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Lead mining and smelting in Northumberland

The earliest Swindales (Swindles etc) in the north of England were possibly enticed from Derbyshire in the middle of the 17th century as skilled lead smelters, bringing the latest technology to the North Pennine orefields. This painting 'Lead Processing at Leadhills: Smelting the Ore' by David Allan (Out of Copyright, National Galleries of Scotland) is from a century later at Leadhills in south Lanarkshire.

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Origin of the Swindell Surname

The probable origin of the name is Swyndelves, near Stockport in Cheshire. In this area there is evidence of hereditary surname formation outside the major land-owners at early as at least 1282 - e.g. the Bridge or 'de Ponte' family of Stockport - but at this time most 'surnames' (bynames) in the area were occupational and not hereditary. By the late fourteenth century the reverse appears to be true and the Swindell surname probably originated sometime in the mid-14th century (assuming that it originated in Cheshire). The earliest record of the name yet found is in Nottingham in 1434. More....

An early Swindall settler in Virginia

Thomas Swindall and Timothy Swindall or Swindle were two early Swindell settlers in Virginia. Initially established as indentured servants to pay off the cost of the voyage feom England, each established a line of descendants who today cross the whole of the USA. They are not known to be related and their modern descendants have been shown to have distinctly different Y-DNA haplotypes.More....

What's Happening?

My Family History Notebook

Construction of this TNG site commenced March 2021. Effectively two sites are operating in tandem - a formal genealogical (TNG) site and a Research Notebook.The notebook has details on many more Swindells than have yet been entered into the TNG site


Using this site

It is normally possible to jump from a TNG page to the related page in the notebook - and vice-versa. The research notebook can present more nuanced judgements on possible relationships.


Current Research

Joseph Ludwig Sprenger migrated from near Elbigenalp in the Austran Tyrol to Arnhem in the Netherlands and married there in 1806. His ancestors had been there since at least the late 17th century and the registers go back to 1618. However they are written in the Kurrent script - very difficult to read and there is no computer index. Every entry is a struggle!


A Utah Pioneer - George Swindle 1824 - 1882

In 1857 George Swindle, his wife Ann Reed and surviving son George migrated from Trimdon in County Durham, England to Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Suzanne Swindle Johnston has given me permission to reproduce her biography of her great-grandfather George Swindle .

Joseph Swindale (1849-1914) and his family

Joseph Swindale followed his sister Ann from Consett, in County Durham, to Millom, in Cumberland, to work as a carpenter in the iron ore mine where his brother-in-law was a bookkeeper.

Family History Notebook

To find a person in the database use the Find button in the menu bar and then choose ‘Search People’. However, only a fraction of those Swindells (etc) who have been researched are as yet in the database. The ‘full works’ are in the Family History Notebook which can be accessed by clicking here.

As of December 2021 there are 486 Swindells (etc) in the database but over 7000 Swindells (etc) in the Family History Notebook! You can go direct to the Swindell name index in the Family History Notebook.

Collaboration

I would welcome collaborators into this Swindell one-name study. The TNG software is well suited for collaboration.

Contact me at swindell@one-name.org if you are interested.

Thanks to the Guild of One Names Studies this site should continue to exist when I am no longer abler to maintain or support it.

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Swindle Y-DNA Project

FamilyTreeDNA hosts the Swindle Y-DNA project. If you are a Swindell, Swindle, Swindale etc. join in and see how your Y-DNA relates to known lines of descent.


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