Clan Swinton
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Clan Swinton is a Scottish Border clan of Anglo-Saxon origin whose ancestral lands straddle the historic boundary between England and Scotland. It is among the oldest landed families in Britain, with
The Bookplate of Sir John Swinton, titled 'Baron of Swinton'
Arden family
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The Arden family is an English landed gentry family that can be traced back in the male line to pre-Norman Anglo-Saxon landholders who managed to maintain status after the 1066 invasion of England by
Clan Swinton
…to be one of few families in Britain that can trace its patrilineal descent back to a pre-Norman era Anglo-Saxon ancestor (the other four being the Arden family, the Berkeley family, the Wentworth family, and the Grindlay family), but the claim is disputed. The Swinton chiefs are likely to have been of Anglo-Saxon…
A member of the Arden family married the heiress of Sir Rowland Hill, publisher of the Geneva Bible
Underbank Hall, an Arden family property of the 1500s in Stockport
1795 engraving of Harden Hall, Bredbury, another Arden family property near Stockport