SEASTON / SESTON / JACKLIN Families (C19th/C21st Birmingham, England)

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The SESTON Family (aka JACKEN or JACKLIN)

A C19th-C21st Birmingham family
with likely origins in the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire borders & Sutton in Ashfield (Nottinghamshire) area
with relations in Bromsgrove (WOR), Bermuda and descendants worldwide

Possible phonetic/regional name variations: include:
CESTEARN, SEARSON, SEARSTEN, SEARSTON, SEARSTONE, SEASON, SEASTON, SEASTONE, SEATON, SEESTON, SEESTONE, SESSTON, SISEN, SISON, SISSON, SISTON, SISTONE, SYERSTON, SYESON, SYSTEN, SYSON, SYSTON

Synopsis updated January 2015

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Whatever the family origins, the name was SESTON from about the late 1840's in C19th Birmingham and through to the C21st. Researchers should note that the family name is a nightmare to locate in uncorrected census indices, where I have found that it can be mistranscribed as ESTOR, FOSTER, GRASTON, JACKEN, LESTON, SATON, SESTOR, SEXTON & TESTON. In the 1841 census the family (several households) in Aston were all recorded as JACKLIN or JACKEN. Where I am able, I have submitted corrections to make the trail easier for others to follow. Many family members are also difficult to trace in the BMD due to the number of variant surnames and errors also there. Several key BMD events were also difficult to establish and understand, especially the transition from the use of JACKLIN to SESTON or less commonly SEASTON. Head of the family tree, stocking maker Thomas SESTON, can only be found in all post-GR and census records as JACKEN or JACKLIN. I am looking at all Birmingham or related SESTON families to complete this story and keen to share any photos or family tales handed down to the modern families that may explain our common origins. The number of descendant male lines are few as most surviving children were or are female and not all males have had issue.


Distribution of the SESTON & SEASTON family names in 1881showing a Midlands to Northern England focus (above). The counties of origin are Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire. The distribution of SESTON based on 2000-2005 data (below) show the same original county origins. Possible geographical origins: The villages of Syston on the NTT/LIN border or Syerston on the Fosse Way east of Nottingham.

Geographical Synopsis

The SESTON descendants of Sutton in Ashfield, NTT in Late C18th, then C19th & C20th Birmingham are outlined below. SANDERS descendants believe the family to have origins in or near Dronfield, North Derbyshire [noting that one child is possibly reportedly born in Staveley]. Census data prior to 1851 does not clarify ancestral origins (except to say that family members were born outside of Warwickshire or have confirmed references to Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire) and that they are all the descendants of Thomas & Julia SESTON aka JACKLIN. There a numerous close towns and villages that are in the same ancestral area in the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire border area (the �Chesterfield, Mansfield, Alfreton triangle") which may also reach the South Yorkshire villages surrounding Sheffield. The dates suggest the family arrived in Aston, Birmingham between 1833 & 1841. The clues are complex to interpret and the current outline based on this researcher's interpretation now follows.

Ancestral Outline

Thomas SESTON or JACKLIN, a Stocking Maker & Weaver with origins in Nottinghamshire appears to have married Julia BOOT (n. c1785, based on age at death) of unknown family. This couple are my 4xGGPs. The census information for 1841 & 1851 tends to support that the family was then known as JACKLIN before changing their name to SESTON in time for most subsequent records. I am not clear why this occurred and the name of JACKLIN does not help take the family further back in records. An additional complication is that baptismal records (where they exist) suggests that Thomas's wife was Judith (BOOT) for the first 5 children and Julia for the remaining 4. A marriage has been located for Thomas & Judith BOOT but not for Julia. They may be one and the same person or Thomas married Julia's sister, Judith, after her death.

The main evidence is that in 1841 Aston (Birmingham), in separate households, there is the JACKLIN family of Thomas & Julia (he a Stocking Maker) and most of their younger children, and in another Aston household there is William JACKLIN living with GRACE (who was still married to Frederick HOLLADAY) and her daughter Ellen HOLLADAY also recorded as JACKLIN. In the same household is William's brother James also as JACKLIN. It shows that the relationship between Grace & William, described below, preceded the 1841 census and that the family must have arrived from Nottinghamshire sometime between 1834 & 1841. For both marriages of Ellen HOLLADAY, her correct biological father is given.

