Edward Carelton Swift, at one time the owner of the largest meat packing operation in the U.S. built a mansion, Swiftmoor on Paine Avenue in Prides Crossing. Eleonora Eleo Sears a flamboyant female socialite and world class tennis player owned a residence that still exists where Paine Avenue and West Beach meet.
In 2003, burnt-out ex-CIA(SAD/SOG) Paramilitary operations officer and former U.S. Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance officer John Creasy (Denzel Washington) visits his old comrade Paul Rayburn (Christopher Walken), who runs a security firm in Mexico.
The name Creasy was carried to England in the enormous movement of people that followed the Norman Conquest of 1066. The Creasy family lived in Northumberland. The family originally lived in Crecy (Cressy), Normandy. The name was from the Lordship so named, near Dieppe and Rouen. Hugh de Cressy, and Simon, occur in Normandy 1180-1195. Anselm and Gilbert de Cressy c. 1119 held lands from the Earls of Warrenne in England..