by Warren Nunn
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...
by Warren Nunn
A short, tragic life Napoleon Nunn, who was born in 1831 to an unmarried mother in Chevington, Suffolk, lived an eventful, tragic life and died young. Napoleon was obviously named for the French revolutionary Napoleon Bonaparte. His young mum must have imagined a...
by Warren Nunn
Newspapers often provide information in tracing family lines, particularly when relatives are mentioned in events such as funerals. When Mrs J. Outlaw attended George Avis’s funeral in Chevington, Suffolk, in 1915, she was described as his sister. George was...
by Warren Nunn
Nearly 50 years at same alehouse When newspapers record details of a funeral, it greatly helps family researchers to identify more than one generation. When a publican named William Avis died in Whepstead, Suffolk, England in 1941, it ended his 50-year association...
by Warren Nunn
When I first went to Suffolk, England, in 1998, I met a distant cousin named Percy Nunn. I was just starting to trace my Suffolk connections and, when I reached Chevington and started asking after anyone with the Nunn surname, I was directed to Percy’s place in...
