Sarah (Ingraham) Swain (1805 - 1877)

Born 1 Aug 1805 in Harbour Island, Eleuthera, Bahamas

Ancestors

Wife of Elisha Swain Jr. — married 3 Mar 1824 in Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas

Descendants

Died 3 Oct 1877 at age 72 in Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas

Sarah (Ingraham) Swain is part of a Bahamian family.

Biography

Sarah was born 1 August 1805 in Harbour Island, Eleuthera, Bahamas.^[1] She was the daughter of Joseph Ingraham and Patience (—?—).

She married Elisha Swain Jr. on 3 March 1824 at St. Matthew's Church in Nassau, New Providence. Elisha and Sarah Swain had four children - Charles Joseph Swain and Melinda Ann Swain (who did not survive their infancies), William Swain, and Melinda Ann Swain born 1831. ^[2]

Sarah died on 3 October 1877 in St. Matthew's Parish in Nassau.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Oreste Lombardi, comp., Sarah Ingraham, RIN 9527, Harbour Is.paf, 2013 Dolly Mae Bahamas 40th Anniversary CD (Hope Town, Abaco, Bahamas: Wyannie Malone Museum, 2014).
2. ↑ Oreste Lombardi, comp., Sarah Ingraham, no. I3605, St.Matt.1802-35.1857-89.ged, 2013 Dolly Mae Bahamas 40th Anniversary CD (Hope Town, Abaco, Bahamas: Wyannie Malone Museum, 2014); citing "St. Matthews Ch. Marr. #219."
3. ↑ Bahamas Registrar General, Civil Registration, Deaths, 1877, Fourth Quarter, St. Mathew Parish, p. 96, no. 2, Sarah Swain, 3 October 1877; digital image, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RS5-9PRD?i=97&cc=1922411 : accessed July 2017).