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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) Lookup Requests / Re: Dunn Family of Sculcoates , Yorkshire
« on: Tuesday 30 November 21 20:15 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Marianne
I am guessing you have the book published by Robert Dunn, which gives gory details of his destruction of birds. Different times, but he clearly spent many years off in Scandinavian countries. As Ann Dunn, who appears on his death certificate was married to John Dunn, it is likely to be correct that this is where he was when he died. On the 1861 census that family is living at 7 Post Office Entry and his death certificate just states Post Office Entry. On the 1851 Maria is living with John and Ann. Clearly he had a somewhat rapid decline as Post Office Entry was a very poor sort of place, tenements in multiple occupancy. As indeed was Princess Row, where Maria was living in 1851.

As to Liverpool,yes it seems he and his father Joseph were there. Joseph was a shipwright and seems to have left Hunmanby for the bright lights of Liverpool during its heyday in the second half of the 18th century; sadly of course the slave trade. I have not found any connection to any Lincolnshire Dunns, nor have I found where he was trained to be a stone mason. I'll see what else I can dredge up...

Lynne

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) Lookup Requests / Re: Dunn Family of Sculcoates , Yorkshire
« on: Monday 29 November 21 19:59 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Marianne

Yes I do have a lot of information, unfortunately it has erected more brick walls than it knocks down. Are you a descendant of Robert Dunn? The situation with Maria, his first wife is curious. She was living, with one or more of their sons, literally streets from where Robert was living with Eleanor and their children. Some of the later children, eg those of both Mary and Eleanor are baptised at Holy Trinity, where the vicar must have known he was still married to Maria. Maria dies in 1851; Robert in 1859 and he is in the same grave as her. Eleanor's maiden name was Murray apparently and she was born in Dublin in 1800 and that is another dead end. We have never found a marriage, maybe it was in Ireland. We believe that Robert's grandfather, also Robert was born in Hunmanby in 1739 which does connect us with other lines, esp through DNA. Are you on Ancestry? My tree is there. Hope to hear from you. Lynne

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) Lookup Requests / Re: Dunn Family of Sculcoates , Yorkshire
« on: Tuesday 23 July 19 20:28 BST (UK)  »
Hello

I am intrigued. I came across this through an idle google search. My family are descended from Dunns of Hull, and we have DNA connections to Pennock Dunn (all of them) but cannot break through the brick wall to find just how. The furthest back we currently go is to Robert Dunn, b 1789 an ornithologist or more accurately in those days, bird murderer since all they wanted was stuffed birds and eggs. He was a published author and we know quite a bit about him, but not who his father was. He died in 1859 in Hull aged 70. He was married at least three times, probably bigamously the last time, but was buried with his first wife. Now you see why we are perplexed! Beverley and South Cave and of course Sculcoates are attractive, again because of DNA. We think we are connected to a John Dunn, a ships carpenter who was buried next to said couple. He died in 1828 and his son born a few weeks earlier was baptised at Holy Trinity along with three of said Robert's sons. I would be grateful for any information you can share, Thanks Lynne Reid

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