Category Archives: Seager

Following on from my last post, I’ll now set out what I know about the lives of the three sons of Samuel Hurst Seager (1780 – 1837): Samuel Hurst, Henry Fowle and Edward William – before they emigrated to New … Continue reading →

In the last post I wrote about the likely origins of my 3 x great grandfather Samuel Hurst Seager (1780 – 1837) in Birmingham, and his family’s probable roots in Kingswinford, Staffordshire. I also mentioned the possibility of a first … Continue reading →

In January I reported a new finding by my distant relative Richard Seager, which identified our common ancestor Samuel Hurst Seager with the person of that name christened at St. Philip’s church (now the cathedral), Birmingham in November 1780. Now … Continue reading →

My distant relative and fellow family historian Richard Seager has made an important breakthrough in our knowledge of Samuel Hurst Seager – one of my great great great grandfathers. Samuel was married to Fanny Fowle and their daughter, Fanny Sarah … Continue reading →

Following on from the last post, and once again thanks to Richard Seager (and permission from Canterbury Museum in New Zealand), here are some more photographs of the Seager family. First, two pictures of my great great grand uncle (?) … Continue reading →

Further to my reference in the previous post to the haunting power of old family photos, here are two strikingly different pictures of Esther Coster, courtesy of Richard Seager in Australia. Born in 1836 in Charfield, Gloucestershire, Esther was the … Continue reading →

The New Zealand-born crime writer Ngaio Marsh (1895 – 1982) was the grand-daughter of Edward William Seager (1828 – 1922), brother to my great great grandmother Fanny Sarah Seager – and thus (if Family Tree Maker is to be believed) … Continue reading →