Lee Steere

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Lee Steere (sometimes hyphenated as Lee-Steere), is the surname of several prominent Western Australians:

• James George Lee Steere (1830–1903)
• Ernest Augustus Lee Steere (1866–1957), nephew of James George
• Bridget Yelverton Lee Steere (1884-1979), wife of Ernest Augustus
• Ernest Henry Lee-Steere (1912–2011), son of Ernest Augustus and Bridget Yelverton

The Lee Steere family were originally from Jayes, in Surrey, England.

{{ Cite book

| last=Schorer

| first=Albert

| title=History of the Upper Blackwood

| publisher=South West Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd

| location=Bunbury, Western Australia

| year=1968

| page=24}}

{{cite book

| last=Muir

| first=Alison & Dinee

| title=Forrest Family, Pioneers of Western Australia, 1842-1982

| publisher=J.R. Muir & Son

| year=1982

| isbn=0-9592883-0-9

| pages=26

}} The family took the name Lee Steere in 1675 when John Steere (1649-1689

{{ cite web

|url = http://www.halhed.com/t4r/getperson.php?personID=I15122

|title = John Steere

|work = Halhed genealogy & family trees

|publisher = Basil Halhed

|accessdate = 4 May 2013

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://archive.today/20130629103052/http://www.halhed.com/t4r/getperson.php?personID=I15122

|archivedate = 29 June 2013

}}) married Fiducia Lee in Plastoe, Surrey.

{{ Australian Dictionary of Biography

| last=Birman|first=Wendy

| year=1986

| volume=10

| id2=lee-steere-sir-ernest-augustus-1370

| title=Lee Steere, Sir Ernest Augustus (1866–1957)

| accessdate= 31 October 2015

}} Members of the family continued to live in Jayes Park, Ockley.{{cite web|title=Dorking Museum|url=http://www.dorkingmuseum.org.uk/lieutenant-john-henry-gordon-lee-steere/|accessdate=29 October 2015}}

Not all of John Steere and Fiducia Lee's descendants had a separate given name with "Lee Steere" as a surname. One of the female descendants married Richard Witts and had a son named Lee Steere Witts, who later "assumed the name of Steere".

{{cite wikisource

|title=The Victoria History of the County of Surrey, Volume 3

|last=Malden

|first=Henry Elliot

|year=1911

|page=155

}} There are also records of family members named (for example) Lee Steere Steere and Sarah Steere Steere.

{{ cite web

| url=http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/STEER/2004-03/1078917396

| title=STEER-L Archives

| publisher=RootsWeb

| accessdate=4 May 2013

}} Others were known simply as "Lee Steere" (including the 1848 High Sheriff of Surrey).