![]() Swift's uncle Godwin is usually credited with the responsibility for taking charge of his education, but there is no reason for excluding William and Adam from sharing the cost. There is no certainty that she saw her son again until his visits to her in spring 1689 and autumn 1692. For reasons that cannot now be ascertained, but which may have included financial exigency, Abigail and her daughter, Jane, left Ireland and returned to her family in Leicestershire. Swift remained with the nurse for three years, and was apparently able to spell and read the Bible by three years of age ( Family of Swift). At some point after the event Abigail was informed, and consequently instructed the nurse to remain in Whitehaven with the child until it was safe to attempt a return voyage. Before he was a year old, and perhaps without his mother's knowledge or consent, the infant Swift was taken by his devoted nursemaid to Whitehaven, Cumberland. The untimely death of Swift's father inevitably produced financial difficulties for his widow. Her will is in Le Brocquy, Cadenus ( Le Brocquy, pp. In spite of her brother's disapproval Jane married Joseph Fenton, a Dublin currier, in 1699, and although he never lost touch with her and met her several times after her marriage, he also provided her with an annuity of £15 for as long as she stayed out of Ireland. Jane probably remained in Ireland until her brother went to Kilkenny College in 1673, and thence went to England with her mother, but she was married from the Bride Street household of her uncle William, whom Swift described in November 1692 as ' the best of my relations' ( Correspondence, ed. 1736) and Jonathan, born about seven months after the death of Jonathan senior, and probably at his uncle Godwin's house, 7 Hoey's Court ( Faulkner's Dublin Journal). Two children were born of this marriage: Jane ( bap. ![]() In his autobiographical fragment Swift says simply that his father Jonathan ' had some employments, and agencyes' ( Family of Swift, 191): in fact he was an office-holder, having been appointed steward of the King's Inns, Dublin, on 25 January 1666, and attorney one day later. ![]() The satirist and the poet John Dryden (1631–1700) were second cousins once removed.īy 1660 Jonathan was working at the King's Inns, Dublin, the hall of the Irish lawyers' corporation, whose governing body included Sir John Temple, and in June 1664 he and Abigail married privately and by special licence issued by the prerogative court of the archbishop of Armagh. Thomas's fifth son, Swift's father, Jonathan, was probably the first of Godwin's brothers to migrate to Ireland and was named Jonathan after his mother's brother Jonathan Dryden. William was admitted a solicitor in Dublin in November 1661, and lived in nearby Bride Street. Godwin's youngest brother, Adam (1642–1704), reached Ireland last of all and lived in Bull Alley, near Godwin, practising as a solicitor. Godwin's brother Thomas married the eldest daughter of Sir William Davenant, leaving a son, also called Thomas, rector of Puttenham, Surrey. Of this Thomas's eleven children ( Mary, Godwin, Dryden, Emily, Elizabeth, Thomas, Sarah, William, Katherine, Jonathan, and Adam) the eldest son, Godwin (1628–1695), was trained at Gray's Inn from 1650, was called to the English bar in July 1660, to the Irish bar in May 1663, and was attorney-general for Ormond's palatinate in Tipperary until June 1668. ![]() William, son of Thomas (1566–1624), succeeded him at St Andrew's, and William's son, also Thomas, the vicar of Goodrich in Herefordshire (1595–1658), was remembered as a staunch royalist noted for his loyalty in Mercurius Rusticus (1685) and for having been ' plundred by the roundheads six and thirty times' ( Family of Swift, 189). 1592), was for forty years rector of St Andrew's, Canterbury. ![]() Swift's earliest known and direct male ancestor was William Swyfte of Canterbury ( c.1500–1567), of unknown occupation, who married ( c.1533) Agnes Barbett, also of Canterbury ( d. ![]()
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