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LEETE, Robert
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Name LEETE, Robert Birth 1829 Guilden Morden, Cambridgeshire, England
Gender Male Death 1909 Iowa, USA
Burial Volga, Clayton County, Iowa, USA
Person ID I3094 Edgoose Last Modified 6 Feb 2026
Father LEETE, Tempest, b. 1794, Wendy-Cum-Shingay, Cambridgeshire, England
d. 5 Nov 1861, Wendy, Cambridgeshire, England
(Age 67 years) Mother DICKASON, Hannah, b. 1792, Abington Pigotts, Cambridgeshire, England
d. Oct 1846 (Age 54 years) Marriage Between 1814 and 1816 Family ID F1049 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family CHARTER, Emma, b. Between 1827 and 1828, Steeple Morden, Cambridgeshire, England
d. Yes, date unknown Marriage 1850 Royston, Hertfordshire, England
Family ID F1539 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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Notes
ROBERT LEETE 1827 or 1828-1909
He was baptised at Guilden Morden, Cambridgeshire, on 6 July 1829, but as he was 23 at the time of the 1851 census he was born in 1827 or 1828.
The marriage between Robert LEETE and Emma CHARTER was registered in 1850.
(GRO September 1850 Royston 6 1883)
According to the 1851 census of Church End, Guilden Morden, he was a 23 year old rat catcher born at Guilden Morden. His wife Emma was also 23 years old and worked as a straw platter. She was born at Steeple Morden (HO107/1707/568A).
According to Judy Bender Moyna (jmoyna@alpinecom.net) on Worldconnect.rootsweb.com he and his wife emigrated to the USA in 1853. He died in 1909 and was buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, Volga, Clayton County, Iowa.
He and his wife are rumoured to have had several children.
(revised 27.03.2017)

