52. William Henry Swain

Father of William Henry Swain. and husband of Frances Swain, nee Lee.

According to an LDS ancestral record, William Henry Swain was born on 6 June 1816 at St Mary, Whitechapel, Stepney, and Frances Lee was born in Shoreditch, St Leonards c. 1818. The LDS record seems to be inaccurate here, as it gives a different father for William Swain from his marriage certificate: George John Swain and Caroline who married before 1816.

William Henry Swain and Frances Lee married on 11 September 1842 at Shoreditch, St Leonards. According to the marriage certificate, William Swain was of full age, while Frances Lee was a minor. They both lived in Chamber Street, not the most salubrious street according to an article in the East London Observer. He was a Gun Maker by profession, and she was a Hat Trimmer. His father was William Swain, a Yeoman Warder. Hers was Henry Lee, a Hatter.

Their son, William Swain, was born at 6 Everards Place, Back Church Lane, Whitechapel on 19 March 1844. William Henry Swain's occupation at the time was Gun Smith. I couldn't find the family at the address in the 1841 census.

William Henry Swain was a shipwright and deceased when his son married in 1864.

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