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The Autobiography of Archbishop Thomas Seeker
My Father, having some paternal Income, though a small one,
followed no Business. He was married thrice. His first Wife died in a
year or two, without a Child: & he wore
a) See Newcourts Repertorium, vol. 2.
b) See Entry Book at Lambeth No 4. p. 5. In the Entry Book No
7. p. 156 Marston is said to be worth 300 11 a year.
FOLIO 2a Mourning for her two Years. By his second Wife, he had
1693 one Daughter, Elizabeth, who married Mr Richard Milnes
of Chesterfield, & died childless before the Year 1720.
During his first & second Marriage, he lived partly at his own House at
Hougham, partly as a Boarder at Nottingham. In a Book, intitled,
Some remarkable Passages in the holy life & Death of Gervase Disney
Esq r , published in 12°, 1692, that Gentleman speaks, p. 56, of The good
Society, which he & his Wife had with worthy Mr Seeker & his Wife,
who boarded in the same House with them, at Nottingham, in 1672.
After the Death of his second Wife, he spent some time with his
Friend, Mr George Brough of Shelton in Nottinghamshire, a substantial
Gentleman-Farmer: and married his youngest Daughter, Abigail. By
her he had, besides me, a Daughter, named Abigail-Anna, born in
1690, & married first to Mr Samuel Wildboare, of Brewhouse Yard,
near Nottingham, Dyer ^[who died Dec. 17, 1714, {leaving a Daughter
by her, who lived but a few years;}]; & afterwards to Mr John Frost of
Barnston, a Gentleman-Farmer. He had also a Son, George, born in
1696, afterwards a Grocer in Coventry, Father of Dr George Seeker,
now Residentiary of St Pauls.
My Father having a young Family coming on, rented of the then
Duke of Newcastle a Farm of 100 lx a Year at Sib thorp before-mentioned:
where, after being long afflicted
FOLIO 3 by the Gout & Stone; he died in the Summer of the Year
1699-1708 1700, aged about 70 Years, ^[and was buried in the
Church Yard of Shelton.] He was a Protestant Dissenter; a
pious & virtuous & sensible man. He spent much time in reading
English Books; for he understood no other Language. He declined
undertaking the Office of a minister amongst the Dissenters, though
solicited to it: but destined me to that Employment.
A year or two after his Death, my Mother married { }Allen
Junr, of Swinderby in lincolnshire: who came and continued to live with
her at the Farm at Sib thorp, which she continued to keep. She had no
Child by him. She died of a Consumption in the Year { } aged
about 42, & was buried at Shelton.