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From: "Mike Steer" <>
Subject: Re: [STEER] STEER from Bovey Tracey to Essex
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:48:12 +1000
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Thanks Jack: They've certainly proved to be a difficult branch of the family
to follow since they moved about quite a lot, Mike.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Steer" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: [STEER] STEER from Bovey Tracey to Essex


>
> Mike,
>
> You may remember the debate with Dave Turton about whether the daughter
> born
> at Start Point was Amy or Annie as she appears in the 1881 census in
> Anglesey as Anny E S.
>
> There are only two Ann or Amy STEER births recorded in Kingsbridge during
> 1872 and 1872
>
> Q2 1872 Amy Elizabeth S STEER GRO 5b 206
>
> Q4 1872 Ann STEER GRO 5b 222
>
> As Amy appears as Anny E S, it's a fair bet that she was Amy Elizabeth S
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Jack Steer
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Steer" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [STEER] STEER from Bovey Tracey to Essex
>
>
>> Jack: Unusual though the names are, I have both Theophilus (b. 1864) and
>> Hepsibah (b. 1856) in my Bovey Tracey tree as children of Joseph (b.
>> 1831)
>> and Susannah STEER, the Trinity House Lightkeeping family in Guernsey and
>> later at Start Point then the Menai Light off North Wales. I'd certainly
>> agree that Rohey Tragey looks like LDS for Bovey Tracey. I had a similar
>> problem with my grandfather, hiding in Middlesex under Povey Racy in the
>> 1881 census. The Essex group might well be related to us in some way, but
>> I
>> don't know how, Mike.
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jack Steer" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 9:02 PM
>> 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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