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Hi... I am looking for any information with regards to a William Dunn who Married Bridget Gearen or Graqren. The only information I have at present is that William was a Colour Sargent , army number 4161, who was once based in india. William and Elizabeth were married at Our lay of mount chapel Bombay 0n the 23/05/1901. They also had a daughter born there Elizabeth Dunn abt 1905. All help will be very much appreciated.

Regards George

Do you have their marriage certificate? This will give you their ages and the names of their father's which may help find other info.

Other possible children?

Name: William John Dunn
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 17 Mar 1902
Christening Place: Jubbulpore, Bengal, India
Birth Date: 07 Mar 1902
Father's Name: William Dunn
Mother's Name: Bridget
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C75036-6 , System Origin: India-EASy , GS Film number: 527504 , Reference ID: Film 527-504

Name: Catherine Mary Dunn
Gender: Female
Christening Date: 17 Sep 1903
Christening Place: Jubbulpore, Bengal, India
Birth Date: 08 Sep 1903
Father's Name: William Dunn
Mother's Name: Bridget
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C75038-1 , System Origin: India-EASy , GS Film number: 527517

William Dunn
India, Births and Baptisms
Name: William Dunn
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 20 Oct 1894
Christening Place: Calcutta, Bengal, India
Birth Date: 09 Oct 1894
Birthplace: India
Father's Name: William James Dunn
Mother's Name: Marian

William Dunn who married in Bengal 1901 wasn't born in Calcutta in 1894 :-)

Elizabeth Anne's birth?


GRO Regimental Birth Indices (1761 to 1924) Transcription
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First name(s) ELIZABETH A
Last name DUNN
Year range 1905
Place JUBBULPORE
Country INDIA
Regiment 40th Foot
Record source GRO Regimental Birth Indices (1761 to 1924)
Volume 1128
Page 22

from FindMyPast

First name(s) William
Last name Dunn
>> Service number 4161
Regiment South Lancashire Regiment
Unit / Battalion 3rd Battalion
Event year 1893
Age 20
Birth year 1873
Birth town -
Birth county Radnorshire


do you descend from Elizabeth c1905?

a tree on ancestry has Elizabeth Dunn born 11 Nov 1905


..... and marrying Arthur Newton in England in 1929, Birkenhead, Cheshire


no other information on the family though

Ancestry doesn't seem to have the military record that FMP has for William Dunn 1873 ... and I can't get FMP to show me the image ...

anybody?

For what it's worth, I wonder if this is William Dunn?????


from ancestry .......


UK, Royal Marines Registers of Service Index, 1842-1925
(Index-only record)

Name: William Dunn
Birth Date: 11 May 1863
Enlistment Date: 11 Jul 1881
Division: Royal Marine Artillery
Register Number: 1476
URL:


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you have to go to

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7752091

and you can buy a copy from there



NO NO NO .................. see JoonieC's find below

got the images at FMP

dicharged 24 July 1914, aged 41

reason: The termination of his second period of engagement
total period of service 21 years
military character: exemplary
signed at Warrington

originally attested in July 1893
occupation at the time wood turner
born Staleybridge, Lancashire

there is a notation on one page
Jubbulpore
13th February 1903

next of kin
brother Thomas Dunn (not sure what it says after)
brother Patrick Dunn in Staleybridge
uncle William Kennedy in Staleybridge

>> WIFE
Bridget Gearen spinster
married Bombay 23.5.01

children
William John 7.3.02 Jubbulpore
Catherine Mary 8.9.03 Jubbulpore
Elizabeth Ann 11.11.05 Jubbulpore


the record is quite extensive and it would be worth getting credits at FMP to view it

but danged if I can find a single one of those people in Staleybridge!

so far I have managed to figure out that it was in Ashton under Lyne registration district ...

http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/districts/ashton%20under%20lyne.html

This looks like him :-D


1881 Census

Name: William Dunn
Age: 10
Estimated birth year: abt 1871
Relationship to Head: Brother
Gender: Male
Where born: Stalybridge, Lancashire, England
Civil Parish: Ashton Under Lyne
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England
Street address: "Union Workhouse" Ashton Under Lyne

Occupation: Scholar
Registration district: Ashton Under Lyne
Sub registration district: Ashton Town
ED, institution, or vessel: Aston Under Lyne Union Workhouse

Piece: 4040
Folio: 130
Page Number: 9

>>>>Thomas Dunn 17
William Dunn 10
>>>>Patrick Dunn 7
Frank Downs 78
William Dooley 51
John Deghan 33
Hannah Day 56
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Bridget Gearen in the Ireland, Civil Registration Marriages Index, 1845-1958

Name: Bridget Gearen
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1901
Registration district: Jubbulpore, India
Page Number: 42
FHL Film Number: 101259
Records on Page:
Name
William Dunn
Bridget Gearen

...........................so possible that Bridget was Irish?

1911


Name: William Dunn
Age in 1911: 37
Estimated birth year: abt 1874
Birth Place: Staley Bridge, Lancashire, England
County/Island: Military
Country: England
Military Unit: 1st South Lan Regt
Registration District Number: 641
ED, institution, or vessel: India
Piece: 34989

????????????

Thomas in 1871

1871 Census

Name: Thomas Dunn
Age: 7
Estimated birth year: abt 1864
Relation: Son
Father's name: William Dunn
Mother's name: Mary Dunn
Gender: Male
Where born: Stalybridge
Civil Parish: Dukinfield
Ecclesiastical parish: St John
Town: Stalybridge
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England
Registration district: Ashton Under Lyne
Sub-registration district: Dukinfield
ED, institution, or vessel: 21
Household schedule number: 190
Piece: 4084
Folio: 69
Page Number: 31

William Dunn 30
Mary Dunn 30
Ann Dunn 9
Thomas Dunn 7
Mary Dunn 3

Household Members:
Name Age
William Dunn 30 b.ca 1841, Ireland, Labourer
Mary Dunn 30 b.ca 1841, Ireland, Cotton Operative
Ann Dunn 9
Thomas Dunn 7
Mary Dunn 3

Address:- 8 Henry Street

Well done Joonie. This is also for him. Address of 41 Caroline Street.


British Army Service Records 1760-1915 Transcription
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First name(s) WILLIAM
Last name DUNN
Birth year 1874
Birth parish STALEYBRIDGE
Birth town STALEYBRIDGE
Birth county CHESHIRE
Birth country ENGLAND
Service number 3894
Rank -
Regiment South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) - 40th & 82nd Foot
Document Type Attestation
Attestation year 1893
Attestation Day 6
Attestation Month 6
Attestation age years 19
Attestation age months 11
Attestation Corps South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
Attestation service number 3894
Discharge Corps South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
Series WO96 militia service records 1806-1915
Box 684
Box Record Number 146
Record set British Army Service Records 1760-1915

possible death of father


Deaths Mar 1879 (>99%)

Dunn William 40 Ashton 8d 472

oh phew, there I was still looking for him because when I crashed and restarted Firefox, it didn't load these new messages!

Now why the @#$% Ancestry would not find me those censuses ...


I'm guessing mother Mary was a Kennedy, from uncle Kennedy's name

There is a William Dunn + Mary Jane Kennedy marriage in Manchester 1864 (FreeBMD has her as 'Marylebone') ... but it probably wasn't an uncommon combination