Person:Robert Swain (1)

Went by Henry

IGI also shows Robert married to a Jane Price or Jane Tuff.

Robert sailed from Liverpool, England, on April 29, 1865, bound for New York on the "Belle Wood". His voyage took 33 days and another six months by wagon train to reach his destination. He traveled with the William Willes company from Wyoming, Nebraska, arriving in Salt Lake City on November 29, 1865.

Shortly after Robert's arrival in Utah, he married his second wife, Marie Ingeborg Jensen, who bore him four sons: Albert, Robert Henry, Nephi (Jack) and Moroni (Mack, the actor).

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Robert Henry Swain had never worked with stone in England, but when he came to Utah he obtained employment as a stone mason on the Salt Lake Temple, where he worked for ten years. He became the chief stone mason. It is said his death was due to silicosis caused by working so long with the granite. Eva Beatrice Squires Poelman

Internation Society, Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Our Pioneer Heritage, (28). Salt Lake City: Infobases, Inc., 1996. Published under license.

Buysville is now Daniels.

Roberts head stone says that he was born in 1837 but in the IGI his LDS Church membership record of a deceased persons says his birth date was the 19th of March 1832 in Alkham, Kent, England. The Ancestral File has his birth date as 1835. The Heber Newspaper has his birth date as the 19 of March 1837 at the time of his death. The 1880 Census says that he was 40 years old in 1880. From all of this information most of them would point his birth date as being 1837.

1. ↑ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. LDS Membership Record of a Living Individual.

   Roberts head stone says that he was born in 1837 but in the IGI his LDS Church membership record of a deceased persons says his birth date was the 19th of March 1832 in Alkham, Kent, England.
   
   ROBERT HENRY SWAIN
   Birth: 19 MAR 1832 Alkham, Kent, England
   Messages:
   LDS Church membership record of a deceased person. The original records cannot be sent to family history centers. The records of members who died before 1988 can be viewed at the Family History Library. These records cannot be photocopied. Information for members who died after 1988 is available only on the Internet version of the IGI. Married women may be indexed under their maiden or married surnames. Early LDS
   Church ward or branch records. The entry may be hard to find because the source does not have a page number index and because the names, dates, and places may be different on the film than in the IGI entry.
   Source Information:
   Batch Number: 6940414
   Sheet: 00
   Source Call No.: MARGET
   Type: Book

2. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1851 England Census.

   Alkham, Kent, England, William Swain, Folio: 906, Page 10, schedule # 40

3. ↑ Cemetery Record: Utah, Wasatch, Heber - Heber City Cemetery. (http://history.utah.gov/apps/burials/execute/searchburials)
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4.   The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Ancestral File (TM) 1998 (3). (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998).