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LEETE, Tempest
1856 - Abt 1930 (73 years) Has 4 ancestors and 10 descendants in this family tree.
1828 - 1885 (57 years)-
Name LEETE, Tempest Birth 2 Jul 1856 Hitchin, Hertfordshire, Englansd 
Gender Male Death Abt 1930 Person ID I3098 Edgoose Last Modified 2 Feb 2026
Father LEETE, Tempest, b. 1794, Wendy-Cum-Shingay, Cambridgeshire, England d. 5 Nov 1861, Wendy, Cambridgeshire, England (Age 67 years) Mother CHAMBERLAIN, Bithiah, b. 1828, Guilden Morden, Cambridgeshire, England d. 22 Mar 1885, Leicester, Leicestershire (Age 57 years) Marriage 22 Oct 1855 St. Pancras, London, England Family ID F251 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family PRETTY, Naomi Elizabeth, b. 1857, Leicester, Leicestershire d. 1940, Leicester Registration District, Leicestershire (Age 83 years) Marriage 1877 Leicester Registration District, Leicestershire Children 1. LEETE, Frank Tempest, b. 1878, Leicester, Leicestershire d. Feb 1878, Leicester, Leicestershire (Age 0 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]2. LEETE, Florence Beatrice Naomi, b. 1879, Leicester, Leicestershire d. Oct 1880, Leicester, Leicestershire (Age 1 year) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]3. LEETE, Francis Leonard, b. 1881, Leicester, Leicestershire d. 1945, Leicester Registration District, Leicestershire (Age 64 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]4. LEETE, Harry Shirley, b. 1882, Leicester, Leicestershire d. 1959, Leicestershire Central Registration District, Leicestershire (Age 77 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]5. LEETE, George Clement, b. 1884, Leicester, Leicestershire d. 1885, Leicester Registration District, Leicestershire (Age 1 year) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F1542 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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Notes
TEMPEST LEETE 1856-circa1930
According to Michael LEETE of the Emerald Genealogy Group in Australia he was born on 2 July 1856.
The birth of a Tempest LEETE was registered in 1856.
(GRO September 1856 Hitchin 3a 211)
From the 1861 census of Bedford Road, Hitchin, Hertfordshire:
Tempest LEETE, head, aged 66, retired farmer, born at Shingay, Cambridgeshire;
Bithiah LEETE, wife, aged 33, born at Guilden Morden, Cambridgeshire;
Frances LEETE, daughter, aged 11, scholar, born at Guilden Morden;
Reuben LEETE, son, aged 7, scholar, born at Guilden Morden;
*Tempest LEETE, son, aged 4, scholar, born at Hitchin.
(RG9/819/70/26)
In 1871 he was living at 21Chestnut Street, Leicester:
Arthur EDGOOSE, head, aged 57, messenger in yarn warehouse, born at Gosberton, Lincolnshire;
Bithiah EDGOOSE, wife, aged 44, born at Mordan (sic), Cambridgeshire;
Reuben LEETE, son, aged 18, elastic band hand, born at Mordan (sic);
*Tempest LEETE, son, aged 14, clicker, born at Hitchin, Hertfordshire.
(RG10/3283/24/19)
He married Naomi Elizabeth PRETTY in 1877.
(GRO December Q 1877 Leicester 7a 511)
The 1881 census of 209 Gooch Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire:
Zarah CARTWRIGHT, head, aged 35, designer, born at Loughborough, Leicestershire;
Mary J. CARTWRIGHT, wife, aged 34, born at Hull, Yorkshire;
*Thompson (crossed out) Tempest LUKE (sic), friend, aged 24, married, shoe clicker, born at Hitchin, Hertfordshire.
(RG11/2984/36/10)
Note: Tempest LETTE in www.ancestry.co.uk's index.
The birth of a Harry Shirley LEETE was registered in 1882, supposedly Tempest LEETE's third son.
(GRO September Q 1882 Leicester 7a 267)
"ALLEGED ROBBERY OF SKINS
At the Town Hall on Tuesday, before Ald. BARFOOT, J.P. CLARKE and T. M. EVANS, Esqrs., Tempest LEETE, Henry William BIGGS, and William STENSON were jointly charged with breaking into the warehouse of James Shimeld and Co., Church-gate, between 4.30 p.m. on Saturday, the 19th, and nine a.m. on Monday, the 21st inst., and stealing therefrom about three and a half dozen of kid skins, value £35, and also receiving the same, knowing them to have been stolen.
..........The prisoner LEETE had been in his employ as a click about six months, and left him, three weeks ago.......
..........On the application of the Chief Constable, prisoners were remanded for a week. On being asked whether they had anything to say why they should not be remanded, LEETE said, "I'm guilty," and Biggs said, "I'm guilty of helping LEETE get the stuff away."
(Leicester Chronicle, 26 August 1882)
On 5 September 1882 Tempest LEETE and Henry William BIGGS were committed for trial at the Quarter Sessions.
(Leicester Chronicle, 9 September 1882)
At the Michaelmas Sessions at Leicester on 18 October 1882 Tempest LEETE was charged with breaking and entering a warehouse and larceny therein, was found guilty, and sentenced to 6 months in prison.
(Criminal Register)
According to Michael Leete of the Emerald Genealogical Group in Australia Tempest LEETE is thought to have deserted his wife and children sometime after the birth of his third son in 1882. He is thought to have gone to London and lived under a false name. About the year 1930, Naomi was discovered by one of the sons, holding a letter and crying. Apparently the letter said that Tempest had died.
NOTES & QUERIES:
1) What happened to Tempest LEETE? When and where did he die?
2) Whose child was George Clement LEETE?
3) No further trace of the CARTWRIGHTs has been found.
4) Information on the children of Tempest LEETE's second marriage came from Tom Leete (e-mail: tleete@ucsd.ed).
A search of the index of deaths in England & Wales for all deaths with Tempest amongst the forenames during the years 1930 +/- 2 produced eleven possibilities. Two were ruled out because they were women, eight were too young, which left just Tempest W. BEST who died in June Q 1929 Halifax 9a 569 aged 74.
A further search for all those aged 74 who died in 1928-1930 has not yet been carried out.
(revised 19.10.2015)