SEAMER, Edwin
Edwin Seamer was born at 33 Nelson Terrace, Stoke Newington, Middlesex on 1 October 1837, son of Thomas Seamer (c1795-1 April 1881), a silk manufacturer, of Stamford Hill, London, and his wife Susan Drinkmilk (4 September 1801-3 November 1887), daughter of John and Mary Drinkmilk, Susan was born at Barrow in Suffolk and married at St Mary's Church, Teynham, Kent on 1 January 1837. Edwin married at Bury St Edmund's, Suffolk on 23 May 1863, Jane Elizabeth Hardwicke and in 1871, a 33-year-old druggist's assistant, living at 35 Well Street, Bury St Edmund's with his 32-year-old wife Jane, a son Hubert St John 7 and a daughter Ethelwyn Jane 2, both born at Bury St Edmund's. He exhibited at the [[Bury St Edmund's [and West Suffolk] Fine Art Society,4385]] in 1882, three pen and ink drawings 'Portrait', 'The Winnower' and 'French Fair'. In 1891, a 53 year an assistant to a surgeon, still living at Well Street, with his wife and three children including Ethelwyn and now Ernest Hardwicke 19 and Hilda Evelyn 11. His wife died at Uckfield, Sussex in 1900 and in 1911 he had retired and was living at The Cedars, East Bergholt, Suffolk with a son and two daughters. Edwin Seamer died at The Cedars, East Bergholt on 8 March 1924, aged 86.