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
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...
by Warren Nunn
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...
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
How we can track where we come from There’s no doubt that the Nunn surname emanates from the English county of Suffolk. I’ve long held the view that it’s likely that most of we Nunns are related, some more closely than others, of course. It would be...
