Chapter 5: BENJAMIN SEVIOUR of WANSTROW, SOMERSET
Benjamin Seviour apparently moved to Wanstrow from his home parish of Cloford before his marriage to Wanstrow born Rebecca about 1805. Rebecca bore at least nine children, all of whom appear to have survived in to adulthood. Despite their large family, with numerous grandchildren, the aged Benjamin and Rebecca were hardly able to sustain themselves in later life. In 1841 Benjamin was working as an agricultural labourer. Ten years later, at the age of 78, he was a pauper living on Wanstrow Street with his wife, his son George and ten year old granddaughter Rebecca, who’s parents are not known.
The life of Benjamin and Rebecca’s eldest son, Joseph is considered in Chapter 6. Joseph’s brother, Charles, was, like his parents, an agricultural labourer. Until the 1860 he also lived on Wanstrow Street, before moving to nearby Pottery Yard. On his death his widow Mary Ann moved back to Wanstrow Street. In 1881 she was working as a general farm labourer. Her grandson Herbert kept her company. Charles and Mary Ann had nine children. Elizabeth, their oldest daugther, married John Appleby, an agricultural labourer and later dairyman.. John and his family lived in numerous places including Doulting in Somerset (John's home parish), Stratford Subcastle and Sutton Veny in Wiltshire, and Timsbury and Houghton in Hampshire. John's oldest son, James, was an agricultural labourer before he joined the Royal Marine Artillery where he served as agunner for a time in the early 1880s. During that period he was based at Eastney Barracks at Portsea. By 1884 James was a cabinet maker at Yeovil Marsh, where he apparently spent the rest of his life. At least three of James' siblings worked with dairy animals (Frederick, George and Harry Charles) whilst two were labourers (Henry J. and Herbert John), two entered service (William George, Mary J. and Arthur) and one (Albert E.) became a baker in Mottisfont, Hampshire.
Charles and Mary's second child, Henry, first lodged with Edward Dunford on Wanstrow Street, four doors from his parents. Henry married in about 1865 and moved to Brokerswood in the southern extremity of North Bradley parish, near Westbury in Wiltshire, about three years later. He stayed there for at least another 13 years. During this period he was an agricultural labourer, a farm servant and then a cattleman. Henry's two brothers also worked as an agricultural labourers, whilst a sister worked as a dairymaid. Henry's son Joseph Sparey worked as an agricultural labourer then a platelayer on the railway. Joseph lived in North Bradley for most of his working life, but was in Westbury for a very brief period around 1899.
Benjamin and Rebecca’s other sons, Henry and George, appear to have stayed all their lives in Wanstrow where they worked as agricultural labourers and raised families of their own. Sisters Susanna and Caroline spent their early adult years as farm servants in the houses of John Yeoman, Corn Dealer of the Manor House, and Mary Harding of Shurton Farm, Wanstrow, respectively.
Wanstrow 1891
Benjamin lived in an interesting and probably unsettling time for during the early 1700's, a great change in farming called the Agricultural Revolution had begun in Great Britain. The revolution resulted from a series of discoveries and inventions that made farming much more productive than ever before. By the mid-1800's, the Agricultural Revolution had spread throughout much of Europe and North America. One of the revolution's chief effects was the rapid growth of towns and cities during the 1800's. Because fewer people were needed to produce food, agricultural labourers and their families by the thousands moved to the towns and cities.
The Agricultural Revolution was brought about mainly by three developments. They were improved crop-growing methods, advances in livestock breeding and the invention of new farm equipment.
Benjamin SEVIOUR b.1775 d.>1851 m.Rebecca -
Elizabeth SEVIOUR b.1805
Rebecca SEVIOUR b.1808
