Swingle Family History
Swingle Name Meaning
English: metonymic occupational name for a worker in the linen
or hemp industry, from Middle English swingle ‘swingle’, a
wooden implement used for beating flax or hemp (Middle Dutch
swinghel, from the verb ‘to swing’).Possibly an
Americanized spelling of German Zwingel, a topographic name
from Middle High German zwingel ‘citadel’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Swingle
Name Distribution of Swingle Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Swingle families
 80 - 157  27 - 79 |
 1 - 26  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Swingle families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Swingle families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Swingle census records
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Swingle Family Origin
Swingle Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Swingle
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Swingle Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Swingle census records
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Swingle Civil War Service Records
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