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1572 SECKINGTON ELSABETH JOHN 1 March 1572 The baptism is recorded in the registers of St.Clement Danes Church, Westminster, London, of Elsabeth Seckington, daughter of John Seckington. The parents of this Elsabeth were John and Elsabeth Seckington, who were married in 1562, in this church. Calendar of Assise Records. Kent Indictments. Elizabeth I. 4 September 1589. Francis Seckington of Gravesend, labourer. Found guilty on 4th September, 1589, of stealing a sword and sheath, (value 10 pence), from an unknown man. 1595 SECKINGTON Coleshill Parish Register: Baptism Register. 9 October 1595. This record is hard to decypher because an old script is used. It looks like a baptism record for Margaret(possibly), daughter of (here the name looks like Nicholas Seckington).
In the name of God amen; The 16th daye of December in the yeare of our Lord God 1598 and in the one and fortithe year of the raigne of our sovereigne ladie Elizabeth, by the grace of God, of Englande, France, and Irelande, queene, defendor ofthe faithe, etc.
Also, I give and bequeath to Humfry Sekinton, my sonne, 20 shillings of lawfull Englyshe money in full satisfaccon of all his childs parte of my goods. And also I give and bequeath to Alice Poulton, my daugheter, 20 shillings of the like Englyshe money in full satisfaccon of all her childs parte of my goods. The residewe of all my transcorie and moveable goods, I brought home, my debts payde, my funerall costs discharged, and the legacies of this my will performed and done, I give and bequeath to Johane Sekinton, Margerye Sekinton, Annis Sekinton, and Thomas Sekinton, sonne and daughters of me the said Richarde, equallye to be devyded amongest them. And I ordayne and make Henrye Wolley of Morton, my brother in lawe, my true and lawfull executor of this my laste will and testamente.
Also, one brasse pott, one pann, and six little kettles. 20 shillings Also, 13 little pewter dishes 5 shillings Also, sixe counterfett dishes of pewter, three sawcers, two candlesticks, and five salts 20 pence Also one flocke bed, one matterice, 3 coverlids, 6 twilsheets, three blancketts, two bolsters, and 6 pillowes. 18 shillings Also fyve pairs of course sheets 10 shillings Also 2 boardcloths, 2 towells, and 3 napkins 4 shillings Also butter and cheese 10 shillings Also bacon att the roofe 6 shillings 8 pence Also one cubbord and 2 coufers 5 shillings Also 3 paire of beddsheids 18 pence Also one Board, a frame and a forme 3 shillings Also shelfes, boards, and all other wooden ware 4 shillings Also paynted clothes 18 pence Also one broache and other iron stufe 12 pence Also hempe, unthrashen 3 shillings Also his Apparell 4 pence Total sum £10 18s. 4d.
Probate of the will overleaf, and administration ofthe goods of the same deceased, was granted to the executor named in the will. (signature) Babington.
Henry Wolley, executor. THE MODERN SECKINGTON FAMILIES The genealogy of the Seckington family in modern times starts with Francis Seckington of Brackley. Present evidence suggests that Francis came from Huntingdonshire and was related to the Seckington family who held land at Gidding and were London merchants. Francis Seckington Francis Seckington and his wife Elizabeth appeared in Brackley about 1640. No records indicating an earlier association of the Seckingtons with Brackley has been found. Francis Seckington was a butcher and leased a stall or shop in Brackley market from the Earl of Bridgewater. Earlier Seckingtons were fishmongers in London, but the London Seckingtons in the 19th century were also butchers. At some time between 1404 and 1640 there appears to have been a change in the family's line of business. A possible explanation for the opportunity to get started in business in Brackley is given by a later document which records that Brackley Town Hall was built in 1706 by Scrope, Duke of Bridgwater. Brackley was therefore part of the Bridgwater estate, which was held by the family of Scrope. The fact that the Scropes and Seckingtons were of the same stock may have been used as leverage to get the concession for Francis Seckington. Few records of Francis have been found but all the available records have not been examined as yet. Francis appeared in Brackley at the time of the English Civil War when some disruption of the records might be expected. Also there appears to have been a change of 'hand' or script in this period. Earlier records in Brackley are written in the old hand and are almost unreadable to researchers without training. The papers of the Bridgwater estate appear to have been amalgamated with the papers of the Ellesmere estate. These are lodged at Delapre Abbey, Northampton. When the original research was done these papers had not been fully catalogued. It is possible, therefore, that further records of Francis Seckington may be found and these may give clues as to his origins. The Brackley family The pedigree of the Brackley family is 1. Francis Seckington (c1620-1694) 2. Samuel