The SEARY family first appear in the Bampton area when they were blacksmiths in Aston at the beginning of the seventeenth century. One branch of this family became yeomen in Weald and when the eighteenth century started the head of this family was William SEARY. His grandson John SEARY was still a yeoman in Weald at the end of the century. His large family was not succesful in the difficult times in the early nineteenth century and by the time of the 1841 census none of them was still in Weald. In fact the only family bearing the the SEARY name in the Bampton area at that time was that of a pauper in Cote.