Thursday, March 17, 2011

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day.

Even though the name Seagraves has it roots in England (spelled Segrave back then), the Seagraves family in the US has roots in Ireland too.
There's a village named Seagrave which may or may not been given to one of my ancestors.
Either that or I'm a dirt relative.
And with my luck digging around in the family tree that's probably it.
(Dirt relative is someone that has the same name as say the lord or knight, but they got the name from the town not the family.)

Then some of the Segrave line moved to Ireland.
Two Segrave's men moved to the US from Ireland at around 1700 or so. One was a minister, Francis Segrave, who settle in the Isle of Wright with his four kids (his two sons later married had thirteen children each), and the other arrived here in chains.
James Segrave was a bad boy, his father's will reflected that. I'm not sure what James did but he ended up in a penal colony here in the US.
James escaped or finished his time and made his way to New Jersey, where he opened a pub and started brewing beer. And called himself George.

It turns out he was a Master Brewer back in Ireland (a family business). And where James the convict couldn't get a licence to run a pub---George could.

Respectable minster or the convict--Guess which one I'm descended from?

If you have a glass of green beer today to honor St. Paddy make a toast to my ancestor James (George) Seagraves Brewery Master and escaped convict, without whom I wouldn't be here.

5 comments:

pje45@eircom.net said...

Hi Janice my name is Patrick English
Im doing a paper on the history of Ashbourne County Meath Ireland. The Segrave family have strong connections to Ashbourne They once owned the townland Kilegland where Ash is situated I think they are your people

Janice Seagraves said...

Thank you for the information. I'll have to check my paperwork and see if that's where George is from.

Janice~

Anonymous said...

Hi, Can you tell me what source you have that verifies that Francis Seagraves/Segrave/Seagroves was a minister? I am from his line and would for ever be greatful if you had some source that documents that as a fact. tcknowles@tampabay.rr.com

sandee fletcher said...

Janice, you mentioned 2 sons in your blog. James (George) and ?
What was his name? Was it John by chance? Looking for John who was born in the Isle of Wright VA around 1738 but moved to NC where he died in 1833. He had a son-Daniel born in 1762 and died in 1840?
Thank you!!!
Sandee Fletcher

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