The records imply a birth date for Thomas & Julia before 1790, and if the 1851 census is to be believed it would be c1793 in Nottinghamshire for him & c1787 for her, putting their marriage in the period 1810-13 if he married at 17. Her age at death suggests 1785. Of course, they may not have married. The descendant tree can be outlined as follows:

� Rebecca SESTON (c1813, not located in 1841) m. in 1849 B'ham = John WATTS � Rebecca died in 1852 Aston and John in 1859;

� William SESTON or JACKLIN (c1817, see his story below);

� Thomas SESTON or JACKLIN (c1820-51), unmarried in 1851 and living with parents, dying shortly thereafter (a Florrie JACKLIN is present at death, perhaps a pet name for his mother or a wife (no found), as no such person is found on the 1851 census or any other records. This also shows family were still using JACKLIN, even though SESTON was the child's name. Thomas, the father, died and was buried as JACKLIN in 1859);

� Samuel SESTON (c1823 Sutton in Ashfield, NTT, not located in 1841), who married:

o (1) Elizabeth TEASDALE in 1846 B'ham, but who died in late 1852/early 1853. She died after Mary Ann had moved in with Samuel and was registered by the 1851 census. Elizabeth was perhaps seriously ill accounting for this domestic arrangement. Children:

� Grace Elizabeth SESTON (1848-90), spinster;

� William SESTON (1850-52 B'ham);

o (2) Mary Ann BAYLISS married in 1855, although she had become Samuel's de facto wife after the 1851 census, and with whom he had the following children (all Birmingham):

� Betsy SESTON (c1851) = Thomas PARKES in 1878 Bromsgrove;

� Sarah Ann SESTON (1856) = Aaron DRAKELY in 1877;

� Samuel SESTON (1858) = Emily POPLEWELL in 1879 Aston. Children:

� May SESTON (1881-1934) = Thomas Henry TURNER in 1905;

� Emily Elizabeth SESTON (1884-1956) = Thomas HEWINS in 1909;

� Samuel SESTON (1885-1954) = Eleanor LANCASTER in 1910. Children:

� Samuel Thomas SESTON (1912-61) = Frances May HANDLEY (1910-92) in 1938;

� Jacqueline A SESTON (1942) = Charles P JACKSON;

� William Lancaster SESTON (1921-68);

� Susan SESTON (1889-1971) = Frank F PERKINS in 1916;

� William �Willie� SESTON (1894-1972) = Helena M RHEAD in 1918;

� William Bernard SESTON (1923-1998) = Marie L KELLEHER;

� Valerie E SESTON (1953);

� Marjorie SESTON (1924-81);

� Barbara M SESTON (1928) = Maurice B KELLEHER;

� Maud SESTON (1895-1895);

� Violet SESTON (1895-1896);

� Emily SESTON (1861-1935) = John Edward WILSON in 1882;

� William SESTON (1865-1940) = Susannah WILSON in 1884. Children:

� William SESTON (1884) = Louisa Maria NEWTON in 1911 (no children);

� Nellie SESTON (1886) = James ALLCOCK in 1909;

� Arthur SESTON (1888-1943) = Minnie WOOD in 1909. Children:

� Arthur SESTON (1910-11);

� Minnie SESTON (1911);

� Elsie SESTON (1914);

� Doris SESTON (1920-2001) = Leslie Norman P ELDRIDGE;

� Leslie SESTON (1922-38);

� Gladys SESTON (1924-93) = Sydney Kinder ROGERS;

� Lily SESTON (1926) = Albert E BARNHURST;

� Norma SESTON (1929-78) = Kenneth R EDWARDS;

� Alfred SESTON (1889-1944) = Evelyn Mary SIVITER;

� Joyce E M SESTON (1924) = Alfred HORTON;

� Doreen M E SESTON (1929) = John S EDGAR;

� Rose SESTON (1891);

� Annie SESTON (1893-1985) = Harry COULTHARD;

� Walter SESTON (1895-1963) = Florence M MORGAN in 1938;

� Dora SESTON (1897-1904);

� Violet SESTON (1899) = Joseph YEOMANS;

� Lily SESTON (1901-21);

� Susannah SESTON (1903-21);

� Frederick SESTON (1905-1924);

