James Coker and Emily Lee

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James Coker and Emily Lee By Warren Nunn Teenagers James Thomas Coker and Emily Lee married at Barking, near London, England in 1858 and arrived in Rockhampton, Queensland 12 years later with their first six children, Jane (11), Emily (9), Ada (7), Leonard (5), Arthur...

Early Suffolk

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Chevington All Saints church in which many of our Nunn ancestors spent time for some reason either to be baptised (note the font inset image), married or for a funeral service. Photos: Warren Nunn 2004. Suffolk forms part of the East Anglian plain and consists almost...

How the village of Chevington was established

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By Warren Nunn It’s useful to look at how a settlement was established to get an understanding of how our forebears lived in a far different world to ours. In 1984, Frank Cooper published the book Chevington which gives an in-depth account of life in the village...

Off to Australia

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David and Rachel Nunn and son Elisha arrive in Moreton Bay A young couple and their baby arrived in a new country and there began a new branch of the Nunn family from Suffolk, England. February 1858: David and Rachel Nunn sailed into Moreton Bay aboard the Irene. The...

Stick up at Imbil

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IT was a scandal at the time that involved a number of men including several gold miners and two rather inept thugs who ended up in jail. The drama unfolded on Thursday, July 30, 1868, when William Troden and Joseph Blake first held up a lone rider three miles from...