Family History, Stemp Chart 0518 James Stemp and Mary Woodger

1813 Alford, Surrey (baptism of James)
1838 Bramley, Surrey (at marriage)
1841 Thorncombe Street, Bramley, Surrey (James = Age 25). Living, together with wife, with a George WOODYER (45) Ag Lab born Surrey
1843 Bramley, Surrey (baptism of Leonard) as STAMP
1846 Dunsfold, Surrey (baptism of James)
1849 Bramley, Surrey (baptism of Eliza)
1851 Thorncombe Street, Dunsfold, Surrey (James = Age 37)
1852 Dunsfold, Surrey (baptism of Elijah)
1855 Bramley, Surrey (baptism of Mary)
1861 Smithbrook, Bramley, Surrey (James = Age 48)
1871 Tilsey Lodge, Bramley, Hambledon, Surrey (James = Age 57)
1881 Rooks Hill, Graffham, Bramley, Surrey as a widower (James = Age 68)
1891 Birtley Green, Bramley, Hambledon, Surrey as a widower (James = Age 78). Lodging with Elizabeth FAULKNER (60) widow born Bramley, Surrey
According to his son, Leonard, James lived in Cranley, Alfold and then Bramley. When Leonard was about 12 they moved to Palmers Cross.

1838 Bramley, Surrey (at marriage)
1841 Thorncombe Street, Bramley, Surrey (Mary = Age 20). Living, together with husband, with a George WOODYER (45) Ag Lab born Surrey
1843 Bramley, Surrey (baptism of Leonard) as STAMP
1846 Dunsfold, Surrey (baptism of James)
1849 Bramley, Surrey (baptism of Eliza)
1851 Thorncombe Street, Dunsfold, Surrey
1852 Dunsfold, Surrey (baptism of Elijah)
1855 Bramley, Surrey (baptism of Mary)
1861 Smithbrook, Bramley, Surrey
1871 Tilsey Lodge, Bramley, Surrey
Father - George WOODGER

1843 Bramley, Surrey (baptism of Leonard) as STAMP
1851 Thorncombe Street, Dunsfold, Surrey
1861 Smithbrook, Bramley, Surrey
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 (puncutation 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

1846 Dunsfold, Surrey (baptism of James)
1851 Thorncombe Street, Dunsfold, Surrey
1861 Chatsted House, Oaks Brook, Bramley, Hambledon, Surrey. Servant of James CHILD (55) Farmer 80 Acres Employing 26 labourers and 6 boys, born Ash Surrey and his wife Harriot (45) born Alford, Surrey. Another Ag Servant was George HOAR (18) born Wonersh, Surrey
1871 Tilsey Lodge, Bramley, Surrey
1881 Rooks Hill, Graffham, Surrey
1891 Upper Church Road, Godalming, Surrey. James was a Lodger with a George BREWER aged 38 a Labourer in Coal Trade born Aldershot, Hampshire and his wife Sarah aged 38 born Elstead, Surrey and Children George aged 14 a Labourer in Paper Mill born Walton, Surrey and Lucy aged 9 a Scholar born Sutton, Surrey. There was another Lodger a John BOXALL aged 55 a Labourer on Road, born Hambledon, Surrey
1900 Union Workhouse, Guildford, Surrey (at burial) this is only a possible for James

1849 Bramley, Surrey (baptism of Eliza)
1851 Thorncombe Street, Dunsfold, Surrey
1861 Smithbrook, Bramley, Surrey
1881 Selhurst Common, Bramley, Surrey, Housekeeper of widower Daniel EDWARDS (38) General Deale, his daughter Susan (15) both born Bramley and his mother widow Hannah EDWARDS (78) born Plaistow, Sussex
1891 Selhurst Common, Bramley, Surrey, age 42, unmarried Housekeeper of widower Daniel EDWARDS (50) Wood Dealer and his daughter Susan (25) both born Bramley, Surrey
1901 Goose Green, Bramley, Surrey. Housekeeper of widower Daniel EDWARDS (60) Car man & C and his daughter Susan (35) Single both born Bramley, Surrey
1911 Gust Hill Dairy, Shamley Green, Surrey. Eliza was head, with her was her Sister Mary and three boarders, William LODGE aged 59 a Farm Labourer born Bramley, Surrey, Margaret HEATHER aged 56 a Doestic(Dairy) born Bramley, Surrey and Emily Ellen SANDFORD a Mairy Maid born Wisboro Green, Sussex
1919 Lord's Hill, Wonersh, Surrey (Surrey Electoral Roll) At this address Mary STEMP and Eliza STEMP
1920 Lord's Hill, Wonersh, Surrey (Surrey Electoral Roll) At this address Mary STEMP and Eliza STEMP
1930 Lord's Hill Stores, Wonersh, Surrey (Surrey Electoral Roll) At this address Mary STEMP (Mary is just down as Lord's Hill) and Eliza STEMP
1931 Lord's Hill Stores, Wonersh, Surrey (Surrey Electoral Roll) At this address Mary STEMP (Mary is just down as Lord's Hill) and Eliza STEMP
1932 Lord's Hill Stores, Wonersh, Surrey (Surrey Electoral Roll) At this address Mary STEMP (Mary is just down as Lord's Hill) and Eliza STEMP
1933 Lord's Hill Stores, Wonersh, Surrey (Surrey Electoral Roll) At this address Mary STEMP (Mary is just down as Lord's Hill) and Eliza STEMP
1934 Lord's Hill Stores, Wonersh, Surrey (Surrey Electoral Roll) At this address Mary STEMP (Mary is down as Lord's Hill Cottages) and Eliza STEMP
1936 Lord's Hill Cottages, Wonersh, Surrey (Surrey Electoral Roll) At this address Mary STEMP and Eliza STEMP
1937 Lord's Hill Cottages, Wonersh, Surrey (Surrey Electoral Roll) At this address Mary STEMP and Eliza STEMP
1938 Lord's Hill Cottages, Wonersh, Surrey (Surrey Electoral Roll) At this address Mary STEMP and Eliza STEMP

