Help tracking Seawards in 1700s

[littleem1906]

Hi

I have been tracing my SEAWARD ancestors and I can't get any furthur than 1807. I have a Phillip Seaward born in 1807, Halton Herefordshire and died in 1896 in Shropshire. I found a christening record of his stating that his parents names were Phillip and Eleanor (spelt Philipps Seward) but I have struggled to find any records for either of these people. Can anyone help?

Regards

Emma

[david64]

Have you looked for wills?

To get back further you are going to need to do a lot of trawling through parish registers and finding documents like wills and other legal records.

There is a Philip Sheward, b. c. 1761 in the  1841 census at Kimbolton.

This may be your Philip and he may correspond to the baptism:

Philipps Sheward, 25 Apr 1762, s. of Elizabeth Sheward, Orelton

You may be able to find a bastardy bond for him mentioning who his father is. With a name like, 'Philipps', his father may have been a 'Philip'.


To get back further, you also tend to need to collate a list of all records for your family name from all parishes you can find it in and even then you can't reliably put them together without supplementary documents. Unfortunately, lines for people who didn't own anything tend to trail of in the 1700s.