Provenance

Various Parties

Purpose/Function

Reference, Research, Information

Arrangement

Arranged by Secondary Values (value of records to users)

Content

The SEAMER family was an early family in Kew, with its most notable member, Samuel Seamer, immigrating to Melbourne after his participation in the Light Brigade in the Battle of Balaclava. He would be sent to the Kew Lunatic Asylum exhibiting symptoms of dementia (likely PTSD before its discovery), where he would die after thirty-nine years. The file includes: A scanned newspaper article on the death of Samuel Seamer, a family tree, and a letter from a Marlene Meadley, a descendant of the SEAMER family, thanking the Kew Historical Society for a tour of the Kew Lunatic Asylum.