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Title: Swains of Scalford
Post by: tomcat6 on Monday 01 February 10 13:49 GMT (UK)
Anyone have any information regarding the above family ?
Title: Re: Swains of Scalford
Post by: lizdb on Monday 01 February 10 14:45 GMT (UK)
Dates?
What have you got already?
Title: Re: Swains of Scalford
Post by: tomcat6 on Monday 01 February 10 15:40 GMT (UK)
It was pre WW2 and one daughter was called Frances.
Title: Re: Swains of Scalford
Post by: lizdb on Monday 01 February 10 15:43 GMT (UK)
Cant see a birth of a Frances Swain in Leicestershire ...
Title: Re: Swains of Scalford
Post by: mareanna on Tuesday 02 February 10 17:08 GMT (UK)
I have a Mary Swain B abt 1828 in Long Clawson, her father was William Swain
Mary married John Antill in 1852 at Barrow Upon Soar.  They had ten children, all with the middle name Swain (or double-barrelled Swain-Antill).  She died in 1879. 

Long Clawson is not too far from Scalford??
Title: Re: Swains of Scalford
Post by: tomcat6 on Tuesday 02 February 10 17:40 GMT (UK)
There may be some connection, I found the Swain family I was looking for on the 1901 cencus there are four daughters and two sons and the parents names are William and Mary Elizabeth.
Title: Re: Swains of Scalford
Post by: yjins on Thursday 27 October 11 01:07 BST (UK)
I had idly put Swain into Google and came across one of your posts. This caught my eye as Mary (Swain) and John Antill were my great-great grandparents.
Title: Re: Swains of Scalford
Post by: mareanna on Thursday 27 October 11 13:33 BST (UK)
Hi yjins  :D

I'm not sure I can send a PM (private message) until you've made some more postings.  Anyway you should find more family details here: http://www.antill.org.uk
There is a link to a surname list on the homepage - follow the Antill or Swain names down.  Some of them changed their surname to White.  No idea why, but it has made tracing them on the internet v v difficult  ???

There is an e-mail address on the home page if you'd like to know more, or if you can fill in some of the spaces  ;D 

Love to hear from you anyway  8)

cheers
mareanna
Title: Re: Swains of Scalford
Post by: yjins on Thursday 27 October 11 16:53 BST (UK)
I have been on the site before; it's brilliant and has filled in a lot of gaps.  I have got information on further descendants of Harry Swain Antill through Lillian Antill if that is of any use.

Title: Re: Swains of Scalford
Post by: mareanna on Thursday 27 October 11 17:12 BST (UK)
That's really good to hear  :D 

If you contact my husband John (the Antill) from the website, he'll have more details of people who may still be alive.  As a rule of thumb if someone was born after around 1920, we've reckoned they could still be living and have not put any details or links to them. 
We've got some information about Wallace Antill, who went to Canada, but sadly killed in WW1 and William Ewart Antill's attestation papers.  Also extracts from 75th Canadian war diary.

cheers for now
mareanna