<sup>th</sup>
cousin, having received the DNA passed down to me from one Thomas Brown rather than
Thomas Swinfield, the brother of Derrick’s ancestor. I am now busy analysing
his DNA data and matches which is not only providing very useful information
about his Swinfield cousins but also finding him new ancestors and relatives on
many of his other ancestral lines.</p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="color: black;">It would be great to
test other selected older “Swinfields” especially from families that have not
yet given a sample. I would love to have DNA samples from those in Swinfield
Family 1, Family 12 and Family 44 (the Swinfield-Wells line). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Any volunteers in 2022? </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>Geoff Swinfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04831517940388882786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536016186092406911.post-79847956752134235052021-02-16T04:05:00.000-08:002021-02-16T04:05:36.535-08:00A Horse called Swinfield - guest post by Di Swinfield<p>Anyone who has undertaken an in-depth investigation of their
surname (a one-name study) will know that the main method of collecting
information is to search sets of data which are rich in names. The list is
endless but some of the most common ones are birth, marriage and death indexes,
historic censuses, street directories and old newspapers. They are often
available online and when a new source becomes available it is possible to
spend many hours trawling through lists of people who carry the relevant
surname. We recently decided to splash out on a subscription to <a href="https://www.newspapers.com/"><span class="InternetLink">Newspapers.com</span></a>,
thinking that it would give us a lock-down project, ticking off the Swinfields
we already knew about and filling in a few gaps in our research.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Regular readers of this blog will know that Swinfield is an
unusual surname with the biggest clusters in Leicestershire and Warwickshire,
England and New South Wales, Australia. There are hardly any instances in the
USA although the name is often used there as a forename and one of the things
we want to do one day is to document these people more fully and find out why
they were given the name Swinfield. When we searched Newspapers.com for
instances of Swinfield in the USA there were some forename hits, as we had expected, and
we got ready to work through them. What we hadn’t expected was a huge number of
hits about one particular Swinfield who lived in the 1920s and 1930s in New York
and Kentucky. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This Swinfield was a racehorse, a black male thoroughbred
who was foaled in 1927, all racehorses having their official birthday on 1
January. The <a href="https://www.equibase.com/"><span class="InternetLink">Equibase</span></a>
website states that he had 31 outings during a career from 1929 to 1931, with
five wins, eight second and seven third places. He was bred by Walter J Salmon,
a New York real estate investor, and trained at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belmont_Park"><span class="InternetLink">Belmont
Park</span></a> by Pat Dwyer. He appears to have had a fairly successful
career, earning a total of $15,750 and considered at one time to be a hopeful
for the Kentucky Derby. Although he didn’t quite manage that his wins included
the Hilltop Purse at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimlico_Race_Course"><span class="InternetLink">Pimlico</span></a>, Baltimore in April 1930 and the
Claiburne Purse and Homestead Purse at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hialeah_Park_Race_Track"><span class="InternetLink">Hialeah Park</span></a>, Florida, both in early 1931.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">So why was he called Swinfield? Well, there appears to be no
obvious reason, apart from the fact that his sire was called Swinburne. All
genealogists like to see a well drawn and documented pedigree and the racing
world doesn’t disappoint. The <a href="https://www.equineline.com/Free-5X-Pedigree.cfm">Equineline</a> website has a five generation
pedigree showing Swinfield’s male line back through Swinburne to Swynford and
then John o’ Gaunt. We’ve spent many years disentangling human Swinfields from
the posher Swinfords and it seems that the same aspirations to the nobility
apply in the bloodstock world.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSE-LHnMeo0qoXKOv9wUVp9JsyC9bGReJl5yyTMoedPbgW23X5t1CQZeWHdwDtC5zQbtxyvX9AuKgv0CBOKJktNQBOFCHG30KAmoqt8UTXDICGdqTpG1ooZjW9XOZuUNaxJFv5Ux6RxyE/s881/Swinfield%2527s+pedigree.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="881" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSE-LHnMeo0qoXKOv9wUVp9JsyC9bGReJl5yyTMoedPbgW23X5t1CQZeWHdwDtC5zQbtxyvX9AuKgv0CBOKJktNQBOFCHG30KAmoqt8UTXDICGdqTpG1ooZjW9XOZuUNaxJFv5Ux6RxyE/w594-h301/Swinfield%2527s+pedigree.jpg" width="594" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Many of the newspaper reports we found were accompanied by a
grainy photo of the leading horses crossing the finish line but it took a while
of searching before we could find a definite image of our namesake. Here he is
finishing third (but promoted to second after the disqualification of the
second placed horse), wearing number 9 at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havre_de_Grace_Racetrack"><span class="InternetLink">Havre de Grace</span></a>, Maryland on 26 April 1930.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitt7_fQlp0DJICkOqZw-2WDIp_rIvbvsgRnQcz6WK_BEmcf7gYAKAoh2G7f7vX71WH5EWobNzSOeVsReapwgw-XTpPHSy3i3sBaeToNLzUcXs-qWDwQbt4CPN1LyjBL5eLnX_QqDfZIII/s558/Baltimore+Sun+%25283%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="558" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitt7_fQlp0DJICkOqZw-2WDIp_rIvbvsgRnQcz6WK_BEmcf7gYAKAoh2G7f7vX71WH5EWobNzSOeVsReapwgw-XTpPHSy3i3sBaeToNLzUcXs-qWDwQbt4CPN1LyjBL5eLnX_QqDfZIII/w593-h311/Baltimore+Sun+%25283%2529.jpg" width="593" /></a></div><br /><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Geoff Swinfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04831517940388882786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536016186092406911.post-53111268900713002242020-10-24T06:46:00.009-07:002020-11-09T03:34:27.647-08:00 Edith Elizabeth Swinfield (1884-1976)<p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">My
grandmother "Gran", Edith Elizabeth Worsfold, was born on 30th March 1884 at Mayes in
the parish of Warnham in Sussex as the daughter of James Worsfold
(1852-1926) and his wife Mary Baker (1851-1929). They had married on
24th August 1874 in the church of St Nicholas in town of Guildford,
Surrey. James was a domestic servant all of his life, progressing
from footboy in 1871 to groom at his marriage and culminating in
being a coachman by 1881. His career resulted in him moving about in
the south of England wherever he could find employment. After
working at Winchester, Guildford and Tunbridge Wells, by 1880 he was
at Elmswell in Suffolk. Moving on to Warnham with his wife and three
sons, his fourth and fifth children, both daughters, were born there
in 1882 and 1884. Gran was baptised in the parish church on 27th
April 1884.<br /> </span>
</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsMJ4IS3KRHbh52R0hAN-zkjTe86JMJrA7_Te2WjAt12-N7YD9ZG7xQKl0I7-fPjogu2jTzoqXkAZwmM2PMPAbhOg-zUJUcYovR34I_3yg4PfBevLxDq2dQjO1Zp7RuRjOf_kfwh8sx54/s1724/1884+Birth+Edith+Elizabeth+Worsfold+-+cropped.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="247" data-original-width="1724" height="93" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsMJ4IS3KRHbh52R0hAN-zkjTe86JMJrA7_Te2WjAt12-N7YD9ZG7xQKl0I7-fPjogu2jTzoqXkAZwmM2PMPAbhOg-zUJUcYovR34I_3yg4PfBevLxDq2dQjO1Zp7RuRjOf_kfwh8sx54/w589-h93/1884+Birth+Edith+Elizabeth+Worsfold+-+cropped.jpg" width="589" /></a></div><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyENkZD8HEoJl5e-Fd0QncICSwG3Hvo5BeSJl_wPD-r5A-3i8K7oZsqyApkycfNJWl777LTkucq1ZYUF7-nKYTyOwo_nfcr_B8zFkGy7rG7QF3rXaGnWzOcQrO1aPBO8PZky2xOLiMhvQ/s2048/Warnham+Church%252C+Sussex+%25285%2529.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyENkZD8HEoJl5e-Fd0QncICSwG3Hvo5BeSJl_wPD-r5A-3i8K7oZsqyApkycfNJWl777LTkucq1ZYUF7-nKYTyOwo_nfcr_B8zFkGy7rG7QF3rXaGnWzOcQrO1aPBO8PZky2xOLiMhvQ/w200-h150/Warnham+Church%252C+Sussex+%25285%2529.JPG" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">When
Gran was only two, her brother Horace Reginald died at the age of
just 8 as the result of a tragic, and what must have been a very
traumatic, scrumping expedition to gather apples. It took him two
days to die from choking on a core! Fortunately, Edith would have
been too young to remember it. He is buried in Warnham churchyard and
his broken gravestone is still there to commemorate his very short
life. Edith's son, my father Reg Swinfield can still recall taking
two buses each way every year, and being entertained with the
purchase of new crayons for the long journey from Camberley in Surrey
to Warnham, to visit his uncle's grave. </span><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO-vuuON13_-I0NdkVAm9mGLB5b87BQ1V0M6eDdVRo8nsJd2kz49MJ7aFeFY71mNpBSw-V_nchO5c-Xgq8CwrvNLlUoXMhtiNSanLfCduEkYWD9j1el3sgUdMOpeAsKKcygbTsfHqWeks/s2048/1888+Edith+Worsfold+-+cropped.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1098" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO-vuuON13_-I0NdkVAm9mGLB5b87BQ1V0M6eDdVRo8nsJd2kz49MJ7aFeFY71mNpBSw-V_nchO5c-Xgq8CwrvNLlUoXMhtiNSanLfCduEkYWD9j1el3sgUdMOpeAsKKcygbTsfHqWeks/s320/1888+Edith+Worsfold+-+cropped.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Warnham National School admission register 1887/8</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Gran
and her four siblings all attended Warnham National School, which is
today a private house. She was enrolled on 9th April 1888 and she
left the school and village on 26th April 1889 when her family moved
to Frimley in Surrey. By 1891, her father had found a new position as
a domestic coachman and they lived at Barossa Lodge, York Town, part
of Camberley, where her youngest brother was born in 1889.<br /></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;">In
1901, her father James Worsfold, now a fly driver with a livery
stable, his wife Mary and only their youngest son George were living
at The Staff Hotel, York Town. Three of the older four surviving children had been found positions in service in large houses in
London. Ernest was a married man of 25, who worked as a coachman
groom and lived at 2 Gordon Street, St John's Westminster, and Minnie
was the 19 year-old nursemaid to the children of William E.M.
