Alfred Percy NUNN

Notes:

Birth:
As per father's service record

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Died:
As per father's service record

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Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1851, Chevington, Suffolk, England, UK
• Census: 1861, Great Whelnetham, Ely, Suffolk, England, UK
• Census: 1871, Aboard Royal Alfred, Grassey Bay, Bermuda
• Census: 1881, Royal Marine Barracks, Durnford Street, East Stonehouse, Devon, England, UK
• Occupation: 1871, 1881; Private, Royal Marines
• Census: 1891, 53 John Street, Chatham, Kent, England, UK
• Census: 1891, 53 John Street, Chatham, Kent, England, UK
• Occupation: 1891, 1901; Rigger's labourer, Royal Marines
• Census: 1911, 53 John Street, Chatham, Kent, England, UK

Notes:

UK, British Army and Navy Birth, Marriage and Death Records, 1730-1960
Pte Alfred Nunn, wife Mary Ann Wallace, married 17 Dec 1875 at Horringer, Suffolk.
Children:
William Alfred and Nellie born 1 Nov 1876
Alfred Percy born 26 Sep 1881 died 26 Oct 1882
Henry born 22 Mar 1884 died 29 Jul 1886

England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975: Name: William Alfred Nunn Gender: Male Christening Date: 06 Dec 1876 Christening Place: St. Paul's, Catham, Kent, England Father's Name: Alfred Nunn Mother's Name: Mary Ann
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I02021-7 , System Origin: England-EASy , GS Film number: 1473668 , Reference ID: item 2 p 114
"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NXWM-3LB : accessed 30 Sep 2014), William Alfred Nunn, 06 Dec 1876; citing Chatham, Kent, England, reference item 2 p 114; FHL microfilm 1473668.

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England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 Name: Eleanor Nunn
Gender: Female Christening Date: 13 Oct 1878 Christening Place: Walmer, Kent, England Father's Name: Alfred Nunn Mother's Name: Mary Ann
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I00353-1 , System Origin: England-ODM , GS Film number: 1835831
"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NLH9-M2K : accessed 30 Sep 2014), Eleanor Nunn, 13 Oct 1878; citing Walmer, Kent, England, reference ; FHL microfilm 1835831.

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England, Kent, Parish Registers, 1538-1911 Name: Herbert Charles OVERY
Event Type: Marriage Event Date: 08 Oct 1904 Event Place: St Johns, Chatham, Kent, England Gender: Male Age: 23 Marital Status: Single Birth Year (Estimated): 1881 Father's Name: Frederick William Overy
Spouse's Name: Eleanor Nunn Spouse's Age: 26 Spouse's Marital Status: Single Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1878 Spouse's Father's Name: Alfred Nunn GS Film Number: 001473666 , Digital Folder Number: 004990956 , Image Number: 00166
"England, Kent, Parish Registers, 1538-1911", index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QJD2-85JM : accessed 30 Sep 2014), Herbert Charles Overy and Eleanor Nunn, 1904.

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England and Wales, Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008 Name: Emma Nunn
Event Type: Birth Registration Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep Registration Year: 1880 Registration District: East Stonehouse County: Devon Event Place: East Stonehouse, Devon, England Volume: 5B
Page: 309 Line Number: 333
"England and Wales, Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008", index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/2XNB-2VX : accessed 30 Sep 2014), Emma Nunn, 1880.

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England and Wales, Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008 Name: Frank Nunn
Event Type: Birth Registration Registration Quarter: Apr-May-Jun Registration Year: 1886 Registration District: Medway County: Kent
Event Place: Medway, Kent, England Volume: 2A Page: 570
Line Number: 26
"England and Wales, Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008", index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/2XPJ-5WW : accessed 30 Sep 2014), Frank Nunn, 1886.

