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...
Dudley Mervyn Nunn, coal miner’s son

Dudley Mervyn Nunn, coal miner’s son

Dudley Nunn was the 15th and second longest-lived member of one of Ipswich’s many coal-mining families. His father Sid was one of the first generation of the Dinmore Nunn family that started in 1858 when David and Rachel Nunn arrived from Suffolk, England and...

Various images connected to the Dinmore Nunns

These are images from Dinmore, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia and most likely from Nunns’ Paddock which is the area on which the Dinmore Meatworks now stands. The following images have been obtained from various sources and some are of the property where David...

Walter Nunn

Walter Nunn (born 19 Jul 1866 Ipswich, Queensland, Australia) died 25 Apr 1940 Qld, Aust) married Elizabeth Ann Thompson (born 11 Apr 1864, Qld, Aust died 4 Dec 1942) and fathered 8 children (see below). 1. Maud Rachel NUNN,   b. 22 Feb 1887, Queensland, Australia,...