When Oliver Swain was born in 1818, in Reading, Windsor, Vermont, United States, his father, Nathaniel Swain Jr, was 49 and his mother, Charlotte Sherwin, was 44. He died on 28 February 1853, in his hometown, at the age of 35, and was buried in Swain Cemetery, Reading, Windsor, Vermont, United States.
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English: from the Middle English personal name Swain, Swein (Old Norse Sveinn, Sven, from sveinn ‘lad’).
English: occupational name from Middle English swein ‘servant, attendant; boy, young man’ (Old Norse sveinn). The word could also denote a swineherd or a peasant in general. The name was thoroughly confused with Swan 1.
Irish: when not the English name, possibly an Anglicized form of Mac Suibhne; see McSwain .
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