Robert NUNN marriage in 1855

[gjervis]

sorry 1825. he was christened there on 22 may 1825 and is the 1841 census aged 17

Graham

[JJen]

Have you considered this death of a Robert Nunn -

q1 1847, Mildenhall
Vol 13 Page 382

On NBI the above Robert's age is given as 21, buried at St Mary's, Midenhall 4 Feb 1847

JJ

[gjervis]

Yes I had seen this but was trying to test out the marriage possibility. guess I need to check on burial records or get the death cert.

[JJen]

On NBI the above Robert's age is given as 21, buried at St Mary's, Mildenhall 4 Feb 1847.

Seems quite a good match, however to be sure you would need to purchase the death cert in the hope the informant correspond with the Nunns you are researching.

JJ

[gjervis]

Have you considered this death of a Robert Nunn -

q1 1847, Mildenhall
Vol 13 Page 382

On NBI the above Robert's age is given as 21, buried at St Mary's, Midenhall 4 Feb 1847
JJ

Thanks I think that is pretty conclusive.

Graham

[middlesbrough]

Hi,
Newspaper article Bury and Norwich Post 10th February 1847.


Inquisitions taken by Harry Wayman, Gent., Coroner for the Liberty and Borough of Bury St Edmund's.
On the 2nd inst. at Mildenhall, on the body of Robert Nunn, labourer aged 22, whose death was occasioned by the fall of the side of a house that was building while he was at work in the cellar. He was entirely buried by the rubbish, and was quite dead when extricated. Several other persons were injured, but not seriously. Mr Young, the builder, attributed the fall of the house to the circumstance of the foundation being exposed to the action of the frost at a part where the area was dug; the foundation being of clunch, and frost acting more upon clunch than upon any other material; but as the foundation had been laid for nine months he did not expect the frost to affect it.
Verdict: Accidental death.


Does anybody know what clunch is? I have never heard of it.

[gjervis]

Clunch. (published in The Countryman, January 2010)


An interesting man-made feature of the landscape of South Cambridgeshire is the cluster of clunch pits dug into the sides of the low chalk ridges bordering the upper Cam valley and along the Fen edge towards the Suffolk border. These quarries were hewn by hand from the chalk outcrops. The extracted ‘clunch’ was used as a building material from medieval times up to the end of the Nineteenth century. ‘Clunch’ is in fact the traditional local term for a hardened chalk, a band of white cretaceous limestone found in the Lower Chalk, known as Totternhoe Stone, after the quarry of that place in Bedfordshire, where the seam is at its thickest and was originally quarried by the Romans. This band of hardened chalk was formed when the tropical sea that covered these parts in the Cretaceous period was reduced to a channel, some nine metres deep, between Buckinghamshire and south Norfolk. The channel filled with chalky material from higher ground, which became compacted and then chemically altered by the cementing of the silica to produce its relative hardness.


Many thanks for looking in the newspapers.

Graham

[middlesbrough]

How interesting. We learn something new every day. Thanks for that.