Born about in Limerick, Ireland
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Daughter of Edward Wight
and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
John Crossley Seymour
— married
8 Jan 1789 in Cashell, Tipperary, Ireland
Descendants 
Mother of
Aaron Crossley Hobart Seymour, Edward Wight Seymour, John Crossley Seymour RN, Matthew Cassan Seymour, Frances (Seymour) Kane, Mary Anne (Seymour) Guinness, Stephen Sheffield Seymour, Margaretta Eliza Seymour, William Hobart Seymour BA MA, Catherine (Seymour) Minchin, Richard Seymour and Charlotte Alicia Seymour
Died [date unknown]
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 29 Dec 2014
This page has been accessed 371 times.
Biography
Catherine was born in about 1767. She was the eldest daughter of the Reverend Edward Wight.
She married Reverend John Crossley Seymour in January 1789. They had 24 children.
BURKE'S LANDED GENTRY, 1848
"The Reverend John-Crossley Seymour, vicar of Cahirelley, in the diocese of Cashel. This gentleman m. in Jan. 1789, Catherine, eldest daughter. and co-heir (with her sister Frances, living, unmarried) of the Reverend Edward Wight, rector of Meelick, in the county, and of St. Munchins, in the city of Limerick, by whom he had numerous progeny (twenty-four children) of which lived to maturity the following eight sons and six daus ... III. [third son] John-Crossley Seymour of Coolnagower, in the Queen's Co., m. his cousin, Frances-Maria, only daughter of Aaron-Crossley Seymour, Esq. of the East India Company's service, and has issue. [none listed in this book.] BurLandGen 1848 pp.1218-19). [1]
She lived with her husband and children at Castletown House, County Laois, Ireland.
Her husband passed away in 1831.
This profile is a collaborative work-in-progress. Can you contribute information or sources?
Sources
Is Catherine your ancestor? Please don't go away!
Login to collaborate or comment, or
contact
the profile manager, or
ask our community of genealogists a question.
Login to collaborate or comment, or contact
the profile manager, or ask our community of genealogists a question.
Sponsored Search by Ancestry.com
DNA
No known carriers of Catherine's DNA have taken a DNA test.
No known carriers of Catherine's DNA have taken a DNA test.
Have you taken a DNA test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.
Featured National Park champion connections: Catherine is 15 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 13 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 16 degrees from George Catlin, 19 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 26 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 14 degrees from George Grinnell, 15 degrees from Anton Kröller, 17 degrees from Stephen Mather, 17 degrees from Kara McKean, 19 degrees from John Muir, 10 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 26 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
Marriage Date: Jan 1789 Spouse: Rev John Crosby Seymour Father: Edwd Wight Father In Law: Seymour Record Type: Marriage Title: Irish Marriages in Walker's Hibernian Magazine, 1771-1812, Vol. II (K-Z)