Australian Royalty

Stafford Lett, 1779–1817 (aged 38 years)

Name
Stafford /Lett/
Given names
Stafford
Surname
Lett
Birth
between 1779 and 1781
Source: Calculated from age at death
Text:

Abt 1779

Source: Calculated from age at conviction
Text:

Abt 1781
Immigration
July 26, 1798 (aged 19 years)
Sydney Cove, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Source: State Library of Queensland. Convict Transportation Registers Database 1787-1867 [database on-line].
Citation details: Source: Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 247 (124)
Text:

Stafford Lett, one of 298 convicts transported on the ship Hilsborough [the ship Hillsborough], October 1798.
Sentence details: Convicted at London Gaol Delivery for a term of 7 years on 12 July 1797 .
Vessel: Hilsborough [Hillsborough].
Date of Departure: October 1798.
Place of Arrival: New South Wales.

Source: Bateson, Charles. The convict ships 1787-1868. 2nd ed. Glasgow : Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd., 1985 ie 1969
Text:

Arrived in the colony 26 Jul 1798

Source: University of Sheffield. Humanities Research Institute. The Proceedings of the Old Bailey: London's Central Criminal Court, 1674 to 1913. [database on-line]. Sheffield: the Institute, 2003-2008
Text:

STAFFORD LETT was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 16th of June, a great coat, value 20s. the property of John Goldham .
JOHN GOLDHAM sworn. - The prisoner, with seven or eight others, came into my shop, I keep wine-vaults , No. 7, Fore-street : About nine o'clock in the evening, on Friday the 16th of June, they asked for some liquor; while I was serving them, one of them went into my accompting-house, and took my great coat off the hook, which I do not know, the prisoner was the only man that went out of the shop; when he went out, I suspected my coat was gone, and I went to look, and it was gone, all the rest remained in; I followed him out, and he began to set off directly, I pursued him, and he threw the great coat down, I called out, stop thief, and he was taken; I lost sight of him after he threw down the great coat; he was taken, I suppose, two hundred yards from where the coat was thrown away, down another street.
JOHN SHRUBSHAW sworn. - I am a book-binder; I heard the cry of stop thief; I went out and stopped him, and took him back to Mr. Goldham,(produces the coat); I received this from Mr. Goldham, when I took the prisoner to his house.
Goldham. This is my great coat that the prisoner threw away.
Prisoner's defence. I had just left work, and stopped to have a glass of anniseed; I had pulled off my trowsers with my money in them; I said, I could not have the anniseed then, I would go back and get the money out of my trowsers, and when I came back again, I heard a cry of stop thief, and they laid hold of me; I never saw the coat.
Jury. Q. How many people were there when you stopped him? - A. There might be sixty or seventy.
The prisoner called three witnesses, who gave him a good character.
GUILTY (Aged 16.)
Transported for seven years .
Tried by the London Jury, before Mr. COMMON SERJEANT.
Fall from building
June 1804 (aged 25 years)
Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Source: National Library of Australia. Trove: one search...a wealth of information. [database on-line].
Citation details: The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Sun 1 Jul 1804 Page 3
Text:

"On Wednesday last, Stafford Lett, a carpenter, fell from the roof of a building, and was severely bruised."
Sentenced
June 1804 (aged 25 years)
Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Source: National Library of Australia. Trove: one search...a wealth of information. [database on-line].
Citation details: The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Sun 1 Jul 1804 Page 3
Text:

"EXAMINATIONS
BEFORE THE MAGISTRATES.
Stafford Lett, for purloining shingles that belonged to Government was sentenced to the gaol gang till further orders; as were also..."
Marriage
Sophia Brundell — View this family
1807 (aged 28 years)
Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Source: New South Wales. Department of Justice and Attorney General. NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages. [data-base on-line]. Sydney: the Registry.
Text:

V1807748 3A/1807 LETT STAFFORD BRUNDELL SOPHIA CA (Sydney, St Philips Church of England)
Death
November 24, 1817 (aged 38 years)
Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Source: National Library of Australia. Trove: one search...a wealth of information. [database on-line].
Citation details: Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter Jan 24 1818
Text:

On Monday November 24th, at his house in Cambridge Street, after an illness of seven months, which he bore with religious fortitude, Mr Stafford Lett; he had been upwards of 17 years an inhabitant of the Colony, and had gained the esteem of all who had been acquainted with him; he has left a wife and three small children to lament his death.

