Progress To Date

Great Great Grandparent: Ellen Maria Holbrook
- Her Parents: William Thomas& Sarah Maria Holbrook
- Her Grandparents

Mini Family Tree (Direct Ancestors)

The family tree to date may be summarised:

Holbrook Family Tree

William Holbrook d 18.3.1847 (age 39)
Married (?) 3.6.1828
Sarah Maria (?) Bicknell d 13.7.1864 (age 60)

Ellen Maria Holbrook b 1831 bp 28.8.1831
Married 10.10.1847
James Seabourn b c 1824 Gt Hallingbury d 6.8.1866 (age 42)

(Ellen married John George Robson 16.6.1872)

Emma Mary Seabourn b 06.11.1853
Married 26.09.1876
Charles Herbert Saunders b 17.04.1844

Ellen Elizabeth Curran Saunders b 06.11.1877 d 19.3.1960
Married 25.12.1899
Arthur Brecht b 28.01.1877 d 28.12.1946

Doris Ivy Brecht b 15.03.1912
d 29.6.2003
Married 11.07.1936
Frederick Bower b 12.09.1910
d 10.9.2006

Colin Malcolm Bower b 12.01.1944
Married 15.10.1966
Christine Elizabeth Collier b 26.03.1946

Link to Family Tree

Emma Mary Seabourn(e) & Descendants

Summary of Research To Date

The Holbrook Family is closely linked to the Seabourn(e)/Saban Family and information was collected as one file until the papers were separated in 2023.

Tha main interest was Ellen Maria Holbrook who married James Seabourn and remarried a Robson after James died.

Parish Records

Potential bp for William Holbrook
Potential marriage 1828 - William Thomas Holbrook
Bp of  Ellen Maria Holbrook 1831

Parish Records

Birth Marriage & Death Certificates Held
- Births: 1 - Emma Mary Seabourn 1853
- Marriages: 1 - Ellen Maria Seabourn 1872
- Deaths: 2 - William Holbrook 1847 & Sarah Holbrook 1864

Certificates Held

Census Records Obtained
- 1841 West Ham, William & Sarah Holbrook & family
- 1851 West Ham, Sarah Holbrook Widow & family
- 1861 West Ham, Sarah Holbrook Widow & family
- 1871 West Ham William & Hannah Holbrook & family
- Arthur & Emma Holbrook & family

Census Entries

Other Research Undertaken
- IGI -
- Wills
- Businesses - Shoemaker (William Thomas Holbrook)
- Correspondence - with 2 cousins, 1 related to James Seabourn and 1 related to Ellen Holbrook, his wife
- Visits - Gt Hallingbury Church
- Photographs - same
- Misc Info/Documents

Progress 2005

I received correspondence from a distant cousin related to the Holbrooks via the Seabourns.

Progress 2006

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Progress 2007

My great grandfather James Seabourn died in 1866. I was able to obtain the marriage certificate for the second marriage of Ellen Maria Seabourn (formerly Holbrook) to John George Robson in 1872.

My cousin traced the Holbrook Family (1841-1871)  in some of the censuses and obtained the death certificates of Ellen Maria Holbrook's parents

Progress 2008

I received corrspondence from a distant cousin who was related to William Holbrook and his daughter Ellen.

Progress 2009- 2011

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Progress 2012

Seabourne/Holbrook/Robson Family

A distant relative sent me a charming photo of Ruth Elizabeth (Robson) Wright born 1873 - parents George and Ellen Maria (born Holbrook late Seabourne) Robson.She is holding my correspondent's grandmother: