Seed Family from Preston , Lancashire .

 

Kate in Australia , looking for any help re:- my Seed Family from Preston , aware you are mainly in the Chipping area , but maybe someone might be able to help me break down the proverbial brick wall .Know Seed is a common Lancashire name , I have a friend Daryl , parents Kenneth & June Maher nee Seed  , the  family hails from Chipping & one day we might just find a connection , if so it will be quite a way back , our names Seed & Hall seem to cross over quite a lot .

 

Thomas Seed c 1749  m  Martha ?  c 1753  d 1801 ,

a son William Seed 1775 - 1820  m Elizabeth Parker 1777 - 1850

10 children this included 3 x Martha , the surviving Martha 1818- 1843 m John Thornley 1822 -1907 they moved to Utah

One of William Seed’s ten children was John Seed 1809 -1861 m Agnes Hall c 1813 - 1890 ( illegitimate )

They had eight children , one being Joseph Seed 1844 – 1910  m1 Elizabeth Norman 1843 – 1890 ,

they had eight children one John Seed b 1880 – 1917 , He was in the army then a civilian & rejoined for WW1 & was killed in France , Sgt John Seed  is in the Arras War Cemetery in France .

When Elizabeth Norman died , Joseph Seed then m Agnes Hindle / Heneghan 1860-1937

This was her 2nd marriage her first being to James Hengehan 1857 -1899 whose 1st m was to was to an Ann Topping .

 

Agnes Hindle / Heneghan / Seed a very  interesting point for this  lady who is my Great Grandmother is that she had a wooden leg , l can’t find out how this occurred , was it a mill accident or other ?

3 children were born of her second marriage to Joseph Seed only one survived Ada Seed my Grandmother.

 

Ada Seed b 1893 - 1941  m1 James Gilder , a child, Florence Gilder born & died 1914

James Guelder returning from WW1 found Ada pregnant to Richard Allanson, a daughter b 1919, divorce proceedings

began, finalized 1922, when Ada Seed / Gilder was free to marry Richard Allanson 1890- 1945.

They had 3 children whilst the divorce was proceeding, only 2 survived one of them being my father Richard Gilder 1921 – 1994, but as the divorce wasn’t finalized, he had to be christened with the surname Gilder instead of Allanson.

After the marriage 4 more children born, only one surviving Minnie Allanson 1924 -1988 m Alexander Muir Calder

 

Richard Glder  ( enrolled at school as Richard Guelder ) enlisted in the Army in Preston as a boy soldier in 1937, then the regular army 1939 retiring in 1965

 

Richard Allanson’s, 1st marriage was to Ann Jane Shenty 1889 - 1911 a child William Allanson b & d 1908

 

James Gilder after divorce m Bertha Strangeway, they had a son James Gilder Strangeway b 1920 whilst divorce pending

 

The Street that keeps popping up is 27 Mercer St,  where Ada Seed / Gilder /Allanson lived prior to her marriages and died there, Mercer St as such now has a park on the end of it, with no houses.

 

Names connected: - via marriages to my Seed Family from Preston are,

Parker , Thornley , Lynch , Bleasdale , Molloy , Carter , Baines , Holden , Fairclough , Robinson , Livesey , Hall , Hornby

Chatburn , Turner , Gilliespie , Gaffney , Calder , Lilley .

 

 

  Richard Gilder , parents Richard & Ada Seed / Gilder / Allanson ,

   Born 16.1.1921 at 27 Mercer St Preston Died 4.11.1994 Brisbane Australia.

 

                

 

        

 

Chipping Local History Society

If you have any knowledge that can help solve this riddle or if you have any photographs of the Seed family from Preston, then do please get in touch with me David Williams   email address :-

                                                     Chippinghistory@aol.co.uk

Richard Gilder 1941

Richard Gilder  in  the 1990’s his mother was Ada Seed >

@ school Richard was enrolled as Richard Guelder

1946 wedding of Richard Gilder to Hilda Pickup from Matlock > Derbyshire