Mary Bunn(e)y (MMMMFM)

[Sue from Southend]

Name - Mary (Ann) Bunney
Date and place of birth - c1787
Names of parents - William Bunney and Mary ?
Date and place of baptism - see below
Details of each of his or her marriages - Thomas Dawes Piercy, 23 Nov 1808, St Dunstan's Stepney, Middlesex
Occupation(s) - possibly Silk Weaver
Addresses where they lived -
1808 - 1823 various addresses, Shoreditch, Middlesex
1826 - Foleshill, Warwickshire (possibly, see below)
1832 - Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, Middlesex
I can't find her or Thomas on 1841
Date, place and cause of death - 2 Jan 1851, John St, Spitalfields. Disease of the womb.
Date and place of burial unknown
Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
Memorial inscription - if any

Link to To3g http://genealogistsforum.co.uk/forum...ad.php?t=10452

Note: I always thought that Mary was the daughter of John and Elisabeth Bunny bapt 1786 in St Leonards, Shoreditch (her 2nd daughter was an Elisabeth). Then I found the baptism of a child, William Piercy 1826 in Foleshill Warwickshire to a Thomas and Mary Piercy, Thomas occ ribbon Weaver (my Thomas was a silk weaver) and as it was a baptism in a Wesleyan Chapel the names of the maternal grandparents were given as William and Mary Bunney. Paternal grandparents not given. So now I'm in a quandary - it's such a huge coincidence that there might be 2 couples Thomas Piercy and Mary Bunn(e)y with th e same occupation. If I could find them in 1841 I might at least have an idea whether she was born in Middlesex or not!

[Sue from Southend]

I was just about to post this when I realised that on one them Mary signs her name (as Mary Ann) and on the other she makes her mark, which is what she did on her marriage. Now I'm wondering if there are two Thomas and Marys about but I've been over the baptisms and they all look OK. I was always confident that Mary Susanna was their child as Thomas' mother's name was Susanna.


Mary witnesses a few of her children's marriages - Mary Susanna 1836 http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?h...c=&pid=6411166


Maria 1832 http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?h...c=&pid=6400662