Joseph Seeley 1824 - 1913 Born in Denmark

[lindyven]

I have the UK naturalisation papers (1854) for Joseph Seeley who was born in Denmark in 1824. He is married (to Caroline Eliza Carter, 1822? - 1860, I believe) and has one child, who would be Malvina, born 1853. The addresses on the naturalization papers and Malvina's baptism cert match. ButI can find no birth or marriage certificate for him. The couple are missing from the 1851 and 1861 censuses (in the Marylebone area (some data is missing from these censuses. Joseph puts Marylebone as his birthplace on his later censuses. I have a lot of info on him from 1871 onwards, but cannot find the couple's origins in Ancestry or Find My Past.

If anyone has any access to Danish records and can find any information on him I would be very grateful. Thank you.

[rosie99]

I have the UK naturalisation papers (1854) for Joseph Seeley who was born in Denmark in 1824. He is married (to Caroline Eliza Carter, 1822? - 1860, I believe) and has one child, who would be Malvina, born 1853.

SEELEY,  - (male)     mmn CARTER     
1851  Dec Quarter in ELHAM  Volume 05  Page 183

SEELEY, CONRAD  LOUIS     mmn CARTER     
1855  Sept Quarter in ST LUKE CHELSEA  Volume 01A  Page 134

SEELEY, ADOLPH  UNNA     mmn CARTER     
1857  Dec Quarter in SAINT GEORGE HANOVER SQUARE  Volume 01A  Page 213   

SEELEY, ROSALIA  CAROLINE     mmn CARTER     
1860  March Quarter in SAINT GEORGE HANOVER SQUARE  Volume 01A  Page 251   

Conrad is on census in 1881 with Malvina & Rosalia


 

[rosie99]

Conrad's baptism at St Luke, Chelsea gives Joseph's occupation as Book Keeper and their abode as King Street

[ShaunJ]

Marriage in Hythe, Kent on Christmas Day 1850:  Joseph Seely and Caroline Carter. Fathers Charles Joseph Seely, merchant and Charles Carter.

I can't read Joseph's occupation:

[rosie99]

Death
SEELEY, CAROLINE       age 37     
1860  Dec Quarter in SAINT GEORGE HANOVER SQUARE  Volume 01A  Page 177

possible remarriage in Paris of Joseph widower (of St Pancras, London) 7 August 1867 to Ellen Wade -spinster of Willsbridge, Gloucestershire
(English Episcopal church)

[rosie99]

1871 census with Joseph & Ellen, Conrad & Adolph
 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRF7-PJ8

This census gives no occupation for Joseph though his wife Ellen has one.

[davecapps]

Is the second word in Joseph's occupation - Innkeeper ?

[rosie99]

Joseph & Caroline are in Elham RD 1851   - Parish of St Leonards, Hythe
HO107 /1633 f585 p38
Joseph is Teacher Of Languages

Joseph Seeley age 26 born Hamburg, Holland
Caroline age 27 born Cheriton, Kent

[davecapps]

Now i see it. How right you are