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The Payne family has resided in the UK for centuries. The clan was previously known as a family of healers and priests, though as of the last two-hundred-and-some-odd years, they have been known strictly as a family of morticians after settling in Winchester and opening the Payne Funeral Home & Mortuary.

Despite their close relationship with all things death, the Paynes are an exceptionally long-lived family, most living well into their nineties. Ironically, it was the family's first known wizard, Herschel Payne, that was met with an early demise via a fallen bookshelf in his wife's heavily-cluttered store. He always warned her penchant for hoarding wares would be someone's undoing.

It was Ursula's great-great-grandmother, Cybil Hemlock, that was the first family seer chosen by the stars. After that was her grandmother, Althea Hemlock, and then herself. It is unknown why the stars have chosen to skip generations, or if that will always be the case.

Although Ursula's adopted granddaughter, Moira, is every bit a Payne Seer in her family's eyes, it is Uriel--the family's first male seer--that carries on the Hemlock Seer gene as the fourth of his bloodline.

Family Registry:

Herschel Payne (9/19/1961 - 1/7/2030) Muggleborn, Hufflepuff. Death by blunt force trauma. Continues to haunt his wife, unwilling to part from her prematurely. Ghostly companion, former Mortician.
❤ Ursula Payne, née Hemlock (11/1/1965 - Present) *Seer* Pureblood, Slytherin. Retired Fortune Teller. Currently travelling the world.

↪ Theopolis "Theo" Payne (8/24/2003 - Present) Halfblood, Ravenclaw. Mortician.
❤ Aveline Payne, née Dupont (2/9/2007 - Present) Halfblood. Thunderbird House, Ilvermorny. Funeral Home Director.

✿ Moira Payne (1/13/2035 - Present) *Seer* Halfblood, Slytherin. Fortune teller, part-time Mortician.
〤 Eion Delacroix Halfblood, Ravenclaw. Piercing Artist at AoN.

↪ Uriel Payne (10/4/2047 - Present) *Seer* Halfblood. To attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry.