| ![Show Contents]() Steere History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
Early Origins of the Steere familyThe surname Steere was first found in Surrey where Styr was a Lord at the Court of Ethelred the II mentioned in Royal Letters Patent and also mentioned in King Hardicanute's reign. Styr was recorded as the ancestor of Steer, the word "Styr" was an Anglo-Saxon word for "battle" and not to be confused with steer, the animal. Steart, also called Stert, is a small village in Somerset, England. Geoffrey Ster was listed in the Pipe Rolls of Worcestershire in 1209 and later, Robert le Steer was listed in the Subsidy Rolls of Sussex in 1296. 1 The Yorkshire Poll Tax Rolls of 1379 list Willelmus Stere and Johannes Stere as residing there and holding lands at that time. 2 "The Steers or Steeres were a Newdegate family of gentry of the 17th and 18th centuries; and one of the members was rector of Newdegate from 1610 to 1660. The Steeres of Wootton parish in the 17th century were evidently connected with them, and a hundred years ago, Lee Steere, Esq., of Jayes, Wootton, owned property in Newdegate." 3 Early History of the Steere familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Steere research. Another 167 words (12 lines of text) covering the years 1620, 1628, 1638, 1643, 1649, 1667, 1672, 1675, 1689, 1721, 1750, 1772 and 1860 are included under the topic Early Steere History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Steere Spelling VariationsSpelling variations of this family name include: Steer, Steere, Stear, Steare, Steerrs and others. Early Notables of the Steere familyDistinguished members of the family include - Richard Steere (1643-1721), English-born immigrant to America from Chertsey, Surrey who became a colonial American merchant and poet
Steere RankingIn the United States, the name Steere is the 15,043rd most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 4  Migration of the Steere family to Ireland
Some of the Steere family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt. More information about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
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Some of the first settlers of this family name were: Steere Settlers in United States in the 17th Century- Robert Steere, aged 37 who landed in Virginia in 1635 aboard the ship "Assurance"
- Robert Steere, aged 17, who arrived in Virginia in 1635 5
- Elizabeth Steere, aged 18, who arrived in New England in 1635 aboard the ship "Defence" 5
- Mr. Richard Steere, (b. 1611), aged 24, British settler traveling aboard the ship "Constance" arriving in Virginia in 1635 6
- John Steere, who arrived in Virginia in 1653 5
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Emigration to Australia followed the First Fleets of convicts, tradespeople and early settlers. Early immigrants include: Steere Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century- Sir James George Lee Steere KCMG (1830–1903), bonr in Ockley Surrey, he emigrated to Western Australia in 1860 and leased 100,000 acres and became one of the first elected members of the Western Australian Legislative Council
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The British first settled the British West Indies around 1604. They made many attempts but failed in some to establish settlements on the Islands including Saint Lucia and Grenada. By 1627 they had managed to establish settlements on St. Kitts (St. Christopher) and Barbados, but by 1641 the Spanish had moved in and destroyed some of these including those at Providence Island. The British continued to expand the settlements including setting the First Federation in the British West Indies by 1674; some of the islands include Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Island, Turks and Caicos, Jamaica and Belize then known as British Honduras. By the 1960's many of the islands became independent after the West Indies Federation which existed from 1958 to 1962 failed due to internal political conflicts. After this a number of Eastern Caribbean islands formed a free association. 7Steere Settlers in West Indies in the 17th Century- Abell Steere, aged 20, who landed in Barbados in 1682 5
| Contemporary Notables of the name Steere (post 1700) | + |
- William C. Steere, American biologist at McMurdo Station (1964-1965), eponym of Mount Steere, Antarctica
- Robert Steere (1833-1910), American early pioneer of Los Angeles, California, Member of the Los Angeles Common Council
- Richard Clarke Steere (1909-2001), American bronze medalist Olympic fencer at the 1932 Summer Olympics
- Joseph Beal Steere (1842-1940), American ornithologist
- Henry Jonah Steere (1830-1889), prominent American philanthropist and industrialist from Rhode Island, co-founder and benefactor of the Providence Home For Aged Men, now known as Steere House
- Frederick Eugene "Gene" Steere (1872-1942), American Major League Baseball player for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1894
- Douglas Van Steere (1901-1995), American Quaker ecumenist, professor of philosophy at Haverford College (1928-1964)
- Arthur Wallace Steere (1865-1943), American politician, Rhode Island Senator
- Allen C. Steere, American professor of rheumatology at Harvard University
- E. B. Steere, American politician, Mayor of Bloomington, Illinois, 1876, 1879 8
- ... (Another 12 notables are available in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.)
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- Mr. H Steere, British Able Seaman, who sailed into battle on the HMS Prince of Wales (1941) and survived the sinking 9
The motto was originally a war cry or slogan. Mottoes first began to be shown with arms in the 14th and 15th centuries, but were not in general use until the 17th century. Thus the oldest coats of arms generally do not include a motto. Mottoes seldom form part of the grant of arms: Under most heraldic authorities, a motto is an optional component of the coat of arms, and can be added to or changed at will; many families have chosen not to display a motto.
Motto: Tu ne cede me
Motto Translation: Yield thou not to me
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- Guppy, Henry Brougham, Homes of Family Names in Great Britain. 1890. Print.
- "What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
- Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
- Pilgrim Ship's of 1600's. Retrieved October 5th 2021 from https://www.packrat-pro.com/ships/shiplist.htm
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_West_Indies
- The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 21) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html
- HMS Prince of Wales Crew members. (Retrieved 2014, April 9) . Retrieved from http://www.forcez-survivors.org.uk/biographies/listprincecrew.html
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