Category Archives: Seppings
The Colonies – Lt Edmund Henry Seppings’ Nieces and Nephews: Bangalore, Bengal, Burma
Map of British Indian Empire 1909 Three of Edmund Henry Seppings’s brothers emigrated to India to find employment with the Hon East India Company and the British Indian Army. The days of warring with European rivals were over. Remaining idle … Continue reading
The Age of Sail – Lt Edmund Henry Seppings’ 1st cousins once and twice removed – Seppings side
Massacre at Satichaura ghat, Cawnpore, India 1857. After the death of Cpt Edward James Seppings, there were no direct male Seppings descendants of Sir Robert’s. In the 1800s, Edmund Henry Seppings’ extended family branched, through marriage, into the following families: … Continue reading
The Age of Sail – Lt Edmund Henry Seppings’ first cousins – Seppings side
Plymouth Dock seen from Mount Edgecomb, Devonshire, 1816, by J M W Turner (Tate Gallery) Lt Edmund Henry Seppings had four aunts on the Seppings side – Lydia, Mary, Helen and Elizabeth, and one uncle, Sir Robert Seppings. His aunts … Continue reading
Seppings Coat of Arms
On 18 Feb 1825, the Kings of Arms, under Crown authority, granted and assigned a coat of arms and crest to Sir Robert Seppings, ‘to be borne and used for ever hereafter by him and his only brother Lt John … Continue reading
The Age of Sail – Milligen, Seppings and Lockyer Military Men, England
HMS Sophie, the British 18-gun brig sloop (on right) under Captain Nicholas Lockyer’s command (1809-14) Born into the Age of Sail, Edmund Henry Seppings (1807-1858), the first Seppings to arrive and settle in Australia, was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy. From … Continue reading
Seppings Ancestral Homes – England
Where did our Seppings ancestors live? The earliest record we have is of William Seppings, son of Thomas Seppings, born in Fakenham, Norfolk, 1638. William, an Oatmeal Maker, and his wife Dorothy, had five sons. The second son, Robert, … Continue reading
Seppings Name
The name Seppings, originally from East Anglia, England, is thought to have derived from the nickname ‘Sevenpence’, someone not very tall.* One of the earliest listed is John Wolman Sevenpens (1403) in the Calendar of Norwich Freemen 1317-1603: Edward II … Continue reading
Seppings Family History 