TABLE OF CONTENTS
II. First Migrations and DNA findings
III. American Indian Ancestry
IV. Tracing roots back to William Conquerer of England
V. New Findings
Descendants of Daniel Sene (report PDF)
Sweaney Family Tree (updated) Tribal Pages (includes links to the Thompson and Pierce family trees).
I. The earliest records record a Daniel Sene or Seney, who came to America in 1667 and made his home possibly in Virginia or Maryland. (Passenger & Immigration Lists 1500-1900; Ancestry.com).
It is recorded that there were sons of Daniel: James, Bryant, and Denis Seney. The descendants of James, at this time, are unknown, but there is plenty of genealogical data that is recorded of the descendants of Byrant and Denis. I descend from Bryant.
There isn't much proof about where Daniel came from before he came to America, but researchers suggest he was probably part of the group of religious reformers called the Huguenots. (http://claudeshawbell.com/genealogy/seney.html)
II. DNA Solves Mystery:
James Sweany (Swaney), grandson of Daniel, son of Bryant: married Frances Dorsett (nee: Ward) in Maryland.
Question: Was Frances a Wells, Ward, or Dorsett?
Answer: Dorsett was probably a name from previous marriage.
IV. Descendants of William the Conqueror of England: Around 1920,a grandson of Sarah Thompson Sweaney, through her son Edgar and his second wife, Clara Carter (Sweaney, Lundy), married a woman by the name of Zenobia Pierce, daughter of Benjamin Pierce and Frances Elizabeth Gilbreath (Pierce).
Zenobia was a descendant of Henry (Hotspur) Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, who married Mary Plantagenet (Lancaster), granddaughter of King Henry III of England. (See Percy descendancy tree).
photo left: (top row) James Clinton Sweaney, Adam Shirdon Sweaney, Margaret "Maggie" (Sweaney) Phillips, William Anderson Sweaney, Susan A. (Sweaney) Myers; (front) Sarah Ann (Thompson) Sweaney.
III. American Indian Roots: Sweaney descendancy (Daniel, Bryant, James, Daniel, William, Thomas, Frederick Sweaney)
Frederick Sweaney married a woman by the name of Sarah Ann Thompson in 1860. She was born in Alleghany, Pennsylvania, but lived all of her childhood in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
She claimed to be full blooded American Indian (Cherokee).
Her father was Jeremiah Thompson and her mother was Louisa Whitcomb (Witcomb).
More about the Thompson Family on my Tribal Pages site.
Links: Sarah's obituary, Thompson Family Census 1850, Thompson Family Census 1860
V. NEW FINDINGS: Grandparents of Sarah Ann Thompson added (8/8/10) listed as Adam and Susannah Whitcomb (Witcomb): 1820/1860 United States Censuses; Cumberland County, PA
This page was created by Andrea Sweaney Kennedy, descendant of Daniel Sene; please contact me here or request invitation to my pages at Tribal Pages through links listed above. Information listed on my site is all sourced at Ancestry.com, please contact me to request an invite.
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