There is a baptism record for Frederick William Albert Edward Sweny at St. Anne's, 24.9.1889. On the face of it, it refers to one individual, if the clergyman who registered the baptism was correct. It was on the last line of the page, and to my mind, the possibility did exist, that it referred to two children, possibly twins. However, I accepted that it was one person, but I needed to find absolute proof. I still had my doubts.
There were subsequent references to Frederick William, and to Albert Edward, but never to an individual with all four names. His father apparently referred to him as Fredk Wm., which was also his own name.
Now I have found more evidence to corroborate the single person theory, that is, another reference to Fredk Wm Albert Edward Sweny, or almost.
On the passenger list for his second voyage to New York, departure Liverpool 28.12.1911, he has reversed the order of the two pairs of names. He is listed as Albert E $ W Sweny, 21. The $ looks more like an S, but when I compared the handwriting on another name, two lines above Sweny’s, it referred to Frank somebody, and the way of writing the F was identical to Sweny’s entry.
So it would be reasonable to assume that Albert E F W Sweny, chemist, from Dublin is the same as our Frederick William Albert Edward Sweny, son of the chemist of Lincoln Place. It seems he was known to some as Albert, to others as Frederick. ( His father was called ‘Fred’)
He was the eldest living son, and I have been told that it was the law in Ireland at that time, that the eldest son inherited the largest part of the estate. In his father’s will of 1916, Fredk Wm jnr. was to get £200. He did not inherit the business, however. That went to George Arthur, the first son from the second marriage. Fredk Wm senior died in 1924. It seems the chemist shop was sold very soon afterwards.
From Thom's Dublin Directory:
In 1924 & 1925: F.W.Sweny & Co. Ltd. Druggists & Dispensing Chemists, 1 Lincoln Place
In 1926: P. J. Killackey, Dispensing Chemist, 1 Lincoln Place
