John Henry Herbert McSwiney details on a grave monument at St Helen Church burial ground, Barnoldby le Beck, Lincolnshire,England

Name Details

Rev John Henry Herbert (Herbert) McSwiney MA

The name John Henry Herbert McSwiney is the first name on the monument.

The monument is in St Helen church burial ground, Barnoldby le Beck, Lincolnshire, England.

There are 120 other graves within this cemetery that are listed within the GPR database.

John Henry Herbert McSwiney was buried in 1899. The actual date of death is not currently recorded on the GPR database but it may be on the grave monument photograph.

John Henry Herbert McSwiney age is given as 72.

John Henry Herbert McSwiney birth is given as 1826.

John Henry Herbert McSwiney is listed on the GPR grave numbered 280472.

John Henry Herbert McSwiney is listed as the first name on monument on the grave monument.

John Henry Herbert McSwiney has the record number 602064 within the GPR person name database table.

The record was added to the GPR on 29 January 2013

There is one image available for the monument listing John Henry Herbert McSwiney (see grave detail page).

The follow note is stored against John Henry Herbert McSwiney record:

John Henry Herbert McSwiney, Rev., M.A. Known as Herbert. // Rector of this parish 13 years. // Son of Daniel McSwiney, M.A. and Sarah McSwiney, nee Allfree. (Daniel was born near Cork, Ireland. Tutor to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Author, Poet, Teacher in Allfree Institution in Brighton)// Birth Date: Birth Date 25 December 1826 Baptism Date 18 April 1827 - St. Nicholas Church, Brighton, Sussex MA degree from Pembroke College, Cambridge University. Ordained Minister - Church of England Assistant Curate - St. Nicholas, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England 1851, April 29 - 25 year old J.H. Herbert McSwiney married (1) Emily Sarah Hills at St. Nicholas Church in Yarmouth, Norfolk. They had seven children, only 3 surviving through mid-adulthood. 1852 Anglican Chaplain to the Russia Company at Cronstadt, the port of St. Petersburg, Russia. The English Church was part of the large English community in St. Petersburg - situated on the English Embankment* of the Neva River, near the British Embassy and the diplomats and wealthiest of the English merchants' abodes - and near the Russian Czar's winter palace, The Hermitage. British Merchant Seamen as well as the St. Petersburg community were attended to by Herbert. They lived at the English Parsonage. Herbert McSwiney's first entrance to the Cronstadt Baptism Register was on February 3 1852 and the last entry was on October 28 1878 - a 26 year period. There were interludes in England on vacation and in English posts. 1881 Curate in Charge - Penn 1886 Rector St Helen's Church, Barnoldby-le-Beck - post held for 13 years 1893, April - Co-Commissary (Deputy) in England (with Rev. J. Allen Bell) to the Bishop of British Columbia, George Hills. 1897 First wife, Emily McSwiney, nee Hills, died 1898 Married second wife, Emma Maude Godden. Rev. Herbert McSwiney died, aged 73, Friday 24 February 1899 - buried in St. Helen's cemetery, Barnoldby-le-Beck on Monday, 27 February 1899.

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