Ancestry of
Taylor Swift

Singer and Songwriter

Archie Dean Swift

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• • Great-grandfather of Taylor Swift — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Charles Julius Swift 
  • Mother:
  • Josephine Reno   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Aug 1877 
  • Birth Location:
  • North East, Erie, Pennsylvania 
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 Sep 1961 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Pine Grove Cemetery, Ridgway, Elk, Pennsylvania 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Bernice Maude Thompson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Sep 1909 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Elk County, Pennsylvania 
  • Child:

  Archie Dean Swift Jr. (Ahnentafel No:4 )

  • Notes: 

  • Archie Dean Swift was married twice. His first marriage occurred around 1901 and resulted in a daughter named Nellie who was born about 1902.

• Additional marriages for Archie Dean Swift

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  • Spouse:
  • Maude Patterson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Oct 1901
  • Marriage Location:
  • Elk County, Pennsylvania

• Sources for Archie Dean Swift

  • ¹ Federal Census, PA, Erie County, 1880, North East, E.D. 17, p. 27, Image 27 of 29.
  • ² Federal Census, PA, Elk County, 1900, Ridgway, E.D. 41, Sheet 1A, Image 1 of 71.
  • ³ Federal Census, PA, Elk County, 1910, Ridgway Ward 5, E.D. 47, Sheet 17A, Image 9 of 22.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, PA, Delaware County, 1920, Haverford, E.D. 168, Sheet 25B, Image 50 of 58.
  • ⁵ Federal Census, PA, Delaware County, 1930, Radnor, E.D. 113, Sheet 5A, Image 9 of 25.
  • ⁶ Federal Census, PA, Delaware County, 1940, Radnor, E.D. 23-144, Sheet 65A, Image 29 of 34.
  • ⁷ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/06/2014).
  • ⁸ Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950, Marriage record for Archie Dean Swift and Bernice Maude Thompson.
  • ⁹ Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950, Marriage certificate for Archie D. Swift and Mrs. Maud P. Mitchell.
  • ¹⁰ U.S. School Yearbooks, 1936, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersy, p. 474.
  • ¹¹ U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, Draft registration for Archie Dean Swift.
  • ¹² U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, Draft registration for Archie Dean Swift.
  • ¹³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 377-378.

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