Getting back to my first post- I'm trying to trace present day descendants of John Paget Sweny 1811-1883, father of 14 children.
John’s first child, Eugene, born 1836, went into ‘holy orders’. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin as Bachelor of Arts in 1859 and was ordained deacon in 1862. He went to Donegal to take up his post at Inniskeel, firstly as curate from 1862 to 1869, then as rector until 1883. He took his Master of Arts in 1876.
He married in Donegal in 1866 Elizabeth Barbara, daughter of Revd. James Ovens of Donegal. They had six children:
Emily Teresa Grace 1868, James Montgomery Ovens 1869, Georgiana Charlotte Frederica 1871, William Halpin Paterson 1872, John Charles Coote 1872, Shapland Arthur 1877.
In 1883 they moved to Norfolk, England, where Eugene took up the position of Rector of Morston and Stiffkey (pron. ‘stewkey’) . His son Arthur died there in 1889, and his wife Elizabeth in 1902. Eugene held the position until his death in 1906. (n.b. he was not the infamous rector- that was his successor)
Rev. Eugene’s first son James died in UK in 1916. John, the third son, went first to Canada, then to the U.S. He mar Alice Reeves 1901 and they had 3 ch: Sydney Charles d.1966 Ohio, Kathleen Vera d.1981 Mass. & Ethel 05-07
Emily married Granville Edwards, and moved to New York, son Eric G.; Georgiana married Dean Shute of New Zealand, where they lived, but they later divorced, dau Rona Irene 1899.
The second son, William became a ship’s officer with the P.& O. Line. When he married Adele Pearson in 1895, his address was the S.S. Khedive, Royal Albert Dock, in East London. They had one son, Noel, born in 1901 who may have been a police sergeant of Belfast in 1929.
Ken
