Swinfield

Swinfield One-Name Study

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Study details

Study: Swinfield

Variants: Swingfield, Swynfield

Category: 3 - A study where research using core genealogical datasets and transcriptions is well under way on a global basis.

Website: swinfieldblog.blogspot.com

DNA website: www.familytreedna.com/public/Swinfield

Contact: Dr Geoff Swinfield

About the study

This surname project collects all references to the surname Swinfield and variants. Pedigrees have been compiled linking the majority together into 4 large family groups.

Variant names

Swinfield, Swingfield, Swynfield, Swinfeld, Swinfield-Wells

Name origin

There is a place name of Swingfield in Kent. However, there is little evidence that the surname originated in that locality. People with the name Swinfield live(d) principally in Leicestershire and Warwickshire.

Historical occurrences of the name

Richard de Swinfield, Bishop of Hereford from 1283 until his death in 1317.

Name frequency

In England and Wales, 989 births, 606 marriages (to 2021 only) and 579 deaths were registered from 1837 to 2022.

There are about 580 living Swinfields in the World with about 434 in England and Wales, 138 in Australia and 8 in Canada.

Distribution of the name

In England, the vast majority of those called Swinfield still live in the city of Leicester. A few migrants have settled in other parts of the country but their ancestors lived in Leicestershire and Warwickshire in the 19th century. One branch of the family emigrated to New South Wales in the early 19th century and remains there today.

Data

A full list of Swinfield entries has been compiled from:

Civil registration indexes for England and Wales (1837-2022)

Censuses (1841-1921)

The 1939 Register

National probate indexes (1858-2022)

Electoral register indexes (recent years)
Parish registers (FamilySearch, Ancestry, FindMyPast and searches in selected parish registers in Leicestershire, Warwickshire and surrounding counties)
Probate indexes for relevant counties
TNA catalogue (service records, divorce, criminal registers, wills)
Equity Court indexes at TNA
New South Wales BMD indexes

A large collection of copies of BMD certificates, censuses, parish register entries, wills, service records, chancery and equity court documents has been compiled.

DNA

Several male Swinfields have provided DNA samples for testing. The results of these tests and what they tell us about the various branches of the Swinfield family can be viewed at:

Family Tree DNA Project

and

Swinfield Genealogy & DNA Group

Links

Swinfield Blog

Contact Details

Dr Geoff Swinfield

General Search Results

Occurrences of the surname Swinfield in the Guild Indexes

(Click on the number to view the search results in each index. Indexes marked by * are only accessible by logged in Guild members.)

Global Marriages 21
References to the name Swinfield in the Guild Journal 2

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