Tomlinson, M.P., J.P. and barrister, at 3 Richmond Terrace, St
Margaret's Westminster. </p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><br /></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirpdEfOcCQuhKrya7nGAUiJ2CmqTlV5nc-mCKAAxyup5TuFbgivyXAqnMqe_KziKAf5CMhcOYnl5BPBLt1jWppI7V2KNWBBIj0Km1DRpr_ietMr5CA_e7IgEdTpOGpjIud4h2EcONPD6E/s1024/1901+Edith+Elizabeth+Worsfold+-+32+Eaton+Place%252C+Westminster+2020+Oct+%25283%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirpdEfOcCQuhKrya7nGAUiJ2CmqTlV5nc-mCKAAxyup5TuFbgivyXAqnMqe_KziKAf5CMhcOYnl5BPBLt1jWppI7V2KNWBBIj0Km1DRpr_ietMr5CA_e7IgEdTpOGpjIud4h2EcONPD6E/w150-h200/1901+Edith+Elizabeth+Worsfold+-+32+Eaton+Place%252C+Westminster+2020+Oct+%25283%2529.jpg" width="150" /></a></span></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Amazingly,
Edith was also in the Westminster area of London at the time of that
census. Aged only 17, she was second housemaid to Henry R. Madocks,
retired judge of the Bengal Civil Service, in a grand house at 32
Eaton Place, St Georges Hanover Square. Looking at the house today,
one wonders if her bedroom was behind one of those windows in the
attic. I can picture her day of lighting fires very early in the
morning, carrying water around the house, followed by many hours of
cleaning and drudgery. She must have had days off when she could meet
or visit with her siblings in the same part of town or perhaps catch
the train back home to Camberley.</span><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><br /></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7EKnhLYaWi40HzvonyP5kpHu0cCP1v2ba1e9nNe41j6rxeWMaS61MJEVvejdWN7yClzYmpGAIb-i2u4jPfWK60E7HXbpfYnCkOWDjlWlOh8Q0erQ4Q4v2O7X96F6ISiySyWV6mmTQoiE/s2021/1901+Edith+E+Worsfold+-+cropped+%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="162" data-original-width="2021" height="48" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7EKnhLYaWi40HzvonyP5kpHu0cCP1v2ba1e9nNe41j6rxeWMaS61MJEVvejdWN7yClzYmpGAIb-i2u4jPfWK60E7HXbpfYnCkOWDjlWlOh8Q0erQ4Q4v2O7X96F6ISiySyWV6mmTQoiE/w558-h48/1901+Edith+E+Worsfold+-+cropped+%25281%2529.jpg" width="558" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5GKJrUrRkkiUMKiaG4yopmhNmXb8DC8q8zimg-IVqdXF3oaT9hojc8M0dPr8bOPJox2bTzm3PWs7kXKqy-QsKKbCLt8ZWXe6xdkSKmVmYc0NkCPSYQy680VAH_aREvbnYBUPhkoOi63c/s2047/1901+Edith+E+Worsfold+-+cropped+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="304" data-original-width="2047" height="85" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5GKJrUrRkkiUMKiaG4yopmhNmXb8DC8q8zimg-IVqdXF3oaT9hojc8M0dPr8bOPJox2bTzm3PWs7kXKqy-QsKKbCLt8ZWXe6xdkSKmVmYc0NkCPSYQy680VAH_aREvbnYBUPhkoOi63c/w567-h85/1901+Edith+E+Worsfold+-+cropped+%25282%2529.jpg" width="567" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1901 census of 32 Eaton Place, Westminster<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;">By
1911, Harry, Edith and George were back at home with their parents at
29 London Road, Camberley. James Worsfold was a jobbing gardener
whilst Mary ran a boarding house of eight rooms. Her sister Minnie
also left service in Westminster by 1907 when she married George
Collins, a chauffeur, at St Michael's church. Her father James was
one of the witnesses. By 1911, they had settled at Portsmouth,
Hampshire where she remained the rest of her life, dying in 1970.</p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSF0_dJbxzoZFjRTP82oqQ6gIqLljwH8yoFWkNiKsfRG2pbqSoVweI4CURLMbrpkNfvJqbeFFWpaoSEX_GvwwvvfXixk4yZPXxr4r6cn1x7Nd1eUfNGS7eYDOOzrAtPDxpfJZ6k3p2TAA/s1882/Athur+Swinfield++York+Town+1913.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="942" data-original-width="1882" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSF0_dJbxzoZFjRTP82oqQ6gIqLljwH8yoFWkNiKsfRG2pbqSoVweI4CURLMbrpkNfvJqbeFFWpaoSEX_GvwwvvfXixk4yZPXxr4r6cn1x7Nd1eUfNGS7eYDOOzrAtPDxpfJZ6k3p2TAA/w400-h161/Athur+Swinfield++York+Town+1913.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Edith
already knew her future husband by Christmas 1906 as <a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/part-18-my-grandfather.html">Arthur Swinfield</a>
was a witness at the wedding of her brother Harry Worsfold to Louisa
Boyce at nearby Bagshot church in Surrey. They did not marry for
another seven years until their wedding was solemnised at St
Michael's, York Town, on 4th August 1913. She recorded that they
became "betrothed" on 20th July 1912. He was then a waiter
of Camberley. Gran's father and two of her siblings, Minnie and
Harry, were witnesses. It is known that in late 1901, Arthur had
joined the <a href="https://royalleicestershireregiment.org.uk/entity/124308-swinfield-arthur?q=">Leicestershire Regiment</a> and my father believes that he was
in India at some point during his service. Certainly, by 1911, he had
left the regiment and was working as a footman in the household of
Charles Matthew Griffith, a retired Major General, who was born at
Poona, Bombay. He was then an Army reservist.</span><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;">Arthur
Swinfield worked as a butler at the Royal Military College, located
in Camberley, from 1912 to 1946 whilst he and Edith Elizabeth lived
at 9 St Mary's Road, which was her parents home. He re-enlisted for
the First World War serving with the Lincolnshire Regiment where he
saw action at the <a href="https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/battles/battles-of-the-western-front-in-france-and-flanders/the-battle-of-neuve-chapelle/">Battle of Neuve Chapelle</a> from 10th to 13th March
1915 where there were 7,000 British and 4,200 Indian casualties.
Arthur was listed as one of the casualties in a list of 21st March.</p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUc7O18XFdTlt1JgGdi-eROEziRd06xUsVX4AuU0W3puxwkAi-hoeAsIdeNRuQv17c3wri1cry5mWa3fReDTxbJq6KNlCLnA-Qr6ZA8_DmuXb-7xNW9embg8ml5IRXrxcKAaJzg8BGpHw/s940/1926+Death+James+Worsfold+-+Camberley+News+17+Dec+1926+p.3+-+cropped.jpg" style="clear: right; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="940" data-original-width="673" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUc7O18XFdTlt1JgGdi-eROEziRd06xUsVX4AuU0W3puxwkAi-hoeAsIdeNRuQv17c3wri1cry5mWa3fReDTxbJq6KNlCLnA-Qr6ZA8_DmuXb-7xNW9embg8ml5IRXrxcKAaJzg8BGpHw/w158-h221/1926+Death+James+Worsfold+-+Camberley+News+17+Dec+1926+p.3+-+cropped.jpg" width="158" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Camberley News <br />17 December 1926</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">In
January 1925, at the age of 40, Gran gave birth to her only child at
Bagshot Nursing Home. <a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/reginald-ernest-swinfield.html">Reginald Ernest Swinfield</a> was to become my
father. </span></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Her
father, James Worsfold, then aged 74, fell in the bathroom of 9 St
Mary's Road</span> on the evening of 28th November 1926 whilst his wife Mary
was trying to get him ready for bed. James was practically a cripple,
according to the evidence given to the inquest held in the house,
suffering from rheumatoid arthritis and chronic bronchitis. He struck
his head on the bath causing a wound and concussion. Sadly, he
lingered for a further seven days before he succumbed and died on 5th
December. He was buried with great ceremony at St Michael's, York
Town, where he had been a member of the choir for more than 21 years.</p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7uvJHkfUYW9r5VPBvxJkP8DUFKgSjkmVtkzdwrcGwYKEI6OFdsTz4EzQSJr7a1zf44rWbb961VAbhexKQp5SIil6-N4Oxl3B85kBA5Vezkk9Z7GE8AHpP7rh7E9OYw24L4QzLF0dTG_g/s2048/James+%2526+Mary+Worsfold+%25285%2529.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7uvJHkfUYW9r5VPBvxJkP8DUFKgSjkmVtkzdwrcGwYKEI6OFdsTz4EzQSJr7a1zf44rWbb961VAbhexKQp5SIil6-N4Oxl3B85kBA5Vezkk9Z7GE8AHpP7rh7E9OYw24L4QzLF0dTG_g/w203-h271/James+%2526+Mary+Worsfold+%25285%2529.jpg" width="203" /></a></div>Mary
Worsfold survived for a further two years before she too died at home
at 9 St Mary's Road on 24th December 1929 from stomach cancer. One
can only imagine how painful it must have been for Edith to care for
both her father and mother in the last days of their lives. Both are
buried in a grave very close near to St Michael's church.<br /><div><br /></div><div><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQvpxZh-0yxxbeR_xUJHccH99TxCIfm_ubTE5m6mK5GU3IQ_sjdssP9yWud-ivBlmWlq5Xd8G49HXjRxdsEg-yjh0DffufM7nbiFOvHmqgWewpnBU-6wQFZhAXPfmBIDPMiONQGVFNBAU/s1989/Edith+%2526+Arthur+Swinfield+possibly+with+%2528Caroline%2529+Ruby+%2526+Eric+Worsfold+%25282%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1208" data-original-width="1989" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQvpxZh-0yxxbeR_xUJHccH99TxCIfm_ubTE5m6mK5GU3IQ_sjdssP9yWud-ivBlmWlq5Xd8G49HXjRxdsEg-yjh0DffufM7nbiFOvHmqgWewpnBU-6wQFZhAXPfmBIDPMiONQGVFNBAU/w287-h173/Edith+%2526+Arthur+Swinfield+possibly+with+%2528Caroline%2529+Ruby+%2526+Eric+Worsfold+%25282%2529.jpg" width="287" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Edith & Arthur Swinfield with other Worsfolds<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><br /></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><br /></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><br /></span></p><div><br /></div><div>By 1939, Arthur and Edith were living at 9 St Mary's Road, Camberley, Surrey. </div><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQqFXclgyVa2jRhtbQJsdevWPajil8XTzUOd1AKMZdv0YG5fuv4b8oUN4upm1VYot2Zl3_b46PgC4ZB82NilKBqdFR1vub-RnDIl56FiGJa47VoT5kbpny3YMBezDOTzQC_B2PJfKiWhw/s2851/12+Arthur+-+cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="2851" height="69" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQqFXclgyVa2jRhtbQJsdevWPajil8XTzUOd1AKMZdv0YG5fuv4b8oUN4upm1VYot2Zl3_b46PgC4ZB82NilKBqdFR1vub-RnDIl56FiGJa47VoT5kbpny3YMBezDOTzQC_B2PJfKiWhw/w518-h69/12+Arthur+-+cropped.jpg" width="518" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Arthur was working as a butler at the Royal Military College. The redacted member of the family would be young Reg Swinfield, then aged 14. </div></div><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvU3z0xYz2uDuHP3G1f-7mcQkqBr_PscJfe-9KPA-OlB1xwl72G0RdNwQ3_6cym28yBAUR1kamlj92hApDy5J4j7yhTrjOARvv0QvJTNg-DfwFf8WamDScOCSRa6J97xSxP3K9c7IzFBs/s2048/1950+Edith+%2526+Arthur+Swinfield+with+Fred+%2526+Annie+Bird+and+families+-+Sunnymeade+%25283%2529.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1445" data-original-width="2048" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvU3z0xYz2uDuHP3G1f-7mcQkqBr_PscJfe-9KPA-OlB1xwl72G0RdNwQ3_6cym28yBAUR1kamlj92hApDy5J4j7yhTrjOARvv0QvJTNg-DfwFf8WamDScOCSRa6J97xSxP3K9c7IzFBs/w200-h141/1950+Edith+%2526+Arthur+Swinfield+with+Fred+%2526+Annie+Bird+and+families+-+Sunnymeade+%25283%2529.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Edith Swinfield (front row right) &<br />Arthur Swinfield (4th from left at back)<br />about 1950 at "Sunnymeade",</span> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />Frimley Green, with members <br />of the Bird family </span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">After
her husband Arthur died at home in 1956, Gran continued to lived
there for many years. I remember visiting her weekly from my infant's
school in York Town. We usually had "yellow fish" (smoked
haddock) for lunch. She and I attended Camberley Congregational
Church, just round the corner from her home, most Sunday mornings.
