Robert Gilmore Swain

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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Family Time Line

Robert Gilmore Swain
1820–1887
Elizabeth Ann Overstreet
1820–1896
Marriage: 27 March 1849
Nancy Rebecca Swain
1850–1923
Mary Swayne
1850–
Lucy J Swain
1852–1880
Patricia Ann Swain
1854–1918
Robert B Swain
1857–1859

Sources (20)

  • 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"

World Events (8)

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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