Re: Swift family in England
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Re: Swift family in England
Ralph S. Swift 4/09/00
Ralph:
Your sketches of the Yorkshire Swift family from the 17th century to the present are fascinating! You've identified as notable members of the familyDean Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels, and Gustavus Franklin Swift of the Chicago meat packing family. The reference to Gustavus intrigues me.Gustavus Franklin Swift and I share a common ancestor in William Swift (1594-1643) who emigrated with his wife Joan and their children from England to Massachusetts about 1634, settling by 1637 in the Plymouth Colony at Sandwich on Cape Cod.
It's never been clear to me where in England William and Joan came from. One tradition says that he had been a bookseller in Sandwich, Kent.Others place his origin in Boking, Essex or Bermondsey, Surrey.He is said to have been a freeman of London in 1620 and member of the Leather Sellers Guild of that city.I've not before seen a suggestion that he or his family had come from Yorkshire.
But you make Gustavus a scion of the Yorkshire Swifts and thus a distant relative of the great, gloomy dean!
I'd be delighted to learn of evidence ofYorkshire origins for William Swift, the immigrant settler of Sandwich, Cape Cod.
Years ago, my wife and I lived for six months in Dublin where, upon being introduced to a Dubliner, our name always provoked the question, "Are you related to the good Dean?" The answer, regretfully, had to be, "No -- we know of no connection".
But, can you now supply one?
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