She smoked Park Drive cigarettes and always had a bottle of sherry
for the entertainment of her visitors. Gran spent Christmases and
special occasions in her later life with her daughter-in-law's family
at "Sunnymeade", in nearby Frimley Green. Edith had a
lovely sense of humour and loved to be </span>teased by my mother's brother
Fred Bird.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1hjVnGTn2zctgDghZytmrJhXrHMBtv7jv1H0O2vVMA6zEONt_eA6z_XMBdKg7TVJpYBWbmzUa7CjFVZ7ITx8OFoioEyzQp9gfcbRKV-K_rFCO89Vgzlm_MZKibATf5jSGiiItVVMs9mk/s2048/1953+Arthur+%2526+Edith+Swinfield+and+Aunt+Cis+with+Evelyn+%2526+Geoff+at+33+Park+Road%252C+Camberley+-+cropped.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1931" data-original-width="2048" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1hjVnGTn2zctgDghZytmrJhXrHMBtv7jv1H0O2vVMA6zEONt_eA6z_XMBdKg7TVJpYBWbmzUa7CjFVZ7ITx8OFoioEyzQp9gfcbRKV-K_rFCO89Vgzlm_MZKibATf5jSGiiItVVMs9mk/w325-h257/1953+Arthur+%2526+Edith+Swinfield+and+Aunt+Cis+with+Evelyn+%2526+Geoff+at+33+Park+Road%252C+Camberley+-+cropped.jpg" width="325" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Arthur, Evelyn & Edith Swinfield<br />with young Geoff about 1955 <br />at 33 Park Road, Camberley<br /><br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaFrF2GCvPyWwnLjHdUTT64eI3nHOCcMu3Dbm94NLvI0GS1wQy_pivQZA47d1x2YB-rAfyUPnvyHU5f8n0JnoF14g8l8s42FIlqTWelCA10VV2Wd58gX-9kv1Y3V5lo-g1TncwC8ja8vo/s2048/1952+Edith+%2526+Arthur+with+Reg%252C+Evelyn+%2526+Geoff+%25281%2529+-+14+St+Mary%2527s+Road%252C+Camberley+.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1950" data-original-width="2048" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaFrF2GCvPyWwnLjHdUTT64eI3nHOCcMu3Dbm94NLvI0GS1wQy_pivQZA47d1x2YB-rAfyUPnvyHU5f8n0JnoF14g8l8s42FIlqTWelCA10VV2Wd58gX-9kv1Y3V5lo-g1TncwC8ja8vo/w200-h191/1952+Edith+%2526+Arthur+with+Reg%252C+Evelyn+%2526+Geoff+%25281%2529+-+14+St+Mary%2527s+Road%252C+Camberley+.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Reg & Evelyn Swinfield (back row)<br />Edith & Arthur Swinfield (front row) <br />& Geoff Swinfield in 1952 <br />at 9 St Mary's Road, Camberley<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><br /></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><br /></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><br /></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><br /></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivsfNALDlC3dscjO34oUZxalGBdfHWrMp8GI3oxNYyN5S6B7a7HrVIGr68K7NGfyomJuuwvVIckK8-E5wF3x-13DmCu6pt4sgzaxwvXK7dg05A-p6Qf8It3lZymTurdsy0PWrS21hlSLY/s2048/1974+Edith+%25284%2529+with+Reg+%2526+Evelyn+Swinfield+and+Fred+Bird+at+Sunnymeade.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1583" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivsfNALDlC3dscjO34oUZxalGBdfHWrMp8GI3oxNYyN5S6B7a7HrVIGr68K7NGfyomJuuwvVIckK8-E5wF3x-13DmCu6pt4sgzaxwvXK7dg05A-p6Qf8It3lZymTurdsy0PWrS21hlSLY/w216-h267/1974+Edith+%25284%2529+with+Reg+%2526+Evelyn+Swinfield+and+Fred+Bird+at+Sunnymeade.jpg" width="216" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Evelyn, Gran & Reg Swinfield<br />with Fred Bird at "Sunnymeade"<br />in 1974<br /><br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><br /></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><br /></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCSytHpCzHrC_WdMa5t8_48GtnLSBM2nU6QSTBxkSnNRaO1sKyaeMhiyNBRRcXtvl37PYNFlz1OfcBFOr2iX-nxI1mqEQFtPkXb0uSmTw0w-F6mEnxkM2bK0tERbZ43nwAtsfmKgf7mxA/s2048/1974+Gran%2527s+90th+birthday+%25284%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1583" data-original-width="2048" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCSytHpCzHrC_WdMa5t8_48GtnLSBM2nU6QSTBxkSnNRaO1sKyaeMhiyNBRRcXtvl37PYNFlz1OfcBFOr2iX-nxI1mqEQFtPkXb0uSmTw0w-F6mEnxkM2bK0tERbZ43nwAtsfmKgf7mxA/w306-h236/1974+Gran%2527s+90th+birthday+%25284%2529.jpg" width="306" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Gran's 90th birthday <br />at Ballard Court, Camberley<br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlHnAmoHmubkMfvcF3UocFx9bSL5o7gTvgnDGoTk99wgftE9AogLBV4XMV5freUEznpsIgMpo0YH-4NTQkoRsay0G9OgTenvKV8nRtgW0KhkViXkdQ1mqM5_pYKbzlsdYuInZsuhlpKGA/s2048/Arthur+%2526+Edith+Swinfield+%25284%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlHnAmoHmubkMfvcF3UocFx9bSL5o7gTvgnDGoTk99wgftE9AogLBV4XMV5freUEznpsIgMpo0YH-4NTQkoRsay0G9OgTenvKV8nRtgW0KhkViXkdQ1mqM5_pYKbzlsdYuInZsuhlpKGA/s320/Arthur+%2526+Edith+Swinfield+%25284%2529.jpg" /></a></div><br />For
the final few years of her very long life, she moved into sheltered
accommodation at Flat B1, Ballard Court, in Camberley. The Mayor
visited to mark her 90th Birthday in 1974 and she died there on 24th
August 1976. She and Arthur are remembered on a simple stone in St
Michael's churchyard, York Town. <p></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13cm;"><br /></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div>Geoff Swinfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04831517940388882786noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536016186092406911.post-7118608666501429042020-04-11T06:02:00.000-07:002020-10-24T04:24:21.940-07:00Swinfield Family 12 is now ready to view online<br />
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<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Following </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">my</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"> last <a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.com/2020/02/swinfield-family-trees-now-ready-to-see.html" target="_blank">Blog of 24th February</a>, as promised I have completed work on the last of the </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">4</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"> major Swinfield family trees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><b><a href="https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/tree/167088828" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Swinfield Family 12</span></a> </b></span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">can now be viewed at <a href="https://www.ancestry.co.uk/" target="_blank">Ancestry</a>. By clicking on this link or by pasting: </span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="en-US"><u><a href="https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/tree/167088828"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/tree/167088828</span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"> into the Ancestry website, you will be able to see all the relations who have been connected together into that large pedigree. To see who is part of that genealogy, you can view a tree of the principal male members at the </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/swinfield/about/goals" target="_blank">Swinfield DNA and Genealogy project hosted by FTDNA</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">This family has its origins in the parish of Markfield in Leicestershire. </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">At present, I have extended it back as far as a weaver called John Swinfield who died in 1736. The current living members all descend from his son Thomas (1717-1783) and his grandson James (1759-1806). </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">J</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">ames</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"> has two main lines of descent through </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Thomas (1781-1868) and John (1792-1871).</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Thomas </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">junior's </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">two sons, </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Richard (1803-1863) and James (1815-1903)</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">, are the progenitors of many living Swinfields</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">. The former married Sarah Lygo at Heather, Leicestershire, in 1799 and that part of the family frequently used Lygo as a second forename in subsequent generations. M</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">ost of </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">the current </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">descendants of Richard still </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">remain </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">in the Leicester area. </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Branches of James's family through his son William Thomas (1837-1909), who settled in the Kingston area of Surrey, </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">are</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"> still living throughout the south of England such as </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">in </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">the southern suburbs of London, Wiltshire and Hampshire. Another of James's sons Edward (1859-1940) hyphenated his surname to Swinfield-Wells and that family still flourishes today</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"> in Leicestershire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">The descendants of </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">John Swinfie</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">l</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">d (1792-1871)</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">, who still bear the surname, have mainly remained close to Leicester. One later descendant, Henry Tomlin Swinfield (1893-1949), emigrated to New South Wales, Australia, in the early 20th century, where a branch of the family still lives. </span></div>
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Geoff Swinfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04831517940388882786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536016186092406911.post-62031168881218650912020-02-24T02:10:00.000-08:002020-04-11T05:56:16.015-07:00Swinfield family trees now ready to see online<br />
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Since the beginning of this year, I have been busy
compiling trees for the major Swinfield families. These are the
outcome of the research, family gatherings and communication with
Swinfields all over the World during the past 40 years. However, until now, they
have only been available by making contact with me. I wanted to share them
with anyone who wants to see them. Currently an outline of the
main branches could only be seen through the
<a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/swinfield/about/goals" target="_blank"><b>Swinfield DNA and Genealogy project</b></a> (click on this title to view that tree) hosted by FTDNA.<br />
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The easiest and most accessible way of providing much more detailed genealogical trees and data is via the international genealogical company <a href="https://www.ancestry.co.uk/" target="_blank">Ancestry</a>. I have now posted there public family trees for three of the four families:<br />
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<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><br /><a href="https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/tree/166006600/family/familyview" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Swinfield Family 3 & 4</span></a></b></span></span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">: dates back to the middle of the 18th century, where it lived in the parish of Wolvey, Warwickshire, before descendants moved to nearby Mancetter. </span>The oldest son of Family 3, William Swinfield (1804-1876) lived in Nuneaton, Atherstone and Mancetter before emigrating to Sydney, New South Wales, in 1848 on the "Walmer Castle" taking with him his younger children. His oldest son Thomas remained in England where his descendants have lived in Birmingham (Warwickshire), Swindon (Wiltshire), Manchester (Lancashire), Cheshire, Southampton (Hampshire), Scotland and Ontario, Canada. In Australia, William's many descendants by his first two wives, have flourished in the Sydney area of NSW.<br />
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<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">William's younger brother John (1806-1874) followed him to Sydney in 1853 on the "Beejapore" and is the ancestor of Family 4. His oldest son did not go with the family and instead went to work on the island of St Kitts in the West Indies as a sugar planter before returning to Alrewas in Staffordshire. John's younger son and his daughters went with him to Australia, the daughters settling in Tasmania. There are many living descendants but none who still have the Swinfield surname. </span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/tree/167179706/family/familyview" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Swinfield Family 5 (now incorporating Family 2)</span></a>: </b></span></span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">This is the oldest tree currently dating back to the late 16th century in Ibstock, Leicestershire. There is even a Family Bible that documents it as early as 1645! The family had land at Shackerstone, Appleby Magna, Hugglescote and Heather in Leicestershire and Ticknall in the adjacent county of Derbyshire. The family clearly had connections with the Swinfields who were Citizens and fishmongers of the City of London as documented in 17th century wills.</span></div>
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Their families proliferated and many descendants are still found living in Leicestershire, not far from where the family lived in 17th century, but also in other parts of England and Wales. </div>
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can now access the three public trees online at Ancestry, free of
charge (by clicking on the coloured title of that tree in this Blog). If you are not a member of Ancestry (free home trials are always available), most libraries have a public subscription that you can use to view the them. Just search for your known Swinfield
ancestor and that should finding him or her on one of the
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<br />Geoff Swinfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04831517940388882786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536016186092406911.post-37550889518892448062019-05-04T08:28:00.001-07:002019-05-04T08:32:51.067-07:00New DNA tests for the Swinfields? <br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Over the past decade, I have been employing DNA testing in an attempt to determine if all Swinfields are ultimately related. If they are, their family trees could be traced back to one man who chose to use that hereditary surname and pass it on to his sons, daughters and their descendents. As it is the custom for women to take the surname of their husband at marriage, Swinfield would only have passed down male lines or on occasions when women, who were either single or married, had issue out of wedlock.</span></div>
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date, the male line has been the most useful path to follow through
the family trees to try to answer that question. Men inherit their
surname from their father and keep it throughout their whole lifetime
unless they change it for reason of inheritance or when they become a
celebrity. In the same way, they also inherit their Y-chromosome from
their father. That is the one part of the DNA which determines that a
foetus will become male. <a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.com/2014/06/more-dna-results-have-arrived.html" target="_blank">By testing the Y-chromosome of selected living male Swinfields</a>, it would appear likely that four of the
five major Swinfield lineages, which have been tested to date, do
have an almost identical form. That would strongly suggest that there
was indeed <a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/dna-gives-us-more-clues-to-single.html" target="_blank">only one ultimate male ancestor of all present-day Swinfields</a>
who would have lived in the 13th century and chose to use the
surname. That may have been to mark where he lived at that time.
