See also

Family of Thomas SEON and Sophia MURRELL

Husband: Thomas SEON

  • Name:

  • Thomas SEON2,3

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • 4 Oct 1819

  • Bermuda2

  • Residence:

  • 5 Nov 1873 (age 54)

  • Port of Hokianga3

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • -; Settler 1861, Master Mariner(abt 1866-1870)

  • Death:

  • 16 Feb 1886 (age 66)

  • Herd's Point, Hokianga, New Zealand2,4

  • Burial:

  •  

  • Rawene, Far North, Northland, New Zealand2

Wife: Sophia MURRELL

  • Name:

  • Sophia MURRELL1

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • John MURRELL (1791-1848)

  • Mother:

  • Elizabeth DUNNETT (1795-1883)

  • Birth:

  • 10 Oct 1828

  • Attleborough, Norfolk, ENG

  • Baptism:

  • 19 Oct 1828 (age 0)

  • Attleborough, NFK, England5

  • Death:

  • 6 Nov 1899 (age 71)

  • Auckland, NZ

  • Burial:

  • 8 Nov 1899

  • Purewa Cemetery, Aukland, NZ6

Child 1: Thomas SEON

  • Name:

  • Thomas SEON

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Birth:

  • 14 Feb 1854

  • 4 Aston Terrace, Limehouse, London, UK

  • Death:

  • 5 Nov 1881 (age 27)

  • Yokahama, Japan

Child 2: Sophie SEON

  • Name:

  • Sophie SEON7,8

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • 7 Oct 18558

  •  

  • Death:

  • 1856 (age 0-1)

  • Stepney, London7,8

  • Burial:

  • 1856

  • London, England8

Child 3: Julia SEON

  • Name:

  • Julia SEON8,9

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • 7 Oct 1855

  • Stepney, London8,9

  • Death:

  • 1855 (age 0)8

  •  

  • Burial:

  • 16 Nov 1856

  • London, England8

Child 4: Henry Mills Stowe SEON

  • Name:

  • Henry Mills Stowe SEON10,11

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Ada Emily MACKIE (1869-1932)

  • Birth:

  • 10 Jul 1857

  • Madras, India

  • Residence:

  • 1911 (age 53-54)

  • Grey Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand11

  • Death:

  • 4 Apr 1928 (age 70)12

  •  

  • Burial:

  • 5 Apr 1928

  • Purewa Cemetery Auckland6

Child 5: Laura Jane SEON

  • Name:

  • Laura Jane SEON10

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • 16 Feb 1860

  • London, Eng

Child 6: Sophia SEON

  • Name:

  • Sophia SEON10

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse:

  • James Henry MACKIE (1862-1942)

  • Birth:

  • 29 Mar 1862

  • Maungakaramea, NZ

  • Death:

  • 8 Jul 1943 (age 81)

  • Mt Eden, Auckland, NZ

  • Burial:

  • 9 Jul 1943

  • Purewa Cemetery, Aukland, NZ

Child 7: Cornelius Wiliam Pallatt SEON

  • Name:

  • Cornelius Wiliam Pallatt SEON2,3,10

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Elizabeth Matilda Esther HARRISON (1865-1940)

  • Birth:

  • 4 Mar 1864

  • Maungakaramea, NZ

  • Residence:

  • 24 Dec 1888 (age 24)

  • Kohukohu3

  • Death:

  • 19 Mar 1913 (age 49)

  • 47 Wilson St, Wanganui2,4,13

  • Burial:

  • 20 Mar 1913

  • Wanganui Cemetery, New Zealand2,4

Child 8: Frederick Stowe Wood SEON

  • Name:

  • Frederick Stowe Wood SEON10,14

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Annie LAWS (1857-1944)

  • Birth:

  • 12 Mar 1866

  • Aukland, NZ

  • Death:

  • 1940 (age 73-74)

  • Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand14,15

Child 9: Ernest Edward SEON

  • Name:

