Godwin
"Goodwin"
Swift
Esq.
aka Swifte
Born about in Ireland
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Son of Thomas Swift
and Elizabeth (Dryden) Swift
Brother of
Mary Swift, Dryden Swift, Emily Swift, Elizabeth Swift, Thomas Swift, Abraham Swift, Sarah Swift, William Swift, Katherine Swift, Jonathan Swift and Adam Swift
Husband of
Elizabeth (Wheeler) Swift
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of
Catherine (Webster) Swift
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of
Hannah (Deane) Swift
— married
1674 [location unknown]
Husband of
Eleanor (Meade) Harrison
— married
1681 in Cork, County Cork, Ireland
Descendants 
Died [date unknown]
[location unknown]
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Biography
Godwin Swift was born about 1627. He is the son of Thomas Swift and Frances Elizabeth Dryden. Godwin Swift was the uncle and guardian of Jonathan Swift, the author[1]
From a footnote on page 485 of "The Life of Richard Deane, Major General and General-at-Sea..." by John Bathurst Deane, the author wrote, "By a singular revolution of the wheel of fortune, the late keeper of the crown jewels in the Tower of London, Mr. Edmund Lenthall Swifte, is a descendant of Major-General (Richard) Deane through his only married daughter, Hannah, who became the wife of Mr. Goodwin Swifte, Attorney General for the Palatinate of Tipperary, the oldest son of the Rector of Goodrich, Herefordshire..."
Sources
- [1] "The Life of Richard Deane" by John Bathurst Deane; pp. 56, 485 who wrote about Deane descendants, including Edmund Lenthall Swifte.
- Goodwin Swift Family p. 335. Repository: https://babel.hathitrust.org
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