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England, Kent, Parish Registers, 1538-1911 Name: Frank Nunn
Event Type: Marriage Event Date: 02 Oct 1909 Event Place: St Johns, Chatham, Kent, England Gender: Male Age: 23 Marital Status: Single
Birth Year (Estimated): 1886 Father's Name: Alfred Nunn Spouse's Name: Henrietta Violet Mcdowell Spouse's Age: 22 Spouse's Marital Status: Single Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1887 Spouse's Father's Name: Albert William Mcdowell GS Film Number: 001473666 , Digital Folder Number: 004990956 , Image Number: 00208
"England, Kent, Parish Registers, 1538-1911", index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QJD2-DRCD : accessed 30 Sep 2014), Frank Nunn and Henrietta Violet Mcdowell, 1909.

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England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription
First name(s) EMMA Last name NUNN Gender Female
Birth day - Birth month - Birth year 1881 Age 1
Death quarter 1 Death year 1882 District EAST STONEHOUSE
County Devon Volume 5B Page 222 Country England
Record set England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records Record collection Deaths & burials Collections from Great Britain (c) brightsolid online publishing ltd

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England and Wales, Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005 Name: William Alfred Nunn Event Type: Marriage Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration Year: 1902 Registration District: Medway County: Kent
Event Place: Medway, Kent, England Volume: 2A Page: 1476
Line Number: 119
Name: Harriet Ann Payne
"England and Wales, Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005", index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/263N-ZBW : accessed 30 Sep 2014), William Alfred Nunn, 1902.

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England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 Name: Henrietta Violet Mcdowell
Gender: Female Christening Date: 27 Apr 1887 Christening Place: Saint Paul's, Chatham, Kent, England Father's Name: Albert William Mcdowell Mother's Name: Ann Eliza Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I02021-8 , System Origin: England-EASy , GS Film number: 1473668 , Reference ID: 151
"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NXWM-M3J : accessed 30 Sep 2014), Henrietta Violet Mcdowell, 27 Apr 1887; citing Chatham, Kent, England, reference 151; FHL microfilm 1473668.

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England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 Name: Mary Anne Wallis
Gender: Female Christening Date: 29 Aug 1847 Christening Place: Chevington, Suffolk, England Birth Date: 03 Aug 1847 Father's Name: John Wallis Mother's Name: Hannah Crick Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C03032-7 , System Origin: England-ODM , GS Film number: 950443
"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/J77L-93G : accessed 30 Sep 2014), Mary Anne Wallis, 29 Aug 1847; citing , reference ; FHL microfilm 950443.

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Birth:
Chevington OPR
No 701 5 Feb 1847 born 25 Jan 1847 Alfred son of Mary Nunn of this parish
Also have copy of birth cert.

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Census:
1851 Chevington census: No 73, near Moat: Abraham Nunn, head, widower, 54, garden lab. born. Chev. Samuel, son, 29, U, Farm Lab. born, Chev. Eliza, dau, 27, U, born. Chev. David, son, 25, U, farm lab. born Chev. Alfred*, grand son, 4, home, born Chev.
*Alfred base born Chevington to Mary NUNN, daughter of Abraham

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Census:
In 1861 at Brooke Green Farm:
Head of household George Bumpstead, aged 64, farmer born Whepstead
Alfred Nunn, lodger, unm, aged 12, ag lab, born Chevington

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Census:
1871 census for NUNN, Alfred, aboard Royal Alfred, Grassey Bay, Bermuda
RG number: RG10 Piece: 5784 Folio: 148 Page: 35
Alfred NUNN, private R M L I, aged 23, born Suffolk

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Census:
1881 census for NUNN, Alfred at Royal Marine Barracks, Durnford Street, East Stonehouse, Devon
RG number: RG11 Piece: 2205 Folio: 86 Page: 12
Headed by George Bayles HEASTEY, aged 55, colonel commandant
Alfred NUNN, head, aged 34, private R M, born Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Mary Ann NUNN, wife, aged 34, wife Of Private R M, born Bury St Edmunds
William NUNN, son, single, aged 4, scholar, born Chatham, Kent
Ellen NUNN, daughter, single, aged 2, born Deal, Kent
Emma NUNN, daughter, single, aged 0, born Stonehouse, Devon

