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    The story that Jonathan Swift told is that he came into the world on November 30, 1667, in the house of his uncle Godwin Swift, in a little Dublin alley known as Hoey's Court.  He was born there because his father had recently died at the age of twenty-seven, and his mother, Abigail, had moved in with her Swift relatives.  The baby was named Jonathan, after his father.  Abigail also had an eighteen-month-old daughter, Jane, and hardly any money.
-Leo Damrosch,  Jonathan Swift:  His Life and His World