  • Ernest Edward SEON

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Birth:

  • 26 Jan 1868

  • Auckland, NZ

  • Death:

  • 20 Nov 1951 (age 83)

  • 23 Hakanoa St , Grey Lynn, Auckland, NZ

Child 10: Frank Stowe Murrell SEON

  • Name:

  • Frank Stowe Murrell SEON10,16

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Beatrice Robson BARKER (1877-1939)

  • Birth:

  • 23 Aug 1870

  • Auckland, NZ

  • Residence:

  • 13 Aug 1904 (age 33)

  • Auckland, New Zealand16

  • Death:

  • 21 Sep 1941 (age 71)

  • Auckland, NZ

  • Burial:

  • 22 Sep 1941

  • Purewa Cemetery, Aukland, NZ6

Note on Husband: Thomas SEON - shared note

Marriage IGI ref: source 572510 ;batch m042891: refers to Sophia Smith or Murrell. Marriage certificate says Sophia was of Hackney. Bermuda Index Juniperhill Press, Toronto 1989 gives date of death as 15 Feb 1886. But the burial register for the Rawene cemetry says it was 16 February 1886. Capt Thomas Seon was the habourmaster from 13 Sept 1873 till his death. Would have lived in the harbourmasrter's house in Omapere. Passenger list of the Black Eagle (left Glasgow 10 Aug 1861 via London to Auckland (19 Nov 1861) includes: Thomas Seon Sophia Seon Henry Seon Laura Seon Ships & Masters to Sydney index includes SEON G/Thomas Agenoria 22/10/1851 San Francisco SEON Thos Akbar 27/12/1853 London Sydney Morning Herald 23 Aug 1852 The A1 Ship Agenoria Captain Thomas Seon ready to sail. Daily Southern Cross 22 Nov 1866 In Port Tasmanian Maid, p.s. Seon, from Wangarie Daily Southern Cross 19 Oct 1867 Port of Auckland Departures Enterprise No 2 p.s. 45 tons Seon for Kauwaeranga with passengers Advert in 1871 & Steamship Enterprise No 2 Capt Seon will sail for The Thames three days a week. Still on the same boat in 1873 Death register entry says that he died of Functional Liver Disease (24 days). Occupation Master Mariner Harbour Master & Pilot in the service of the NZ government. 5 boys and two girls living.

Note on Wife: Sophia MURRELL - shared note

Witnesses to first marriage included Emily Murrell ref for second marriage: IGI film source 572510; batch m042891 death cert says that she had been in NZ for 34 years ie went there in 1865. Listed in the 1900 PO Directory as of Symond Street, Auckland

Sources

1.

Ancestry.com, England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;). Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com.

2.

Ancestry.com, New Zealand, Cemetery Records, 1800-2007, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;). Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com.

3.

Ancestry.com, New Zealand, The New Zealand Gazette, 1860-1894, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2016;). Ancestry.com.

4.

Death Register Entry.

5.

Attleborough Parish Registers.

6.

Purewa Cemetery Burial Details.

7.

FreeBMD, England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;). Ancestry.com.

8.

Ancestry.com, London, England, City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery Registers, 1841-1966, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2017;). Ancestry.com.

9.

FreeBMD, England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;). Ancestry.com.

10.

Ancestry.com, New Zealand, Marriage Index, 1840-1934, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;). New Zealand, Marriage Index, 1840-1937. Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com.

11.

Ancestry.com, New Zealand, Electoral Rolls, 1853-1981, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;). 1911. Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com.

12.

New Zealand BMD index. 1928/581 Seon Henry Mills Stowe 70Y.

13.

Ibid.

14.

Ancestry.com, New Zealand, Death Index, 1848-1964, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;). New Zealand, Death Index, 1848-1966. Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com.

15.

New Zealand BMD index. 1940/19288.

16.

Ancestry.com, New Zealand, Bankruptcy Notices, 1893-1904, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;). Ancestry.com.