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Now we have another type of DNA test which we can apply across all ancestral lines of our family trees. Irrespective of which of our 16 great-great-grandparents was a Swinfield, we may have inherited a discernible proportion of his or her autosomal DNA. The autosomes are all the other 44 chromosomes that we receive from our two parents in addition to our sex chromosomes (which are termed X and Y). We receive a random assortment of such chromosomes through the ancestral lines from our forebears. However, in addition, the autosomes are not passed on intact but also undergo what is called recombination, where they can interchange segments of DNA with their "pair". Consequently, siblings and cousins will inherit a different assortment of DNA from their common great-great-grandparents. Some may have lots of Swinfield DNA while others will have so little that it cannot be measured.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Autosomal DNA testing for genetic genealogy is a powerful tool in the family historian's armoury. Because of the "dilution" of DNA from one ancestral line through the generations, it can only be used over about the past five or six generations to seek or compare 4th or, at the most, 5th cousins. We can now look at both the male and female lines of our Swinfield family trees. Even if was your mother's father's mother who was a Swinfield by birth, and she received half of that from her own Swinfield parent, we may be able to detect that element of her autosomal DNA in you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">At present, only three representatives of two of the legitimate (as far as we know!) Swinfield lines have tested. Those are from families 5D and 5F. Remember that my line has not inherited any Swinfield DNA due to the "non paternity event" of 1840. <a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/part-6-its-all-in-science.html" target="_blank">My father, myself and those in our branch of the tree, as far out as our 2nd and 3rd cousins, have no Swinfield DNA</a>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">It is 14 months since I last wrote about the Swinfields and the research which I have been conducting on the family's history. Early in 2018, I wrote about the exciting discovery of the "Family Bible", now in America, which Thomas Swinfield had taken with him on his trip across The Atlantic in 1854. That book had in it a record of his ancestry, which is what I now call Families 5 and 2, stretching back through five previous generations to Richard Swinfield born in 1645 at Markfield in Leicestershire. It has survived a journey of thousands of miles by sea and land via New Orleans and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to its current home in Montana.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Since then I have not been idle although I have not yet written about new discoveries. Over the past months, I have been actively pursuing the research in online indexes and sources as well as through original records. That has included three days in Leicestershire Record Office in September 2018 and a day in the Staffordshire Record Office in March 2019. I have also been utilising the new DNA tools that have recently been made available by the genetic testing companies to locate new branches of the Swinfield trees. That has given me new information which I trust will be of interest to all of you who are interested in our surname and its history. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">One very significant discovery, which happened in February 2019, is that yet another Swinfield Family Bible exists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">This time it documents members of Family 3C who live in New South Wales in Australia. Following the announcement in the newspaper of the death of Dawne Gwendolyn Swinfield in January this year, I wrote to her family expressing my condolences. Her son John passed on my message to his sister Julie Holmes. She informed me that she has inherited the Bible that was given to her great-great-grandfather, George William Swinfield (1854-1936), by his wife Elizabeth (McCarthy) as his 24th birthday present on 24th July 1878. The Family Register pages have been used by that couple and their descendants to document the births, marriages and deaths of another six generations of this branch of the family. </span> </div>
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<br />Geoff Swinfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04831517940388882786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536016186092406911.post-26808350311735041172018-02-19T06:49:00.000-08:002018-02-20T00:49:15.684-08:00The Family Bible proves a link between Family 5 and Family 2<div class="western">
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Bible, which was published on 7th January 2018, it was noted that the Bible includes an entry for the birth of a John Swinfield on 22nd March 1773. That fact
follows a reference to the birth of Thomas Swinfield on
27th August 1769. They must surely have been brothers. Although their
parentage is not recorded, it is known that Thomas was baptised at
Ashby de la Zouch church in Leicestershire on 1st January 1770 as
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John married Jane Radford in that same church on 28th November 1768.
They also named a daughter as Elizabeth on 25th September 1771,
although details of her birth were not recorded by the person then entering entries in the Bible. Jane was buried in that
churchyard on 1st February 1809. John survived until 1820, when he
died aged 81, and his body was laid to rest on 25th April 1820. Neither
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The baptismal record of John Swinfield junior, born in 1773, is not included
in the parish register of Ashby and is not included in any of the major genealogical indexes to the records of Church of
England and nonconformist churches and chapels. Those include
FindMyPast, which purports to have digitised and indexed all registers
for Leicestershire, and Ancestry which has done the same for the Church of England registers for Derbyshire parishes. What became of John after 1773? He did not marry and was not buried from Ashby church. Did he move elsewhere to settle and
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Consulting the database of over 4,000 entries in
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marriage of John Swinfield to Catherine Lawson. Their marriage was
solemnised in the church at Thurlaston on 3rd November 1800. That
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John and Catherine moved to Burbage where their 12
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and it was proved by his son Job in the Archdeaconry Court of
Leicester on 13th September 1856. In the inventory of his goods, there is reference to five of his children and to his widow
Esther, who, it is stated, was their step-mother. John specifically
requested that his grandson Alfred should be taught the trade of
blacksmith. </div>
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John was buried in Burbage churchyard three days
after his death. Catherine had died 17 years earlier when she was
also buried there having died at 54. Most significantly, John's age
places his year of birth at 1773/4, matching with the date recorded
for John's birth in the Bible. Surely they must be the
same man.<br />
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After his wife Catherine had died in 1834, John married
again on 19th September 1835 at St George's church, Birmingham, to a
widow called Hester Brightmoore. Her first marriage had taken place at
St Martin in the Fields, Westminster in 1819 where her maiden surname was
found to be Turner. Hester Swinfield died aged 78 and is buried in
Cheltenham Cemetery, Gloucestershire.</div>
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John was recorded in the 1841 census of Church Street,
Burbage (HO107/600/2, fol. 11, p. 19) with his wife Hester, his son Job
and 5 year-old Alfred. By 1851, when John was dead, Job had become
the head of the household in Burbage (HO107/2082, fol. 82, pp. 18 &
19) which now included his wife Ann (whose maiden surname had been
Turner like his step-mother), his sister Mary, his nephew Alfred and
his widowed step-mother, who, for some reason, was then recorded as
Hannah. </div>
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The 1861 census records that Job, a blacksmith of
48, had moved to Cheltenham in Gloucestershire (RG9/1798, fol 150, p.
48) leaving behind his father's widow Esther Swinfield, aged 59, who
was then a nurse at the Workhouse at St Margaret's Leicester
(RG9/2292, fol. 89, p. 1). She did not remain there, as by 1871, she
was living again with her step-son Job, who was then working as a
blacksmith and living at 18 Albert Street, Cheltenham (RG10/2667,
fol. 32, p. 14). Job, his wife and one of his daughters were
also laid to rest in Cheltenham Cemetery.</div>
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Two other sons of Joseph and Catherine Swinfield,
Joseph and Thomas, as well as his grandson Alfred, the illegitimate
son of their daughter Martha, also worked as blacksmiths for most of
their lifetime. There are many living descendants of this couple
today through Alfred, Joseph and their youngest child who was called
William. <a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/family-2-was-there-too.html" target="_blank">Two of those attended the Swinfield Gathering in 2013. The suggestion that Family 2 may be closely related to Family 5 was mooted then.</a> <a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/more-dna-results-have-arrived.html" target="_blank">Further evidence was later added through DNA testing.</a> </div>
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The reference to the birth of John Swinfield in
1773 in the Bible, despite the absence of a record of his
baptism, has now enabled a link to be made between Swinfield Families
5 and 2, which could not be established previously by using
genealogical sources. Pedigrees showing exactly how the two families are
connected can be viewed using the links at the top right-hand corner
of this page. <span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<br />Geoff Swinfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04831517940388882786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536016186092406911.post-26650035391466153582018-01-09T07:42:00.000-08:002023-12-30T01:33:05.537-08:00Further revelations from the Swinfield Bible <div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">The
genealogical information recorded in the Swinfield Concordance had
enabled the pedigree of Family 5 to be extended back to the middle of
the 17th century. It records that Richard Swinfield was born in 1645.
Although it is not yet known when and where he married Frances
Colgin, he was baptised in nearby Ibstock church on 19th April 1646,
as the son of John and Mary Swinfield. That couple named five
children there just prior to and into the Commonwealth Interregnum
when England was embroiled in its Civil War. There is now a line
which extends back into the period when the Swinfields were
"will-making folk". </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Will of John Swinfeild 1649</td></tr>
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John Swinfield's will, which was dictated in 1649, was proved in the following year in the Archdeaconry
Court of Leicester (ref: 1649/72). <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">John
made bequests to his oldest son James and to his five other children,
all of whom were under the age of 21. It was recorded that he owed
his brother Richard £7 and his unnamed father was due £4 for a
brown filly. The will was proved by his widow Mary.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Will of William Swingfeild 1633</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">John's
brother William had also made a will in May 1633, very shortly before
he died and was buried from Heather church. He left a sheep each to
his brothers Richard, George and Ralph and to his sister Anne.
Richard was also to receive his best jerkin and breeches. John
Swinfield was left the testator's best doublet, shirt, hose and
shoes. Most substantially, the residue of William's estate was to be
divided between his wife Alice and his brother John with a bequest of
a colt called Throstle to his cousin James. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">The
more wealthy family members were John and William's brothers George
and Ralph Swinfield. George of Donington made his will in 1658 and he left
sheep and wool to his kinsman, James Swinfield of Ibstock,
and to James's brothers, John and Richard, and their three sisters. Having no
surviving children of his own, he made provisions for his two
nephews, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Ralph and George, the sons of his deceased brother Ralph.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Will of George Swinfeild 1680</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Wills
were proved for these two men and Ellen, the widow of Ralph Swinfield
junior, from 1671 to </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">1681. All were buried from the parish church of
Great Appleby. The last survivor, George Swinfield, then held all the
land which had been accumulated by that part of the family. His two
cousins, James of Ibstock and John of Huckles Coat [now called Hugglescote] were gifted his house and land at Ticknall, Derbyshire,
and Appleby in Leicestershire respectively. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Disappointingly from
Family 5's viewpoint, Richard Swinfield (1645-1701) and his family
received no land from their cousins. </span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1595/6 baptism of Jhon Swinfilde at Shackerstone</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">John
Swinfield was baptised at Shackerstone on 2nd March 1595/6. No
parents' names were recorded in the bishop's transcripts of that church. The registers only survive from 1630. He appears to have been
the oldest of a series of six children named in that church, ending
with Mary in 1611. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1609 baptism of Raph, son of Rychard Swinfilde, at Shackerstone</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">George was also christened there in early 1607 and
Ralph in 1609. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Significantly, only for the last two ceremonies was a
father's name recorded. They were children of yet another Richard
Swinfilde. From the will of 1649, he may still have been alive as he was then owed money for a filly. He now stands at the head of this
lineage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">It
could be speculated that there is now a genealogical link between
Family 5 and the very extensive Family 12 which also used Markfield
parish church from the beginning of the 18th century, With more work,
can they be joined together into one tree? </span>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha2o_ds5x3tIpeL8MfSYvJtDHoauVjAlO3btWMuwhbUKt_shAI7CWIeAwYLp_aPd5C5097C_fORy0W89ai_0K_HrCaXy_PFmsMa9rBbrwRzia1M9xibJuBGlSfIbtT8b0KPZBEJwyclq4/s1600/Richard+Swinfield%2527s+Register+-+cover.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha2o_ds5x3tIpeL8MfSYvJtDHoauVjAlO3btWMuwhbUKt_shAI7CWIeAwYLp_aPd5C5097C_fORy0W89ai_0K_HrCaXy_PFmsMa9rBbrwRzia1M9xibJuBGlSfIbtT8b0KPZBEJwyclq4/s200/Richard+Swinfield%2527s+Register+-+cover.jpg" width="150" /></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Even
more speculatively, does the frequent occurrence of the forenam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">e of
Richard by both Families 5 and 12, reflect their knowledge that were
related, some three centuries earlier, to Bishop Richard Swinfield of
Hereford who died in 1317?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">A
son of Thomas and Sarah Swinfield, who was born at Earl Shilton in
1834, was named as Richard. He was one of the six issue, supposedly born to
