When John Swanson was born on 7 February 1840, in Thurso, Caithness, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, James Swanson, was 30 and his mother, Catherine Munro, was 26. He married Elizabeth Coghill on 1 December 1870, in Thurso, Caithness, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Caithness, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1851. He died on 2 April 1924, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States.
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Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Nils, Nels, Sven, Lars, Thor, Helmer, Iver, Alf, Astrid, Eskil, Hilmer.
Americanized form of Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, and North German Svensson , and Norwegian and Danish Svensen or Svendsen , cognates of 1.
Scottish (Caithness) and English: from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Swan, an Anglicized form of Old Norse Sveinn (from sveinn ‘lad’), + -son. In northern England, Middle English Swanson was in fact an occasional variant of Swainson . In some cases the name may also arise from Middle English swan(e), swon(e) ‘swineherd, peasant, male servant’ (Old English swān) + -son, but this is unlikely to be the usual origin. See Swan .
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