Family History, Stemp Chart 0404 Leonard Stemp and Matilda (Cannon, Channon) Channan

1843 Bramley, Surrey (baptism of Leonard) as STAMP
1851 Thorncombe Street, Dunsfold, Surrey
1861 Smithbrook, Bramley, Surrey
1865 Godalming, Surrey (at marriage)
1871 5 Triangle, Clapham, Surrey. Lodging with John MAYES (28) Labourer born Cardington, Bedfordshire, his wife Emily Emily (24) born Bramley, Surrey and children Foster (?) (3) and Ruth (1) born Clapham, Surrey.
1871 Queensland, Australia
1903 Bethyel Farm, Moreton, Palmwoods, Queensland, Australia (Electoral Roll)
1905 Bethyel Farm, Moreton, Palmwoods, Queensland, Australia (Electoral Roll)
1908 Wide Bay, Nambour, Queensland, Australia (Electoral Roll)
1913 Palmwoods, Lilley, Nambour, Queensland Australia (Electoral Roll)
From a letter from Leonard STEMP written 5th September 1910 to a Mr. H STEMP. He lived in Bramley until he was about 12 when the family moved to Palmers Cross. Leonard, Matilda and 2 children went to Australia on the “Indus” in 1870
The letter was in the papers of Janet ALLEN which I saw before they were passed to the Society of Genealogists. It is copied below (punctuation and spelling as in the original which is beautifully written:
Palmwood,
Sept 5th 1910
L STEMP
to Mr H STEMP
Dear Sir
You will think me a long time before answering your welcome, & exceedingly, interesting letter. the truth is I was just returned from the Brisbane Exhibition. I was away a week visiting relatives at the same time, & so have had a good bit of correspondence since: and then your letter needed a good deal of consideration, an laying things together, and calling to mind old times.
I think the English Government must have set apart Cranley many years ago as a reserve for breeding Stemps, if so it certainly has been a success. Although I was not born there, I am not sure that my Father was. In his young days he was about Cranley and Alfold, then at Bramley, there I was born at a place called Thorncombe Street, when I was about 12 years old we came to Palmers Cross. worked at Tilsey. Father was there many years as Carter. I was born on December 21st 1842. As long ago as ever I can remember my Grandfather Robert Stemp & Grd Mother was then alive. they lived at Cranley up a Alley just about opposite the road leading the Knole just near the first Public House from the common. that would be about 1847 or 8. perhaps earlier. the only thing that fixed it on my memory was Grandmother put sugar on by bread and butter. She died shortly after, and the old man died about 1855 at Cranley he had been in the workhouse and came to visit his relations for a week at Cranley Club time and died. I think the beer had some part in the matter. You said you worked at Knole, for Esq Bradshaw. I also worked there, ot at Holhurst, as under carter with Harry Lee, or Leigh, about 1859 or 1860 but only 6 months. I think there was 4 at least grown up Stemps there, a father & 3 sons, & a cousin to the 3. My memory is not very good, but I think the names corrispond with your Uncle & 3 cousins, I think the fathers name was Henry he was foreman. William lived in the house with us two under carters, But he was cheif man among the Machinery & overseer of the yard stock. Henry had been carter some years before but was run over & nearly killed, but later on he and the cousen had charge of the 2 teams untill the sale took place. the 3 brothers were of fair complection. but the cousen was darker and very thick set. I forget his name, in fact I am not sure of the names of the others except William, one, James I think, was very light complextion, I think his nickname was Whitenn, none of them were regonized as relations, in fact I did not know anything about any Brothers or Sisters of my Grandfathers. I knew Tom L rummer, as he was called, with his big family. I also knew the old chap that drove Holdens team carting timber, about a year or so after I left Bradshaws I worked for a few weeks in Cranley serving bricklayers building a new house for the Curate. I think it was. So that about 8 or 9 months was all that I worked in or near Cranley. But the name was altered to Cranleigh after the railway was put through it. I do not think that Mrs Cairns father could have been my Uncle as they received letters from him for some