Rachel Swain

Rachel Swain
Birth:	1 September 1830 Flitwick, Bedfordshire, England, UK
Death:	12 October 1938 Flitwick, Bedfordshire, England, UK
Age:	108 years, 41 days
Country:	UK
Centenarian

Rachel Swain (1 September 1830 – 12 October 1938) was a British centenarian who was the oldest known living person in the United Kingdom at the time of her death.

Biography

Rachel Swain was born on 1 September 1830 in the village of Flitwick. She lived there her entire life. She married in 1848. Swain and her husband had eleven children. Two of their children, Sarah and William, were alive at the time of Rachel's death. Mr. Swain died in 1902 at the age of 76.

Swain became the oldest living person upon the death of Rachel MacArthur on 10 December 1936. She died on 12 October 1938 at the age of 108 years, 41 days. She was succeeded in title by Mary Davey.

References

• BRITAIN'S OLDEST WOMAN. Death at 108. Townsville Daily Bulletin, 27 October 1938
• WOMAN DIES AGED 108 Singleton Argus, 18 November 1938

United Kingdom's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (V • E)

Frederick Stabbins • Jane Lister • Martha Truelove • Ann Sharp • Jane Raby • Frances Smith • William Walker • Ann Russell • Eliza Roff • Ellen Palmer • Rachel MacArthur • Rachel Swain • Mary Davey • Thomas Pope • John Francklow • Rebecca Lees • Sarah Fitt • Elizabeth Sellwood • Matilda Coppins • Elizabeth Whitehead • Emma Rooke • Margaret Lunn • Sarah Humphrey • Caroline Beale • Fanny Hopkins • Elizabeth Etheridge • Sophia Wellstead • Rhoda Harris • Emma Weeks • Edith Grellier • Mary Worthington • Jane Stoneman • Ellen Dart • Elizabeth Kensley • Hannah Smith • John Mosley Turner • Ada Roe • Alice Stevenson • Elizabeth Watkins • Frederick Butterfield • Rose Heeley • Agnes Helyar • James Harrow • Sarah Morgan • Lilias Williams • Florence Pannell • Jeanetta Thomas • Alice Brewster • Anna Eliza Williams • Kate Begbie • Charlotte Hughes • Daisy Adams • Rebecca Hewison • Annie Scott • Rachel Wieselberg • Lucy Askew • Annie Jennings • Eva Morris • Amy Hulmes • Nellie Bradley • Gladys Hawley • Lucy d'Abreu • Judy Ingamells • Emmeline Brice • Annie Knight • Ada Mason • Florrie Baldwin • Eunice Bowman • Annie Turnbull • Elsie Steele • Margaret Fish • Violet Wood • Grace A Jones • Ethel Lang • Gladys Hooper • Bessie Camm • Olive Boar • Grace C Jones • Gwen Payne • Hilda Clulow • Bob Weighton • Joan Hocquard • Lilian Priest • Gertrude Kingston • Mollie Walker • Ethel Caterham