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Down / Re: Dunning family - Co. Down
« on: Thursday 21 August 14 10:57 BST (UK)  »
Charles Dunning was my grandfather. Mother Sarah, father Samuel born in Stamford Ct. Went to Australia as a child with his father and sister Alice. Became a Tailor. Married my grandmother Harriet Parkes. Had five children.
Charles died of TB in his forties and Harriet lived until she was 87 years old.

They had five children, but none lived long lives. My mother (their youngest) was the only child who outlived her mother.

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Down / Re: Dunning family - Co. Down
« on: Friday 25 July 14 10:26 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: me2012 on Friday 04 October 13 18:53 BST (UK)
Hi
Alexander Dunning (m) Margaret  (last name unknown)
their son David was born about 1831
another son named Samuel 1843

It's believed that David migrated to Australia around 1853 (married in 1856 in Australia)
Samuel - married Sarah Campbell (uncertain if in Ireland or US) and 2 children Charles (b 1871) and Alice (b 1873) - Samuel arrived in Australia as a widower from the US in 1880.   Before arriving to Australia, samuel and his wife lived in the US (Stanford Connecticut) where she died. 

Any help relating to the Dunnings of Co. Down would be appreciated.  J.

I hope that this is not too late, but I think Charles was my grandfather. Born in Stamford CT . Father's name Samuel, mother's name Sarah. My grandfather came to Australia with Charles (as a child) looking for gold. We are not sure if his sister came with him or was left in the US. The anecdotal name for her was sissy.
He married my grandmother (also of Irish decent) and they sailed back to the US to 'collect an inheritance' around the very early nineteen hundreds. but my grandmother hated America and they  came back to Australia.
What a story!

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