Swift Family History
Swift Name Meaning
English: nickname for a rapid runner, from Middle English
swift ‘fleet’.Irish: Anglicization (part translation) of
Gaelic Ó Fuada (see Foody).Americanized form of some like-sounding Jewish name.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Swift
Name Distribution of Swift Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Swift families
 1,384 - 2,765  462 - 1,383 |
 1 - 461  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Swift families
|
37 - 71 13 - 36 |
1 - 12 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Swift census records
You can see how Swift families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
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Swift Family Origin
Swift Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Swift families immigrated
to the United States.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Swift Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Swift families immigrated
to Australia.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Swift Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Swift census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Swift ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Swift
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