Seckington (1657-1727) 3. Samuel Seckington the Younger (1681-1757) 4. John Seckington (1708-1758) The Brackley Seckingtons were fairly wealthy at the beginning of the 18th century. According to Samuel Seckington the younger, they had a very considerable real estate, a personal estate of great value, and a very great business. By the end of the century they were comparatively poor, and the younger members of the family were labourers. It is not known what caused this reversal in the family's fortunes. A possible reason is the litigation pursued by Samuel Seckington the younger in an endeavour to obtain his wife's inheritance. Actions at law were always costly and lawyers were untrustworthy. The Seckingtons of Seckington lost their property due to legal trickery in the 16th century. The family in Brackley had died out by the 19th century. Later generations of Seckingtons had moved away to Helmdon in Northamptonshire and Loughton in Buckinghamshire. The Loughton family had also died out by the mid-19th century leaving only the Seckington families of Helmdon and London. The London Families The London family of Seckington first appears in the records around 1380 although there is evidence that the Scropes held the property in Southwark, later occupied by the Seckingtons, around 1220 and probably earlier. The London Seckingtons appear in records in the 16th and 17th centuries but are not recorded in the 18th century. There were two families of Seckingtons living in London in the 19th century. Neither of these have been linked to the family tree or even related to each other. Geoffrey Seckington found two Seckingtons born in Lambeth a year apart. Robert Samuel Seckington was born in 1825 and William Edward Seckington was born in 1826. The marriage certificate of William Edward Seckington shows his father to have been John Seckington, a butcher, of 1 Primrose Hill, off Fleet Street, London. He married Catherine Payne Herrington whose father, John Herrington, was also a butcher. It seems likely that Robert Samuel Seckington (1825-1862) was also a son of John Seckington but this has not been confirmed. William Edward Seckington (1826-1907) was still living at Primrose Hill in 1872. Presumably the address was a butcher's shop. The road no longer exists on any modern map. A business directory of the mid-19th century gives Henry Carpenter Seckington as the landlord of a public house in the East End of London. He does not appear to be connected to the family at Primrose Hill. The Helmdon family Until 1800 the Seckington family was concentrated into two small areas in London and Northamptonshire. By 1900 the family had spread over England, the United States, Canada, and Australia. The main reasons for the spread of the family within England were the opportunities offered by the newly industrialised society, and the improvements in transport, particularly the railways. 
George Seckington, son of John Seckington of Brackley, settled in Helmdon, a village five miles to the north of Brackley about 1785. Seckingtons have lived in that village to the present day. By 1802 the Seckingtons of Brackley had died out leaving Seckington families in Loughton and Helmdon. By 1846 the Seckingtons of Loughton had died out leaving the Helmdon family as the only descendants of Francis Seckington of Brackley. George and Sarah Seckington had six sons, two of whom died in infancy. The families of two more died out in the male line in the 20th century. Only Samuel and John have Seckington descendants at the beginning of the 21st century. Samuel was the progenitor of the Northamptonshire, and Warwickshire Seckington families, as well as the Seckington families of Canada and Western Australia. John was the progenitor of all the Seckington families of the U.S.A. He was also the ancestor of a Seckington family in Derbyshire which died out in the male line at the end of the 20th century.
William's sons, Edward and Eli Seckington moved to Birmingham in the early 1860s. Edward's line now has no living Seckington descendants. Eli Seckington married Mary Woodward on 25 October, 1868 in the parish church of All Saints, Birmingham. The marriage certificate reads:- Eli Seckington, aged 22, bachelor, occupation porter, of Clissold street, Birmingham, son of William Seckington, labourer, married Mary Woodward, aged 24, domestic servant, also of Clissold street, daughter of John Woodward, boatman. Birmingham is about as far from the sea as one can get in England and the occupation of boatman may seem unusual until it is remembered that Birmingham is the centre of the national network of canals and that there are more canals in Birmingham than in Venice. It seems probable that John Woodward was a canal boatman. The canal from Oxford to Birmingham passes through Willoughby. Eli was born in Willoughby and Mary in Oxford. It seems likely that John Woodward's boat operated on the canal through Willoughby and this explains how Eli Seckington and Mary Woodward met. They had 9 children, 7 boys and 2 girls.
