Seago News - January 2004 - written and edited by Mike Higgins
News and notes about recent enquiries or research finds........
Please contact the Group's co-ordinator with comments about the site, enquiries about your Seago family or share any finds you come across that relate to the name Seago.
Tempus Fugit (time flies............) Its been a long time since I have updated the Seago web site News Page, years in fact! This does not mean everything stopped or that I gave up, but other priorities proved too much. Various family commitments and activities have been enjoyed - my son Mark was married and my daughter has now left home after joining the police. I've also been forced to work too hard earning a living, my employers believe productivity has no bounds!
I have continued to reply to as many enquiries as time allows, but have been tardy in replying to some. I have recently tried to check my old e-mail records and reply to those missed earlier. Apologies to anyone who feels I have ignored them...... please contact us again.
Recent contacts.....
Caroline Clarke, who's great-grandmother was Florence Seago from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, born 1878, contacted us. Caroline was interested in Florence's father and grandfather Robert Francis and Samuel Seago who lived in Yarmouth in the 19th century. Caroline's family believed the family name Seago came from Huguenot descendants. We sent Caroline copies of YB and YC family trees.
Karina Cattuzzo from Australia contacted us last Summer enquiring about her father known as 'Johnny' Seago, born in the UK 1936. He migrated to Australia and married Patricia in 1957. I did quite a lot of research for her and obtained a birth cert. for a George Horace Seago born 1910. We have not heard from Karina for a long time...... please do get in touch again.
Diane Johanson asked us about a Mary Seago or Segon who married a William Sheppard in Chedgrave, Norfolk in 1794. After comparing notes, we agreed that a Mary Segon baptised in 1772 at Chedgrave, the daughter of John and Elizabeth Seago(e) of Chedgrave (SA16 and SA17 in our Index).
During the Autumn of 2003, Dick Bellamy in New Zealand and I exchanged a letter and a number of e-mails about his family connection to the Seago name. Dick had visited the UK last year and did do some family research. His grandmother was Alice Louise Seago (born 1875), who married John Henry Bellamy in the parish Church of Pitsmoor, Sheffield, in 1908 - they were both aged 33 years. I was able to obtain the marriage cert. for him, as well as some information found about his family 'Bellamy' from the Family Record Centre in London....... it being a bit far for Dick to visit often.
I have also had some very pleasant
exchanges of information with Eileen and Malcolm Webb who live in Great
Yarmouth, Norfolk - one of the the important places for early Seago's. Their first e-mail
contact gave details of their Seago researches and the family details as known. Armed with
this, I was able to connect them with our YB and YC family trees which connect many
Yarmouth Seagoe's in family trees. Malcolm traces links back to Samuel Seago
born about 1796, YB11.
Following some clues, Malcolm was able to locate a number of grave headstones in the
church yard of St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth, for several members of the YC and YB family
tree members and has sent us some very good photographs and transcripts of the
inscriptions thereon... thanks. Malcolm also sent us a few photographs of some
Seago's from his family - perhaps some of these will be added to our photo galleries.
The Group's Main Index: The number of entries now stands at over 6,800 entries! Of these, approximately half of the recorded entries relate to persons to whom we have identified family links and family trees.
Go on, do it! As you can see from the contacts the Group has had in the last few months, many Seago families or descendants are living abroad. If you are a SEAGO living outside the UK, why not set up a SEAGO web site for your own country - or write a page to be appended (with e-mail links) to our Seago web site - contact Mike for help, if you need it.
What about submitting something to the Group's News pages or Web pages yourself?
Visitors to the Group's web site who are researching Seago's might like to consider sending in a few words which can be incorporated in the Group's news page (introductions to yourself and your family history interests, research progress reports, requests for information/links, etc.). E-mail to Mike Higgins at seago@mikehiggins.plus.com