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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Lady Jocelny Ship & Swarbrick
« on: Thursday 15 January 09 19:33 GMT (UK)  »
Dear jds1949

My husband is sending you an email from work today - NZ time.

Jenn

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Lady Jocelny Ship & Swarbrick
« on: Tuesday 13 January 09 21:13 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Balloonatic

Your great grandfather - Arthur Swarbrick, was brother to my great grandmother - Sarah Louisa Swarbrick, who married Robert Seddon.

Arthur and Sarah's parents were Samuel Swarbrick (who was the accountant for the Midland Railway, and then General Manager of the Great Eastern Railway Company in England) and Sarah Fawcett.

Robert Seddon and Sarah Louisa Swarbrick had 3 sons and 1 daughter:- Professor Herbert Robert Seddon (who helped set up the veterinary school in Sydney), Samuel Thomas Seddon, Diamond Seddon, and my grandfather George Hume Seddon, who was a lawyer and became Register General of the land and deeds dept. 

I have a little info. on the Swarbrick family if you are interested.  Sarah L. left a family tree which I have in my possession.  I can post you a copy if you let me have your details.

Jenn


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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Lady Jocelny Ship & Swarbrick
« on: Tuesday 17 July 07 00:31 BST (UK)  »
Hi

Thank you so much for your information re the Swarbricks.  For some reason or other my family did not have any contact with their family so I have very little information.  My great Grandfather was Robert Seddon, he married a Swarbrick, and I believe it was his Seddon family who also gave Seddon Park in Hamilton.  We are not related to the PM. 

Jenn

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Lady Jocelny Ship & Swarbrick
« on: Saturday 14 July 07 03:31 BST (UK)  »
hi, I have just seen your message while scrolling thru the Seddon messages. 

My great grandmother came to New Zealand to look after her two brothers who had recently sailed here, her name was Sarah Louisa Swarbrick.  I am unsure of the date she came to New Zealand or the name of the ship.   Sarah Louisa Swarbrick and her 2 brothers settled in Hamilton.  I know 1 brother was called Arthur, he was born in 1851 and married in 1881 to Adriana Henrika Pieters of Rotterdam,  they were married in England, and went onto have 5 children.  I'm not sure who the other brother was.  The brothers set up their own legal practice in Hamilton.

Sarah Louisa met her husband in New Zealand and married him in 1886, his name was Robert Seddon.  They went on to have 4 children.

Sarah and Arthur were part of a family of 13 children.  Their parents were Samuel Swarbrick (he had something to do with the railways) and Sarah Fawcett. 

Other children in the family were called:- George William Fawcett, Mary Harriet, Emily Jane, Florence, Elenor Maud, Henry Herbert, Frederick, Alice Maud, Charles Fawcett, Baby boy, and Benjamin.

Surnames of those they married include:- Smith, Wilson, Fawcett....

Don't know if their is a connection, let me know.

Jenn

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Lancashire / Re: Need help finding minister at Bolton Le Moors 1720
« on: Saturday 14 July 07 02:10 BST (UK)  »
hi

this information probably won't help, but a forebearer of mine was a dissenting minister.  Peter Seddon b. 1689 - d.1731 was a minister first at Penrith Cumberland 1717-1719, and then at Cockey Moor, Middleton Lancs until his death.  I have no record of his wife, but what is interesting is there is an historical record of his son, John, being born 1719 (I have seen it recorded for 1716) at Lomax Fold, Little Lever, Bolton Lancs.  I have wondered if there was a connection with the Lomax family.  I have been unable to trace any parish records for his birth.  Incidently John also became a minister.

Jenn

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