Richard Swetenham
Honor Code SignatorySigned 19 Aug 2020 | 4,911 contributions | 135 thank-yous | 585 connections
Signed 19 Aug 2020 | 4,911 contributions | 135 thank-yous | 585 connections
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My family tree is at <https://www.swetenham.org/>.
My working tree is on Ancestry
Richard C. Swetenham
Born 1950s.
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Biography
Richard Swetenham has completed the England Project's Orphan Trail.
Richard is the 18th great grandson of King Edward III.
Born and educated in England. Living in Luxembourg. Worked at the European Court and European Commission and now retired.
Researching the four branches of my family, of which the Swetenham and Fielding/Feilding branches are the most extensive. My working tree is on Ancestry and is quite large.
I have recently started to contribute to WikiTree and am gradually creating a network of profiles. I have taken part in the England Project’s Orphan Trail and I have completed both phases OT-1 and OT-2.
I am working on finding the links between gentry families in Cheshire and Staffordshire whose names appear in the Swetenham family tree or who are connected by blood or marriage.en
This user is a native speaker of English.
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My lineage: Swetenham of Somerford Booths
- Richard Swetenham
- b. 1953-01-06, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
- ↓
- Clement Swetenham
- b. 1906-02-05, Nagpur, Central Provinces, India
- ↓
- Charles Condon Swetenham
- b. 1864-09-28, Faizābād, Uttar Pradesh, India
- ↓
- George Swetenham
- b. 1837-11-25, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
- ↓
- Edmund Swetenham
- b. 1795-10-01, Somerford Booths, Cheshire, England
- ↓
- Roger Swetenham (formerly Comberbach)
- b. 1758-11-20, Chester, Cheshire, England
The Swetenhams in India
I have been working for many years on the Swetenhams of India, descendants of three brothers and three sisters who went out to India around 1810-1820 and married and had children. The results of this can be found collected at The Swetenham family of Cloud End, published for the Mussoorie bicentennial celebrations held on 19 May 2023.
Rudyard Kipling opens his short story The Tomb of his Ancestors, published in The Day’s Work (1898), as follows:
- Some people will tell you that if there were but a single loaf of bread in all India, it would be divided equally between the Plowdens, the Trevors, the Beadons, and the Rivett-Carnacs. That is only one way of saying that certain families serve India generation after generation, as dolphins follow in line across the open sea.
I decided to do some research to find whether the Swetenhams of India and the families related by marriage could put in a claim for a few crumbs from the loaf. Kipling’s loaf of bread - or a dolphin quest
Another page contains a table setting out the connections of the Governors General and Viceroys of India to Major Swetenham, Bengal Engineers, builder of Cloud End, Mussoorie.
Historical figures
- Charlemagne; Holy Roman Emperor; 33th great grandfather
- Siegfried of Luxembourg; Founder of Luxembourg; 28th great grandfather The first path with no uncertain link is 8). 30 generations through Eleanor (Fleming) Lowther (abt.1583-1659) at gen. 12
- Alfred the Great ; King of Wessex 32nd great-grandfather The first path with no uncertain link is 36). 34 generations through Christopher Wandesford (aft.1547-1590) at gen. 13
- Brian Boru; High King of Ireland ; 27th great-grandfather
- William the Conqueror; Duke of Normandy, King of England by conquest; 27th great grandfather
- St. Margaret of Scotland; of the House of Wessex, Queen consort of Scots; 25th great grandmother
- Frederick Barbarossa; Holy Roman Emperor; 24th great grandfather. The first path with no uncertain link is 2). 26 generations through Margaret (Neville) Huddlestone at gen 16
- Eleanor of Aquitaine; Duchess of Aquitaine, Queen consort of France, Queen consort of England; 22nd great grandmother
- Llewellyn the Great; Prince of Wales; 21st great grandfather
- Louis IX; roi de France, St Louis; 22nd great grandfather
- Richard the Lionheart; King of England; 21st great great-uncle
- Ferdinand III of Castille; King of Castille; 21st great grandfather
- Edward III; King of England; 18th great grandfather
Connections to British Prime Ministers
Henry VIII’s wives
- The closest relation is Catherine Parr, first cousin, fourteen times removed.
- Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536) 3c15 common ancestor John of Gaunt (abt.1340-1399)
- Anne Boleyn (abt.1501-1536) 2c13 common ancestor John Howard KG (abt.1425-1485)
- Anne of Cleves (1515-1557) 7c13 common ancestor Jeanne de Hainaut née Valois (abt.1294-abt.1352)
- Jane Seymour (abt.1509-1537) 3c12 common ancestor Margery Wentworth née Despenser (abt.1398-1478)
- Catherine Howard (1523-1542) 2c13 common ancestor Catherine (Moleyns) Howard (abt.1424-1465)
- Catherine Parr (abt.1512-1548) 1c14 common ancestor Elizabeth Parr née Fitzhugh (abt.1460-bef.1508)
Magna Carta
- 25 barons are named as sureties in Magna Carta. 24 barons are shown in this list, of whom 18 are direct ancestors of Richard Swetenham (those flagged plus William Lanvallay and William Mowbray) and 5 more are sons of direct ancestors.
- The line of descent is either through Wandesford or through Fielding.
- On the other side of the table at Runnymede, the preamble to Magna Carta lists 16 "Illustrious Men", barons who were counsellors to King John, including King John's half brother William Longespee, Earl of Salisbury.
- This second list shows 14 of these counsellors of King John, of whom 11 of are direct ancestors and 2 are sons of direct ancestors.
- King John (1166-1216) himself is also a direct ancestor.
Knights of the Garter
- The Order of the Garter was founded by King Edward III in 1346. He was Richard Swetenham's 18th great grandfather. He appointed 25 knights to the Order at its foundation. See the list of those with WikiTree profiles. Of those 25, 19 are blood relations of whom 10 are direct ancestors and one possible direct ancestor, 5 are brothers of direct ancestors and 2 are the first cousins of direct ancestors of Richard Swetenham.
All Connections
Sources
I am building a page of Family sources for Swetenham-16 with useful links, which is open to all.
For the Swetenhams of Somerford Booths, see in particular:
- Earwaker, J. P. 1880. Somerford Booths Township in East Cheshire: past and present. London: Printed for the author, vol. 2 pp. 644 - 649. Chapter Swetenham of Somerford Booths Pedigree (HathiTrust)
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- e-mail address
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Thank you. I apologise for not answering your first message. I am still an active member of the England Project, in that I am part-way through OT-2. My current Trailblazer is Julie Laxton.
I am also a member of the Cheshire team. I have not so far contributed directly to Cheshire team activities, but building on the profiles I have worked on for OT-1 and OT-2, I am researching actively on links between Staffordshire gentry families (and as an extension, Cheshire families), and I am thinking of formalising this as a personal project. I have posted a message about this to the Staffordshire team. Some of this work already shows up in profiles which I have created or contributed to.
I have also been doing background research on the profiles created by the late Sir William Arbuthnot 2nd Bt. of Kittybrewster, many of which of course fall within the purview of the Scotland project, but some of which are English which I have come across as part of my work on OT-1 and OT-2.
Best wishes
Richard Swetenham
Everything you do that improve the profiles of people who lived in Cheshire, or England, contributes to the goals of the Cheshire Team and England Project. I have recently joined the Cheshire Team too and have being doing some research of some Cheshire East families, including some Swettenhams/Swetenhams, so our paths might cross somewhere along the line.
Thanks again for being part of the England Project!
Ian
I wrote to you recently as part of the England Project's six-monthly check-in with our project members. I haven't heard back from you. I hope you are well.
If you could please drop me a quick note to confirm whether you are still interested in the project and wish to remain an active member, that would be very helpful.
If we do not hear from you within the next 2 weeks, we will assume you are no longer active in the England Project and remove you from our list of project members. You would be most welcome to re-apply to join the project at a later time by signing-up on the project’s G2G welcome post.
Many thanks!
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