GUNN family............ESSEX

[Bryant]

GEORGE GUNN married MARTHA PAGE....26th October 1844 at South Ockendon........father's declared as being JOHN WILLIAM GUNN and THOMAS PAGE.......witnesses were William Mead/John White and Martha Monk.......a lady by the name of MARTHA MONK married BENJAMIN GUNN in the March qtr of 1845....Romford district! .......are BENJAMIN & GEORGE brothers?

 
GEORGE GUNN was born 1814/1816 or 1818 depending which info you go on.........from the 1851 census and the date of marriage of J.W.Gunn it would be more likely to be 1814?
 
JOHN WILLIAM GUNN born 1795....married ANN STANCE on the 27th March 1813
 
JOHN WILLIAM GUNN is the son of JOHN GUNN who was christened 15th July 1763.....parents Zacchaeus & Mary Gunn.
JOHN GUNN married ANN BRIGHT 23rd August 1785
 
ZACHEUS GUNN and MARY GRIMSTONE............married on the 28th Sept 1762
 
ZACHEUS GUNN is the son of JESSE GUNN who was christened on the 11th July 1736 .....parents JESSE & MARY GUNN
 
JESSE GUNN and MARY SURRIDGE married at Great Dunmow in 1730

1841
GRANGE, SOUTH OCKENDON
WILLIAM MEAD  25  AG LAB     Y
WILLIAM    "        1                   Y
HARRIAT     "       25                  Y
HARRIAT     "         3                  Y
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GEORGE GUNN  25  AG LAB       Y           (Transcribed as GUNER)
THOMAS    "       20      "            Y
FREDERIC  "       15      "            Y
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Census 1851 Stifford
No 20
George Gun   head   36   Dunmow, Essex   agricultural labourer
Martha   "   wife   26   South Ockendon, Essex   
Matilda   "   daur   8   "   "
William   "   son   5   "   "
Emma   "   daur   7 months   Stifford, Essex
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Census 1861 South Ockendon
No 10 Pollards? Farm
George Gunn   head   42   Little Easter
Martha   "   wife   40   South Ockendon
William   "   son   15   "
Emma   "   daur   9   "
John   "   son   5   "   
George   "   "   2   "
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Emma Gunn born August 9th 1850.....married John Pasterfield at South Ockendon on October 9th 1869
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1871
Plough Cottages, South Ockendon
George Gunn  head  56  lab in the fields   Little Easter, Dunmow, Essex
Martha     "     wife    45                             South Ockendon, Essex
William     "     son     24   "               "                      "
John         "       "       13   "               "                      "
Frederick  "       "        8                                            "
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1881 Census
South Ockendon, Stifford Road
George Gunn   head   65   Dunmow      farm lab
Martha   "   wife   58   South Ockendon
John   "   son   24   "   "   "   "
Frederick   "   "   19   "   "   engine driver
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1891 Census
South Ockendon, High Road
George Gunn   head   76   Dunmow      small shopkeeper
Martha   "   wife   68   South Ockendon   "   "
John   "   son   37(unm)   "   "   ag lab
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[Bryant]

1851 CENSUS
Cow Chapel ? Cottage, Great Warley
Benj Gunn                   Head    33      Ag lab                   Dunmow
Martha  "                      Wife    27      Ag lab's wife         Great Warley, Essex
Eliza      "                     Daur      8       Scholar                             "
Lucy       "                      "          7 months                                   "
Josph Monk         Father in law 76    Pauper                               "
Susan Monk        Mother in law 70    Pauper                  Shenfield,           "
Ref HO107; Piece: 1772; Folio: 838
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1861
PARKERS COTTAGES, GREAT WARLEY, ESSEX
BENJAMIN GUNN   LODGER 43 (WIDR)  FARM LAB            GREAT DUNMOW, ESSEX
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1861
10 JOHN'S PLACE, SOUTH OCKENDON, ESSEX
WILLIAM MEAD    HEAD  46                   SOUTH OCKENDON, ESSEX
HARRIET     "        WIFE  48                   LITTLE EASTON,           "
JEREMIAH   "        SON    21                   SOUTH OCKENDON,     "
WALTER      "           "      10                          "                           "
RHODA        "        DAUR  8                            "                           "
LUCY GUNN        NIECE   10                   GREAT WARLEY,           "
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LUCY GUNN.........born Dec qtr....1850...Romford district
JEREMIAH WILLIAM MEAD...born Mar qtr...1840....Orsett district

