When Thomas Jefferson Swift was born in October 1840, in Johnson, Arkansas, United States, his father, John Dean Swift, was 43 and his mother, Hardenia Burnley Clough, was 32. He died in October 1844, in his hometown, at the age of 4, and was buried in United States.
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English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): nickname for a rapid runner, from Middle English swift ‘swift, fleet’ (Old English swift), or else from the Middle English personal name Swift (Old English Swift).
Irish: when not the English name, an Anglicization (part translation) of Gaelic Ó Fuada which is based on fuad ‘haste’ (see Foody ).
Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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