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Title: 1861 census lookup please /Shetland isles
Post by: pamissearching!!! on Tuesday 11 January 11 05:41 GMT (UK)
Can anyone help here? I am looking for Peter Dunn born around 1855 in Shetland Islands. It is possible his parents were George Dunn and Margaret [Mann}
Title: Re: 1861 census lookup please /Shetland isles
Post by: ev on Tuesday 11 January 11 14:26 GMT (UK)
 ???

should this be c1835 for birthyear ?

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=marycotter&id=I95320979

ev
Title: Re: 1861 census lookup please /Shetland isles
Post by: pamissearching!!! on Wednesday 12 January 11 00:31 GMT (UK)
Hi Ev. I have seen that tree which says death year as 1911, but I have seen the actual grave and it says 1921. His wife was born in 1857 and died in 1931. He was married in 1875  ???
Title: Re: 1861 census lookup please /Shetland isles
Post by: ev on Wednesday 12 January 11 10:03 GMT (UK)
can't see a death for peter dunn in victoria 1918 - 1925
(going on that spelling - i'm not disputing what was on the grave)

tried scotlandspeople website
official records started 1855
no peter dunn(surname variants) born 1855 onwards in shetland

1841 census - nothing shetland(SV)

1851 census - peter dun age 10 shetland

1861 census - nothing shetland(SV)

just looking at the free index - not the actual records which are pay to view

ev
Title: Re: 1861 census lookup please /Shetland isles
Post by: pamissearching!!! on Wednesday 12 January 11 11:29 GMT (UK)
Hi Ev. Thanks for that. I have the Vic indexes and he isnt there so he is a strange one. I googled him and his wife and had a hit which says his parents were George Dunn /Margaret Mann. This coincides with the death entry on the Edwardian index [1911] That Peter died at Camperdown so It could possibly be him. That would make him 21 years older that his wife but that is feasable. Possibly a mistake on the grave as it looks like the plate was added after the death of his wife
Title: Re: 1861 census lookup please /Shetland isles
Post by: Toni on Thursday 10 January 13 22:22 GMT (UK)
Neither your Peter, nor George, are found within  http://www.bayanne.info/Shetland/   There is one Peter DUNN but he was born in before 1770 and there is no further details for him.
Title: Re: 1861 census lookup please /Shetland isles
Post by: pamissearching!!! on Friday 11 January 13 04:35 GMT (UK)
Thank you :)
Title: Re: 1861 census lookup please /Shetland isles
Post by: da Shetland on Monday 04 February 13 12:14 GMT (UK)
This is from the 1851 census for 3 Braeside Court

Elizabeth, DUN, Age: 48

District: Lerwick, Enumeration District: L_4
Page No: 3, Schedule: 14
Name of House: 3 Braeside Court

William, DUN, Age: 19

District: Lerwick, Enumeration District: L_4
Page No: 3, Schedule: 14
Name of House: 3 Braeside Court

Peter, DUN, Age: 10

District: Lerwick, Enumeration District: L_4
Page No: 3, Schedule: 14
Name of House: 3 Braeside Court

There was 13 others living there with Blance, Coutts, Herculson, Watson, Stewart and Duncan.

Both male and female and young children.
Title: Re: 1861 census lookup please /Shetland isles
Post by: pamissearching!!! on Monday 04 February 13 12:33 GMT (UK)
Thank you very much. ;D