In 1883 Henry Seckington, greengrocer, is shown at 37 Terrace Road, Handsworth. This address is a private house. In 1890, Henry Seckington, dairyman, is shown at 37 Terrace Road. From this time there is no further mention of the greengrocery business. In 1892 Henry Eli Seckington is shown at 37 Terrace road and in 1895 he rented stables at 38 Terrace Road under the same name. In 1896, Henry Eli Seckington, senior, dairyman, is shown at 37 Terrace Road, and Henry Seckington, junior, dairyman, is shown at 47 Archbold Road, Handsworth.
Eli's sons, Arthur, Frank and Albert Seckington moved to South Shields around 1900 and Edwin Seckington moved to Liverpool around the same time. Edwin Seckington was born in Birmingham on July 1, 1876, and was the fifth child of Eli and Mary Seckington. He moved to 37 Terrace Road, Handsworth, about the age of five and lived there until his 24th year. He was baptised at St.Michael's church, Handsworth, on 12th June, 1887, at the age of 10. About 1900 he left Birmingham and settled in Liverpool where he met Annie Furber who had come to Liverpool from her birthplace of Oswestry to seek employment. They were married in West Derby and set up home in the Edge lane district of Liverpool. Edwin Seckington was in business all his working life. He followed his father in the dairy and grocery business and also had a business manufacturing for the agricultural industry. He started in the dairy business, at first selling only milk and eggs. He used to drive his horse and float to the Old Swan area of Liverpool, then a farming area, to buy his milk and eggs, selling the milk by the ladle measure directly from his milk churn along his round. Refrigerators were not in general use at that time and milk was delivered twice daily. When milk bottles came into general use only those dairy companies with sufficient capital to buy a stock of bottles and the bottle washing and filling equipment remained in the milk distribution business, and Edwin Seckington was one of the small businessmen forced out by progress. He then opened a dairy and grocer's shop in Edge Lane, Liverpool, and subsequently extended his range by selling hot pies and drinks. At another time in his business activities he started a company in Meols in Cheshire selling poultry equipment and fencing which he ran for five years.
Edwin and Annie Seckington had eight children, one dying in infancy. Annie Seckington, wife of Edwin Seckington, died in Liverpool aged 73, on 26 June, 1949. She was buried in Smithdown Road Cemetery, Liverpool on 30 June 1949. Edwin Seckington died in 1953, aged 77, and was buried in the Smithdown Road cemetery.
Later generations of these families live in Warwickshire, Birmingham, Newcastle, Gateshead, Holderness, Windsor, and Portsmouth, in England, and in New South Wales, Canada, and New Zealand. The Northamptonshire Families The Seckington families of Northamptonshire are descended from George, Jonathon, and Eli, the three younger sons of Samuel Seckington of Helmdon. Arthur Seckington of Greatworth, writing in 1971, gave the following pen-sketch of his grandfather, George. "My grandfather George Seckington was probably born in Middleton Cheney about the year 1820. He is buried in Weston by Weedon and the memorial stone gives his age as 76. He died on June 9, 1896." According to Geoffrey Seckington, Weston has no church. Its only religious centre is the Baptist chapel. He described how he found George Seckington's grave. "I went to the Baptist chapel graveyard. I had never been in before although I had seen it from the road. I didn't know that the entrance was a right of way through someone's front garden. I found the graves of my grandparents (William Pryce and Annie Seckington) and of my great-grandfather George, as well as a few other Seckington graves." Arthur Seckington continues:- "He (George) is reputed to have married three times. I have heard it said his first wife was buried in the Methodist chapel graveyard at Middleton Cheney. No trace of this place now remains. Of his second wife I know nothing. I have a vague memory of seeing his third wife, who outlived him, as an old lady in black clothes, in a cottage in Weston. This would be about 1904 or 1905. The cottage is no longer there. As far as I know George Seckington was a farm labourer in his younger days and at one time was very poor."
"By some means he (George) got a start in farming and eventually became the tenant of Stone House Farm at Weston. George was evidently a very determined man. Whatever he set out to do he did. It was his practice to go to Brackley to fetch wagon loads of 'grains' for the pigs. He reckoned to leave Weston soon after 4 a.m. One winter morning it was snowing heavily and the journey seemed almost impossible. An old man who worked for him told me my grandfather walked up and down the stable uncertain what to do. Then he said "I will go", and they went. In places the snow was up to the horses bellies.
