When Maria Seaward was born in 1778, in West Chinnock, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, her father, Peter Seward, was 29 and her mother, Keziah Gillett, was 24. She married Benjamin Bargery on 1 April 1799, in West Chinnock, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She died in October 1853, in Crewkerne, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 75, and was buried in Crewkerne, Somerset, England, United Kingdom.
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The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
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English (Devon): variant of Seward .
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