that couple from 1829 to 1841. It is now clear however from DNA testing and newspaper reports that those children were genetically the issue of Thomas Brown, with whom Sarah had a long adulterous relationship from shortly after her marriage in 1829 until her death in 1862. Indeed, Richard later changed his surname to Brown by the time that he married in 1854. By then Thomas had left his family and had gone to live with Maria Cooper at Calverton where their illegitimate daughter Elizabeth was born in 1839. It was this family
that left these shores forever in the 1850s and took the treasured
"Family Bible" on their journey into the unknown. It has
survived, despite being damaged in a fire at some point, and will be
400 years old in 2019! </span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Two pedigrees for Family 5, one showing the 16th and 18th century (early) and the other the 18th to 20th century (late), can be viewed by using the appropriate link in the top right corner of this page. They record the results and illustrate the relationships which can be derived from the "Swinfield Bible". </span></div>
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Geoff Swinfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04831517940388882786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536016186092406911.post-17331307416329383792018-01-07T05:58:00.000-08:002018-02-18T02:07:39.322-08:00The Swinfield "Family Bible" discovered! <div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">In
genealogy, you never know when a significant breakthrough will happen
in your research. The end of 2017 presented a wonderful surprise
which will be of great significance to all Swinfields, especially
those who are part of Family 5. Whilst away on holiday in December, I
was contacted from America by Chantelle Russell. She had found me
through reading the Swinfield Blog. It just shows that advertising
your research interests is a great way of finding new contacts and
relatives who may have that important fact, memory or, in this case,
a family artifact. </span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Naturalisation application of 1864</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Having
recently embarked on research into her family's history, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">she was able
to extend the line back to her immigrant ancestor, her gr</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">eat-great-great-great-grandmother, </span><a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/part-10-cousins-in-america.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" target="_blank">Elizabeth Swinfield Cooper</a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">
(1839-1925) who married John Warburton in Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
in 1859. Elizabeth's father was </span><a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/part-9-seeking-better-life.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" target="_blank">Thomas (George) Swinfield (1808-1893) who had left his family behind in Earl Shilton, Leicestershire, to live with Maria Cooper at Calverton, Nottinghamshire</a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">, <a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/part-4-looking-for-justice.html" target="_blank">where he advocated Chartism</a>. It is not known when Maria and her daughter travelled to
America but Thomas sailed from Liverpool to New Orleans aboard The
Germanicus, arriving on 13th June 1854. He became a naturalised
American in March 1867 having </span><a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/part-12-thomas-settles-down.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" target="_blank">settled at Portsmouth, NH</a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">. Thomas, his
daughter and grandchildren are recorded on a memorial stone in
</span><a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/part-11-visit-to-new-hampshire.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" target="_blank">Proprietor's Cemetery</a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> there.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thomas Swinfield arrives at New Orleans in 1854 on The Gemanicus</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Most
significantly, Chantelle mentioned that her father Robert is the
custodian of the Swinfield Family Bible which was carried to
Portsmouth by their ancestor. She believed that it contained
genealogical information from the 17th century. Amazingly that proved
to be true! The entries are actually recorded in a Concordance which
was printed in London in 1619.</span></div>
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page records the dates of birth (and some deaths) for Thomas
Swinfield and his seven siblings, who were born from 1804 to 1820 at
Earl Shilton. These could not be ascertained from the parish register
of baptism and burial. Thomas was born on 2nd April 1808, the same
date which he recorded when he started the process of becoming an
American citizen in 1864. Elsewhere, it records that he first went to
school on 24th August 1817, when he was 9. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaLSzXodiSf2EZhhwoFRjg3MWZt6U5D7JvPjCOb2yts7tc1RwMQTcYoDO0_zrz2e41PFg7EplfmJ2oCOXOZpsP9-GhED2ZYq3I5ux-pJja1LMf9sxmxxn1BypxgI9doThGu2lb36LLxmY/s1600/Swinfield+Family+Bible+%25285%2529+-+cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1270" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaLSzXodiSf2EZhhwoFRjg3MWZt6U5D7JvPjCOb2yts7tc1RwMQTcYoDO0_zrz2e41PFg7EplfmJ2oCOXOZpsP9-GhED2ZYq3I5ux-pJja1LMf9sxmxxn1BypxgI9doThGu2lb36LLxmY/s200/Swinfield+Family+Bible+%25285%2529+-+cropped.jpg" width="157" /></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">This book had belonged to
his father, also Thomas (1769-1833), from 1788. It had passed down
through the family from his great-grandfather, John Swinfield, who
died at Smisby in Derbyshire in that year and his grandfather, also
John (1738-1820). We even learn that <a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/poor-law-records-at-leicester-record.html" target="_blank">John Swinfield junior, who I
recently </a></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/poor-law-records-at-leicester-record.html" target="_blank">discovered had served in the 4th Regiment of Foot in the mid 18th century</a>, had a hitherto unknown son, also John, who was born on
22nd March 1773. What became of him and does he had descendants?
Another avenue of research to pursue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">The
most significant records relate to the earlier period. Neither
Derrick Swinfield nor myself, in our many years of research into the
history of what became known as Family 5, had been able to positively
identify the baptism of </span><a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/part-22-story-of-family-5.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" target="_blank">John Swinfield senior who appeared to have married Mary Meachem in the church of Norton-juxta-Twycross in 1732</a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">.
Their children were baptised at Smisby church from 1738 to 1747, the
two youngest daughters being recorded in our "Family
Concordance". Disappointingly, John's date of birth was not
written down there and neither is anything about his wife or their
dates of death. He would have been born at the turn of the 17th/18th
century.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3wvRHFxNWZT5qK2mgeLBFeYw_6Wx8m38YtxlETrRK8YBTyyPZ_kMDTrzje6g7naMUPJWLmiIvfRhPjYdceXyr1ZvDsY1VgFg6mIllJEDYvImk49RfDRkp_q0mKtiUFMrPp7_IoRUXAo8/s1600/Swinfield+Family+Bible+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1173" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3wvRHFxNWZT5qK2mgeLBFeYw_6Wx8m38YtxlETrRK8YBTyyPZ_kMDTrzje6g7naMUPJWLmiIvfRhPjYdceXyr1ZvDsY1VgFg6mIllJEDYvImk49RfDRkp_q0mKtiUFMrPp7_IoRUXAo8/s320/Swinfield+Family+Bible+%25281%2529.jpg" width="234" /></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">However,
the "Bible" tells us that an even earlier John Swinfield
was born on 15th February 1679 (presumed to be 1680 in the modern
calendar) as the son of Richard Swinfield and Frances Colgin, who
were born in 1645 and 1643 respectively. From our database of
Swinfield and variant entries, that John, who must surely be the
father of John of Smisby, was baptised at Markfield church in
Leicestershire on 29th February 1679/80 as the son of Richard and
Frances <u>Somerfield</u>. His older sister, Mary, whose birth is also in
the newly-found book, was christened there in 1675, according to the parish register. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The
writing in that register does not appear to be from the late 17th
century and contemporary with the events recorded. Indeed there is a
statement that the original register may have been lost and the
version which exists today is a copy made in the 18th century. Some bishop's transcripts of the 1670s, annual copies of the parish registers sent to the bishop of the diocese, have survive. These are in a late 17th century hand. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">As can be seen, the baptismal
entry for John, son of Richard and Frances Swinfeild (not
Somerfield), records the date as 20th February (and not the 29th
February). It also informs us that Richard was a weaver. The
transcriber of the lost register clearly made several </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">errors in copying just the seven entries of baptism recorded in 1679/80. The name of the
next child, baptised on 7th March, is recorded as Sampson Rede in the bishop's
transcript and William Read in the "parish register"! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Richard and Frances were laid to rest from Markfield church in 1701 and 1717. Their marriage is yet to be found. </span></div>
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Geoff Swinfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04831517940388882786noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536016186092406911.post-50058718128087389062017-10-25T09:08:00.000-07:002017-10-25T09:15:04.918-07:00Convict Links<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-before: always;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Convict Links </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Swinfield, Hough and
Henderson Linkages</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>to
the Chesterman and Clark Families<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>by Bob Chesterman & Ann Chesterman Jeffries</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">Recent
discovery of convict associations and the details of historic events
in the early and mid 1800s have cast a new light on part of our
family history. The stigma associated with a convict past is
probably the main reason for omission. The presence of a convict
background, although a definite plus in terms of today’s family
research, was for some eighty years a history to be denied. There is
no written or anecdotal family reference to the fact that Amelia
Swinfield had a convict background. It is likely that Amelia kept her
background very much to herself through the 1870s until her death.
Other family members were probably unaware of this as well. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">The
earliest internment in the Chesterman family vault at Cornelian Bay
Cemetery in Hobart<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Grave of Amelia (Millecent) Henderson <br />(nee Swinfield) (1818-1896)<br />Cornelian Bay Cemetery, Hobart, Tasmania</span></td></tr>
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is that of Amelia Henderson (nee Swinfield). The
date of her death is listed as Sept 4 1896, she was aged 77. Amelia
was the paternal aunt of Henry Chesterman’s wife Mary, and her
sister Mary Ann Clark - the wife of Moses John Clark. Both of these
women are the great grandmothers of one of the authors Bob (R B
Chesterman) – obviously on different sides of the family. Amelia,
(Aunt Henderson) was very highly regarded by the family for her
character and the fact that she arranged to bring her nieces to
Hobart from Sydney. At this time in her life she was Mrs Amelia
Hough. This transfer occurred following the death of the girl’s
mother Mary Ann and a younger sibling William aged 3, at the Sydney
quarantine station after a harrowing voyage out from England in
1852/3, and is likely to have been precipitated by the subsequent
remarriage of their father John Swinfield sen. Amelia assumed the
role of kindly guardian aunt to the three girls and cared for them
along with her son Belmont Francis Hough.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<br />
<u style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><b>The
Convict Background</b></u></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Amelia Swinfield</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">
was baptised on the 28 June 1818 as <b>Millecent</b>, the daughter of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Thomas
Swinfiel</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">d (b
1781) and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Elizabeth
Hackett</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"> (b
1779), at Wolvey, Warwickshire, England. She was well educated by
the standards of the time, being able to read and write, and trained
as housemaid and needlewoman. This was probably related to the
educational standards of her mother Elizabeth, who in the 1851
England census was listed as a school headmistress. After marrying
23 year old </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>William
Hough</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"> on
19th August 1839, Amelia gave birth to a son Thomas. This child was
born to Amelia and William in January 1840, but died 29 May 1840,(at
6 months) of consumption at Atherstone.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amelia Hough<br />
(1818-1896)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">William
Hough was a brickmaker, but in 1840 was convicted of a felony
(killing sheep with intent to steal), sentenced to Life then spent 9
months aboard the prison hulk </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Warri</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">or.
He was then transported to Van Dieman’s Land in the vessel </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Leyton</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">
arriving on the 1</span><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">st</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">
of September 1841. This followed a previous conviction for larceny in
1835 with a six month imprisonment sentence, and an assault on a
peace officer in 1838 when a twelve month sentence was imposed.
William’s brick-making skills were employed upon his arrival as a
convict in Hobart, where he worked for O & R Meikle with the
“around river party”. – most likely involved with wharf and
shoreline construction as far afield as New Norfolk.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">In
1843 Amelia was convicted, along with Thomas Simpson of theft, for
stealing cloth from a boat. As this was a second offence of theft,
she had served a six month sentence previously, she was sentenced to
14 years (Life) incarceration. From her convict records Amelia
apparently had a six month de facto relationship with a William
Simpson following William Hough’s conviction. Amelia, along with
some 200 other female convicts, was transported on the vessel
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Woodbridge,</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">
arriving in Van Dieman’s Land on the 25 Dec 1843. The fact that she
was literate and could handle needle and thread helped no doubt with
her assignment to the household of Sir John Eardly-Wilmot, Lt
Governor of Van Dieman’s land (he served in Hobart Town from August
1843 until October 1846). During this time she kept in touch by
letter with her parents back in England and, at her request, they
wrote to the authorities requesting a pardon, so that she could
accompany the Wilmot household to Sydney. The pardon application was
unsuccessful as it was only a couple of years into her sentence.