In the farmhouses of that time, bacon was the mainstay in the meat line. When grandfather's sows had got past the age when they could profitably be used for breeding, they were fattened up for the house. A good chunk of home-cured fat bacon, boiled in the same pan with a cabbage, produced a real good dinner, always provided, of course, that your stomach can stand it and that you have no very fastidious ideas about food." Alfred George Seckington, (1844-1910), the eldest son of George, married three times. He lived at Thenford Hill Farm, Weston. Arthur Seckington (1901-1989) of Greatworth, was the youngest son of Alfred, and wrote a history of this family. In his account he states:- "My father married three times. His first wife was Sarah Ann Edwards, daughter of William Edwards, chapel keeper at Weston. Her children were William and Mark and two others who died in infancy. She herself died shortly after the birth of her last child. She was only 26. She is buried by my father's side at Weston. She died on April 29, 1873. My father was left with two children and no one to look after them. The following Christmas day he married again to Elizabeth, the second daughter of William and Ann Horwood. She was nearly ten years older than my father but she took care of his two boys. In later years they told me no one could have been a better mother. She died on August 27, 1896, and is buried in Thorpe Mandeville churchyard. His third marriage was to my mother and took place in Moreton Pinkney church in 1898. Towards the end of 1907 my father retired from farming and we went to live at Rose Hall, Middleton Cheney. The house, Rose Hall, is still there. When my father bought it there was a barn and stabling and various other outbuildings, also a large garden and orchard. We did not live at Middleton long. My father had a long wearying illness and died on June 10, 1910. He was taken to Weston for burial. William Seckington (1869-1936), was the eldest son of Alfred. He was a very keen follower of hounds, and when he lived at Thenford Hill he rode to hounds on "Old Jack", his father's market trap horse. Once he "came a cropper" and broke his collarbone, and in later years at Helmdon he followed the hounds on his bicycle. He wrote a diary from about 1880 to 1890, which later came into Arthur's possession. William wrote of the Grafton Hounds:- The Grafton hounds met at Astwell Mill on Friday the 22nd of December, 1882. There was a fair field out. The spinney was tried first but was drawn blank and they went through Helmdon to Hallithorn Wood which did not yield a fox, but there was one found a few fields away which went as far as Sulgrave and then doubled back by Collington. The Grafton hounds met on January 19th, 1883. Amongst those present were Lord Penaryn, the master, and Sir Robert Loder, M.P. They first tried Astwell Spinney but after searching it for a few minutes it was thought that there was not a fox in it. The huntsman began blowing the hounds out. There was a fox lying close to the ledge around the spinney in the long grass. The hounds were trampling over him. If he had laid still they would have gone away but just as the last hounds came over him he jumped up in sight of all, and went through the spinney with the hounds at his tail. He crossed the railway line just as a train was coming and the hunt had a narrow escape from being run over, but the driver seeing the danger, slackened the train. The fox must have been a good one to get so far before the hounds so that they could not scent him, especially as they were so close to him at the start. The hunt could no longer follow and they left him for another day's sport.
