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Thanks for that!  And the additional information!  Confirms what I know and gives me some new leads!

Sarah

I think so.  He was from West Winch, Norfolk.  Wisbech is in Cambridgeshire.  But his military service dates line up for the times he was known to be in Norfolk.  The Peninsula Medal Roll is thing that makes me wonder if I have got the right man, as Thomas died in 1825.

Hi everyone,
I know this has been marked as completed, but I've just made the discovery that my family is related to Nathaniel Walter Swan.  His mother Elizabeth Greacen was the older sister of my 3xgt-grandmother Rachel C Greacen.  Their father was Nathaniel Greacen, printer of Monaghan and Armagh (still working on their mother).

Rachel married Robert Black and they immigrated to New Zealand via Brisbane in the 1860s with their 7 children.

Blakely (or Bleckley) was the surname of Elizabeth's second husband Richard.  He would have brought up James Swan's 4 children after James' unfortunate death in 1839.  Richard was a witness at Rachel and Robert's wedding.

I haven't gotten much further back on the Greacen family.  Current evidence suggests they were Quakers although John Blakely/Bleckly who presided over both Elizabeth and Rachel's weddings was doing so in a Presbyterian Church.

Would love to make contact with any of Nathaniel's descendants.

Thanks,
Sarah

My gg-uncle Reginald was born in England in 1868 and died in Port Elizabeth in 1945.  After the death of his first wife Alice Frances Heald in 1897 he moved to South Africa with his two children Doris Kathleen and Reginald Charles (and his sister Kathleen later Mrs Tonks).  At some point he married and had another daughter Marion.
According to his official death notice, his daughter Doris was Mrs Geekie (we also have Geikie as a spelling), his son Reginald was a Major in the army and his younger daughter Marion was Mrs Martin.
I believe Doris had a daughter Valerie who married a Vincent De Villiers. 

I've checked FamilySearch but not found any information of Reginald's second marriage or those of his children's.  A cousin from Alice's side has found death information for Reginald and his sister, but nothing more on the children.  Where else can we look?