Born in Mill Brook, Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada
Ancestors 
Daughter of Alexander Swan
and Ann (Graham) Swan
Sister of
Margaret Swan
Wife of
Martin Van Buren Bates
— married
17 Jun 1871 (to 5 Aug 1888) in St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
Mother of
Lavonne Anna Bates and Boy Bates
Died
at age 41
in Seville, Medina, Ohio, United States
Profile last modified
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Biography
Anna (Swan) Bates is Notable.
Daughter of Scottish immigrants, Alexander Swan and Ann Graham. Weighed 18 lbs at birth.
She was the mother of two children. The first was stillborn and weighed 18 pounds. The second weighed 23 pounds, 12 ounces at birth and is believed to be the largest newborn on record, but he died eleven hours after birth. Ann died of a heart attack and/or consumption.
Burial in Mound Hill Cemetery, Seville, Medina County, Ohio, USA
History's Most Tragic Giant
Sources
- Anna Haining Swan Bates (1848-1888) on Find A Grave: Memorial #7720739 retrieved 10 March 2018
- Wikipedia page
- "A Giantess Dead". The Topeka Daily Capital (Topeka, Kansas) 4 Sep 1888, Tue • Page 7 Newspapers.com. Retrieved on 20 September 2015.
- "A Giant Couple". The Daily Republican (Monongahela, Pennsylvania) 18 Sep 1888, Tue • Page 3 Newspapers.com. Retrieved on 20 September 2015.
- http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/swan_anna_haining_11E.html
- Living life large: Nova Scotia's 'tallest girl in the world' Anna Swan Lynn Curwin, Truro News, Feb 06, 2018
- "Martin Van Buren Bates and Anna Hannon Swann". yeahpot.com. Retrieved on 28 June 2020.
- "British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPCJ-BJRY : 17 April 2019), Martin Van Buren Bates, Captain, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom; records extracted FamilySearch and images digitized by FindMyPast; citing Leeds, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, 20 Jun 1871, The British Newspaper Archive, Ireland; FHL microfilm .
- Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7720739/anna-haining-bates : accessed 29 December 2021), memorial page for Anna Haining Swan Bates (6 Aug 1846–5 Aug 1888), Find a Grave Memorial ID 7720739, citing Mound Hill Cemetery, Seville, Medina County, Ohio, USA ; Maintained by Margaret Gunn (contributor 46571177) .
Acknowledgments
Thank you to Theresa Ellenwood for creating WikiTree profile Swan-602 through the import of LucindaElizaBatesAncestors.ged on Mar 5, 2013.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Anna by comparing test results with other carriers of her 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 Anna:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Anna by comparing test results with other carriers of her 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 Anna:
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~0.39%
Richard Graham
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A328462 [compare]
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MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch RZ1326853 [compare]
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~0.39%
Adam Freeman :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch PN1106301 [compare]
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Rejected matches › Anne Swain (abt.1872-1958)
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Here's a source you might want to add: Wikipedia contributors, "Anna Haining Bates," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anna_Haining_Bates&oldid=702792735 (accessed March 22, 2016).