Headstone helps unlock a complicated family

Headstone helps unlock a complicated family

By Warren Nunn A sizeable headstone in a Scottish cemetery bears a loving tribute to a faithful housekeeper. Erected by one John Ferguson, it lauds Sarah Nunn who died at Peebles but who was originally from Chevington, Suffolk. Sarah had been John Ferguson’s...
Prewer family of Whepstead

Prewer family of Whepstead

In March 1861 Azariah Prewer and Sarah Nunn married in a village church in Suffolk, England. They had 15 children and only one is known to have died before adulthood. Fourteen children were born at home on Winson’s Farm at Whepstead. Most were baptised at St...