Re: Squire Swarens 1703 Maryland
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Squire Swarens 1703 Maryland
Rolla Bruce Swarens 7/23/04
Hi Bruce (or do you go by Rolla/Rollie?)...
I just now tried to get your e-mail address from the genforum system here, but it's giving me an error message.
I've been wanting to contact a descendent of E. G. Swarens for the last month. Thanks first for your informative post, and for correcting Ernst's name for me (the census & Social Security have it as Ernest, and one census even had Earnest if I recall correctly. And I had no idea what his middle initial stood for).
I have your father as one of 8 kids that E. G. had with Louanna Smith. Additionally, I have E. G.'s parents as Eli Swarens and Eva "Effie" MDNU Wilson (she was from Bavaria and had been married to a Mr. Wilson before marrying Eli).
But I have lots of questions & mysteries I hope you can clear up.
There is marriage record for Eli & Effa Wilson for 10-Mar-1864 in Woodford Co. IL. However, in the 1870 census of Woodford Co., he's listed as Lewis Swarens and his age is suddenly WAY wrong. Eli was born in 1810, probably November or December. But Effie's husband in 1870 was born 1822, and in fact there is a Lewis Swarens who was born that year. This is most confusing.
Anyway question 1 is, is my identification of E. G.'s parents correct?
Question 2 is do you have full birth & death dates for Eli?
Question 3 is do you know what happend to the kids Eli had with wife #1, Susan Avery, who he married in Harrison Co. Indiana in 1828? He appears to not have had any children with wife #2, Elizabeth Ann "Betsy" Gatlin whom he married on 26-Oct-1847 in Woodford Co. IL. Is that also correct?
How about dates for Eli's father Christian Swarens? Best I can manage is "about 1786". But I do know now that he was most likely born in Greenville Co., South Carolina, where his father can be seen enumerated as John SWERNS in the 1790 census of that year.
Coming back towards the present, I had E. G. as having had only a sister, Alma.... but sometimes that's been a male name. Was Alma a brother? Or am I missing somebody?
Finally, in addition to the 1790 census of South Carolina, I've found some other evidence that John Swarens migrated his family along the same path as Christopher Brunk. John married a Nancy Brunk; Brunk histories don't include her so we suppose she might be the widow of one of the Brunks. A couple of them did die along the migration path, which went from Pennsylvania to Maryland to Virginia to North Carolina (well Washington Co. NC is now part of Tennessee) to South Carolina to Hardin Co., Kentucky.
Your info about being in Maryland would make more sense if it was 1803 instead of 1703; 1703 is too early for a United States census, and I've actually not run into a British Colonial census of Maryland, although such a thing might exist (my early days in gennealogy were spent with early Maryland colonial records, but that was 15 years ago).
I hope you see this message. I might try to track you down, hope you won't mind aa call from the out of the blue...
Best regards,
-doug quebbeman