Seabourn(e) Family

This family name has a number of variants and my cousin found one entry in the 1851 Census for Saban!

This spelling of the family name appears to have been used in the Great Hallingbury area where my Great Great Grandfather James Seabourn was born in 1824/5 (per 1851 Census).

During our visit, we went across to Great Hallingbury near Bishops Stortford and took photo's of the church:

The Church of St Giles, Great Hallingbury

Also see Genes Reunited below

Genes Reunited

Farrow Family

We were pleased to receive an enquiry from a descendant of Harriet Farrow's brother James:

Harriet Farrow

Saunders Family

My Grandma Ellen (Saunders) Brecht had two twin sisters, Edith and Annie Saunders born in 1879.

A descendant of Edith Saunders advised me of his family tree.

Seabourn Family

In the early 1980s, my mother & her sister Aunt Ellen Brecht told me that my Grandma Ellen (Saunders) Brecht had worked in the greenhouses of George Smith (husband of Aunt Polly).

A descendant of George Smith advised me that Aunt Polly was Mary (Seabourn) Smith, the sister of my Great Grandmother Emma Mary (Seabourn) Saunders

I searched the 1881 Census and found George & Mary (Seabourn) Smith living at the same adress as her brother James Seabourn:

Seabourn - Census Entries

Hayes Family

I had often wondered who Martha Hayes (a witness at the wedding of Henry Hayes & Charlotte Gardner in 1869) was.

A descendant of Martha Hayes advised me that Martha was Henry Hayes' sister who married Robert Cooper.

The extra piece of information enabled me to trace Martha Hayes (& her family) in the 1881 Census:

Hayes - Census Entries

By 1881 Thomas & Elizabeth (Bradbrook) Hayes had moved from Islington to Chiswick where Robert & Martha were living in 1881.

Census Entries

As I still had a lot of gaps in the census entries for a number of families, I subscribed to Ancestry.co.uk and started to fill them:

Bower 1871, 1891, 1901
Bradbrook 1861
Collier 1851, 1861
Gardner 1851
Hayes 1841, 1851, 1861, 1881, 1891, 1901
Holbrook 1861
Seabourn 1871, 1881 and 1901
Smith (Essex) 1901
Walland 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901
Peryer/Perrier 1861, 1871
Smith (Surrey) 1861, 1871
Farrow 1841, 1861, 1871
Marjoram 1841, 1871
Ransom(e) 1861

Census Entries - Index

Collier/Cordell Family

In the last two months two descendants in the Collier/Cordell family made contact.

One was a descendant of Eliza Collier a sister of Charles Collier, the Rope Maker. Eliza married James Godier in 1853.

The other was another descendant of Emma Collier, a sister of Charles Collier, the Rope Maker. Emma married William James Cordell and would have been my correspondent's great great grandmother.

Peryer/Perrier Family

A correspondent made contact via Genes Reunited. She was a descendant of Matilda Peryer, James Peryer's sister. James Peryer was Chis' great grandfather.

Colin Bower
15 December 2008

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