[king william]

Is there somewhere in this huge Gunn family, a Sarah Gunn who married Thomas Prior in either 1806 or 1808.
It is the Prior family I am chasing up and this Thomas is very likely of the right line.
I see the name of Hatfield Broad Oak mentioned and it fits, in that decades later, in New Zealand, Sarah Westwood who has ancestry from there married Alfred Prior who's ancestry I have possibly got back (with the help of Rootschat friends) to a Thomas Prior who married a Sarah Gunn.
I actually have this question up on the London board but googled the name of Sarah Gunn and up came all this.
If so, it appears that maybe the families of Sarah Westwood and Alfred Prior who married in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1898 knew each other.
King William

[king william]

I am also researching this Gunn family going back from Sarah Gunn  born about 1786, a dau ghter of John Gunn and Ann Bright - and four generations back from her there is a John Gunn who I have seen on some websires as having been born in Cogill, Caithness, Scotland in 1672. He married Elizabeth Barker in 1695 in Little Easton, Essex.
How correct is the Cogill info as i cannot locate it on any map.
Robin

[Bryant]

Hello Robin

I'm the culprit who put most of this info under this one name section 3.5 years ago....just a collection of Gunn's from Essex

My great grandmother being Emma Gunn born 9th August 1850 and Emma being the daughter of George Gunn (born abt 1815 Little Easter, Essex) and Martha Page who married in 1844 South Ockendon.

I lost a lot of data on the Gunn's when I had a lot of problems with a computer I had back then and I haven't looked at the Gunn's since, but somewhere I have a huge family tree on the Gunn's in paper form that someone sent me and I wouldn't have thrown it away, knowing I have it and finding it are somewhat different........

Bryant

[king william]

Bryhant - thank you for your reply - I know the feeling of being overwhelmed by the amount of stuff I collect doing these histories - I often search for something that I know I would never throw away.
Do you have any recollection of where Cogill is or is it the name of a house, or do you think I am safer just to leave the whole family in the Dunmow area.
King William aka Robin

[king william]

Bryant - just another thought - I see Joane Bernard married Daniel Gunn way back in 1635 - could she possibly be descended from the Baynard family of the area and who were there from the earliest records of Dunmow - the name of Bernard could well have once been Baynard.
I have also been reading about the Dunmow Flitch Trials which is very interesting reading
Robin

[Bryant]

I don't recall any Gunn's born Scotland let alone Cogill, Caithness, Scotland but it doesn't look like Cogill is a place?

http://www.caithness.org/atoz/

I note that I have the date of the marriage of George Gunn and Martha Page and also details of witness's, and father's etc....that means I have the marriage cert, yet I haven't re-entered that info on my database

I think I will go Gunn family building as at this moment in time "I know nothing" 

Bryant

[Bryant]

MY FAMILY OF GUNN'S

1850
9th August 1850
My great grandmother Emma Gunn was born in North Stifford, Essex.... father is declared as being George Gunn, mother is declared as being Martha Page
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1844
My great great grandfather George Gunn (born about 1815 Little Easter, Essex) married Martha Page on the 26th October 1844 at South Ockendon........father's declared as being John William  Gunn and Thomas Page.......witnesses were William Mead/John White and Martha Monk.......a lady by the name of Martha Monk married Benjamin Gunn in the March qtr of 1845....Romford district! .......are Benjamin & George brothers?
In the 1841 census George is aged 25 (25-29=25) and he appears to have two brothers living with him in John aged 20 (20-24=20) and Frederick aged 15 (15-19=15)
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1815
2 x great grandfather George Gunn born about 1815
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1813
John William Gunn married Ann Stance on the 27th March 1813
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1795
My 3 x great grandfather John William Gunn was born about 1795.
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1785
My 4 x great grandfather John Gunn married Ann Bright on the 23rd August 1785
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1763
John Gunn was christened 15th July 1763...parents Zacheus & Mary Gunn
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1762
My 5 x great grandfather Zacheus Gunn married Mary Grimstone on the 28th Sept 1762.
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1736
Zacheus Gunn was christened on the 11th July 1736 .....parents Jesse and Mary Gunn.
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1730
Jesse Gunn and Mary Surridge married at Great Dunmow in 1730
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To be continued
Bryant