Source: New South Wales. Department of Justice and Attorney General. NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages. [data-base on-line]. Sydney: the Registry.
Text:

V18173867 2B/1817 LETT STAFFORD AGE 38
V1817658 7/1817 LETT STAFFORD AGE 38
Burial
Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Source: City of Sydney. Old Sydney Burial Ground: inventory of burials. [XLS file]: n.d.
Text:

Burial LETT STAFFORD AGE 38 1817 Nov 25 RST: Free. RM
Family with Sophia Brundell
himself
Birth: between 1779 and 1781
Immigration: July 26, 1798 — Sydney Cove, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Fall from building: June 1804 — Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Sentenced: June 1804 — Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Marriage: 1807 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: November 24, 1817 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Burial: Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Sophia Brundell Martha Lett Elizabeth Lett William Lett Stafford John Lett Sophia Rebecca Lett
Stafford Lett
1779–1817
Birth: between 1779 and 1781
Death: November 24, 1817 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
wife
Birth: about 1783
Immigration: June 24, 1804 — Sydney Cove, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Marriage: 1807 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Marriage: May 11, 1818 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Event: Separated from husband — March 1823 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Census: 1825 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: 1827 — New South Wales, Australia
Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Stafford Lett Martha Lett Elizabeth Lett William Lett Stafford John Lett Sophia Rebecca Lett Family with spouse George Cribb
Sophia Brundell
1783–1827
Birth: about 1783
Death: 1827 — New South Wales, Australia
Marriage — 1807 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
-11 months
daughter
Birth: 1805 26 22 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Marriage: 1821 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: July 26, 1884
Burial: Bungendore, Southern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia
Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Richard Guise George Guise Esther Guise William Guise
Martha Lett
1805–1884
Birth: 1805 26 22 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: July 26, 1884
3 years
daughter
Birth: May 1, 1808 29 25 — New South Wales, Australia
Baptism: June 10, 1810 31 27 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death:
Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships
Elizabeth Lett
1808–
Birth: May 1, 1808 29 25 — New South Wales, Australia
Death:
7 years
son
Birth: 1814 35 31 — New South Wales, Australia
Death: 1892 — Sale, Victoria, Australia
Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships
William Lett
1814–1892
Birth: 1814 35 31 — New South Wales, Australia
Death: 1892 — Sale, Victoria, Australia
5 years
son
Birth: 1818 39 35 — New South Wales, Australia
Death: 1905 — Granville, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships
Stafford John Lett
1818–1905
Birth: 1818 39 35 — New South Wales, Australia
Death: 1905 — Granville, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1 year
daughter
Birth: 1818 39 35 — New South Wales, Australia
Census: November 1828 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Religious marriage: 1832 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Marriage: 1842 — New South Wales, Australia
Death: 1914 — Campbelltown, South Coast and Illawarra, New South Wales, Australia
Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse James Martin Mary A. Martin Margaret Martin Charles James Martin Sophia Jane Martin Family with spouse Samuel Whittaker John S. Whittaker William Whittaker Martha Elizabeth Whittaker Francis Whittaker George L. Whittaker Robert Whittaker
Sophia Rebecca Lett
1818–1914
Birth: 1818 39 35 — New South Wales, Australia
Death: 1914 — Campbelltown, South Coast and Illawarra, New South Wales, Australia
George Cribb + Sophia Brundell
wife’s husband
Birth: about 1784
Immigration: December 20, 1808 — Sydney Cove, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Marriage: 1811 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Marriage: May 11, 1818 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Conviction: between 1837 and 1839 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death:
Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Sophia Brundell Family with spouse Fanny Bennett
George Cribb
1784–
Birth: about 1784
Death:
wife
Birth: about 1783
Immigration: June 24, 1804 — Sydney Cove, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Marriage: 1807 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Marriage: May 11, 1818 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Event: Separated from husband — March 1823 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Census: 1825 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: 1827 — New South Wales, Australia
Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Stafford Lett Martha Lett Elizabeth Lett William Lett Stafford John Lett Sophia Rebecca Lett Family with spouse George Cribb
Sophia Brundell
1783–1827
Birth: about 1783
Death: 1827 — New South Wales, Australia
Marriage — May 11, 1818 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Birth
Source: Calculated from age at death
Text:

Abt 1779

Source: Calculated from age at conviction
Text:

Abt 1781
Immigration
Source: State Library of Queensland. Convict Transportation Registers Database 1787-1867 [database on-line].
Citation details: Source: Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 247 (124)
Text:

Stafford Lett, one of 298 convicts transported on the ship Hilsborough [the ship Hillsborough], October 1798.
Sentence details: Convicted at London Gaol Delivery for a term of 7 years on 12 July 1797 .
Vessel: Hilsborough [Hillsborough].
Date of Departure: October 1798.
Place of Arrival: New South Wales.

