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Progress in the Seaby lines thanks to MyRoots
posted Saturday, 12 November 2005
Thanks to a generous contact made via this MyRoots blog, I have been able to make quite a bit of progress on the Seaby branch of the family history. Back in April 2005, I seemed to have found the death certificate of William Seaby, one of my great-great-grandfathers on my mother's side, but still needed to locate a parish register entry for his birth.
David kindly sent me some relevant transcriptions from the Cambridgeshire FHS' fiche of the Parish Registers of Dry Drayton 1564-1851 (sub-sets are searchable at the Cambs FHS web site). These show the christening of William Seaby on 18 September 1831, son of Joseph and Elizabeth Seaby. This fits with William's father's name from his marriage certificate and census records indicating his likely birth place and year. The christenings of William's siblings Charlotte (1833), Joshua (1835) and Mary Ann (1838-1841) also feature, tying in with IGI and 1841/51 census records (excluding Mary Ann).
The banns for William's parents' marriage are also recorded on 1 November 1829, showing that Joseph Seaby intended to marry Elizabeth Parish (widow) of Caldecote. They weren't married in Dry Drayton but in Caldecote, on 2 November 1829, as Boyd's marriage index and the IGI both confirm. What neither of these sources had shown was that Elizabeth Parish was a widow when she married Joseph, and that's the exciting bit of the jigsaw ... to follow up next!
David kindly sent me some relevant transcriptions from the Cambridgeshire FHS' fiche of the Parish Registers of Dry Drayton 1564-1851 (sub-sets are searchable at the Cambs FHS web site). These show the christening of William Seaby on 18 September 1831, son of Joseph and Elizabeth Seaby. This fits with William's father's name from his marriage certificate and census records indicating his likely birth place and year. The christenings of William's siblings Charlotte (1833), Joshua (1835) and Mary Ann (1838-1841) also feature, tying in with IGI and 1841/51 census records (excluding Mary Ann).
The banns for William's parents' marriage are also recorded on 1 November 1829, showing that Joseph Seaby intended to marry Elizabeth Parish (widow) of Caldecote. They weren't married in Dry Drayton but in Caldecote, on 2 November 1829, as Boyd's marriage index and the IGI both confirm. What neither of these sources had shown was that Elizabeth Parish was a widow when she married Joseph, and that's the exciting bit of the jigsaw ... to follow up next!
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