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SWANTON Family History

It was not often that a village in Ireland was named after an English family, but that was the case with Ballydehob which was for several centuries known as "Ballyswanton". In 1858 it was recorded that fifty eight Swanton families livwed in West Cork, between then owning over 12000 acres. The Swantons originate from the villages of Swanton Novers or Swanton Morley in Norfolk. The name is Olde English and translates as "The Farm (Tun) of the Tenant Farmers (Swan)", although some claim that it can also be specific and mean "The swine farme".