time but the latest address was Ipswich. Morten Bay N.S,W. that must have been before the year 1859 before the separation of Queensland from N.S.W. Mrs Cairns father did not come to Australia until Aug 1867. (This information is from Mrs Cairns mother) And her father could not have been the William Stemp I lived with at Bradshaws as 15 years at Ceylon would go back to 1852 about the time you left Cranley. So there seams to be no hope as yet of finding any relationship between any of us, or at any rate I am left out of it, unless we could trace back a few generations beyond our time. No doubt there was one first Stemp from which we all sprung. But the name alone seems enough to create an interest in each others welfare, & the more so we being in distant lands where the name is uncommon. I am exceedingly pleased the correspondence has taken place, although extremly sorry of the sad event which orriginated it. A neighbour seing the sad affair in a Brisband daily paper sent it to me. but that paper gave no clue to where he belonged, it must be a sad shock to you all. It seems that your movements & mine, & some events of our life differs not so much in some respect, you was in London when I was, the river Thomas devided us I was at Clapham & Brixton about 5 1/2 years leaving for Qland in April 1871 in the sailing ship Indus, two of my children were born in England, them and 2 others are living, five others died in infancy. My wife died 18 1/2 years ago, about 2 years after we started our present home. A new selection of 160 acres, where we are Fruit growing, principly Bananas and Oranges, situated 60 miles from Brisbane about 12 or 14 miles from the coast, about 1000 ft above sea level a long line of sea view with a few breaks of intervening hills amost clear of frosts. On the eastern slopes of the Blackall range. 5 miles from railway station, the orange season is now drawing to a close, 2 or 3 large trucks are loaded at our station per day, often. A great part of them are shiped to Melbourne my youngest son is with me, 28 years of age, my eldest, a daughter is in her 43 year her husband is in charge of a part of a large sugar plantation near Bundalberg the next, s son has a farm along side of us, he is pretty well handicap with a fast rising family of 7 girls, the other son is living near Brisbane, the children that died all came between the second and the last son that is with me now, I had a good deal of trouble in them times, but thank God he has brought me through it all, and those He has taken from me are with Himself in the land of Joy. and by His Grace and Mercy most of the rest of us are on the way to meet them bye and bye. I don't know how you are situated, or whether at your age you dare venture so long a voyage or not, but if it were posible for you to take a trip up to our sunny Queensland I should consider it a very great honour to entertain you for a few weeks, if you could come about May or June, I think the change of climate would act very favourably on your rhumatism. I know it is a very unpleasant ailment having in the past had some rather bitter experiences of, including Siatica. but the last 20 years, and over, have had only slight attacks of it. the spinal treatment with Coutts Acetic Acid set me free for months sometimes for years from it. should you not know of it it is obtainable of nearly all Chemists, and many storekeepers, but be sure and get F Coutts & Sons Guaranteed Acetic Acid. directions with every bottle. Well, I think I must not weary you with more this time, but hope to hear a little more from you when it is convenient for you to write again, and what would be better still to see you and talk over the old times if it is possbielfe for you to come. If you can vome I will meet you in Brisbane or get my son to do so, & put you on train for Palmwood, & meet you there with the cart, so hoping this will find you still in good health, & the rheumatism not to rough on you, and the Blessing of God resting upon you.
Yours most truly
in the bond of friendship
if not relationship
L Stemp
Palmwood
N E Line
Queensland
Australia
PS by a clipping from a paper, enclosed, you will see that there evidently was a narrow escape from another disaster at some town on the same date, as your unfortunate grandson

