James Seary 1780-1841 and Hester James 1785-1851

Bampton, Buckland, Shifford, & Cote

JAMES SEARY & HESTER (ESTHER) JAMES

INTRODUCTION

Some of the children of this marriage were baptized in Anglican Churches at Bampton, Buckland, and Shifford. The parents converted to the Baptist faith in 1820 and the birth dates of their subsequent children were recorded at Coate Baptist Chapel. Coate is probably modern Cote, which is only two miles east of Bampton.

There is also a record of the baptism of a further James SEARY baptized at Coate Baptist Chapel as an adult in 1835. This is probably the eldest son of James and Esther, James SEARY (1809).

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HUSBAND

James SEARY 1780-1841 [P5]

father: John SEARY 1735- [P6]
mother: Katherine BARTLETT; 1737- [P6]
born:
baptized: 16 September 1780 in Bampton
re-baptized: 8 November 1820 at Coate Baptist Chapel
died: 6 a.m. on 25 December 1841 at Coate, "aged 63", from "gradual decay"
buried:

WIFE

Hester JAMES (also known as Esther) 1785-1851 [P5]

father: Thomas JAMES
mother: Margaret ˍ
born: Brize Norton (from 1851 census)
baptized: 28 August 1785 at Brize Norton
re-baptized: 8 November 1820, as Esther, at Coate Baptist Chapel
died: 13 June 1851 at Coate, "aged 74", from "Rheumatic Fever".
buried:

MARRIAGE

This is possibly the marriage recorded at St Michaels Parish Church, Oxford, by License, on 28 June 1807, between John SEAREY of Broughton Pogges and Esther JAMES

The family are recorded in the 1841 Census for Coate. James SEARY, aged 60, pauper; his wife Esther aged 55; son David aged 18; daughter Sarah aged 10; son Enos aged 8; son James aged 30; his married daughter Ann COMMINS [sic] aged 20; and her daughter Mary COMMINS aged 1.

CHILDREN RECORDED IN ANGLICAN CHURCHES

Hester SEARY (also known as Esther 1808-1891

baptized: 24 June 1808 at Bampton
married: John HUDSON, 7 December 1833 at Shifford
died: 1 January 1891, "aged 82", of "Bronchitis, Exhaustion"

The family is recorded in the 1841 Census for Coate. John HUDSON, aged 28, Ag. Lab; Esther [sic] his wife, aged 33; and children Frederick aged 7, Hannah aged 3, and Joseph aged 11. Joseph is recorded as a HUDSON but he was baptised as Joseph SEARY, son of Esther SEARY on 27 February 1829.

James SEARY 1809- [P4]

baptized: 26 November 1809 at Buckland
re-baptized: 15 November 1835 at Coate Baptist Chapel

Catherine SEARY 1811-

baptized: 14 July 1811 at Bampton

John SEARY 1813-1890

baptized: 24 July 1813 at Bampton
married: unmarried
died: 23 April 1890 at Owslebury, Hampshire, "aged 76", of "Diabetis"

Thomas SEARY 1814-

baptized: 4 September 1814 at Bampton

Edward SEARY 1816-

baptized: 21 April 1816 at Shifford

William SEARY 1817- 1902

baptized: 8 June 1817 at Shifford
married: possibly to Hannah CARWEN
died: 20 July 1902 at Hull City Asylum, "aged 86", of "Senile Decay"

CHILDREN RECORDED AT COATE (COTE) BAPTIST CHAPEL

Mary SEARY 1819-1904

born 31 March 1819 (recorded at Coate Baptist Chapel)
married: John HENWOOD 12 July 1846 at Shifford Church
died: 24 July 1904 at Summertown, Oxford, "aged 85", of "Senectus" (old age)

Elizabeth SEARY 1820-

born September 1820 (recorded at Coate Baptist Chapel)
married: James TRIMBY of Beanworth (modern Beauworth), Hampshire, at Shifford, 28 April 1842

Ann SEARY 1822-1853

born March 1822 (recorded at Coate Baptist Chapel)
married: Charles CUMMINS, at Shifford, 13 January 1840
baptized: 3 August 1851 at Wytham by special consent
buried: 7 September 1853 at Wytham, Berkshire

David SEARY 1823-1897

born September 1823 (recorded at Coate Baptist Chapel)
married: Mary Ann DUCK at Southwark 20 May 1866
died: 31 August 1897 at Otterbourne, Hampshire, "aged 73", of "Senile Decay"

Sarah SEARY 1831-1885

born 1831
married: John CUMMINS, at Wytham, Berkshire, 18 February 1851
buried: 22 September 1885, "aged 55", at Wytham, Berkshire

Enos SEARY (also known as Eneas) 1833-1907

born 1827 (recorded at Coate Baptist Chapel as Enos)
baptized: 18 August 1844 in the Anglican Church, Faringdon, as Enos
re-baptized: 24 April 1858 at Coate Baptist Chapel
married: Amelia VERNON, at Shifford, 22 January 1855, as Eneas
died: 11 May 1907 at Combe, "aged 77", of "Acute Bronchitis & Heart Failure"

Enos (Eneas) appears to have been baptized first in the Church of England in 1844 at about age 11. He was then rebaptized at the Coate Baptist Chapel in 1858. He was recorded in the Coate Baptist Register as "Dismissed to Woodstock 1878" which presumably means he had left Coate and joined the Baptist Chapel at Woodstock. The record of his burial in the Combe Parish Register states "reputed to be a Baptist".

For the baptism at Faringdon see also William and Esther SEARY.

Enos was recorded lodging with James and Rachel SOLLIS at Brize Norton in 1851.