The Swine family name is an ancient surname of scandinavian origin. It is derived from the Old Norse male given name "Sveinn", Middle English "Swein", meaning boy servant or boy attendant but often used of a swineherd or young rustic labourer. The name is actually recorded prior to Domesday, has appear variously as "Suein, Suen, Suuain, Suan" and "Suuan". Another potential origin found in Scotland is a shortened form of the Olde English pre 7th Century "Sigewine" (Middle English "Siwine"), a personal name composed of the elements "sige", wise, and "wine", friend.

Current research identifies the earliest known ancestor of our Swine line as Robert Swine of Fife who was born in the late 1600s. However little is known of the family until Euphemia Jaffray his great-great-granddaughter whose son William Hardie migrates to Australia in 1879.

My Swine ancestry goes back 9 generations and biographies exist for some members as indicated by links

• Robert Swine married Euphemia Reid
  • Robert Swine 1725 - ? married Mary Dudgeon 
    • Euphemia Swine 1756 - ? married Peter (Patrick) Jaffray 
    • • Euphemia Jaffray 1798 - 1875 and David Hardie
        • William Hardie 1833 - 1918 married Janet Stoddart
          • George Hardie 1871 - 1945 married Joan Kitching
            • Douglas James Hardie 1917 - 2012 married Doreen Bain
              • My father