Swain de Staveley

   Another name for Swain was Swain Fitz Dolfin.

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ¹⁰⁶⁸
In the Cottonian roll Dolfin is given three sons Torfin, Uctred and Swain. Certainly Uctred son of Dolfin was the father of Simon the ancestor of the Hebden family. Torfin is given as the father of Peter de Thoresby, and Swain as the father of Robert de Thoresby, to whom Thoresby passed from his cousin Peter who died without issue; and further Swain is given a having three other sons Ralph, Thomas from whom the Staveley family descended, and Elias, and also a daughter Gonelle wife of John Morville.

Early Yorkshire Families, pp. 87-90 taken from The First Staveleys