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Census:
1891 census for NUNN, Alfd, Address: 53, John Street, Chatham:
RG number: RG12 Piece: 658 Folio: 80 Page: 9
Alfred NUNN, head, married, aged 44, riggers labourer, born Chevington, Suffolk
Mary A. NUNN, Mary A, wife, born Chevington
William NUNN, son, single, aged 14, stationer's assistant, born Chatham
Eleanor NUNN, daughter, aged 12, scholar, born Deal, Kent
Frank NUNN, son, aged 4, scholar, born Chatham
John W NUNN, son, aged 1, born Chatham

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Census:
1901 census for NUNN, Alfred, 53 John Street, Chatham:
RG number: RG13 Piece: 729 Folio: 38 Page: 18
Alfred NUNN, head, married, aged 54, rigger's labourer, born Chevington, Suffolk
Mary A NUNN, wife, aged 53, laundress, born Chevington
William A NUNN, son, single, aged 24, foreman printers, born Chatham, Kent
Eleanor NUNN, daughter, single, aged 22, laundress, born Walmer, Kent
Frank NUNN, son, aged 14, trade boy (blacksmith), born Chatham
John W NUNN, son, single, aged 11, born Chatham

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Census:
1911 census for NUNN, Alfred, 53 John Street Chatham:
RG number: RG14 Piece: 3911 Reference: RG14PN3911 RG78PN149 RD47 SD1 ED27 SN310
Alfred NUNN, head, married, aged 64, pensioner Royal Marines, born Chevington, Suffolk
Mary Ann NUNN, Mary Ann, aged 63, wife of 36 years (seven children, four living), laundress, born Chevington, Suffolk
John Wallace NUNN, son, aged 21, newsvender, born Chatham, Kent

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Died:
England & Wales, Death Index

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Alfred married Mary Ann WALLIS on 18 Dec 1875 in Horringer, Suffolk, England, UK. Mary was born on 3 Aug 1847 in Chevington, Suffolk, England, UK; died in Mar 1936 in Medway, Kent, England, UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1891, 53 John Street, Chatham, Kent, England, UK
• Census: 1901, 53 John Street, Chatham, Kent, England, UK
• Census: 1911, 53 John Street, Chatham, Kent, England, UK
• Occupation: 1891, 1901, 1911; Laundress
• Census: 1921, 53 John St, Chatham, Kent, England, UK

Notes:

Mary Ann Wallis was baptised in Chevington on 29 Aug 1847, the daughter of John Wallis and Hannah Crick.

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Died:
England & Wales, Death Index

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Notes:

Married:
England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index: 1837-1915, FreeBMD, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original data - General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office. ? Crown copyright. Published by permission of the Contro).
Marriage date: Oct 1875 Marriage place: Suffolk
http://search.Ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=freebmdmarriage&h=21177108&ti=5544&indiv=try&gss=pt

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Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1841, Lawshall, Suffolk, England, UK

Notes:

Birth:
From Chevington OPR:
No 206 24 Jan 1824 bapt and born twins Mary and Eliza Nunn daughters of Abraham Nunn and Martha Gilby

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Census:
Appears to be her as a servant in Lawshall; only question is age given as 18
Piece: 1011 Book/Folio: 4 Page: 1 Registration District: Sudbury Civil Parish: Lawshall Municipal Borough: Address: Melen Green, Lawshall
County: Suffolk

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Died:
England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915, FreeBMD, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original data - General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office. ? Crown copyright. Published by permission of the Contro).

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Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Agricultural labourer/husbandman
• Census: 1841, New Cottage, Chevington, Suffolk, England, UK
• Census: 1851, Chevington, Suffolk, England, UK
• Census: 1861, Ruffin's Farm, Chevington, Suffolk, England, UK
• Census: 1871, Seighbeighs Cottages, Chevington, Suffolk, England, UK
• Census: 1881, Brookes Corner, Seighbeighs Cottages, Chevington, Suffolk, England, UK

Notes:

The following letters were written in response to the accidental death of BK1257 Alfred Nunn, son of Abraham Nunn.
The Napoleon Nunn mentioned appears to be the base child of a Naomi Nunn, daughter of John Nunn and Sarah (Sally) Silverstone. There is no relationship yet established between the two Nunn boys although a family connection seems highly likely.

