William DUNN born circa 1791 in Tiverton

[JaneyCanuck]

Oh aargh, you're not going insane. Or silly! I wasn't paying attention! Yes, the OP and reply 3 were written by two different people!

The OP dates from 2010 and jiminwales never returned to the thread.

We turned to bobpen's query when he added to the thread.

Since jiminwales has never been back, it might not be useful to go back to working on the question in the OP.

[deb usa]

LOL ...Thank goodness I'm not going mad .... so Bobpen is going to order the birth/marriage cert?

[deb usa]

Oh My

There's a tree on ancestry

Robert George Dunn b 1878 s/o Robert Dunn 1853 and Ann Blackmore 1849

Robert Dunn 1852 s/o James Dunn 1825 and Mary Ann Davey 1815

have we found a James Dunn 1825 yet?

[JaneyCanuck]

I dunn-o! We did chat by PM and he told me some lovely (and sad) stories about the family. I think I owe him a reply ...

I expect he'll come back to the thread -- and I hope he does order the certificates, just not to leave us in suspense.

Maybe William (wife Ann) and William (wife Jane) were first cousins, with a grandfather William ...


Oops, just saw your next message -- Yup -- the baptism list in one of my last messages:

FamilySearch shows William Dunn and Jane having children baptised in Whimple:

William 1822 -- uncle of Robert who was the father of Robert George
James 1825
Elisabeth 1828
Henry 1831 (died 1833)
Robert 1834
Mary 1836

[deb usa]

ooo yay ..just saw that ....

James is with his family in 1871

Whimple
James Dunn 46 farm lab b Whimple
Mary Ann wife 56 b ?
Jane dau 16 b Whimple
Harrit (sic) dau 12 b ditto ... could she be the niece with Uncle William in 1861
William Davy G.son 11 b ditto
Frederick J Davy Gson 2 b ditto

[JaneyCanuck]

James Dunn and Mary Ann Davey -- marriage reg Mar 1855 St Thomas -- Robert was born before that!

(Even if I have the wrong Robert Dunn birth reg, his census info always shows him born 1852/3).

So I might doubt the info about his parentage. Getting the 1853 birth cert would still be useful to see whether it looks like him.

Daughter Jane in the 1871 census, birth seems to have been reg Sep 1854 in St Thomas, though ...


edit -- I have got to get some work finished, I'll look in to see what more you might come up with, and we'll watch for Bob!

[deb usa]

Humm


They have the marriage to Mary Ann Davey as July 1846, Exeter.
 I can't see it!

Hopefully Bob will return!

deb

[JaneyCanuck]

Doncha just love Ancestry trees ...

Wishful thinking there, methinks.

(I did check, and there's no Robert Davey birth around the right time that might have accounted for him as a pre-marriage birth.)

There is a Sep quarter 1846 marriage in Exeter, possibly (as one of four possible brides) to Mary Ann WILSON. No reason to connect that to our James Dunn that I can see.

And so far, no good reason to make James the father of Robert, either!

[deb usa]

I saw that too ...I even checked to see if possibly it was a second marriage for her as she was 10 years older than James... Can't see a Mary Ann Davey = Mr. Wilson.

Argghhhh