(Refer to Attachment 1).</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">Amelia
was apparently very much liked and appreciated for her character. The
front page of a book held by Vicki Cowles has the following
inscription on the front page “Amelia Hough - A token of
esteem from Mrs Hopkins April 2 1847”. At this stage Amelia was
still a convict. Maybe Amelia worked as a servant in the Hopkins
household prior to gaining her pardon. After serving eight years
and one month, and exhibiting good behaviour, Amelia gained a Ticket
of Leave pardon (in 1849), and was able join her now free husband
William. Her complete pardon is dated on the 9 August
1852. Her convict records indicate that Amelia was 5’ 1” tall,
fair complexion, light blue eyes with a mole on her left arm. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">On
the 29 June 1851 the birth of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Belmont
Francis Hough</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">
was recorded in Hobart, Tasmania - - (Belmont) Francis Hough to
Amelia and William Hough.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Henry
Chesterman</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">
at the age of 23 arrived in Victoria from Chippenham, England in the
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>John Chalmers</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">
in November 1852 and spent three years at the goldfields prior to
settling in the township of Franklin on the Huon River, Van Dieman’s
Land, where he acquired a partnership in the Kent Hotel. At 19 years
of age Mary Swinfield married Henry Chesterman on the 13</span><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">th</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">
of October 1857 with William Hough as a witness; and in November 1859
Amelia’s younger sister Jane Swinfield married John Stanton with
Amelia as witness. </span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Swinfield senior <br />
(1806-1874)</td></tr>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">Amelia’s
brother </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>John
Swinfield sen.</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">,
along with his wife Mary Ann, and a family of three girls and two of
their sons, John and William, (the eldest son Edward remained at
home), sailed from England in the vessel </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Beejapore
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">arriving in
Sydney on 11</span><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">th</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">
February 1853. The vessel was a clipper ship of 1600 tons with 960
passengers, 53 died on the voyage out, and a further 60 or more died
at the Sydney Quarantine Station including Mary Ann and William. The
daughters </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Mary</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">
(15) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Caroline</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">
(13) and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Mary
Ann</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"> (7)
along with </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>John</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">
(17) and their father survived and settled in Redfern, Sydney. John
sen. set up shop as a jeweller, and in 1856 married widow Eliza
Hartley who already had three children from her previous marriage. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Belmont Francis Hough <br />
with Caroline and Mary Ann Swinfield</td></tr>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">About 1856 Amelia </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">arranged for the transfer by </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Capt.
Robert Henderson</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">
of her three nieces Mary, Caroline and Mary Ann from Sydney to Hobart
to live with her and William. This undoubtedly removed a lot of
pressure from John sen. and his newly acquired wife; and the girls
would have been useful in assisting at the White Hart Inn, along with
their cousin Belmont Francis Hough. It is not clear as to whether
John Swinfield jun. accompanied his sisters on the journey south;
however in 1860 he is recorded as assisting Henry and his wife Mary
at the Kent Hotel Franklin. </span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">In
August 1854 William Hough applied for the license of the White Hart
Inn situated on the corner of Elizabeth St and Bathurst St in Hobart
Town. The application – along with many others - was refused.
However, the following year his application was approved, and along with Amelia </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">he
operated the Inn up until William’s death at the age of 38 on the
25</span><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">th</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">
November 1857. The license was then transferred to Amelia in her own
right on the 2nd of December 1857 and she retained it until about
1860. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Capt Robert & Amelia Henderson</td></tr>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">Some
two years after the death of William Hough Amelia married Swedish
born </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Captain
Robert</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Henderson</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">
on the 3</span><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">rd</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">
of December 1860. The couple sold off the licence of the White Hart
Inn and lived in a house in Cross St, Battery Point. Capt. Henderson
continued with his sailing activities both as officer and as captain
on various interstate and overseas vessels. He introduced his stepson
Belmont Hough to the seafaring life. Robert Henderson died on the 8</span><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">th</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">
July 1868 at the age of 45 from heart disease and oedema. Amelia at
the age of 50 was a widow for the second time in twelve years. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">Later
that year twenty two year old Mary Ann Swinfield married </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Moses
John Clark</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">
(1846 -1921) on the 12th September 1868 at St Georges Church
Franklin, close to where both the Clark family and Mary and Henry
Chesterman resided.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">Amelia
Henderson continued living in Cross St Battery Point, the home
originally purchased by husband Robert. However, in 1891 with the
collapse of the Van Dieman’s Land Bank, Amelia lost all of her
assets and was effectively destitute. She lived the remainder of her
life with Mary and Henry Chesterman at ‘Henriville’ in Hobart
until her death September 4 1896. The front cover page shows a photo
of the Chesterman family vault at the Cornelian Bay Cemetery where
Amelia and many of the Chesterman family are interred. Mary Ann
Clark is buried at the Nubeena cemetery on Tasman’s Peninsular.
Frank Hough and family are buried in Sydney.</span></div>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="124"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Name</b></span></span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="112"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Married</b></span></span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="136"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Date</b></span></span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="183"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Place</b></span></span></td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="124"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB">Mary Swinfield
(19)</span></span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="112"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB">Henry Chesterman</span></span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="136"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB">13 October 1857</span></span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="183"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB">St Davids
Cathedral Hobart</span></span></td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="124"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB">Caroline Swinfield
(18)</span></span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="112"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span lang="en-GB">James Alfred
Mitchelson </span></span>
</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="136"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB">2 August 1859</span></span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="183"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span lang="en-GB">St Johns Church
Hobart </span></span>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="124"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB">John Swinfield
(31)</span></span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="112"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB">Sophia Walton</span></span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="136"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB">3 August 1867</span></span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="183"><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span lang="en-GB">St
Georges Church </span></span>
</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB">Battery Point
Hobart</span></span></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="124"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB">Mary Ann Swinfield
(22)</span></span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="112"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB">Moses John Clark</span></span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="136"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB">12 September 1868</span></span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="183"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB">St Georges Church
Franklin</span></span></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Marriage
Table of the Tasmanian Settled Children of John and Mary Ann
Swinfield</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div>
<table cellpadding="7" cellspacing="0" style="width: 614px;">
<colgroup><col width="155"></col>
<col width="109"></col>
<col width="90"></col>
<col width="202"></col>
</colgroup><tbody>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="155"><div align="CENTER">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Name</b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="109"><div align="CENTER">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Ship</b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="90"><div align="CENTER">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Date</b></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="202"><div align="CENTER">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Port</b></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="155"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">John Clark father of
Moses and Aaron</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="109"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Not known</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="90"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Pre 1837</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="202"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Not known</span></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="155"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">William Hough</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="109"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Leyton</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="90"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">1841</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="202"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Hobart Town</span></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="155"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Amelia Hough</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="109"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Woodridge</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="90"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">1843</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="202"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Hobart Town</span></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="155"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">William Swinfield</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="109"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Walmer Castle</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="90"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">1848</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="202"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Sydney</span></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="155"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Henry Chesterman</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="109"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">John Chalmers</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="90"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">1852</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="202"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Hobson’s Bay Victoria</span></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="155"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">John Swinfield and
family </span>
</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="109"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">Beejapore </span>
</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="90"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">1853</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="202"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Sydney</span></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="155"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Amelia Matilda
Chesterman</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="109"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Medway</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="90"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">1854</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="202"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Melbourne</span></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="155"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Robert Henderson</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="109"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Astoria</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="90"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">19 June 1854</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="202"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Newfoundland to Sydney</span></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="155"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Jane Swinfield</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="109"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Cadet 2, Emma</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="90"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">1855 6 Feb
1855</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #00000a; padding: 0cm 0.19cm;" width="202"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Cadet 2 to Sydney. Emma
Sydney to Hobart</span></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-right: 1cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Summary
of Clark, Hough, Swinfield, Chesterman and Henderson Family </b></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
</div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-right: 1cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Australian
Arrival Data</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Seafaring
</b></u></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">It
is probable Capt Robert Henderson introduced his stepson to the
seafaring life. On the 25</span><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">th</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">
April 1865 Belmont Francis (Frank) Hough is listed as a 14 year old
seaman/boy on board the schooner </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Malcom</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">
with Capt Henderson as Master. A poignant poem written on the 31
December 1867 by Frank, referring to his caring mother Amelia, is
glued on the inside of his camphor wood sea chest is reproduced
below. The sea chest is now with the family in Hobart. (See
Attachment 2.)</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 0.35cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 0.35cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.35cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>NEW
YEAR’S DAY SCHOONER "MALCOLM"</b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>31
December 1867</b></span></span></span></div>
<div lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.35cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Thoughts
of home are creeping o'er me</b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.35cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Of
my friends so far away</b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.35cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>And
a vision comes before me</b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.35cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>In
thought I am at home today</b></span></span></span></div>
<div lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.35cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Out
upon the trackless ocean</b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.35cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Headwinds
keeping me from rest</b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.35cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>But
my mind is now in motion</b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.35cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>As
I lie upon my chest</b></span></span></span></div>
<div lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.35cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>This
time last year I was there</b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.35cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Happy
as a boy could be</b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.35cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>With
my mother's gentle care</b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.35cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>But
I now am out at sea</b></span></span></span></div>
<div lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.35cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>God
I thank thee for thy goodness</b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.35cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>In
keeping me another year</b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.35cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>For
all the mercies thou hast shown us</b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.28cm; margin-bottom: 0.05cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Help
me thee to love and fear.</b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.28cm; margin-bottom: 0.05cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.28cm; margin-bottom: 0.05cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b> B
</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>F
Hough</b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.28cm; margin-bottom: 0.05cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">Passenger
arrivals lists for the 23 November 1870 reveal Frank Hough at the age
of 19 as arriving in Melbourne on board the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Talisman</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">
of 460 tons from Batavia. This vessel was involved with the rescue of
the crew of the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Countess
of Seafield</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">
that ran aground on Bramble Cay, a reef at the eastern end of Torres
Strait, on the 23 June 1870. The fact that Frank Hough is listed as a
passenger would indicate that he was a member of the rescued crew. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">Shortly
after returning on the 4 June 1881 to Sydney from San Francisco in
the vessel </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Zealandia</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">,
Frank Hough married on the 24</span><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">th</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">
of the same month. A daughter was born on the 29</span><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">th</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">
March 1882, and a son on the 26</span><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">th</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">
Jan 1885. Both children were baptised Anglican at St Davids, Surry
Hills, Sydney. Following his marriage Frank Hough lived and worked
in Sydney as a ’special agent Australian Widows Fund’. In January
1887 his wife died of typhoid fever, and on the 11</span><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">th</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">
December of the same year Frank Hough died ‘very suddenly’ at 36
years of age. On 1</span><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">st</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">
January 1888 their daughter aged 5 died and on the 7</span><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">th</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">
October that year their son aged 3 years died. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>Acknowledgements</b></u></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Special
thanks is due to the members of the Hood family; Vicki Cowles, Toni
Hood, also my cousin Ruth Cuff for the opportunity to copy some of
their images, access letters and postcards and for their additional
insight and assistance with recognition of individual photos family
members. Also for the input and enthusiasm of Ann Jeffries in New
Zealand, who has given time and insight over several years on a wide
range of family tree matters. Her review of drafts has helped to
minimise the errors within the text. Whilst every attempt has been made to authenticate the identity of the individuals within the
photos, in</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">many
cases names were not recorded in the albums. This made rigorous
identification very difficult.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Attachment
1 Letter from Amelia and Amelia’s Parents 1845/46 </b></u></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Information
from Female Convicts Research Centre Inc.</span></span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Amelia
Hough A letter written to her parents.</b></span></span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Letters
written by convict women were rare and rarely survived, but a letter
written by Amelia Hough to her parents, Thomas and Elizabeth
Swinfield of Camp Hill Cottage, Near Nuneaton, Warwickshire, does, at
least in part. The text of Amelia’s letter is recorded in a
petition* written by her parents in 1846 requesting a pardon on
behalf of their daughter and permission for her to leave Van Diemen’s
Land with Governor Wilmot, for whom she worked as a domestic servant.
