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Biography

William Dunk was born circa 1817 in Northiam, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom and died 27 November 1872 Young-street, Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia of unspecified causes. He married Eliza Packham (c1818-1881) 14 August 1836 in Northiam, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom.


Children


Offspring of William Dunk and Eliza Packham (c1818-1881)
Name Birth Death Joined with
Mary Eliza Dunk (c1840-c1920)
Elizabeth Ellen Dunk (1840-1913)
Hannah Dunk (1841-1863) 10 December 1841 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 25 February 1863 Redfern, New South Wales, Australia
Rebecca Dunk (c1843)
Delia Dunk (c1845)
Louisa Dunk (c1847-1910)
William Henry Dunk (c1848-1934) 1848 Enfield, New South Wales, Australia 17 April 1934 St. John's Hospital, Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia Agnes Mary Hudson (c1842-1927)
Emily Jane Dunk (-1896)
George Dunk (c1851-1901)
Henry Dunk (c1852-1892)
Sophia Dunk (1854-1921)
Samuel Dunk (1856-1857) 1856 Concord, New South Wales, Australia 1857 Concord, New South Wales, Australia
Benjamin Thomas Dunk (1859-1942) 1859 Chippendale, New South Wales, Australia 25 February 1942 Wyong, New South Wales, Australia Mary Louise Manwaring (c1859-1938)


Confusion of families

Please be aware that there were two couples William and Eliza Dunk in New South Wales around the same time and many people have their trees and details mixed. The husbands came from the same district (Rother) in East Sussex. (They could have been cousins, but we do not yet know whether they were related.) Both couples had sons called William Henry Dunk, just to add to the confusion. See the disambiguation page William Dunk (disambiguation)!

  • William Dunk (c1817-1872) married Eliza Packham (c1818-1881) on 14 Aug 1836 in Northiam, East Sussex, England. They arrived in Australia on the Amelia Thompson in July 1838. Two young daughters (Mary Ann and Harriett) had died on the voyage. William Dunk and Eliza Packham settled in the Redfern area, had a dozen more children, and are both buried at St Thomas's Church Cemetery in Enfield NSW.
  • William Henry Dunk (1821-1901) arrived in New South Wales on 26 October 1839 on the Florist with his parents. He married Eliza Barker (c1844-1933) in 1861 at Camden, where he eventually died.


Footnotes (including sources)

‡ General
¶ Death
  • BDM Index ref for death: 2495/1872
  • On the 27th November, at his son-in-law's residence, Young-street, Surry Hills, late of Botany Road, Mr. WILLIAM DUNK, aged 55 years, leaving a wife and ten affectionate children to lament their loss.
Deaths, The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 December 1872, page 1.
§ Remains
  • with wife Eliza Packham



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