Born in Takaka, Nelson, New Zealand
Ancestors 
Daughter of John Walter Lambdon Petterson
and Constance (Scott) Petterson
Sister of
Hugh Percival Graham Petterson, Gavin Scott Petterson and Helen Joan Leyden (Petterson) McKinna
Wife of
George Victor Swafford
— married
2 Dec 1925 in Tasman District, New Zealand
[children unknown]
Died
at age 98
in Kotinga, Tasman, New Zealand
Profile last modified
| Created 23 Nov 2013
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Biography
Jessie was the only daughter of John Walter Petterson and Constance Jane Scott. She attended 'Upper School', receiving good grades during her time there.
In 1925 she married George Victor Swafford previously of Westport, son of George William Swafford and Mary Elizabeth Carmine.
They settled in Blenheim and had 3 children in their marriage. During the 1950's Jessie and George moved to Ligar Bay to take up dairy farming.
Jessie passed away in 1995, 98 years old and is buried at Kotinga Cemetery, Tasman.
Sources
- Marriage REg 1925/10368 George Victor Swafford
- Death Reg 1995/38990
- New Zealand, Department of Internal Affairs, "Death Search," database, Births, Deaths & Marriages Online (https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/search : accessed 25 April 2020), reg. no. 1995/38990, Jessie McDonald SWAFFORD (date of birth: 16 January 1897); death date (by searching on exact date): 21 May 1995.
- Find A Grave: Memorial #117504503
- https://ancestry.com.au NZ electoral rolls
- https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz : NZBDM Index Marriage 1925/10348
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jessie by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Jessie:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jessie by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Jessie:
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~1.56%
Warren Climo
:
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Leanne (Gibbons) Boyce :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A085369 [compare], Ancestry member LGGWairau
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch A085369 [compare], FTDNA kit #B208798
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~0.78%
Rachel Gibbons :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member limegreenapple74
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