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Q: General Internet
What is your
connection to the Seton's of Winton of Scotland?
My
family descends from Aberdeenshire in Scotland, from John Seton of the Seton's of Meldrum family line,
son of William Seton, Chamberlain of Fyvie who was descended from
through William Seton, 5th of Meldrum to William Seton, 1st Lord Seton. John Seton, had a
son Alexander Seaton,
who was born at Cuttlecraigs, Lethenty, Daviot Parish in Aberdeenshire
in 1652. Alexander attended the University of Aberdeen
and there converted to Quakerism. In support of
this he went to Ulster, Ireland, leaving from the Port
of Glasgow and settled at
Hillsborough, County Down permanently in 1699, bringing his four son's and his daughter
there to live. His eldest son, Thomas, was the only child to remain
in Ireland, the rest immigrated to America, and Alexander died
in Ulster in 1723.
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My 3rd great-grandfather, James Seton
(Seaton-Seeton),
was descended from Thomas Seaton and was born in the Scottish
plantation of Ulster in 1776. He married Martha Crawford
there in
1808, and in 1822 left with his family from Belfast, Ireland and settled in
Glenholm, Londonderry, Nova Scotia,
Canada. I am then, 6th generation in descent from James
Seeton of Nova Scotia, where I was
born in 1967. The family in Nova Scotia were active Mason's, and were
also involved in various business ventures, including Robert and Joseph Seeton's
shipping business which held the contract for the overseas mail in the
mid-to-late 19th century, and The Old Public House in downtown Halifax, which
miraculously survived the Halifax Explosion during World War I. Robert and Joseph were both younger
sons of James Seeton, and their older brother, also James,
acquired lands in various parts of Nova Scotia, finally settling
in Meagher's Grant. The family farm there was passed to his
son, also James (3rd), who had my grandfather Harold there in "The
Grant". Harold had, as his oldest son, Robert Seeton, my
father, and I am Robert's oldest son. I now live in Montreal, Quebec,
Canada.
Q: General Internet
Do you have
any children?
I have three children, from my first marriage to
Lorelee Mae Remus, of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. We
were married while living in Ottawa, Canada (married in
Washington, D.C., Aug. 25 1990). My three children are Sarah
Elizabeth Seton b.1993), James Alexander Seton (b.1994)
and Natasha Mary Seton (b.1997). Lorelee sadly
passed away in Oct. 2000 and I subsequently married,
2nd, Maryna Syerhyeyeva of Kherson, Ukraine, in 2003 whereby she
and her son Valera came to live with my family and I in
Montreal, Canada.
Q: General Internet
What can you
tell us about yourself?
That's an interesting question to answer: As a
descendant of the House of Seton, I have a passion for
preserving our family's history, which of course results
in this website and for which I put countless hours
into. My life's work is both a combination of
this, and of my career in telecommunications. My
father was a soldier who later took up carpentry and my
mother was a training officer at National Defense and
the Goverment of Canada, and they influenced me greatly.
I spent three years a a piper with the Cameron
Highlanders of Ottawa and there learned a great deal
about the process of Peace Keeping. So I have
developed a personal belief in the principle of having
people being able to communicate with each other, in as
many ways possible, as a way to really change the world.
I work in the global communications arena, and try to
make my contribution wherever I can to this end.
Q: General Internet
What
do you do for a living?
I am a Telecommunications Professional, having worked
all of my adult life in that industry. I started
working in the Technology and Telecommunications field
when I was 18 years old. My first exposure working
in technology was at a company called "Filtran", in
Ottawa, Canada, manufacturing electronic components.
Shortly afterwards I got a job working at Canadian
Marconi, assembling telecom circuit boards, and it was
that job that changed my life. There I was able to learn
the basics of fiber-optics, which skill later enabled me
to work doing fiber-optics installations, which I was
introduced to by a few friends and who got me a job with
a company "Elan", contracted to built the data
communications infrastructure for Stentor Canada, where
I became a Field Supervisor after two years. I
went on to work at Belnet Canada in both Ottawa and in
Halifax, Nova Scotia, performing large commercial data
and voice communications installations, where I was a
senior technology consultant and was later promoted to
Vice-President of Operations for Eastern Canada 1996-97.
My family and I moved to Montreal in 1997, where I
worked again as a consultant for various companies as well as
operating my own small communications business for two
years before joining Frontier ConferTech at the
beginning of 1999 as a 2nd level Field Technician, later
working to be the local Engineering Site Manager for the
Montreal facility (under GX). I stayed on at
during the merger with Global Crossing, and was promoted
to 3rd Level Engineering, working with both the
Conferencing Division as well as with Transmission
Engineering for the global fiber optics design and
support group. After being laid-off from Global
Crossing following the bankruptcy of that company, and
with 20 years in direct telecom design, installation and
management, I decided that I wanted to re-direct my
career somewhat and left telecom for the Aeronautical
Communications industry and agreed to join SITA, (the
Societe Internationale de la Telecommunications
Aeronautique) in their newly forming Global Network
Operations Centre, which they were undertaking to build
in Montreal, Canada (as the first of two individuals
employed as such), where I work now.
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