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Yes hopefully the answer will come to light one day it would probably need to be DNA evidence as its been so long though.

As far as I know there is no connection to the Siggers family to Scotland

I wont say there is not a connection to William beacuse I can not prove it either way but its given me something to think about and its an intresting story.

I still think it's intresting his middle name is John there is another illegitimate Siggers born about 100 years later that hinted to the actual fathers name by double barrelling his surname with hers she was a maid at the time and her husband lived somewhere else so her daughter ended up with the surname Gatenby-Siggers but all the other children she had where legitimate.

If William is John's son though  he would be a great grand uncle I never knew about which is cool.

It's sad Sarah's family took William away and if John was his father he probably never saw him again.

Ryan

I have just found this comment by Vella this is intresting to me beacuse my 5th and 4th Great Grandfathers are Isaac Seggers/Siggers I created a little tree for Sarah to see if I could figure it out from what I can tell she was 24 when she had her first child William John Levett Born 1852. Sarah did not marry until James Diaper 1831-1874 until 8 Nov 1855 now the intresting part my 4th Great Grandfather had a son named John 1834-1903 he would of been 18 and she 24 when William John Levett was born perhaps they met when she was working as a servant.

Vella's Comment
"I have just found out that my 2xgrt grandmother Sarah was a servant in the household of Issac Seggers, Harwich ST Nicholas in the 1851 census. Isaac was 77 then and there was also a daughter Ann aged 35 living there too. If you have anymore information on this family I would be interested to learn of it as the family story goes that the son of the household (possibly named JOHN) was the father of Sarah's illegitimate son."

What do you guys think?

Thank You so much guys this is all fascinating stuff I wonder with there being mentions of sailors if this is the reason there was a move to Hartlepool as that is a coast town and if maybe before Essex if the family came from somewhere else possibly overseas.

I just had a look and could not find Siggers in the index.