Swain Family History
Swain Name Meaning
Northern English: occupational name for a servant or attendant,
from the Middle English word swein ‘servant’ or Old Norse
sveinn ‘boy’, ‘servant’. In Old Norse this word is also found
as a personal name in the form Sveinn; so in some cases the
origin may be patronymic.Scottish and Irish: reduced form of
McSwain.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Swain
Name Distribution of Swain Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Swain families
 451 - 900  151 - 450 |
 1 - 150  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Swain families
|
10 - 17 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Swain census records
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Swain Family Origin
Swain Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Swain Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Swain families immigrated
to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Swain Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Swain census records
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Military Service by Swain
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