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From: Margaret Wilkinson <>
Subject: Re: [STEER] STEER from Bovey Tracey to Essex
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:59:09 +0100
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'' Hepsibah STEER a governess aged 24 and born in Rohey Tragey?, Devon. That could be LDS for Bovey Tracey''

LDS transcriptions are sometimes way out, but the truth is sometimes only obvious if you know what it is you are looking for.

I looked up this 1881 census and it reads nothing at all like Bovey Tracey. My interpretation would be the same as the LDS one, Rohey Tragey or possibly Tracey.
Someone with knowledge of Devon may have realised what it was supposed to read, but it certainly does not read as such, and LDS should not be blamed in this instance. The enumerator was perhaps making the best he could of an unfamiliar place name, as Hepsibah was living in Tower Hamlets at the time.

At least they have put a query next to it, and if you were looking for Hepsibah, you would not discard it because of the place of birth.

Now my STEER family being transcribed as SLIERS in 1881, that is another matter entirely, it is clearly either STEERE or STEERS!! There again, I know it should be STEER, and can easily read it as STEERE or STEERS.
It could just about read SLIERS and may be if I didn't know the family, that might have been my interpretation as well.

Hindsight or prior knowledge is a wonderful thing.

Margaret


>
> From: [mailto:] On
> Behalf Of Jack Steer
> Sent: 16 April 2008 12:03
> To:
> Subject: [STEER] STEER from Bovey Tracey to Essex
>
>
> I noticed Joseph Daniel STEER son of Joseph Theophilus STEER (deceased)
> and Martha Sophia STEER of 13 Crescent Rd, Plaistow, Essex on the
> Commonwealth War Graves Commission. My eyes lit up, as Theophilus is not
> a common forename and was introduced into the South Milton herd (my
> family) by marriage to a LEAMON. I think that I was wrong.
>
> As far as I can tell this family originated in Tendring district, that
> part of Essex, which includes Ardleigh, Clacton, Harwich, Manningtree,
> St Osyth and Thorpe.
>
> It seems likely that two STEER brothers Joseph Theophilus (birth
> registered Tendring Q4 1863) and Josiah John (birth registered Tendring
> Q3 1865) were married to two sisters in Q3 1895 in Whitechapel, London.
> The sisters were Martha Sophia and Maria GOULD.
>
> Joseph Theophilus (death registered West Ham Q1 1914) and Martha Sophia
> had at least one child Joseph Daniel STEER (birth registered West Ham Q2
> 1897), who enlisted in the Machine Gun Corps (infantry) 123rd Company
> and was killed on 17.9.1916 aged 19. His name appears on the Thiepval
> Memorial, Somme, France Pier and Face 5 C and 12 C, so presumably his
> body was never recovered.
>
> A quick look at the 1881 census has made me wonder quite where this
> family originated or may be it is just chance, because in 1881 Joseph
> Theophilus was an engineer's pattern maker (at works) aged 17 and born
> Harwich, Essex was lodging with one Hepsibah STEER a governess aged 24
> and born in Rohey Tragey?, Devon. That could be LDS for Bovey Tracey.
>
> Is there anyone researching the STEER family in Essex? And what happened
> to Hepsibah?
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Jack Steer
> Banbury
>
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