Seacome

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Life

Seacome's Shop in 1836 - on the Bridge Street Rows from an illustration by Chester artist William Tasker (1808-1852).

John Seacome (active 1828-1836), Publisher and bookseller, had a bookshop in Chester as shown here. We can work out where it is because the building across the street is the unmistakable Dutch Houses.

Seacome creates massive confusion when he suggests that Lucy of Bolingbroke, the wife of Ranulf de Meschines and mother of Ranulph De Gernon (both Norman Earls of Chester) was the daughter of Ælfgar, an earlier Saxon Earl of Mercia.

Works

A modern photograph of the location of Seacome's booksellers.