It reads (the identity of Miss Loftus is unknown):</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.05cm; margin-top: 0.05cm;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>My dear Father
and Mother, Miss Loftis having informed His Excellency that I had
received a letter from you her very kindly asked me if my friends
were all well, I thanked him for his enquiries at the same time asked
His Excellency if he could please to read the letter which her did,
and when her came to that part where you expressed a hope of my
pardon, he sent for me into the drawing room, and told me that he
would most willingly do it if it laid within his power but it did not
altogether, he told me that when I wrote to you again that, if you
would intercede for me to the Government at home. My Lord Stanley
would then send out to him (Sir E Willmot) and he would then do all
that possibly lay in his power for me as Sir Willmott does not expect
to stay more than 18 months in Hobart Town expecting to go to Sydney
as Governor. I shall [illegible ] to leave the family having
experienced so much kindness from them but I cannot go unless I have
my liberty. I have (by the time you receive this letter) been in His
Excellency’s service two years and I hope I shall never forget
their kindness.</i></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.05cm; margin-top: 0.05cm;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.05cm; margin-top: 0.05cm;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">We hear many stories
of female convicts rebelling against being assigned as domestic
servants, behaving badly, getting drunk and being absent without
leave and so on; but this letter give a picture of a female convict
who is happy and co-operative, appreciates the kindness she receives
from her employers and sounds like a model servant. Amelia
Swinfield and William Hough, a brickmaker, were married at Newton
Regis in Warwickshire in August 1839. In 1840 a son, Thomas, was born
to them – but also in that year in 1840, William, aged 24, was
sentenced to transportation for housebreaking. He left his wife with
his father. Whether Amelia committed a crime in the hope of joining
him we shall never know, but in 1843 Amelia was living with William
Simpson. She and Thomas Simpson were charged with stealing cloth from
a boat, and Amelia was sentenced to fourteen years’ transportation.
She arrived in Hobart in 1843.</span></div>
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did not arrive. It was very soon to apply for it; Amelia was only a
few years into her fourteen-year sentence, and pardons were not given
so early. She was a well-behaved convict throughout, not only at
government house; she committed no offences and gained her ticket of
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Hobart. He died at the hotel in November 1857 and Amelia assumed the
licence. In 1860, she married Swedish-born Robert Henderson, captain
of the Hargraves, a brigantine that sailed between Hobart Town and
Sydney. Henderson died at his home in Cross Street, Battery Point,
aged 45, in 1868.</span></div>
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week I visited <a href="http://www.recordoffice.org.uk/" target="_blank">Leicestershire and Rutland Record Office</a> at Wigston
Magna. This was the first time that I have been on a research visit
there since the 1980s. In the company of my wife Di and my 3rd cousin
once removed, Sandra Bates, who now lives at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barwell" target="_blank">Barwell</a>, we looked at
the poor law registers for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Shilton" target="_blank">Earl Shilton</a> from the late 18th and early
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">This
was then the home of the members of the Swinfield family (Family 5).
We are descended "on paper" from Thomas Swinfield and his
wife Sarah (Hewitt) who married at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trowell" target="_blank">Trowell</a> in Nottinghamshire, her
home parish, in 1829. You can refresh your memory of why he is not
our "genetic ancestor" by reading <a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/part-6-its-all-in-science.html" target="_blank">Part 6</a> and <a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/part-24-more-answers-more-questions.html" target="_blank">Part 24</a> of
this Blog from 2011 and 2012. In fact, Sarah was having her, apparently legitimate, children by the lodger, Thomas
Brown, a lifelong bachelor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Genetically, we are descended from his parents, Basil Brown
and Martha Colver who married in Kirby Mallory church in 1797.
Basil's parents were Richard Brown and Elizabeth Pougher whose
marriage took place at Earl Shilton in 1764. </span>
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<a href="https://www.londonlives.org/static/AC.jsp#toc3" target="_blank">Overseers of the Poor accounts</a> for 1804 to 1818 (DE727/59) include
tantalising references to b</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">oth Richard and Basil Brown, each
receiving regular small payments of a few shillings to see them
through periods of need. Indeed Richard Brown was paid 2 shillings
every week from 1st March to 12th April 1806. Was he ill and unable
to work? This seems to be confirmed by a burial for him on 4th
June 1806. His widow survived until 1811. Basil Brown died at the age
of only 43, being buried from the church on 22nd December 1816. An
entry of 20th December records that 2s was paid to "The Woman
for laying Basil Brown out". Two days later, Widow Brown
received 4 shillings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Thomas
Swinfield, our genealogical ancestor, was baptised at Earl Shilton
church in 1808 as the son Thomas Swinfield (1770-1833) and Sarah
(Toon). He may be the child who was apprenticed on 12th October 1817,
the parish paying a little over £3 to cover the binding fee and his
clothing and Swinfield Senior receiving one shilling for "loss
of time" (DE727/62: Charity Papers and Accounts 1814-1878).
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">A
card index in the record office provides access to a range of poor
law records such as settlement certificates, removals, bastardy
papers and apprenticeships. There is just one Swinfield card. Imagine our delight when it proved to be for John
Swinfield (1738-1820), who genealogically is my 4xgreat-grandfather.
Produced by the Overseers of the Poor for the parish of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashby-de-la-Zouch" target="_blank">Ashby de la Zouch</a> on 29th November 1769, it records the first 30 years of his
life in intriguing and hitherto unknown detail. Confirming that he
was born at <a href="https://www.smisby.org.uk/" target="_blank">Smisby</a> in neighbouring Derbyshire (where he was indeed
baptised) it informs us that he first went to work at the age of 10
or 11 and laboured around Leicestershire until he joined the 4th
Regiment of Foot about 1755. He may have served for about 11 years
until we learn of his last hiring at <a href="http://netherseal.btck.co.uk/Amodernhistoryofthevillage" target="_blank">Netherseal</a> in 1766. </span>
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Geoff Swinfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04831517940388882786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536016186092406911.post-67818116120919961802017-08-13T03:33:00.000-07:002017-08-13T03:33:37.839-07:00Raymond Francis Swinfield 1934-2017<div class="western">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwIp-xISNBDeB5T9bpa4Bnb30J92nI9MJu2qDpNWUprUeemBeEG1KDzy2H8rw56e47y14ir2CbL9Ur58VPjOB1RzjuPnH2TD0iW3lho0LSVRjPL9VE_KdgM_ZE2LyEplipklQX0X3a2a0/s1600/2014-05-03+11.06.03+cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1461" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwIp-xISNBDeB5T9bpa4Bnb30J92nI9MJu2qDpNWUprUeemBeEG1KDzy2H8rw56e47y14ir2CbL9Ur58VPjOB1RzjuPnH2TD0iW3lho0LSVRjPL9VE_KdgM_ZE2LyEplipklQX0X3a2a0/s200/2014-05-03+11.06.03+cropped.jpg" width="182" /></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I am very sad to announce the death of <a href="http://tributes.smh.com.au/obituaries/smh-au/obituary.aspx?n=raymond-swinfield&pid=186329428" target="_blank">Ray Swinfield on 5th August at his home in Sydney, Australia</a>. I first heard from him at the end of
2003 when, out of the blue, I received a letter from him informing me that he and his brother John were "working on their
family tree". His large family tree recorded that <a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/part-23-new-tree-from-australia.html" target="_blank">they had traced their ancestry back to England in the mid 18th century</a> and asked if I could provide any additional information. </span>
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was aware of the emigration of two brothers, William and John
Swinfield, to Australia in the middle of the 19th century and could
extend their family tree back through the records of Nuneaton and
other parishes which lie alongside the A5 road in Warwickshire, to a
marriage of John Swinfield to Frances Collins at
Wolvey on 25th August 1755. That was the point that Ray and
John had reached and indeed, 15 years later, we cannot yet extend
that line any further. They were, of course, able to provide me with
the new documentation which recorded their descent from the emigrant
ancestor, William Swinfield (1804-1876), a tailor, who made the very
long journey to Australia with his second wife Sarah (Williamson) and
his four children by his previous wife (Sarah Ballard) aboard <a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/part-8-australian-branches.html" target="_blank">The Walmer Castle in 1848</a>. Their part of the Swinfield family stems from
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2003, Ray and I have communicated intermittently by mail and later e-mail
about further discoveries </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">that </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">were made about the wider Swinfield
genealogy, Over the years, he has provided me with news and the additions to his part of Family 3B, as it became known. </span></div>
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later life, he moved into the Calvary Ryde Retirement Community in
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When
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That gave Ray
the chance to meet many of his distant cousins for the first time
when representatives of all of the branches of the Australian Swinfield
family met at Ryde. He was so supportive of the research and even
took a DNA test on the day to add to our knowledge of its genetic
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ray giving his DNA sample </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ray (right) at the <br />Swinfield Gathering in May 2014 </td></tr>
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mass will take place at St Margaret's Chapel, 678 Victoria Road,
Ryde, on Monday, 14th August 2017, at 10am and he will be buried at
<a href="http://northerncemeteries.com.au/macquarie-park/" target="_blank">Macquarie Park Cemetery</a>. </span>
Geoff Swinfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04831517940388882786noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536016186092406911.post-63167180077973251582016-12-08T05:05:00.000-08:002016-12-08T05:09:47.457-08:00Swinfield Exhibition at Hereford Cathedral <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dingley's image of Gilbert's grave</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Where Gilbert's stone was found <br />
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On 21st November, Di and I were very pleased to
visit Hereford Cathedral to view the exhibition of items for the
Swinfields who lived and worked there in the 13th and 14th centuries.
As I wrote in the <a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/an-important-swinfield-find.html" target="_blank">Blog of 28th February 2016</a>, the star of the show is
the 700 year-old stone which marked the grave of Gilbert(us) de
Swinfield, Chancellor of the Cathedral, who died in 1299. His tomb was
opened in the 1840s during the excavations and building work of Dean
Merewether. Subsequently the slab was known to be stored in the
north-east transept by 1871. It was later broken into usable pieces
and the surviving section was employed as paving in St John's Walk. It was re-discovered during restoration work last year. What an amazing survival of enough of the inscription to be able to attribute it to the original grave which was illustrated by Dingley in his <i>History in Marble </i>of the 17th
century!<i> </i>It is
situated beside
the tomb which was incorrectly attributed to Bishop Robert Kilwardby.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gilbert's stone in the Chained Library </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Swinfield Exhibition</td></tr>
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When Gilbert's
tomb was opened, the body was left in situ. However, the grave goods,
which included fragments of the gold braid of his vestments and
possibly his shoes as well as his pewter chalice and paten, were
removed and preserved. Those are now on show until the excellent
exhibition closes at the end
of 2016. If you are in the Hereford area this month, take the
opportunity to visit. It will not be repeated.
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and documents are displayed for Gilbert's brother, Precentor John
Swinfield (died 1311),
and their uncle Bishop Richard de Swinfield (died 1317). Those
include the amazing wooden and gilded head of Richard's crozier. Both
men have
much grander
memorials than that of
Gilbert. John's effigy, with
its lovely arch of pigs and acorns, is readily visible to the right
side of The Lady Chapel. Richard's much desecrated
memorial can now only be found by gaining access to the locked
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Geoff Swinfield, Ian Bass and <br />
Clare Wichbold at the memorial <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bishop Richard de Swinfield's <br />
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We were given an
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unearthed Gilbert's stone, and Ian Bass. <a href="https://www.academia.edu/29540959/Herefords_Forgotten_Chancellor_The_Life_and_Career_of_Gilbert_de_Swinfield" target="_blank">For the exhibition, Ian compiled an account of the life of the "forgotten Chancellor" which he presented to those who attended an open day for the exhibition. It can be read online here</a>.
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The Bishop was
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publicise the miracles attributed to his predecessor Thomas de
Cantilupe who was bishop from
1275
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to be canonised in 1320.
Richard insisted that Thomas be buried not where he wished to be laid
to rest but in a very prominent position in the Cathedral. That
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it was lavishly constructed. Richard Swinfield had a great eye for a
business opportunity,
offering a place of pilgrimage to try to rival that of Thomas Becket
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what became of the Swinfield lineage, if there were any descendants,
after the deaths of the three clerics by 1317. There is little, if
any, record of people with our surname from then until they appear in
the records of London and Leicestershire/Derbyshire in the late 16th
century.</div>
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Were any of the
Swinfields of Hereford the ancestors of today's generation? We will
probably never know!