� Leonard SESTON (1907-89) = Evelyn May PASCOE in 1929;

� Beryl E SESTON (1930) = Gerald R J SEARLE;

� one further child who had died by 1911 census;

� George SESTON (1868-69);

� Ellen SESTON (1871-72);

� Arthur J SESTON (1873-1913) � History not clear as both Arthur SESTONs are born around the same time, only one is known to have married Minnie WOOD;

� Edwin SESTON (c1878) = Susan Jane CALE in 1906 Aston. Children:

� Emma Aminda SESTON (1906-77) = Leslie T CLIVE;

� Edwin H SESTON (1911-12);

� Edward Sydney SESTON (1913-86) = Violet ROBINSON in 1938:

� Valerie SESTON (1942);

� Selina SESTON (c1826-1868) = James NICHOLLS in 1846. James died in 1847 and Selina remarried Scale Beam Filer Joseph SIMMONS (1825-1915);

� James SESTON (my 3xGGF, see below);

� Caroline SESTON (c1829-1898) = Charles FINCH in 1851;

� Charles SESTON (c1833-1891), who married:

o (1) Elizabeth JACKSON in 1854. Children:

� William SESTON (1856) = Ann ASTON in 1874. Their Birmingham children:

� Elizabeth SESTON (c1874) = Albert GENGE in 1897;

� William Thomas SESTON (1876-1931) = Blanche WISE in 1898. Family & children in Smethwick in 1901:

� William Sydney SESTON (1899-1941);

� Rose Blanche SESTON (1901);

� Valentina Annie SESTON (1904);

� Frances Julia SESTON (1908-93);

� Abraham SESTON (1878) - now known to have served with the Warwickshire regiment during the second Boer War and escorted Boer prisoners to Bermuda, where he stayed, married and had 2 sons. Spouse - Francis Elizabeth BLACKWELL:

� Harry Ernest SESTON (1906-2004) = Winifred Myra KEMPIN of Bristol in Bermuda:

� David Lang SESTON (1942, Blackburn, LAN) = Roberta ALLEN in Ontario, Canada:

� David Harry SESTON (1979);

� George Albert SESTON (1913), married twice on Bermuda without issue - Ruth of unknown family & then Marjorie HOLLIS;

� Alfred SESTON (1880-82);

� Samuel Charles SESTON (1882-1902);

� Arthur SESTON (1885-1908) = 1905 to Florence DAWSON;

� Harry SESTON (c1888-1906);

� Edwin SESTON (1890-1900);

� Sarah Ann SESTON (1860) = Samuel HOLLINS in 1880;

� Matilda SESTON (1862) = Henry JONES in 1881;

� Julia SESTON (c1864-1936) = Samuel Charles ROWLEY in 1887 and then James JONES in 1897;

o (2) Pamela BENNETT (1838-1929, widow) in 1876. Children:

� Isabella Lavinia SESTON (1877-1943);

� Charles SESTON (1880-1881);

� Charles Watty SESTON (1881-1964) = Annie STANYARD in 1903:

� Violet SESTON (1904-11);

� Annie Elizabeth SESTON (1907);

� Elsie SESTON (1910);

� Violet Gertrude SESTON (1911-97) = George Douglas BAILEY;

� Gladys SESTON (1913);

� Eveline SESTON (1916) = Thomas H CHATWIN;

� Samuel Charles SESTON (1918-19);

� Leah SESTON (1919-97) = Neville George GILDER;

� Leslie Charles SESTON (1920-2002);

� Horace Charles SESTON (1923-1976) = Clara E PAINTER in 1946:

� Annie M SESTON (1947) = Derek Roy HERN & David J BROOKES;

� Keith P SESTON (1952) = Marleen K DOYLE or HANSON:

� Paul Charles SESTON (1984);

� Sarah Karen R SESTON (1987);

� Paul Charles SESTON (1993);

� Selina Lavinia SESTON (1886-1887);

Abraham SESTON (courtesy of David L SESTON)

James SESTON (c1826 Sutton in Ashfield NTT - 1884, above), a Weaver & Brace Maker = Matilda DUGARD in May 1844 at Birmingham St Philips, my 3xGGPs. Their children:

� Elizabeth Matilda SESTON (1845) - informant of her father's death in 1884 and living in Pritchett Street;

