Message from: Pauline Haggerty
Date Sent: 17 May 2008
Seward Family History
Having traced my Seward family back to Kilmington, I was extremely pleased to find such an informative and interesting website covering the village.
I wonder if someone in Kilmingon can help me with some general information please? It appears my poor 3x great grandmother Jane was born in the same year as the death of her mother and father, 1826. I have all the Kilmington baptism information from the Devon Family History Society and although Jane's siblings appear, I can find nothing on Jane. I am assuming that perhaps the children were moved to a workhouse after the deaths of their parents and Jane would have been baptised elsewhere. Have you any idea on where the nearest workhouse would be?
Thank you for any help you can give.