Another quote from an early 20c genealogy book. There is no contemporary
proof for this information and it is geneally believed to be untrue --
but lots of fun
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More Those were the Days
-- early genealogy for which there is no contemporary proof.
continued -- (referring to Seaman and Carman names in England)
QUOTE
Both names, however, appear in much earlier periods in the annals of
Britain. Carman is in the genealogies of the Bishops of Mercia, 670-796,
and is mentioned by Bede, the first historian of England. It is also
found in the Anglo-Saxon chronicles and charters, and in the time of
Alfred the Great, 871-901. Seman (Seaman) also appears in these early
records, and according to the Chartae Anglo-Saxonica, "Chartse
Ango=Saxonica-Code Piplomatica Avi Saxonicim," etc. etc., by I. K. Kemble,
six volumes, 1839-48, there was an Anglo-Saxon or Norse sea chief of great
power and wide fame of this name, and in a letter from Owen Seaman, the
brilliant editor of "London Puck," he says, "the tradition is that the
Seamans are of Norse origin."
These data bring both names very near to the beginnings of Saxon rule in
England in the fifth century, and also indicate that both families must
have been of the leading and influential families for some time prior to
1042, as also in 1085-86 the years in which the Domesday Book census was
taken by order of William the Conqueror."
UNQUOTE