1844 Bramley, Surrey (at baptism) Father Edward - Labourer, Mother Eliza
1851 Winkworth, Godalming, Surrey. Father Edward aged 30 a Framer Labourer born Bramley, Surrey, Mother Eliza aged 28 born Dunsfold, Surrey, then Matilda born Bramley, Surrey and younger siblings Emily 5 and Charlotte aged 2 both born Bramley, Surrey.
1861 Godalming, Surrey. Matilda is down as Granddaughter. She is with a Washy? COVEY aged 66 a Labourer born Dunsfold, Surrey and his wife Elizabeth aged 65 born Kirdford, Surrey and their son Henry aged 24 a Labourer born Bramley, Surrey
1865 Godalming, Surrey (at marriage) Father Edward CHANNON - Labourer
1871 5 Triangle, Clapham, Surrey. Lodging with John MAYES (28) Labourer born Cardington, Bedfordshire, his wife Emily (24) born Bramley, Surrey and children Foster (?) (3) and Ruth (1) born Clapham, Surrey.
Father - Edward CHANNAN. Mother - Eliza SMALLPIECE

1871 5 Triangle, Clapham, Surrey. Lodging with John MAYES (28) Labourer born Cardington, Bedfordshire, his wife Emily (24) born Bramley, Surrey and children Foster (?) (3) and Ruth (1) born Clapham, Surrey.
1903 Hill End, Bingera Plantation, Bingera, Wide Bay, Queensland, Australia (Australia Electoral Roll)
1905 Hill End, Bingera Plantation, Bingera, Wide Bay, Queensland, Australia (Australia Electoral Roll)
1908 Bingera, Musgrave, Catpricornia, Queensland, Australia (Australia Electoral Roll)
1913 Bingera, Musgrave, Wide Bay, Queensland, Australia (Australia Electoral Roll)
1916 Bingera, Musgrave, Wide Bay, Queensland, Australia (Australia Electoral Roll)
1919 Bingera, Musgrave, Wide Bay, Queensland, Australia (Australia Electoral Roll)
1925 South Kolan, Musgrave, Capricornia, Queensland, Australia (Australia Electoral Roll)
1926 South Kolan, Musgrave, Capricornia, Queensland, Australia (Australia Electoral Roll)
Detail for death and burial from findagrave web site

1871 5 Triangle, Clapham, Surrey. Lodging with John MAYES (28) Labourer born Cardington, Bedfordshire, his wife Emily Emily (24) born Bramley, Surrey and children Foster (?) (3) and Ruth (1) born Clapham, Surrey.
1903 Bethyel Farm, Moreton, Palmwoods, Queensland, Australia (Electoral Roll)
1905 Bethyel Farm, Moreton, Palmwoods, Queensland, Australia (Electoral Roll)
1908 Wide Bay, Nambour, Queensland, Australia (Electoral Roll)
1910 Information from a Letter from father L STEMP to H STEMP
",,,has a farm along side of us. He is pretty well candicap with a fast rising family of 7 girls"
1913 Palmwoods, Lilley, Nambour, Queensland Australia (Electoral Roll)
1919 Eight Miles Plains Nambour, Logan, Moreton, Queensland, Australia (Electoral Roll)
Queensland BMD Records

Queensland BMD Records

Queensland BMD Records
Information from a Letter from father L STEMP to H STEMP (1910)
"....living near Brisbane".

Queensland BMD Records

1903 Bethyel Farm, Moreton, Palmwoods, Queensland, Australia (Electoral Roll)
1905 Bethyel Farm, Moreton, Palmwoods, Queensland, Australia (Electoral Roll)
1908 Wide Bay, Nambour, Queensland, Australia (Electoral Roll)
1910 Information from letter from father L STEMP to H STEMP (1910) "...my youngest son is with me, 28 years of age".
Queensland BMD Records
1913 Palmwoods, Lilley, Nambour, Queensland Australia (Electoral Roll)
1935 Palmwoods, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (address age marriage) Father Leonard STEMP, mother Matilda CONNAH
1937 Palmwoods, Landsborough, Wide Bay, Queensland Australia (Australia Electoral Roll)
1943 Palmwoods, Landsborough, Wide Bay, Queensland Australia (Australia Electoral Roll)
1949 Palmwoods, Landsborough, Fisher, Queensland Australia (Australia Electoral Roll)
1954 Palmwoods, Landsborough, Fisher, Queensland, Australia (Australia Electoral Roll)
On 21st November 2010 I had an email from a Carolyn FRIEND née STEMP who is the Great Granddaughter of Joseph, she thinks that Joseph and Delia only had one child Eric but Eric had five children.
Messages from Carolyn FRIEND née STEMP
My youngest daughter Chloe asked me to do up our ancestry, and I found your website. I noticed there was no family connected to Joseph Stemp born in 1882, son of Leonard Stemp. I believe I am his great grand-daughter.
My Dad's name was Eric Stemp, and his Dad's name was Joseph Stemp from Palmwoods.
I believe my Dad was an only child, but he had five of us:- Paul Steven born Feb 1960, Carolyn Patricia (me) born March 1962; Lynette Catherine ; Lorraine Monica; and Michael Anthony.
Will have to double check the years my other siblings were born.
Kind Regards
Carolyn Friend (nee Stemp)
and
You have noted that I contacted you in 2010 and I am the great grand-daughter of Joseph Stemp in this chart.
Joseph is actually my Grandfather. His son was Eric. I am Eric's daughter, one of 5 children. I am the second eldest.
I do remember writing to you as my youngest daughter was interested in her family history. I have two girls.
I believe my brother Steve Stemp has also been in touch with you. He is the eldest.
Kind Regards
Carolyn Friend (nee Stemp)

I have only covered some of the Electoral Roll returns from this family but I have tried to pick a selection.

This is a Chart for Leonard Stemp and Matilda (Cannon, Channon) Channan