Joseph SEVIOUR b.1810 d.<1881 m.Mary Ann -(Chapter 6)
Charles SEVIOUR b.1812 d.>1871 m.Mary Ann -
Elizabeth SEVIOUR b.1835 d.>1901 m.John APPLEBY
James APPLEBY b.c1858 d.>1901 m.Elizabeth –
James Langford APPLEBY b.c1884 d.>1901
George Holford APPLEBY b.c1887 d.<1893
John Henry APPLEBY b.c1889 d.>1901
Robert Samuel APPLEBY b.1891 d.>1901
George Holford APPLEBY b.c1893 d.>1901
Mabel Mary APPLEBY b.c1895 d.>1901
Josana Francis APPLEBY b.c1897 d.>1901
Frederick (known as Fred) APPLEBY b.c1860 d.>1901 m.Mary Ann -
Henry John (known as John) APPLEBY b.c1886 d.>1901
Frederick (known as Fred) APPLEBY b.c1888 d.>1901
Elizabeth Ellen (known as Ellen) APPLEBY b.c1890 d.>1901
Carey APPLEBY b.c1893 d.>1901
Percy APPLEBY b.c1894 d.>1901
Patience APPLEBY b.c1896 d.>1901
Violet APPLEBY b.c1898 d.>1901
William George APPLEBY b.c1863 d.>1881
Henry J. (known as Frank) APPLEBY b.c1866 d.>1881
Herbert John F. (known as John) APPLEBY b.c1868 d.>1881
Mary J. APPLEBY b.c1870 d.>1891
Albert E. APPLEBY b.1871 d.>1891
Arthur APPLEBY b.c1873 d.>1891
George APPLEBY b.c1875 d.>1891
Harriet Rachel APPLEBY b.c1876 d.>1881
Harry Charles APPLEBY b.c1878 d.>1901
Henry SEVIOUR b.1837 d.>1901 m.Ann SPAREY
Frances Mary SEVIOUR b.1863 d.>1871
Henry SEVIOUR b.c1865 d.>1881
Mary Ann SEVIOUR b.c1867 d.>1871
Eliza SEVIOUR b.c1869 d.>1881
Joseph Sparey SEVIOUR b.1870 d.>1901 m.Beatrice Jane JEFFERIES
Emily Katherina SEVIOUR b.1892 d.>1901
Florence SEVIOUR b.c1894 d.>1901
Albert John SEVIOUR b.1896 d.>1901 m.- -
Leslie Albert SEVIOUR b.1920 d.1999 m.Vera HAMMETT
Neil SEVIOUR m.Gail -
Robyn SEVIOUR
Richard John SEVIOUR
Patricia SEVIOUR
Henry Joseph SEVIOUR b.1897 d.>1901
William Herbert SEVIOUR b.1899 d.>1901
Evelyn Daisy SEVIOUR b.1900 d.>1901
William SEVIOUR b.c1874 d.>1881
Annie SEVIOUR b.c1876 d.>1891
Frank SEVIOUR b.c1877 d.>1881
Albert C. SEVIOUR b.1880 d.>1901 n.Agnes M. -
Albert C. SEVIOUR b.1900 d.>1901
Emily SEVIOUR b.1883 d.>1901
Frederick SEVIOUR b.c1886 d.>1891
Ann SEVIOUR b.1839 d.>1861
Emma SEVIOUR b.1842 d.>1851
Eliza SEVIOUR b.1847 d.>1861
Thomas SEVIOUR b.1848 d.>1861
Maria(h) SEVIOUR b.1850 d.>1872
Herbert William SEVIOUR b.1872 d.>1891
William SEVIOUR b.1854 d.>1901 m.Catherine -
Rosa F. SEVIOUR b.c1880 d.>1891
William SEVIOUR b.c1882 d.1901
Thomas Henry SEVIOUR b.c1883 d.>1901
Gilbert SEVIOUR b.c1886 d.>1901
Percy SEVIOUR b.c1890 d.>1901
Sarah SEVIOUR b.1856 d.>1881
Henry SEVIOUR/SIVOUR b.c1816 d.>1891 m.Ann
William SEVIOUR/SIVOUR b.1846 d.>1901 m.Elizabeth -
George Henry SIVOUR b.c1872 d.>1901
Edith Gertrude SIVOUR b.c1875 d.>1901 m.Mark BUNDY
Walter SIVOUR/SIVYOUR b.1876 d.1957 m.Elizabeth B Nixon
Walter Nixon SIVYOUR b.1905 d.1983 m.Bessie Eunice M Woods |
Eunice SIVYOUR b.1933 d.1934
William Nixon SIVYOUR
Freda SIVYOUR
Stella SIVYOUR
Rodney SIVYOUR
Laurence (Larry) John SIVYOUR
Louisa SIVOUR b.c1878 d.>1901
William SIVOUR b.c1884 d.>1901
Sarah SEVIOUR/SIVIOUR b.1848 d.>1881
Simon SEVIOUR/SIVIER/SIVOUR b.1850 d.>1901 m.#1 Martha – #2 Annie
#1 Henry Charles SIVIER b.c1871 d.>1881
#1 Rebecca Mary SIVIER b.c1873 d.>1901
#1 William Thomas SIVIER/SIVOUR b.c1879 d.>1901
#2 Frederick G. SIVOUR b.c1893 d.>1901
#2 Harry E. SIVOUR b.c1899 d.>1901
#2 Ernest SIVOUR b.1900 d.>1901
Mary Jane SEVIOUR b.1852 d.c1861
Rebecca SEVIOUR b.1856 d.>1871
Harry SEVIOUR/SIVOUR/SIVIOUR b.c1860 d.>1901 m.Alice M.
Arthur H. SIVOUR/SIVIOUR b.c1888 d.>1901
Frances A. SIVOUR/SIVIOUR b.c1890 d.>1901
Alice E. SIVIOUR b.c1892 d.>1901
Mary Jane SEVIOUR b.1861
George SEVIOUR/SIVOUR b.c1862 d.>1891
Charley SEVIOUR b.c1864 d.>1871
Ann SEVIOUR b.1817
Susanna SEVIOUR b.1821 d.>1841
Caroline SEVIOUR b.c1823 d.>1841
George SEVIOUR b.c1826 d.>1891 m.Jane -
Elizabeth Mary SEVIOUR b.1854
Walter SEVIOUR b.1856 d.>1881
Rosa SEVIOUR b.1858 d.<1861
Julia SEVIOUR b.1861 d.>1891
William SEVIOUR b.1864 d.>1901 m.Sarah -
Ernest G. SEVIOUR b.c1892 d.>1901
Gertrude V. B. SEVIOUR b.c1893 d.>1901
Arthur N. SEVIOUR b.c1895 d.>1901
Ethel M. SEVIOUR b.c1899 d.>1901
This chapter last updated 14 November 2006
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