Topics

• About the Seddon One-Name Study
• Variants
• Origin of the surname
• Historical occurrences
• Frequency of the name
• Distribution of the name
• Links
• Contact Details

About the Seddon One-Name Study

My Seddon database is an index of Seddon events from the mid 1400's, and has over 110000 entries

The research includes Parish Records, IGI, Census, Newspapers articles, Obits, BMDs, Military and Legal records.

It can be searched using a spreedsheet.

Variants

Some variants which I have found are

Sedden, Seddons, sneddon, Sedon, most of which have evoled into Seddon or from Seddon.

Origin of the surname

Seddon is thought to have been from a place, now lost, in the area of Lancashire, England, between Manchester and Liverpool.

Historical occurrences

John Seddon was a Middleton Archer, who fought at the Battle of Flodden Field, who is commemorated in a Stained Glass window St St Lawrence's Church, Middleton, Lancashire.

James Alexander Seddon was the Secretary for War, for the Southern States, in the American Civil War.

Richard John Seddon was a Prime Minister for Australia

Frequency of the name

I have found that in the 1500's in all countries, 595 records, 1600's 3248 records, 1700's 8972 records, 1800's 66571 records.

In America in the 1700's 123 records, 1800's 5172 records.

In Australia in the 1700's 7 records, in the 1800's 508 records.

Distribution of the name

The Seddon name appears in Salford in the mid 1400's and can be found in Wigan, Bolton, Manchester and Liverpool very early in the 1500's and for about 100 years the name stays in this area. In 1600 two Seddon's are in the West Indies, and a few in the area around London, and in Yorkshire.

Today the vast majority of people with the name Seddon is in the South area of Lancashire and North Cheshire

Links

My Seddononename Index web site is on a 'Free' hosted site and can only be accessed by an invitation from myself.

Anyone who wants to access the site has to send me an email, to which I will send an invite to them

seddon@rydal20.fsnet.co.uk

Contact details

For further information, contact:

Mr Daniel Seddon
E-mail:

Profiles of other one-name studies registered with the Guild may be found here.