Source: Bateson, Charles. The convict ships 1787-1868. 2nd ed. Glasgow : Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd., 1985 ie 1969
Text:

Arrived in the colony 26 Jul 1798

Source: University of Sheffield. Humanities Research Institute. The Proceedings of the Old Bailey: London's Central Criminal Court, 1674 to 1913. [database on-line]. Sheffield: the Institute, 2003-2008
Text:

STAFFORD LETT was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 16th of June, a great coat, value 20s. the property of John Goldham .
JOHN GOLDHAM sworn. - The prisoner, with seven or eight others, came into my shop, I keep wine-vaults , No. 7, Fore-street : About nine o'clock in the evening, on Friday the 16th of June, they asked for some liquor; while I was serving them, one of them went into my accompting-house, and took my great coat off the hook, which I do not know, the prisoner was the only man that went out of the shop; when he went out, I suspected my coat was gone, and I went to look, and it was gone, all the rest remained in; I followed him out, and he began to set off directly, I pursued him, and he threw the great coat down, I called out, stop thief, and he was taken; I lost sight of him after he threw down the great coat; he was taken, I suppose, two hundred yards from where the coat was thrown away, down another street.
JOHN SHRUBSHAW sworn. - I am a book-binder; I heard the cry of stop thief; I went out and stopped him, and took him back to Mr. Goldham,(produces the coat); I received this from Mr. Goldham, when I took the prisoner to his house.
Goldham. This is my great coat that the prisoner threw away.
Prisoner's defence. I had just left work, and stopped to have a glass of anniseed; I had pulled off my trowsers with my money in them; I said, I could not have the anniseed then, I would go back and get the money out of my trowsers, and when I came back again, I heard a cry of stop thief, and they laid hold of me; I never saw the coat.
Jury. Q. How many people were there when you stopped him? - A. There might be sixty or seventy.
The prisoner called three witnesses, who gave him a good character.
GUILTY (Aged 16.)
Transported for seven years .
Tried by the London Jury, before Mr. COMMON SERJEANT.
Fall from building
Source: National Library of Australia. Trove: one search...a wealth of information. [database on-line].
Citation details: The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Sun 1 Jul 1804 Page 3
Text:

"On Wednesday last, Stafford Lett, a carpenter, fell from the roof of a building, and was severely bruised."
Sentenced
Source: National Library of Australia. Trove: one search...a wealth of information. [database on-line].
Citation details: The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Sun 1 Jul 1804 Page 3
Text:

"EXAMINATIONS
BEFORE THE MAGISTRATES.
Stafford Lett, for purloining shingles that belonged to Government was sentenced to the gaol gang till further orders; as were also..."
Marriage
Source: New South Wales. Department of Justice and Attorney General. NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages. [data-base on-line]. Sydney: the Registry.
Text:

V1807748 3A/1807 LETT STAFFORD BRUNDELL SOPHIA CA (Sydney, St Philips Church of England)
Death
Source: National Library of Australia. Trove: one search...a wealth of information. [database on-line].
Citation details: Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter Jan 24 1818
Text:

On Monday November 24th, at his house in Cambridge Street, after an illness of seven months, which he bore with religious fortitude, Mr Stafford Lett; he had been upwards of 17 years an inhabitant of the Colony, and had gained the esteem of all who had been acquainted with him; he has left a wife and three small children to lament his death.

Source: New South Wales. Department of Justice and Attorney General. NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages. [data-base on-line]. Sydney: the Registry.
Text:

V18173867 2B/1817 LETT STAFFORD AGE 38
V1817658 7/1817 LETT STAFFORD AGE 38
Burial
Source: City of Sydney. Old Sydney Burial Ground: inventory of burials. [XLS file]: n.d.
Text:

Burial LETT STAFFORD AGE 38 1817 Nov 25 RST: Free. RM