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William Seaby born c1830 Dry Drayton, Cambs
posted Saturday, 9 April 2005
Seeking a birth and a death ... William was my great-great grandfather, father of Lavinia Seaby who married great-grandfather Charles Brown. Lavinia's birth certificate of 1861 names William as her father, a labourer, and shows her mother as Emma, formerly Badcock.
William and Emma married in Dry Drayton in August in 1854; William's age is given as 24, suggesting a birth year of 1830 and his father is named as Joseph Seaby.
The transcript of the 1841 Cambridgeshire census shows a Joseph Seaby and his wife Elizabeth living in Dry Drayton with son William aged 10 (and another son, Joshua and daughter Charlotte). The family (apart from Elizabeth) are in the 1851 census transcript, with William now aged 20, indicating an 1831 birth year.
In the 1871 census, William is shown as aged 41, living in Dry Drayton (sub-district Willingham) with his wife Emma and their children Samuel, Lavinia, Phillis, Lucy, Solomon and Margaret. In 1881, Emma is shown as head of a Dry Drayton household with a lodger, Jonathan Treaviss (later also transcribed as Travis) and her children Solomon and Margaret. By then she had actually married Jonathan (in the Chesterton Register Office, in 1879). She is described on the certificate as a widow, so William must have died between the time of the 1871 census and his widow's remarriage in 1879.
A certificate arrived yesterday for the death of a William Seaby in Chesterton (sub-district Willingham) during the September quarter of 1872.
From the details, the certificate could be for 'my' William: he died in Dry Drayton aged 43 years, and is described as a farm labourer in keeping with the censuses and marriage certificate. He had had consumption for two years, so he and Emma must have had a hard job making ends meet with their growing family. The informant is Catherine Binge (I think) who was in attendance. I don't know who this is: there are no Catherines as far as I know in the immediate Badcock or Seaby families. A quick check of the 1871 census at Ancestry.co.uk shows Catherine aged 59 with her husband (another Agricultural Labourer) living nearby the Badcock family, so perhaps she was a helpful neighbour.
So on balance this is probably the death certificate for William Seaby, and indicates a birth year of 1829/30. Now all I have to do is try to track down a parish register record for his birth. The transcription of the Parish registers Index Cambridgeshire 1801-1837: has a possible christening in 1831, son of Joseph and Elizabeth in Dry Drayton. Intriguingly the transcript is flagged to show that the original entry contains more information than is normal ... I can't wait to see the real thing some day if this is really 'my' William!
William and Emma married in Dry Drayton in August in 1854; William's age is given as 24, suggesting a birth year of 1830 and his father is named as Joseph Seaby.
The transcript of the 1841 Cambridgeshire census shows a Joseph Seaby and his wife Elizabeth living in Dry Drayton with son William aged 10 (and another son, Joshua and daughter Charlotte). The family (apart from Elizabeth) are in the 1851 census transcript, with William now aged 20, indicating an 1831 birth year.
In the 1871 census, William is shown as aged 41, living in Dry Drayton (sub-district Willingham) with his wife Emma and their children Samuel, Lavinia, Phillis, Lucy, Solomon and Margaret. In 1881, Emma is shown as head of a Dry Drayton household with a lodger, Jonathan Treaviss (later also transcribed as Travis) and her children Solomon and Margaret. By then she had actually married Jonathan (in the Chesterton Register Office, in 1879). She is described on the certificate as a widow, so William must have died between the time of the 1871 census and his widow's remarriage in 1879.
A certificate arrived yesterday for the death of a William Seaby in Chesterton (sub-district Willingham) during the September quarter of 1872.
From the details, the certificate could be for 'my' William: he died in Dry Drayton aged 43 years, and is described as a farm labourer in keeping with the censuses and marriage certificate. He had had consumption for two years, so he and Emma must have had a hard job making ends meet with their growing family. The informant is Catherine Binge (I think) who was in attendance. I don't know who this is: there are no Catherines as far as I know in the immediate Badcock or Seaby families. A quick check of the 1871 census at Ancestry.co.uk shows Catherine aged 59 with her husband (another Agricultural Labourer) living nearby the Badcock family, so perhaps she was a helpful neighbour.
So on balance this is probably the death certificate for William Seaby, and indicates a birth year of 1829/30. Now all I have to do is try to track down a parish register record for his birth. The transcription of the Parish registers Index Cambridgeshire 1801-1837: has a possible christening in 1831, son of Joseph and Elizabeth in Dry Drayton. Intriguingly the transcript is flagged to show that the original entry contains more information than is normal ... I can't wait to see the real thing some day if this is really 'my' William!
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