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Profiles

  • Anne Swainson (1807 - 1868)
  • Edith Stanaway Halcombe (1844 - 1903)
    not-so-brief biography==Edith Stanway Swainson was born on 27 April 1844 in the Hutt valley, Wellington, New Zealand, the seventh child of William Swainson, a naturalist and artist, and the second chil...
  • George Frederick Swainson (1829 - 1870)
    GEDCOM Source ===@R-1093864338@ Ancestry Family Trees Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. === GEDCOM Source ===Ancestry Fa...
  • John B. Swainson, Governor (1925 - 1994)
    Burley Swainson (July 31, 1925 – May 13, 1994) was a politician and jurist from the US state of Michigan, as well as the 42nd Governor of Michigan.Swainson was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada and move...
  • Ruku Peeke Potaka (1849 - 1914)

About the Swainson surname

Swainson is a Scottish name dating from the days of the Danish conquest. Swain Aleifson and his Danish longboat marines conquered from the north, leaving children and pregnant wives/girlfriends in their wake. When some of them were born, the boys were often named Swain, Swanson, Swainson, Swan, and similar names.