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Hello Geoff

If you could message directly here with your email address I will contact you direct - then we can swap info on the Seaman / Cassells family history.

I have just found out today some very interesting info on David Seaman's younger brother Enoch and his only daughter Annie Seaman. Enoch - like his father Elisha Seaman - was a local preacher and part of the Primitive Methodist Movement - and I have discovered an article online by a lady called Norma Virgoe which outlines a Methodist investigation into the alleged rape of Enoch's 15 year old daughter Annie by the Reverend William Franks, who was well known on the Methodist circuit in Norfolk in the late 1880's.

Details can be found here: http://www.myprimitivemethodists.org.uk/page/william_franks - scroll down to the bottom of page to the downloadable PDF document ro read Norma's article.

If you are aware of this info already then I apologize for repeating what you already know - but if not you may find it very interesting - and scandalous reading. Personally I am on Annie and Enoch's side on this one - and I believe poor Annie suffered a huge miscarriage of Justice. 

I cannot wait to see what new you info you have for me.

Kind Regards
Chrissy Hamlin

Hello to all

I am currently researching the Seaman Family in Essex on behalf of my partner Karl Seaman. I believe that he may be a direct descendant of Elisha Seaman who would have been his 3 x Great Grandfather. David Seaman and Mary Cassells from Limerick would therefore have been his 2 x great grandparents. 

My partner's great grandfather was William George Seaman, born 20 March 1890 in St Osyth, Tendring, Essex and I think he was possibly the son of Mary Cassells and David Seaman.

William George Seaman married Lydia Ruth Woodward in 1915 and their son Francis William Seaman (1918 - 1970) was my partners Grandfather. Francis William Seaman married Ivy Beecham in 1938 in Billericay, Essex and they had 2 children - William John Seaman ( 1938 - 1986) who was my partner's father, and Doreen Sylvia Seaman ( Married name LEE).

If anyone can corroborate this information for me as correct, I would be most grateful.

I would also be very interested in any information other members have on Elisha Seaman and his family, David Seaman and Mary Cassels and her family.

I would be happy to share my research on the Seaman Family with other descendants and to assist others. I have been an amateur genealogist for over 30 years and I currently live in Brentwood Essex, so I can supply local history information about the various places, villages and areas in Essex that the Seaman family lived in.

Chrissy Hamlin