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This letter published in the Bury and Norwich Post, and East Anglian, November 29, 1843, was in response to one published earlier regarding Alfred Nunn's accidental death.

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Alleged ignorance at Chevington and Whepstead. To the editor. Sir, - Will you oblige me by inserting if your next paper the following statement, which I trust will be found a sufficient answer to the letter of "One of the Jury," on the inquest upon the body of Alfred Nunn, appearing in your last.
Napoleon Nunn, who occasioned the death of Alfred, is not a son of poor parents; he has been brought up by his grandfather, until lately an occupier of a farm of above hundred acres in Chevington, and never was an object for admission into a Charity School. Abraham, the father of Alfred, has had seven children, of whom six have been taught to read, and received religious instruction in my schools; the remaining one is afflicted and incapable of learning. All poor parents in the parish have the opportunity offered them of placing their children, at the age of seven, in the day-school, where they may remain at least three years, and be thence transferred to the Sunday School, where they are allowed to continue till the age of fifteen, or more: the object of the Sunday School being chiefly religious instruction; and, although the parents are often compelled to put their boys to work at a very early age, and, I grieve more to say, that there are some that neglect or refuse to send their children to school, who consequently grow up ignorant and vicious; yet, I believe that the number taught, about sixty, is quite equal in proportion to that prevailing in other places; the schools are supported by me and members of my family, without assistance from any endowment or Society. The other two boys, Henry and Arthur Wittam, who were examined on the inquest, aged thirteen and ten, live in Whepstead, and belong to the Sunday School there; but being at a great distance from the church, and often necessarily employed on the Sunday in the care of stock, &c., their attendance has been very irregular, and they have but little knowledge of their catechisms; the eldest, however, can read the Testament decently, and has a distinct knowledge of retribution hereafter; and stated that his parents always instructed him so. It cannont, therefore, be said, that these boys "have not the remote idea of a future state." Your obedient servant, John White, Chevington Rectory, Nov.24, 1843.

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The offending letter follows: Bury and Norwich Post 22 November 1843
Ignorance of the peasantry. To the Editor.
Sir, - You will no doubt report in your columns of this week the result of an inquest held at the Suffolk Hospital on Wednesday last. The fact are simple these: that one boy carelessly caused the death of another boy by a gun-shot wound. But the grave and important question, is the worse than gothic ignorance in which the rustic population of Whepstead and Chevington appear to exist. The coroner in his charge was justifiably severe in describing the absence of all moral instruction, were removded
but by a slight degree from the position of a savage state. One lad, the principal in the accident, acknowledge that he did not know the Lord's Prayer; that he had no knowledge of the name of the clergyman of the parish, and, in fact, that he knew nothing of responsibility with respect to good or evil. The two other lads stated they belonged to the Sunday School; they knew the Lord's Prayer, but had not the most remote idea of a future state. And is this the education of the people, for which so much money is paid? If it is, look at the result; one harmless lad is hurried into eternity, and the innocent cause of it. untutored and uninstructed, knows nothing of the responsibility of hastening his companion to another world. But are the clergy, the paid educators of the people, wholly blameless? Was the rector or curate of these villages wholly ignorant of the existence of these boys, or were they negligent in endeavouring to lead their minds and cultivate them to the pursuit of virtue, or leaving them in reckless idleness to tread the path of infamy and crime? Sir, we frequently marvel at the spread of crime in the rural districts, at incendiarism, and acts of violence; but when we see the germ of human intellect thus untutored, neglected, and even crushed, - can we wonder that the mind, thus brutalized, its energies cramped and contracted, should in the moment of supposed or real injuries rush to the perpetration of wild and savage revenge? Yet when any plan of educating the people is proposed, it is generally met with all the fury of orthodox resentment? Take this instance of proof of the careful teaching of the rustic population, and it there is a feeling of moral reflection amongst your readers, they will in unison with me blush to think, tt\hat within a range of six miles from a town like Bury, with a church in the village, and, I dare say, a tolerable benefice, that human beings should be found, whose ignorance, as far as Christianity and morality are concerned, would disgrace the savages of the wild, or the Hindoo worshippers in India. Yours respectfully, One of the Jury.
[We insert this letter for the lamentable facts which it relates, but not admitting the justice of all its inferences. Unless a minister had the power of compelling the people to come, and send their children to be instructed, there may be instances of such ignorance as is here described, in spite of all the efforts of the most faithful pastor. - ED.]
Copyright British Library Board

