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The SESTON Family (aka JACKLIN)

An early C19th/C20th Birmingham family
with likely origins in the greater Chesterfield (N. Derbyshire) & Sutton in Ashfield (Nottinghamshire) area
with relations in Bromsgrove, WOR 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

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 recorded as JACKLIN (explaining JACKEN as an 1851 variant). 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 (and some not yet traced!) due to the number of variant surnames and errors also there. A number of key BMD events were also difficult to establish and understand, especially the transition from the use of JACKLIN to SESTON or SEASTON. While this is very much "work in progress" I am looking for any modern Birmingham or related SESTON families to complete this story and who may have photos or stories of these ancestors.

Geographical Synopsis

The SESTON descendants of Sutton in Ashfield, Notts 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 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 to confirm references to Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire) and that they are 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 and the current outline now follows.

Ancestral Outline - Updated October 2010

I am seeking the marriage prior to 1813 of Thomas SESTON or JACKLIN, a Stocking Maker & Weaver with origins in Nottinghamshire, to Julia (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 using LDS records.

The main evidence is that in 1841 Aston, 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 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 preceded the 1841 census and that the family must have arrived from Nottinghamshire sometime between 1834 & 1841.

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 & 1787 for her, putting their marriage in the period 1810-13 if he married at 17. Her age at death suggest 1785. The descendant tree is:

• Rebecca SESTON (c1813, not located in 1841) m. in 1849 B'ham = John WATTS – couple not found subsequently so may have emigrated;

• 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 present at death, perhaps a pet name for his mother, as no such person is found on the 1851. This also shows parents were still using JACKLIN, even though SESTON was the child's name. Thomas, the father, died and buried as JACKLIN in 1859);

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

  • (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);

  • (2) Mary Ann BAYLISS 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), m. Thomas PARKES in 1878 Bromsgrove;

    • Sarah Ann SESTON (1856), m. Aaron DRAKELY in 1877;

    • Samuel SESTON (1858), m. Emily POPLEWELL in 1879 Aston. Children:

      • May SESTON (1880);

      • Emily SESTON (c1883);

      • Samuel SESTON (c1886), m. Eleanor LANCASTER in 1910. Children:

        • Samuel T SESTON (1912) – m. Frances May HANDLEY (1910-92) in 1938;

          • Jacqueline A SESTON (1942);

        • William L SESTON (1921-68);

      • Susan SESTON (1889), m. Frank F PERKINS in 1916;

      • "Willie" or William SESTON (1894), m. Helena M. RHEAD in 1918;

    • Emily SESTON (1861), m. in 1882 to John WILSON or William CHECKLAND;

    • William SESTON (1865-1940) m. Susannah WILSON in 1884. Children:

      • William SESTON (1884), m. Louisa Maria NEWTON in 1911 (no children);

      • Nellie SESTON (1886), m. James ALLCOCK in 1909;

      • Arthur SESTON (1888-1943), m. Minnie WOOD in 1909. Children:

        • Arthur SESTON (1910-11);

        • Doris SESTON (1920);

        • Leslie SESTON (1922-38);

        • Gladys SESTON (1924);

        • Lily SESTON (1926);

        • Norman SESTON (1929);

      • Alfred SESTON (1889-1944);

      • Rose SESTON (1891);

      • Annie SESTON (1893);

      • Walter SESTON (1895-1963), m. Florence M MORGAN in 1938;

      • Dora SESTON (1897-1904);

      • Violet SESTON (1899);

      • Lily SESTON (1901-21);

      • Susannah SESTON (1903-21);

      • Frederick SESTON (1905);

      • Leonard SESTON (1907-89), m. Evelyn May PASCOE in 1929;

        • Beryl E SESTON (1930);

      • one further child who had died by 1911 census;

    • George SESTON (1868-69);

    • Arthur SESTON (c1874), m. Minnie WOOD in 1909 Aston. Children:

      • Minnie SESTON (1911);

      • Elsie SESTON (1914);

      • Doris SESTON (1920);

    • Edwin SESTON (c1878), m. Susan Jane CALE in 1906 Aston. Children:

      • Emma Aminda SESTON (1906-77), m. Leslie T CLIVE;

      • Edwin H SESTON (1911-12);

      • Edward Sydney SESTON (1913-86) m. Violet ROBINSON in 1938

        • Valerie SESTON (1942);

• Selina SESTON (c1826), who m. James NICHOLLS in 1846;

• James SESTON (my 3xGGF, see below);

• Caroline SESTON (c1829), who m. Charles FINCH in 1851;

• Charles SESTON (c1833), who married:

  • (1) Elizabeth JACKSON in 1854. Children:

    • William SESTON (1856) m. Ann ASTON in 1874. Their Birmingham children:

      • Elizabeth SESTON (c1874), m. Albert GENGE in 1897;

      • William Thomas SESTON (1876-1931), m. Blanche WISE in 1898. Family & children in Smethwick in 1901:

        • William Sydney SESTON (1899);

        • 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), m. Winifred Myra KEMPIN of Bristol in Bermuda:

          • David Lang SESTON (1942, Blackburn, LAN) - married Roberta ALLEN in Ontario, Canada:

            • David Harry SESTON (1979);

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

      • Alfred SESTON (1880-82);

      • Samuel Charles SESTON (1882-1902);

      • Arthur SESTON (1885-1908), m. in 1905 to Florence DAWSON;

      • Harry SESTON (c1888-1906);

      • Edwin SESTON (1890-1900);

    • Sarah Ann SESTON (1860), m. Samuel HOLLINS in 1880;

    • Matilda SESTON (1862), m. Henry JONES in 1881;

    • Julia SESTON (c1864-1936), m. Samuel Charles ROWLEY in 1887 and then James JONES in 1897;

  • (2) Pamela BENNETT (widow) in 1876. Children:

    • Isabella Mary A. SESTON (1877);

    • Charles SESTON (c1880);

    
    Abraham SESTON (courtesy of David L SESTON)

James SESTON (c1826 Sutton in Ashfield NTT - 1884, above), a Weaver & Brace Maker, m. 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), who m. 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 SESTON (c1857), "Polly" m. Richard WILLIAMS in 1901;

• Harriet SESTON (c1859-1931), unmarried;

• Charles SESTON (1863-1896), m. Rose YATES in 1889. Children:

  • Charles Joseph SESTON (1890), m. Ellen Annie SIMPSON in 1913. Children

    • Ellen R SESTON (1914), "Nell", m. Tom VICKERS ;

    • Charles Arthur SESTON (1918-2004), "Charlie";

    • Mabel F SESTON (1919-2001), m. Desmond Percival "Pete" LEWIS;

    • Joseph William SESTON (1821), "Joe";

      • Tony SESTON*;

    • Walter E SESTON (1924), "Wal";

    • Bert H SESTON (1925);

  • Florence Emily SESTON (1892), m. John W CLEMENTS in 1913 Walsall;

  • 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

William SESTON (c1817 Mansfield or Sutton in Ashfield NTT, above), m. widow Grace HALLIDAY (d/o John HARTLEY) in 1879 Birmingham. It is not clear why they married so late, since 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. One could speculate that she left her husband Frederick HOLLADAY and did not remarry until his death between 1871 & 1881 census when she was in her sixties.

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. 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.

SESTON Family Tree / SESTON BMD for Birmingham area

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