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The Original English Family and European Origins of the Family Name:
Thomas de Segrave seems to have lived past 1100 and is very roughly estimated to have been born in the mid-1000s, possibly, as a guess, around 1040. According to the Segrave Family, Thomas’ son was Hugo de Segrave who died about 1133. The eldest son of Hugo as Lord of Segrave was Hereward, who probably died in 1166. Hereward’s son, Gilbert de Segrave, is shown in the Domesday Book as owning holdings in Leicestershire and other parts of England and required to pay annually for the support one fourth of the cost of a knight. His name implies that he was either born in, or made his primary home in, or near, the village of Segrave, a hamlet about 15 miles north of the City of Leicester in central England.
Gilbert de Segrave seems to have lived past 1200 and is very roughly estimated to have been born in the 1130's. According to the Segrave Family, Gilbert was a son of Hereward de Segrave, Lord of Segrave, who died in 1066. 'Segrave’ at that time was possibly a manor house with farm lands around it. The Manor of Segrave has been tentatively located by archaeologists as being just on the south edge of the current village. According to the Segrave Family the descendants of Gilbert de Segrave, great grandson of Thomas, became powerful landowners and nobles, particularly under Henry II up through the late 14th century.
Thomas de Segrave may have been of Anglo-Saxon descent, or possibly even Scandinavian, even though Thomas is more likely an Anglo-Saxon name. However, since that part of England had been in the Dane Geld, a region controlled by former Viking North-men through most of the ninth and tenth centuries, he could have been of Viking descent. The Geld was an annual tribute given to the North-men by the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the southern part of England to pay them not to raid or invade Anglo-Saxon lands.
There was a Barony de Segrave until the male line died out when Baron John de Segrave died in 1353 and it passed through marriage to another noble family. During the Segrave family’s period of strength, a Baron de Segrave, Nicholas, born 1238, was Chief Justicar of England (equivalent to the modern post of Prime Minister) and his grandson, Sir Hugh de Segrave, died 1385, was made Treasurer of England in 1381 by King Richard I. Others in the family held similar powerful posts in that time. One of the members of this line, Richard Segrave (died 1543) married into a family with substantial land holdings in Ireland. Partly as a result of that a significant branch of the family developed in Ireland through the 16th century.
Some immigrants to America are known to have come from Ireland, descendants of those original settlers from England, as well as from England at later times. No one has yet proved any specific connections between the original immigrant families in the Americas and their European families of origin. This website is intended to identify as many of the Seagraves who appear in the records in America from Colonial times on to the present and includes members of the English and Irish Segrave families who are represented in available records.
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