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Birth:
From Chevington OPR
Abraham son of John Nunn and Mary his wife (late M. Flack spr) was born 17 May 1797; privately baptised 21 May 1797

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Occupation:
From Chevington census record

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Census:
1841 census for New Cottage, Chevington: http://tinyurl.com/cgptop
Abraham Nunn, aged 45, ag lab
Martha Nunn, aged 45
Samuel Nunn, aged 15
Eliza Nunn, aged 15
David Nunn, aged 10
Alfred Nunn, aged 10
Harriett Nunn, aged 5
John Nunn, aged 20, ag lab
Phoebe Nunn, aged 20

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Census:
1851 census for near Moat, Chevington:
http://tinyurl.com/cgptop
HO107; Piece: 1791; Folio: 213; Page: 18; GSU roll: 207440.
Abraham Nunn, head, widower, aged 54, garden labourer, born Chevington
Samuel Nunn, son, unm, aged 29, farm labourer, born Chevington
Eliza Nunn, dau, unm, aged 27, born Chevington
David Nunn, son, unm, aged 25, farm labourer, born Chevington
Alfred Nunn, grandson, aged 4, born Chevington

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Census:
1861 census for Chevington, Ruffin's Farm:
http://tinyurl.com/cgptop
John Nunn, head, aged 42, Ag Lab, born Chevington.
Phoebe Nunn, wife, aged 39, born Naughton.
George Nunn, son, unmarried, aged 17, Ag Lab, born Chevington.
Harriet Nunn, dau, aged 14, employed at cloth factory, born Chevington.
Frederick Nunn, son, aged 11, scholar, born Chevington.
Abraham Nunn, father, widower, aged 65, Ag Lab, born Chevington

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Census:
1871 census for Seighbeigh's Cottage, Chevington:
http://tinyurl.com/cgptop
John Nunn, head, widower, aged 52, ag lab, born Chevington
Harriet Plummer, dau, married, aged 24, soldier's wife (housekeeper), born Chevington
Ellen Plummer, grand dau, aged 4, born Chatham, Kent
Alice E. Plummer, grand dau, aged 2, born Chatham, Kent
Abraham Nunn, father, widower, aged 75, ag lab, born Chevington

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Census:
1881 census for Seighbeigh's Cottages, Brookes Corner, Chevington:
http://tinyurl.com/cgptop
Abraham Nunn, head, widower, aged 86, born Chevington (imbecile)
John Nunn, son, widower, aged 63, ag lab, born Chevington

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Buried:
Transcribed from Chevington OPR held at Bury St Edmunds by Warren Nunn October 2004:
Burial No 673 Abraham Nunn aged 86 Apr 22 1881

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Abraham married Martha GILBY on 13 Nov 1817 in Chevington, Suffolk, England, UK. Martha (daughter of John GILBY and Sarah MACRO) was born on 18 Nov 1792 in Chevington, Suffolk, England, UK; died on 25 Jul 1844 in Chevington, Suffolk, England, UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
From Chevington OPR
Martha dau of John Gilby and Sarah his wife (late S. Macro spr) was born18 Nov 1792; privately baptised 19 Nov 1792

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Died:
From Chevingon burial register No 6 1818 to 1894
No 306 Martha Nunn wife of Abraham Nunn late M. Gilby of this parish 25 Jul 1844 aged 52

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Notes:

Married:
Chevington Register Page 8, marriage No 23 Abraham Nunn, Bachelor, otp, and Martha Gilby, Spinster, otp, were married in this church by Banns this 13th day of November, in the Year One thousand eight hundred and seventeen by me John White Rector {Abraham and Mary both made their marks} in the presence of Mary Nunn {her mark} and Abraham Arbourn? {his mark}

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