The Seamans from Spalding

[MrsYC]

Hi,

I’m looking for help in my family tree. Here’s what I have so far…
David Seaman (1790) married Mary Brooks (1788) they had 6 children:
Hannah (1813)
Mary Ann (1816)
Sophia (1826)
Richard (1827)
Joseph (1831)
Fanny (1848)

This is the confusing bit…. their son Richard married a Sophia (maiden name unknown) and they had 6 children, David (1855), Mary A (1860), Elizabeth (1862), Emma (1864), Thomas (1869)& Henry (1872).

Richards sister Sophia Seaman married a Henry Whyers and they also had 6 children William (1852), Sarah (1854), David (1856), Mary A (1860), Emma (1864) & Thomas (1868). 

Combined the majority of their children share the same names & years of birth. Is this common? I’m just finding it very bizarre. I’m not saying they had children together but I’m struggling as the hints on Ancestry are confusing the children. I’m really confused so any help would be greatly appreciated 

Thanks

[Kay99]

Are Sophia Wyers and Sophia Seaman the same person??  And possibly Sophia is wrongly listed as Richard's wife in 1881??  And the Wyre children take the Seaman name?

Both Sophia's have the same age and same birthplace and I can't see Richard with his wife and children in 1871

Kay

[MrsYC]

This is what is confusing me. On some of the census’s the children are Whyers and others Seaman. I’m thinking it’s the same people but I’m just a bit puzzled by it.

[Kay99]

Have you found Henry Wyers post 1871?   He seems to desert his family and disappear?

Kay

[MrsYC]

I haven’t no, I have found a few criminal records for him though so maybe he was in prison?

[Kay99]

And both Richard and Sophia seem to disappear post 1881   They don't make it easy

[MrsYC]

Richard died in 1891 and Sophia in 1890 but that’s all I can find

[MrsYC]

Richard died in 1891 and Sophia in 1890 but that’s all I can find

That’s if it’s the same Person. She died a Seaman

[Kay99]

Ah yes - they moved to Lancashire