Most Wanted Lanfears

Nicholas Lanfear

I imagine that every genealogist has a ‘most wanted ancestor’, that elusive forebear without whom further progress is blocked. In my case it is my great-great-great grandfather Nicholas Lanfear. His name is spelt variously as Landfere, Landfear, Landfair, Landfer, Langfur, Langfear. We know the following about him.

• He was born about 1795 but his place of birth and parents remain a mystery.
• He was working in Crawley, Hampshire in about 1808 (from a settlement examination).
• He married Mary Limbrick at Gloucester in 1818.
• He had five children Mary Ann, Edith, Henry, Lousia and Rosina; the family ended up living in Thornbury, Gloucestershire.
• He was transported to Australia (for stealing a sheep) in 1833 and received a conditional pardon in 1845.
• A Nicholas Langfield died in Albury, New South Wales on 3rd March 1859 aged 75.

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