Name: Charles Lett
Date and place of birth: 1773 (From age on headstone) Rathsilla, Wexford, Ireland – youngest of the family, born when his mother was 60 – she live to be 105)
Names of parents: Thomas Lett (of Rathsilla) and Elizabeth Whitney
Date and place of baptism: 1773 C of Ireland Wexford (probably at Horetown which was the family church)
Details of each of his marriages: 1. Anne Hincks 12/8/1800 Church of Ireland. (Anne from Kilkenny) Four children. Anne died 14/5/1805 2. Eleanor (Ellen) Walker (of Clontard) no date found for marriage C of Ireland - Thirteen children – 5 sons and 8 daughters.
Occupation: Farmer. (He was part of the Yeomanary and was interred in Wexford gaol in the 1798 uprising. According to written reports, the high regard he was held in by local Catholics, many who worked for him before and after the uprising, was the reason why he escaped death, as a record survives that states that he had been condemned to be killed)
Addresses where they lived: In 1790 he leased Duncormick Castle (145 acres)(Bargy), In 1798/99 he purchased Seafield which was (next to Duncormick) a farm of 85 acres, where he built a new house in 1805. It was ten miles south-west of the town of Wexford. The family lived there until 1833, when he also purchased the 462 acre farm of Tincurry, on the River Slaney in the Parish of Ferns, near village of Ballycarney, County Wexford, Ireland. (Location is between Ennniscorthy and Newtonbarry.)
Date, place and cause of death: 22 September, 1853 Tincurry, County Wexford, Ireland
Date and place of burial: September 1853 Churchyard C of Ireland, Balloughton, County Wexford. (Many of the family buried there)
Details of will: Not found
Memorial inscription: “To the memory of Charles Lett of Tincurry, who died 22 Sept 1853, aged 80 years, whose undeviating integrity and moral uprightness, founded on the faith of the Gospel and guided by the fear of God, caused his name to be respected during his long life by all who knew him and his memory to be revered by his surviving family. This tablet was erected by his son, the Rev. Charles Lett. “The secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him, and will shew them His Covenant.” Psalm XXV”
Sources: “The Family Face” by Michael JH Leete (Long Lee, Rowarth 1994 UK) and “Christopher Alt of Yass” by Ronald H. Alt (1989 NSW)