� Emma SESTON (1847) = Joseph SANDERS in 1867, my 2xGGPs;

Emma SANDERS, formerly SESTON

� James SESTON (1850-51);

� William SESTON (1852-57);

� George SESTON (1854-54);

� Henry SESTON (1856-57);

� Mary Ann �Polly� SESTON (c1857) = Richard WILLIAMS in 1901;

� Harriet SESTON (c1859-1931), unmarried;

� Charles SESTON (1863-1896) = Rose YATES in 1889. Children:

o Charles Joseph SESTON (1890) = Ellen Annie SIMPSON in 1913. Children

� Ellen R �Nell� SESTON (1914) = Tom VICKERS;

� Charles Arthur �Charlie� SESTON (1918-2004) = Ruth V TURNER;

� John H C SESTON (1947) = Barbara W THOMAS:

� Joel Timothy SESTON (1972) = Rebekah GILMORE:

� Axel Joel SESTON (2000);

� Josiah Mark SESTON (1976);

� Sarah Leah SESTON (1978) = Steven A A BISHOP;

� Paul John SESTON (1983);

� Mabel F SESTON (1919-2001) = Desmond Percival "Pete" LEWIS;

� Joseph William �Joe� SESTON (1921) = Marjorie WHELAN:

� Anthony Bert Francis �Tony� SESTON (1951)* = Beverly Alison MALE:

� Marie Leeanne SESTON (1979) = Chris GEBHARD;

� Thomas Michael J SESTON (1984);

� Walter E �Wal� SESTON (1924-89) = Constance COOKE:

� Pauline SESTON (1948);

� George E SESTON (1952);

� Margaret J SESTON (1953) = James T WHITE;

� Gordon SESTON (1954-1955);

� Bert Howard SESTON (1925-44);

o Florence Emily SESTON (1892) = John W CLEMENTS in 1913 Walsall;

o Joseph SESTON (1894-1901);

Widowed Rose, as Rosina SESSTON (BMD) remarried in 1898 B'ham to John William THOMPSON.

* Family photos courtesy of Tony SESTON


Charles SESTON (1863)	Charles Joseph SESTON (1890)	Ellen SIMPSON	Mary Ann (Polly) SESTON (1857) in her Salvation Army Uniform

Rose YATES	Joseph William SESTON	JW SESTON & wife Marjorie	Matilda DUGARD

Nell VICKERS, daughter Gail, Ellen & CJ SESTON		CJ SESTON, Pete LEWIS, Tom VICKERS & Wal SESTON

William SESTON (c1817 Mansfield or Sutton in Ashfield NTT, above) = widow Grace HALLIDAY (d/o John HARTLEY) in 1879 Birmingham. They had waited until the death Frederick HOLLADAY her husband. They had been a de facto couple since before the 1841 census and are known to have witnessed both the marriages of Selina SESTON (in 1846) and James SESTON to Matilda DUGARD (in 1844) as William & Grace JACKLIN (in 1841) & SESTON, and were recorded as such on census data from 1851 onwards. It is speculated that she left her husband Frederick HOLLADAY shortly after becoming pregnant and found sanctuary with William.

William & Grace had no children of their own, but the couple were with Grace's daughter Ellen HOLLADAY (1838) from her 1835 marriage. Ellen is aka Ellen SESTON (assumed by natural adoption) on census records. Ellen married Joseph PHILLIPS as HOLLADAY in 1855 in Bromsgrove, WOR. Joseph PHILLIPS died in 1857 leaving Ellen with 2 daughters Ann & Maria. In 1861 the widow Ellen PHILLIPS married musician William Stewart EDWARDS and the couple disappear from records. Her 2 daughters remained with William & Grace SESTON and nothing more is known of the fate of their mother. Also, living with William & Grace was niece Grace Elizabeth SESTON (1848-90), d/o of brother Samuel SESTON and his first wife Elizabeth TEASDALE.

William & Grace were in Great Dodford, Bromsgrove, WOR sometime after 1851. Grace, through her father John HARTLEY, would be connected to the Chartists. Julia SESTON, his mother was resident from 1861 after the death of her husband until her death in 1863, as was Betcy SESTON, the daughter of Thomas, also as a "niece" in 1871 until her marriage in 1878.

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