He died on 16 August 1881, and was buried in Crosthwaite Churchyard, Keswick, Cumberland, not far from the grave of Robert Southey.
An article in the local paper describes a dinner given in Seaton Sluice to "the Rev William Lietch of North Shields" at which he was presented with a gold watch inscribed "-----from his congregation and friends at Seaton Sluice, as a mark of esteem for him and his ministry during 34 years.
Lietch had at least 7 siblings including William (died June, 1837), Barbara, Jane, Thomas Carr[4][5] (a lawyer who became a solicitor, the first town clerk of Tynemouth and possibly Russian Vice Consul in Newcastle), Isabella, Robert, and Ellen.
The family always spelled their surname as Lietch but after the late 1800s it almost always appears in records as Leitch.
However, some other publications appear to have mis-read the hand-written comment on a manuscript as "D Leutch" Much of this information is from Mr Leitch's 3x great niece, Eleanor Clouter, of Canada.