1852 Dunsfold, Surrey (baptism of Elijah)
1861 Smithbrook, Bramley, Surrey
1871 Tilsey Lodge, Bramley, Surrey
1881 Rooks Hill, Graffham, Surrey
1881 Grafham, Surrey (marriage)
1884 Scotchland, Bramley, Surrey (birth of Elijah?)
1891 Smithbrook, Bramley, Surrey

1855 Bramley, Surrey (baptism of Mary)
1861 Smithbrook, Bramley, Surrey
1871 Tilsey, Palmers Croft, Wonersh, Surrey. Mary was a Servant to a George SHERYER aged 44 a Farmer born Cobham, Surrey and his wife Mary Ann aged 37 born Alfold, Surrey and children Emily aged 6 born Wonersh, Surrey and Kate aged 1 year born Wonersh, Surrey. There was a Visitor a Charles SMITHERS aged 57 a Retired Farmer born Guildford, Surrey a Nurse an Annie HOPCROFT aged 30 born Fritwell?, Oxfordshire, then Mary followed by two more Servants an Ann EDWARDS aged 17 a Domestic Servant born Godalming, Surrey and an Eli DUNSTER? aged 19 a Farm Labourer indoor born Bramley, Surrey
1881 Rooks Hill, Graffham, Surrey
1891 Farncombe Street, Godalming, Surrey. Housekeeper to Charles DURRANT (61) widower born Kirdford, Sussex. Eleanor FRANKS (16) born Wimbledon, Surrey was also a servant.
1901 Lordshill, Wonersh, Surrey. Boarding with Jas SHURLOCK, (67) Ordinary Agricultural labourer born Albury, Surrey
1911 Grist Hill Dairy Shamley Green Surrey, Wonersh, Surrey, Living with here sister Eliza, Head of Household and Manageress Boarders were William LODGE (59) Farm Labourer and Margaret HEATHER (56) all born Bramley, Surrey and Emily Ellen LUXFORD (20) Dairy Maid born Wisboro Green, Sussex
1919 Lord's Hill, Wonersh, Surrey (Surrey Electoral Roll) At this address Mary STEMP and Eliza STEMP
1920 Lord's Hill, Wonersh, Surrey (Surrey Electoral Roll) At this address Mary STEMP and Eliza STEMP
1930 Lord's Hill Stores, Wonersh, Surrey (Surrey Electoral Roll) At this address Mary STEMP (Mary is just down as Lord's Hill) and Eliza STEMP
1931 Lord's Hill Stores, Wonersh, Surrey (Surrey Electoral Roll) At this address Mary STEMP (Mary is just down as Lord's Hill) and Eliza STEMP
1932 Lord's Hill Stores, Wonersh, Surrey (Surrey Electoral Roll) At this address Mary STEMP (Mary is just down as Lord's Hill) and Eliza STEMP
1933 Lord's Hill Stores, Wonersh, Surrey (Surrey Electoral Roll) At this address Mary STEMP (Mary is just down as Lord's Hill) and Eliza STEMP
1934 Lord's Hill Stores, Wonersh, Surrey (Surrey Electoral Roll) At this address Mary STEMP (Mary is down as Lord's Hill Cottages) and Eliza STEMP
1936 Lord's Hill Cottages, Wonersh, Surrey (Surrey Electoral Roll) At this address Mary STEMP and Eliza STEMP
1937 Lord's Hill Cottages, Wonersh, Surrey (Surrey Electoral Roll) At this address Mary STEMP and Eliza STEMP
1938 Lord's Hill Cottages, Wonersh, Surrey (Surrey Electoral Roll) At this address Mary STEMP and Eliza STEMP
Cannot find Mary on 1939 or 1945 Surrey Electoral Roll, her sister Eliza had died in 1939

This is a Chart for James Stemp and Mary Woodger