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Godfrey Swifte burial, Dronfield, Derbyshire, 1607. Location?
« on: Sunday 20 October 19 01:26 BST (UK) »
I appreciate opinions on where this record says Godfrey's father Robert is from please

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Re: Godfrey Swifte burial, Dronfield, Derbyshire, 1607. Location?
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 20 October 19 02:13 BST (UK) »
It's "Onston", otherwise known as 'Unston'.

See here about Dronfield and Unston/Onston.
 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/magna-britannia/vol5/pp129-142
Lane, Burgess: Cheshire. Finney, Rogers, Gilman:Derbys
Cochran, Nicol, Paton, Bruce:Scotland. Bertolle:London
Bainbridge, Christman, Jeffs: Staffs

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Re: Godfrey Swifte burial, Dronfield, Derbyshire, 1607. Location?
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 20 October 19 02:33 BST (UK) »
Thank you! 

So would you think it unlikely that this Godfrey is the son of Sir Robert Swift and Ursula Barnham.  Robert had been knighted by King James a few years earlier and I'd have thought that would be mentioned in any parish record.  By then he was at Hatfield Chase.
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