Researching Nigel Sweeney
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 4010 people with the Sweeney surname? In that year Sweeney was ranked number 1066 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Nigel means "dark" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Nigel Sweeney on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Nigel Sweeney and the Sweeney Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Sweeney Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Sweeney family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 12277 people with the Sweeney surname in the UK? Sweeney is now ranked number 462 for popularity in the UK. |
Sweeney Genealogy Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 54688 people with the Sweeney surname in the USA? Sweeney is ranked number 139 for popularity in the USA. |
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Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Nigel Sweeney. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Nigel Sweeney
Nigel Sweeney
Sir Nigel Hamilton Sweeney (born 18 March 1954), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Sweeney, is a High Court judge.
Sweeney studied law at the University of Nottingham under Sir John Cyril Smith. He was called to the bar in 1976 at the Middle Temple, where he was made a bencher in 1997, and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2000. He was appointed to the High Court (Queen's Bench) in September 2008.
Prior to being appointed a High Court judge, Sweeney was a barrister in the United Kingdom, practising from 6 King's Bench Walk. He prosecuted a number of notable criminal trials, including the perpetrators of the 1984 IRA Brighton bombing and the attempted bombings of 21 July 2005, Neo-Nazi terrorist David Copeland and murderers Michael Stone and Kamel Bourgass.
He presided over the trial in February and March 2013 of former Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Chris Huhne MP and his former wife, Vicky Pryce, for perverting the course of justice contrary to common law. He sentenced another MP Denis MacShane for fraud in the aftermath of the 2009 parliamentary expenses scandal.
More recently he presided over and was sentencing judge in high-profile cases involving terrorists and extremists, such as the two men responsible for the murder of Lee Rigby in 2013 and White supremacist bomber Pavlo Lapshyn. He was the presiding judge in the trial of Rolf Harris for various counts of indecent assault dating back to the 1960s.
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