Seymour in Dorset

Origins of the name
Variants of the name
Hannah Seymour (?-1793)
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Introduction

This page is devoted to the SEYMOUR ancestors of my mother - the origins of the name, who they were and where and when they lived.

The genealogical data in these pages is accurate to the best of my current (at the time of writing) knowledge. This means it is of very variable reliability, since sources at one extreme are 100% certain (e.g. I know who I married, where and when, and the identity of my parents) to the mere rumour level, such as LDS data extracted from the IGI and Ancestral File, and reminiscences of elderly relatives, some now deceased. Anyone wishing to make any use whatever of this information is therefore strongly advised to contact me for source details.

Origins of the name

The surname Seymour has two quite different sources. One is the French family St. Maur, who lived either in St. Maur des Fossées, near Paris, or St.Maur sur Loire, at least one member of whom came over in 1066 with Wiliam the Conqueror and another landed in Monmouthshire in the 13th century. The other source is from an English place name, of which there are no less than four possibilities, two instances of Seamer in north Yorkshire and one of Semer in each of Norfolk, Suffolk and north Yorkshire. Which of these was applicable to my ancestors I have no idea as yet.

Variants of the name

Seymer, Seymore, Seymoure.

Hannah Seymour

Hannah SEYMOUR married John LACY at Tarrant Crawford parish church, Dorset, on 26th December 1787. The couple had at least three children, who were all baptised at Tarrant Crawford, Ann on 9th June 1788, Solomon on 4th January 1790 and James on 26th February 1792. They seem to have been an unhealthy family, since Hannah died in 1793, and was buried at Tarrant Crawford church on 19th May 1793. Little James was buried there on 28th March 1794 and John, Hannah's husband, on 16th November 1796, leaving only the two older children Solomon and Ann. Ann was my maternal grandmother's paternal grandmother's mother.