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Looking for Dunbar Family going back in India until before 1860.
William Denis Dunbar m. Sarah Ann Fitzsimmons (1847-1912). She died Lucknow.
Issue: Mary Josephine Dunbar b. 1873 in Lahore. married Patrick Mackay in 1890.
Robert Ellesmere Dunbar b. 1876 in Murree, d. 1832 Calcutta - married 1) Lena Helen Mabel Robertson 1902 in Lucknow then 2) Hester Caroline Madden abt 1910.
Denis Fitzsimmons Dunbar b. 1903 to Robert and Lena. Nigel Gordon, Elaine Athelie and Joan Alison issue of 2nd marriage.
Robert Ellesmere Dunbar was journalist, sub-editor of "Statesman", businessman.
Son Denis Fitzsimmons Dunbar ? teacher, journalist, hockey player & coach, author of "Hockey" & "Hockey for Everyone" circa 1940-1954. Spent years in Australia but in Royal Indian Naval Volunteer Reserves as Pilot on Bombay Docks in 1945/6.
Lena Helen Mabel (Dunbar nee Robertson) remarried to Edward Lancaster 1913.
Would love more info on these families or any connections.
India (1): Robertson, Dunbar, Sheels, Solitude, Rondeau, Fitzsimmons, Mackay, Lancaster (all 1800-1950)
Australia (1): Dunbar
India (2): Owen brothers, 11th N.I., 1st Somerset Rgt., Govt. Electric Telegraphs, Dept. public works, all c.1830-1900
England (1): Little, Wright, Mott - all in Essex
Scotland: Montgomey - Dumfries area
England (2): Owen, Biddle, Brewer, Sparrow - Lambeth, Surrey
Australia (2): Owen, Montgomery, Denyer, Norris, Little, Mott, Bose.
