Swales Family History
Swales Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): in all probability from the Swale river in
Yorkshire. (Reaney and Wilson list a 17th-century example,
Swayles, with this origin.) Alternatively, it may be a
metronymic from the Old Norse female personal name Svala.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Swales
Name Distribution of Swales Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Swales families
 16 - 29  6 - 15 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Swales families
|
652 - 1,301 218 - 651 |
1 - 217 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Swales families
|
6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Swales census records
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Swales Family Origin
Swales Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Swales
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Swales Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Swales census records
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