Brief Life History of Robert Gilmore
When Robert Gilmore Swain was born in 1820, in Bedford, Virginia, United States, his father, Jeremiah Swain, was 24 and his mother, Nancy Drewry, was 24. He married Mary Jane Creasey about 1842, in Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in Virginia, United States in 1870. He died in 1887, in United States, at the age of 67.
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- Robert G Swain, "United States Census, 1860"
- Robert G Swain, "Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940"
- R G Swain in entry for Robt B Swain, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
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1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1824 · """Mary Randolph Publishes """"The Virginia Housewife"""""""
“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
1844 · Lumpkin's Jail
In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
Name Meaning
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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