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Free Research > S > Seaman > Family StoryUse the free genealogy search to quickly discover your family history or share your own! LONG LONG AGO
John Seaman was born either 1832 or 1833, somewhere in England. He left the country on a ship that wrecked at the Natal Coast of Southern Africa. I believe he left on HMS Birkenhead
a troopship that wrecked near Gansbaai, Western Cape, Southern Africa on 26th February 1852. Why I believe he was on that ship, is, as the story goes, he married six months after he swam ashore. According to the dates I have, it all fits nicely together. The lady in question was my Great Grandmother a miss Swanepoel, whom he married on 25th August 1852, six months after HMS Birkenhead wrecked. They had 9 children, one of which was my Grandfather George Jacobus William Seaman.
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