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Family of Sarah Dunn

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Unknown

Unknown Report 27 Jul 2018 22:07

Have now got marriage certificate of Dennis Dunn and Mary Ann Kelly and his father is James Dunn (butcher)
It seems that Dennis married 3 times.

Unknown

Unknown Report 25 Jul 2018 22:46

It is also looking increasingly like Dennis Dunn married 3 times. Catherine Gallagher, Ann Gibson and Mary Ann Kelly.

Unknown

Unknown Report 25 Jul 2018 07:36

It is looking like Catherine Gallagher died 1846 there is also a death for 7 week old child named Catherine 1846. Could she have died during or shortly after childbirth.

Unknown

Unknown Report 22 Jul 2018 23:07

I think Margaret Gallagher could have been her sister. Thanks will check this out.
Thanks Kusinta

Unknown

Unknown Report 22 Jul 2018 23:04

Kusinta
Dennis is on the 1851 census so 1847 death can't be him, but I couldn't find him on 1861

Kucinta

Kucinta Report 22 Jul 2018 00:14

The witnesses at the marriage of Dennis Dunn and Sarah Gallagher in 1832 were Thomas Parry , the mark of Margaret Gallagher and what looks like Dennis Dunn.

Groom Dennis Dunn signed the register, and bride Catherine Gallagher made her mark. As I said before, Dennis was a weaver and a bachelor, Catherine was a spinster, both 'of this parish'.

Source: Manchester, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1930 (Cathedral)

Unknown

Unknown Report 21 Jul 2018 20:46

I've found Dennis Dunn died 1857 dec quarter age 46 Manchester which makes his birth about 1811. Which could be my Dennis.

Unknown

Unknown Report 21 Jul 2018 19:45

Yes I went o n to see if there was anymore information like witness names that I could tie in to the family.
The family they were with on 1841 census was a Mary Welsh who was born in Ireland 1773/1777. Wondered if she may have been a relative.

Dea

Dea Report 21 Jul 2018 10:56

It's on Ancestry and Kucinta gave the details from the entry above.

Dea x

Unknown

Unknown Report 21 Jul 2018 10:33

Have just looked at Lancashire online records and for the church Dennis married Catherine and the record's for 1832 are missing.

Unknown

Unknown Report 21 Jul 2018 10:18

I think that maybe Catherine did die so that isn't her on 1861 census. It could be her death in 1846 then he 're married 3 years later to Mary Ann. The 2 girls were going Sarah would have been 13/14 and Jane about 9. I have found a Dennis Dunn on 1851 census so don't think the death for 1847 can be right.
If not and Catherine was alive I'm going in the wrong direction.
Wendy

Kucinta

Kucinta Report 21 Jul 2018 09:28

Possible death for Catherine, aged 37, in 1846:

DUNN, CATHARINE 37
GRO Reference: 1846 M Quarter in MANCHESTER Volume 20 Page 442

Kucinta

Kucinta Report 21 Jul 2018 09:18

A death for a Dennis Dunn in Manchester (if widowed Catherine in 1861 is correct)

DUNN, DENNIS 50
GRO Reference: 1847 D Quarter in MANCHESTER Volume 20 Page 691

Age is roughly right.

Unknown

Unknown Report 21 Jul 2018 09:14

Shirley the marriage in 1849 looks promising. Catherine could have died between 1841 to 1849.
Thanks
Wendy

Unknown

Unknown Report 21 Jul 2018 09:12

Thanks also Dea
Didn't know if there were 2 Dennis Dunns as the birth dates differ in the census records.
Regards
Wendy

Kucinta

Kucinta Report 21 Jul 2018 09:09

Sorry, had added the birth of Jane to the Gallagher marriage post at same time as Dea was posting it.

Unknown

Unknown Report 21 Jul 2018 09:06

Thanks kusinta
I wondered whether he had married twice, but didn't know if they were 2 different families. On the 1841 census they were with a family called Welch.
But these dates seem to fit.
Thanks
Wendy

Dea

Dea Report 21 Jul 2018 09:04

That could well be his marriage to Catherine - I had been looking at a different birth for Jane but I am now drawn towards this one:#

DUNN, JANE GOLLOHER Order
GRO Reference: 1841 M Quarter in MANCHESTER Volume 20 Page 601

The mmname could easily be a mistranscription of Gallagher?

Dea x

Kucinta

Kucinta Report 21 Jul 2018 08:58

Marriage to a Catherine?

Name: Dennis Dunn
Marriage Date: 22 Jan 1832
Parish: Manchester, St Mary, St Denys and St George
Spouse's Name: Catherine Gallagher
Archive Roll: 699

Dennis was a bachelor and weaver. Catherine a spinster.

EDIT:

Birth Of sarah's sister Jane aged 5 months in census 1841?

DUNN, JANE GOLLOHER
GRO Reference: 1841 M Quarter in MANCHESTER Volume 20 Page 601

Kucinta

Kucinta Report 21 Jul 2018 08:54

Another possible marriage? Only Ann not mary Ann though

Name: Dennis Dunn
Marriage Date: 2 Aug 1846
Parish: Manchester, St Mary, St Denys and St George
Father's name: James Dunn
Spouse's Name: Ann Gibson
Spouse's Father's Name: John Rock
Archive Roll: 713

Both were widowed. Dennis was a weaver of Rochdale Road son of James Dunn a butcher. her father was John Rock a weaver.