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Geoff Swinfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04831517940388882786noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536016186092406911.post-55103665876907586062016-10-01T08:12:00.000-07:002016-10-01T08:17:20.276-07:00Swinfield exhibition at Hereford Cathedral now open<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
In <a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/an-important-swinfield-find.html" target="_blank">February this year</a>, I wrote about the forthcoming exhibition at<a href="https://www.herefordcathedral.org/" target="_blank"> Hereford Cathedral</a> which displays the recent finds in St John's Walk, in particular the items relating to Gilbert Swinfield. The exhibition is now open:</div>
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If you can get to Hereford before the end of the year, why not go along and have a look? You will be able to see <a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.co.uk/p/monuments_26.html" target="_blank">monuments and personal items for the Swinfields</a>. Di and I are planning a visit in November.Geoff Swinfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04831517940388882786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536016186092406911.post-19867188212931167342016-05-30T03:27:00.001-07:002022-06-07T02:12:48.644-07:00Swinfields in the 1939 Register<div class="western">
In September 1939, at the beginning of WWII, it
was necessary for the Government to list the population of England
and Wales. To issue identity cards and ration books, the 1939
Register was produced and enumerators recorded those living in each
household on 29th September. By address, we see the names of those present, their date of birth, marital status,
occupation, and any role which they had in the war effort.
That could be as an air raid warden, ambulance driver, having work
in vital communications or being in military service.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">St Mary's Road, Camberley, Surrey <span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br />(RG101/1897F/020/41)</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span></td></tr>
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The register was subsequently annotated with
changes of surname, specifically for women who later married, and
sometimes years of death. Amendments are usually recorded with a date
when evidence was submitted to the authorities. This makes it a very
useful source for family historians and genealogists who are
researching what became of a person after WWII. It may be one of the
few ways of obtaining a birthday without identifying the relevant
birth registration and obtaining a copy of the certificate.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arthur, Reg & Edith Swinfield <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">about 1954 </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">with Susan "Cissie" Worsfold (1879-1957)</span></td></tr>
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As people died, their deaths were supposed to be
notified to those who then maintained the Register. That was the duty of their doctor and became almost a voluntary
responsibility. It was later neglected altogether.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">My grandparents at 9 St Mary's Road. </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Reg Swinfield, my father, born in 1925, is still living and "redacted". (Family 5)</span></td></tr>
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The 1939 Register has now been digitised through
the National Archives and made available online at <a href="http://www.findmypast.co.uk/1939register" target="_blank">FindMyPast</a>, a
commercial website. It is indexed by name and can be searched by date
of birth and place of residence. Not all of those who appear in the
Register have information which is available for public inspection.
The entries for those who would not yet be 100 years of age (i.e.
born after 1915), and where no evidence has yet been provided that
they have now died, have been "redacted". The information
is hidden under a black line.</div>
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At present, 199 people have "open"
records and can be identified as members of our Swinfield families.
Their details have been added to the compiled pedigrees.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The large Swinfield family at 16 Mount Avenue, Leicester (RG101/6009C/018/9) (Family 4A)<br />
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If any of you would like to see the entry for your
relatives in England, recording them in late September 1939, contact
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Geoff Swinfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04831517940388882786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536016186092406911.post-61802282811177700272016-04-16T06:13:00.000-07:002016-04-16T06:13:08.079-07:00A drive round some North Warwickshire churchesby Di Swinfield<br />
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Last week, we spent three days at the <a href="http://www.whodoyouthinkyouarelive.com/" target="_blank">Who Do you Think you Are? Live</a> event at the <a href="http://www.thenec.co.uk/" target="_blank">National Exhibition Centre</a> in Birmingham. On the way home, we realised we were close enough to Swinfield country to take a short detour and photograph some churches we haven't visited before. These places will be of particular interest to the Australian Swinfields who are descended from the two brothers, John and William, who <a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/part-8-australian-branches.html" target="_blank">emigrated to New South Wales</a> in the middle of the 19th century.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">St Mary, Atherstone</td></tr>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atherstone" target="_blank">Atherstone</a> church is where <a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/part-17-working-in-west-indies.html" target="_blank">Edward Swinfield</a> was baptised in 1834 and married in 1866. Edward was the son who did not travel to Australia with his parents, John and Mary Ann, but found work as a planter in St Kitts.<br />
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Edward's younger sister, Mary, was the ancestress of <a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/part-19-ruth-cuff-comes-to-england.html" target="_blank">Ruth Cuff</a> of Tasmania. Mary was baptised at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancetter" target="_blank">Mancetter</a> in 1840. Their parents, John Swinfield and Mary Ann Bates, had married there in 1833 and sailed on the ill-fated 1852 voyage of the <i>Beejapore</i>.<br />
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The family lived in the neighbouring village of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartshill" target="_blank">Hartshill</a>, which is also where we believe John (William) Swinfield was baptised in 1838. He was the son of brother William, who emigrated in 1848, and his first wife, Sarah Ballard. Among their descendants are Cheryl Cooper and Andrew, Helen, Pamela and Linda Swinfield, all born in New South Wales and living in Australia today.<br />
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These three churches are less than three miles apart and the brothers would have been very familiar with all of them.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF1WLZY_DYVS14ykczaPefnVWRDP6-i3cxe_VU2qTy0yBmTDpiIvXCfqIEDOwaTazB1F_PfbIR9TfJqwges7zso4gmvc_ySYdxYBSBQFhpfgVP3hjHBCRl4T3euRIIX3KFg3Ci4DLrIp8/s1600/G+L+Garden+1+LR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF1WLZY_DYVS14ykczaPefnVWRDP6-i3cxe_VU2qTy0yBmTDpiIvXCfqIEDOwaTazB1F_PfbIR9TfJqwges7zso4gmvc_ySYdxYBSBQFhpfgVP3hjHBCRl4T3euRIIX3KFg3Ci4DLrIp8/s320/G+L+Garden+1+LR.jpg" width="240" /></a>Recently a very interesting discovery was made in
the grounds of Hereford Cathedral in the west of England. St John's
Walk was built in the early 16th century, it is believed from dendrochronology, to protect the members of the College of the
Vicar's Choral from both the weather and the local inhabitants on
their way to the services. It has been restored over the centuries
and the most recent work concentrated on replacing stonework and
damaged paving slabs. One of the stones used for the walkway had an
inscription to Gilbertus de Swinfield! It is now in Masons' Yard
awaiting conservation. <a href="http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/14244627.700_year_old_lost_tombstone_re_discovered_at_Hereford_Cathedral/" target="_blank">The find was reported in the Hereford Times on 1st February</a>. </div>
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I have been contacted by Clare Wichbold, the
archaeologist of Hereford Cathedral who was responsible for
unearthing the slab. She learned of our interest in all those with
the surname through an internet search. That led her to the Swinfield
Genealogy and DNA Facebook page. Clare informs us that there is a
detailed description of Gilbert's tomb and its contents in the <i>Fasti
Herefordensis</i> of Francis Tebbs Havergal. It is known that after
it was removed, the stone was sitting in the north-east transept
until at least 1871 when it was recorded by a visiting antiquarian.
Subsequently, it was employed as a paving stone.
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Gilbert was a nephew of the more widely-recorded
Bishop Richard de Swinfield who held that position at Hereford from
1283-1317, when he died at Bosbury. Richard's extensive register was published in 1909 and includes transcriptions of his letters and the
documents produced during his time in charge of that diocese. Derrick
Swinfield made an extensive study of his papers in the Cathedral
Archives in May 2007 and has drawn up a pedigree of his immediate
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three sons of Stephen who died at Bosbury in 1282. He may have been
related to Peter Swynsfeld, one of the founders of Grey Friars Abbey, Leicester, in 1255, from where the body of Richard III was exhumed. Richard's brothers were Stephen of Gravesend and
Thomas. The Bishop's tomb was examined and recorded by Dean
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In addition to Gilbert, Richard de Swinfield had
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was Precentor from 1294, has a grand tomb in the Lady Chapel at
Hereford Cathedral constructed after his death in 1311. Running along
the archway are 16 pigs or swine, a pun on his surname, each
decorated with the blue and gold chevrons taken from the arms of the
Dean and Chapter.
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Some leather and gold braid from the vestments in
which he was buried have survived from Gilbert's tomb in the
Cathedral Archives. Photographs of these are reproduced by kind
permission of Gordon Taylor. They will form an important part of an
exhibition of the St John's Walk finds to be staged in the Cathedral
from 12th September to 31st December 2016. Di and I have been invited to visit. It will be
a great opportunity for us all to see the tombstone and possessions
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Geoff Swinfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04831517940388882786noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536016186092406911.post-8707438019084959502015-12-24T04:06:00.000-08:002015-12-24T04:16:04.740-08:00Happy Christmas to all Swinfields! It is that time again when we think back to what has happened throughout the past year before we look forward at New Year and to what is to come. In 2015, what was achieved in our search for the history of the Swinfield family?<br />
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In September, the <a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/the-second-swinfield-gathering.html" target="_blank">3rd Swinfield Gathering was held at Barwell</a> in Leicestershire. This is the second time that we have come together in England. Once more, this was the opportunity to meet "new cousins" and to share information, stories and photographs about our ancestors and relatives.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Highfield Street, Earl Shilton</td></tr>
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The next day, Sandra Bates took Di and me on a guided tour of Earl Shilton looking for and photographing the places where Swinfields lived in the village. We also visited the church and completed the collection of monumental inscriptions from that churchyard.<br />
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<a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/monumental-inscriptions-and-graves.html" target="_blank">All the grave inscriptions</a>, from whichever churchyard throughout the world they are in, are now being added to this Blog. Perhaps next year, we will be able to add the remaining stones which are in <a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.co.uk/p/monumental-incriptions.html" target="_blank">Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney</a>. <br />
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I have been continuing to collect photographs of anyone who has ever had the surname of Swinfield. Believe it or not, we are nearing the 500 mark in the Family Album. If there is not one of you there that would be surprising and something to rectify in 2016! One of those is the first image that I have ever seen of my <a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/sarah-swinfield-raven-update-and.html" target="_blank">great-grandfather William</a> which came to light this year.<br />
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At this time, we also think of those who have left us in the year that is drawing to a close. Sadly I am aware of three Swinfields who are no longer with us. They are Yvonne Patricia (1967-2015), Rosetta Winifred (1921-2015) and Abby Nicola (1996-2015). They will be sorely missed by their families.<br />
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I cannot tell you about the Swinfield marriages of 2015 yet as the records are currently only available to 2013. Of course, I know about my <a href="http://swinfieldblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/we-are-now-married.html" target="_blank">own wedding in St Lucia in March</a> this year. I am so happy that Di has now joined the family. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reginald Felix Swinfield (born 19th August 2015)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Leslie and <br />
Charlie John Swinfield <br />
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Eight new additions have been welcomed to the Swinfield clan, being born in 2015 to my current knowledge. Our "population" is now about 600 worldwide (about 490 in England and 110 elsewhere). At present, I can only add three of them to the appropriate family tree. If any of you can tell me where they "fit in", please let me know.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Do have a Happy Christmas from us all!</span></div>
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<br />Geoff Swinfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04831517940388882786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536016186092406911.post-76268889913196888392015-09-19T12:52:00.000-07:002018-03-01T06:40:21.830-08:00The Second English Swinfield Gathering It happened last Saturday! On 12th September, English members of the Swinfield and related families met at the George Ward Centre (the Community Centre) at Barwell, Leicestershire.<br />
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Once more, we had the chance to meet "our cousins" and to discover how we are related to one another. Fewer Swinfields, than I had hoped, were present but those who were there seemed to enjoy looking at the displays of family trees that had been laid out.<br />
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I gave a presentation to illustrate what has been discovered about the family's history over the past 43 years of study.<br />
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My sincere thanks to those who came along to support the Gathering.<br />
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It could not have happened without the very hard work and input of Di, Sandra and Allan.Geoff Swinfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04831517940388882786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536016186092406911.post-38714652481188955612015-09-06T03:07:00.000-07:002015-09-06T03:10:15.318-07:00See you in a week's time at Barwell? In just a week's time, the Swinfields will be coming together at Barwell in Leicestershire. Your relations and long-lost cousins may be there! Now is the chance to meet them. Make sure that you are there too.<br />
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Sandra Bates has ensured that there has been lots of publicity to make sure that it comes to the attention of all the "Swinfields" who still live locally. Besides delivering more than 50 flyers to known addresses of those who at some time have had the name, two articles have been published in local newspapers.<br />
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We are busy making displays to illustrate what we know about the family's history. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Doors open at 1pm on 12th September at the George Ward Centre. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Don't miss the illustrated talk which will begin at </span><span style="font-size: large;">2.45pm. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Be with us until 5pm.</span><br />
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