The Swinn Family Genealogy

The history of the early Swinns was completed in 1988 by Mr. Ron Swinn. In the introduction Ron writes:

I would like to point out this compilation of the Swinn Family Tree is not 100% authentic owing to near impossible ways of tracing earlier relatives owing to lack of documentation. I have utilized name sequences, localities, age differentials, the Mormon I.G.I. lists, and I have checked parish registers, census lists where possible, and the result is as I see it.

One relative quotes heresay from ggg grandparent that the earliest relative came from Denmark and was head forester to the Marquis of Granby in Lincolnshire. My own theory, fully supported by many other family researchers, is that we are descendants from King Swein Forkbeard, the Viking, and King Cnut who settled in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire around 1012.

Various spellings are Swyne, Swine, Svin, Swin, Swinne, but from the late 1600s to early 1700s, most are spelled Swinn.

The ancestors of three families who now reside in Canada with the date of birth or the date of baptism, and place of residence:

Nicholae Swine - 1520 - Sutterton, Lincolnshire
Robertus Swine - 1551 - Sutterton, Lincolnshire
Peter Swine - 1588 - Fulstow, Lincolnshire
George Swyne - 1608 - Fulstow, Lincolnshire
Nicholas Swine - 1650 - Fulstow, Lincolnshire
Nicholas Swine - 1672 - Ludborough

The last Nicholas had three sons whose descendants came to Canada. They were:

Robert Swinn - 1694 - and John Rutland Swinn came to Scarborough, Ontario in 1850's
Nicholas Swinn - 1696 - and Charles Swinn came to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1913
George Swinn - 1700 - and Albert Swinn came to Tillsonburg, Ontario in 1884.

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