History of the family of Seton during eight centuries > Volume 2

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MRS. BROADBENT, N&E SETON
June 1707, in Crossgate parish, Durham, and died in January 1775,
having married Mary, daughter of Francis Newton of Irnham, co.
Lincoln, by whom he had two sons and one daughter : —
(a) John, also of the parish of St. George the Martyr, who, on the
death of his uncle Ralph, in 1782, became representative of the Winton
family. He was born in December 1755, and died 3rd August 1796, when
the succession to the Winton honours is believed to have opened to Hugh,
twelfth Earl of Eglinton. By his wife, Mary, daughter of John Hughes of
Berryhall, Warwickshire, whom he married, 16th February 1786, John
Seton had (besides two sons, John and John-Joseph, and a daughter Mary,
who all predeceased their father in infancy) a surviving daughter, Mary-
Catherine, born 2nd June 1796, and married to Mr. John Broadbent, by
whom she had several sons and daughters, who assumed the surname of
Seton. Either in 1840 or 1841, along with my kinsman, the late Miles-
Charles Seton, I had an interview with Mrs. Broadbent, at her house in
Cheapside, London, where she followed the vocation of milliner. I was