ABOUT MY SWEANEY LINE --

Daniel Sene came to America in 1674 to Maryland by ship, probably from Ireland or England. He was believed to be the son of French Hugeunots, who fled from France to escape persecution during Elizabethan times.

The Sweaneys were Quakers that lived in Queen Anne County, St. Peter's Parish, Talbot County, and Frederick County in Maryland and converted to the Moravian Faith, which was like Quakers, held a puritan set of beliefs.

When the Sweaneys migrated to Ohio, Tuscawaras County had been created and American Indians there were converted to the Moravian Faith. Frederick Sweaney married Sarah Ann Thompson, a descendant of one of these Ameican Indian Tribes (probably Erie or Delaware). This was in 1859. Their final settlement was in Chanute, Kansas. Their eldest son, Edgar, married three times -- with his children leaving a long Sweaney descendant line of those who now are spread out mostly in Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, and California today.

OTHER SURNAMES EXTENDED FROM SWEANEY FAMILY --

Bryant Sweany who married Ann NEWTON
James Sweany, who married Frances WARD
William Sweany, who married Christina HARBAUGH
Daniel Sweany, who married Ellen DUNBAR (born in Ireland, no research found)
Thomas Sweany, who married Anna Maria ROOF
Frederick Sweaney, who married Sarah Ann THOMPSON

other surnames: CARTER/GANTS, PIERCE/GILBREATH, MEYERS/TEAGUE, MEANS/BERRY