Swire Family Plantation, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana

This project focuses on the Swire Family plantation, ancestry, and descendants in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, known as Lakeland.

Summary

Re: Swire in Yorkshire Posted on: 25 Jul 2001, by CatsHalo189

Surnames > Swire

I have a lot of info on Swires in Yorkshire. My main ancestor left there and went to the Windward Islands and later to Jamaica. But, I have his family dating back to the late 1500s in the Yorkshire ... (http://boards.ancestry.com/SearchResults.aspx?dir=forward&sortKey=C...)

Main Properties

Phillip Swire was a young man when he came to Louisiana and established his residence in Pointe Coupee Parish and later in West Baton Rouge, Louisiana. where he engaged in sugar planting and the raising of live stock. He purchased the fine Lakeland plantation in Pointe Coupee, Louisiana, and there continued his productive activities many years.

Swire Family

• Roger Phillip Swire was born on the plantation known as Lakeland, in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, opposite the town of Bayou Sara, and the date of his nativity was July 15, 1873.

Slaves

References

• Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana Genealogy
• THE LOUISIANA SLAVE DATABASE AND THE LOUISIANA FREE DATABASE: 1719-1820
• Explore the History and Culture of Southeastern Lousiana