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There is currently one researcher who has claimed Stephen Chuter
- Researcher (Steve Priestley)
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Biographies
He was born at Frensham, Surrey, on 12 September 1778 to Thomas Chuter and Sarah née Jeffery. Baptised at Frensham parish church on 9 December 1778.
He married Sarah Cole on 22 February 1808 at Selborne, Hampshire (about 7 miles from Frensham).
It is likely that he was the Stephen Chuter who was committed to the Surrey Assizes on 1 May 1809, by the Rt Hon Lord Viscount Middleton sitting as a magistrate, charged and on 11 July "convicted on his own confession, with having had in his possession part of a Deer, at Frensham, without being duly authorized, against the statute, by reason whereof he hath forfeited the sum of ten pounds, and also eleven shillings charges, which he hath refused to pay." For this he was imprisoned in the County Gaol in Southwark for six months.
A Stephen Chuter was acquitted of a charge of sheep stealing at the Surrey Lent Assizes of 1817.
On 20 October 1835, he was convicted at Winchester of receiving "several joints" of a sheep stolen by his sons. In November 1835 he was held on the prison hulk Hardy in Portsmouth, when he was recorded as suffering from debility. He was then transported to Australia for 7 years, arriving in Port Jackson on 30 August 1836 on the Moffatt. He died in Sydney General Hospital shortly after arrival.
On arrival, his physical description was as follows: Height 5' 4.5''; complexion dark sallow; hair black mixed with grey; eyes brown. Lost all his teeth, whiskers grey, breast hairy, scar back of third and little fingers of left hand, rather deaf.
He was the first cousin, six times removed of me, Steve Priestley.
Submitted by Researcher (Steve Priestley) on 15 October 2019
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/10, p.271
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