Mr. George Alfred Swain II—

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Humphrey Drummond Swain was born in Chertsey, June 19, 1902. Educated at St Columba’s Dublin, and Oriel College, Oxford, he joined the staff > of St Paul’s in 1924. He died, a bachelor, in 1959. His father was George Swain, who married Jane Anne Coles., known as “Auntie Jeanie”.in Brentford., Mar 1896. Jane was born. Apr 19,1867, in Dinapore, West Bengal, India, the daughter of Henry and Martha Coles. In 1881, she was at a small school in Woodford Essex, run by an Ellen Miall, Schoolmistress. Her parents were probably in India. In Mar 1868, Henry William Coles married Martha Perret in Kensington. That excursion has raised an awkward question. BMD shows that George ALFRED Swain married Jane Anne Coles, but had a note to say that George Anning II had married Jane Coles. So where did Alfred come in? I reckon there'a typo somewhere. he was definitely a cousin of my mothers and Helen's. The marriage cert. actually says Alfred, married Anne née Coles.

The 1891 census has produced some additional information. George Anning Swain , 64, widower, was living in Adolphus Road, Hornsey, with his son William Henry, 27, and two daughters, Eliza Beatrice,28, and Emma Martha, 25. By 1901, George Anning Jnr, 41, a Civil Servant, had married.Jane, née Coles,33, born April 19, 1867, Dinapore, West Bengal, dau. of Henry.and Martha Coles. They were living in Walton on Thames. William was living in Ealing, 37, b.Islington, Civil Servant, with his wife,Marion Lily, 28, b.Durham, Mar 1873.: they married, June 1900, in Brentford.

The conclusion is that there never was a George Anning II. The early censuses showed him as George A. and BMD has coughed up a birth, for George Alfred, June Q, 1859, (April 28, in my book) Islington.