"The fiftieth year of Her Majesty's reign was commemorated here on Tuesday, June 21st, amid every manifestation of loyalty and respect. The village was all astir from early morn till late at night and assumed a thoroughly animated appearance. Indeed the joyous occasion will never be forgotten, it being an unprecedented event in the minds of the present inhabitants. At five o'clock in the morning a long and glorious peal was given. At 7:30 the church choir ascended the tower and there sang the National Anthem. At 10:30 a procession was formed at the schools and marched to church. At the conclusion of the service "God Save the Queen" was sung. At one o'clock all adjourned to a field where a variety of amusements were indulged in, the chief being a cricket match between the Upper and Lower village, when the latter gained an easy victory. The programme ended in a tug of war between the two villages, Lower Middleton again winning easily." William Pryce Seckington (1845-1917), the second son of George, was the grandfather of Geoffrey Seckington. Geoffrey wrote of his grandfather:- "My grandfather, William Pryce Seckington, married Annie Metcalfe, the daughter of the wheelwright at the Hall where the Sitwells lived, and some still live there. He was the village blacksmith, then took on a farm as well, then handed over the smith's shop to his eldest son, George, and continued as a farmer. He moved from Weston to a farm in Sulgrave where the farmhouse was the manor house; it has since become a tourist attraction. He later moved back to Weston and took on another farm." Sulgrave Manor, which was William Seckington's farmhouse, was at one time the home of the Washingtons, from whom the first president of the United States was descended. Seckingtons continued to live in the Old Forge until 1989. Geoffrey Seckington writes, of his father Edgar Pryce Seckington (1879-1969):- "Edgar, my dad, married abroad. Then, as now, a language degree takes three years at home and one year abroad. The usual way was to become a student teacher at a school abroad, theoretically teaching English, but in fact learning the foreign language. Dad got a job with the Lycee at Douai where the headmaster had four sons and a daughter. He married the daughter, Madeleine Charbonniez. Mark Seckington (1848-1933), the third son of George, took over Stone House farm from his father. Seckingtons were still farming there in the 1980s. Jonathan Seckington (1824-1876), the fourth son of Samuel Seckington married Christine Humphrey. He appears to have been a farm labourer all his working life. They had six children. Their second son, also named Jonathan, had a long career as postman in Higham Ferrers. Their youngest son, Luke, was a sergeant in the British Army in India and died on active service in 1888. Their youngest daughter, Caroline Mercy, married William Holland and they went to Canada, settling in British Columbia. Henry Montagu Seckington (1876-1939) a grandson of Jonathan, married Mary Eliza Hammond. Frederick William Seckington (1894-1918), a great-grandson of Jonathan, was killed on active service in France in 1918. His name appears on the war memorial in Helmdon.
The following newspaper extract was supplied by Violet Seckington of Higham Ferrers. "Rushden Echo". June 1907 MR JONATHAN SECKINGTON, of High Street, Rushden, one of the established town postmen for Rushden, has retired from that position through illness and is now placed on the superannuation fund. On his retirement, a representative of "The Rushden Echo" had an interview with him and gleaned some very interesting details of his career. I commenced my duty," Mr Seckington said, "at Higham Ferrers post-office on March 2, 1873 - thirty-four years ago - a., rural postman for Rushden and Wymington. At that time I had to deliver the whole of the letters in Rushden and Wymington twice a day. At that time it was one of the postal regulations that if a house was over 70 yards from the street it was not included in the delivery." "They had to fetch their letters," said Mr Seckington, "or they could appoint a place where the letters might be left - generally the nearest neighbour. Compare with that the present arrangements. In these days letters are delivered at least twice a week even to the most faraway lodges in any part of the country. "Then there was a great difference as to punctuality in the arrival of the mails then and now. We used to receive a portion by rail and a portion by road. The letters by rail were due in at 5 am at Higham Ferrers and the road mail by 6 am. “I used to leave Higham at 6 am, and after delivering the letters in Rushden I had to go on to Wymington, getting there about nine o'clock. I used to return at ten, and then I had the same journey to do again at mid-day. Rushden kept growing, and then I had to be relieved of one of the Wymington journeys. Afterwards the other delivery at Wymington was taken from me, and I had to devote all my time to Rushden. Still Rushden kept increasing, and I had one man to help me, then two, then three, afterwards four, after that six. The number of letters I used to deliver each day in Rushden and Wymington when I first started would not equal the number I afterwards had to deliver in one of the six divisions into which Rushden was subsequently separated. Rushden has now three deliveries a day and twelve despatches. I have seen many changes in my time. There are not, at the very most, more than two or three householders in Rushden today living in the same houses as when I commenced my postal duties 34 years ago. From a muddy village, Rushden has gown into a prosperous town. The population of Rushden in 1873 was about 3,000; now it is 14,000. "The old thatched houses in Rushden used to be very low, and hundreds of times I have handed people their letters through the bedroom windows, which I could easily reach. When delivering letters in Duke Street I have many a time had to wade through the water, as people used to throw all sorts of things into the brook, so that the water could not run away. Now you have a town of first-class streets, well-made roads, and splendid pavements. I had the pleasure of delivering the first parcel which came in by parcels post from abroad. It was from my brother, who was in India at the time, and it was addressed to me, so that I had to deliver it to myself. It was a parcel containing a collection of curios. (These were hand carved in ivory and his grand daughter, Violet Seckington of Higham Ferrers, still has them.) It is a pleasure to us to state that Mr Seckington leaves the service with six good-conduct stripes - the highest possible number. Yüklə 3,29 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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