2023 breakthrough...Thomas Seward's death details finally located!
On 25 July 2024, it will be one hundred and forty years since the death of Thomas Seward. It's taken our family historian, Martyn, over forty years to resolve the mystery of Thomas's death. So even with all the breakthroughs that I made using DNA evidence in 2023, I've awarded this discovery the accolade of the most significant find in my ancestral lines over the past twelve months. Thomas Seward was the second husband of our great-great-grandmother, Jane Feeney. We are descended from her first husband, John Killion. It's almost six years since this post was published about Thomas Seward- More "Australian Royalty" - Thomas Seward from England to Australia via India We couldn't find any trace of Thomas after he was released from Darlinghurst Goal on 20 August 1881. We knew he'd died by the time Jane sold the "Killion farm" in April 1885 as she's recorded as a widow on the sale documents. The breakthrough came through searching for var