The Lease surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 3,896 people carried this name — #8,473 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 75,800 people counted. That is up 5% from 3,705 in 2000.

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In print

Lease in American newspapers,
1908.

Newspaper page from The Goldfield News carrying the name Lease
The Goldfield News 1908-03-14

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.

In print

Lease in Australian newspapers,
1810s–1990s.

17,568 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Lease. The most, 3,009, date from the 1910s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in Victoria, at 1.7 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

Victoria 6,630
New South Wales 6,598
South Australia 1,290
Queensland 1,281
Western Australia 977
Tasmania 714
ACT (Canberra) 36
Northern Territory 30

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Lease.

Who carried it

People named Lease,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Mary Elizabeth Lease
    Mary Elizabeth Lease 1850–1933 · writer
  • Rex Lease
    Rex Lease 1903–1966 · actor
  • Hilda L. Jay 1921–2019 · librarian
  • Gary Lease 1940–2008 · theologian

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 5 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Lease,
in the records of 3 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States264 records

264 records of the Lease name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 128
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 55
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 45
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 14
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 9
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 7
  • Irish Famine arrivals at New York, 1846–1851 2
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 2
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 2
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Vernon O. Lease

    Born 1915 in Pennsylvania. Enlisted 1943 at Grand Rapids, Michigan; secondary school teacher. U.S. Air Force veteran of World War II; died 1999, buried at Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Pennsylvania.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record William Frederick Lease

    Born 1949; from Montclair, California. U.S. Army, infantryman; killed in action 1969 in Quang Tin, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Margaret Lease

    Arrived at New York in 1883 aboard the Ethiopia from Liverpool, aged 30; servant. From Ireland.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)

Showing 3 of 264 records for Lease in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Famine Irish Passenger Records (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

Australia25 records

25 records of the Lease name in Australia
  • Victoria passenger lists, 1839–1923 14
  • Victoria wills and probate, deaths to 2001 10
  • NSW convict, estate and railway indexes 1
  1. A petition to the probate court of St. Louis, 1848
    Example: probate petition, 1848
    Probate record Charles Lease

    Gentlewoman of Katunga, Victoria; died 1894.

    Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0)
  2. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record C. K. Lease

    Arrived in Victoria in 1916 aboard the Kaisar-I-Hind, aged 40.

    Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0)
  3. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Death record Charles Robert Lease

    Of Victoria, New South Wales; died 1933.

    Museums of History NSW – State Archives Collection (CC BY)

Showing 3 of 25 records for Lease in Australia.

Counts: Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0) · Museums of History NSW – State Archives Collection (CC BY). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Petition to the probate court, St. Louis, 1848, Missouri Historical Society (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain); Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).

United Kingdom1 record

1 record of the Lease name in the United Kingdom War Office casualty lists, 1917–1919, among the dead
  1. A First World War roll of honour of the staff of C. & E. Morton Ltd
    Example: roll of honour, 1914–1919
    War record J. Lease

    Hertfordshire Regiment. Listed among the dead in the War Office casualty list of 1918.

    National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain)

Counts: National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: C. & E. Morton Ltd roll of honour, 1914–1919, photo by Adrian S Pye via Geograph (CC BY-SA 2.0).

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