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Anna C. Swire (Kean)

Also Known As: "Anna"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States
Death: August 09, 1927 (84-93)
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
Place of Burial: Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United States
Immediate Family:

Wife of Philip Swire
Mother of Lola Swire; Walter John Swire; Frances Cade; Tezora Maria Ritchie; ??? Swire and 5 others
Sister of Henry Kean

Occupation: Keeping house
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About Anna C. Swire

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Anna Swire in household of Philip Swire, "United States Census, 1870"

  • name: Anna Swire
  • estimated birth year: 1839
  • gender: Female
  • age in 1870: 31y
  • color (white, black, mulatto, chinese, indian): White
  • birthplace: New York
  • home in 1870: Louisiana, United States

Household Gender Age Birthplace

  • Philip Swire M 42y West Indies
  • Anna Swire F 31y New York
  • Walter Swire M 8y Louisiana
  • Fanny Swire F 3y Louisiana
  • Maria Swire F 7m Louisiana
  • Jane Seymour F 17y West Indies
  • Samuel Johnson M 11y Louisiana
  • Henry Kean M 24y New York
  • Elizabeth Walker F 50y Louisiana
  • John Walker M 10y Louisiana

notes

From bio of Roger Phillip Swire, W. Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 153-154, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925. 

His [Philip Swire's] widow, whose maiden name was Anna Kean, was born in the city of New Orleans, and now resides at Slaughter, East Feliciana Parish, at the venerable age of eighty-five years (1924).  
Of the surviving children the eldest is Fannie, who is the wife of George Dubroca Cade, of Baton Rouge, where Mr. Cade holds a position with the Standard Oil Company of Louisiana;  Roger P., of this review, was the next in order of birth; and  Sterling B., a resident of Slaughter, is in the service of the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company.  Eight other children died young.


  • Marriage of Philip Swire & Anna Kean, April, 1858. Marriage Applications: Murray, Hunting for Bears Source Repository: Orleans Parish Library - Genealogy Dept. Loyola Ave, New Orleans, LA
  • "Louisiana, Deaths Index, 1850-1875, 1894-1956," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F3MT-V4H : accessed 7 March 2015), Anna Keane in entry for Fannie Cade, 14 Sep 1953; citing Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, certificate number 761, State Archives, Baton Rouge; FHL microfilm 1,574,041.
  • "Magnolia Cemetery" Baton Rouge Cemeteries By Faye Phillips. Page 70. "The earliest of the tombstones seen here are Philip Swire (1827-1912) & his wife, Anna Kean Swire (1829-1927)."
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Anna C. Swire's Timeline

1838
1838
New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States
1858
1858
1862
1862
1867
September 1867
Louisiana
1869
November 1869
Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
1873
July 15, 1873
Lakeland Plantation, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States
1873
1882
April 1882
Louisiana, United States