Tim Sunter's family history

A web log of my family history research

Census

Whodunnit? The mystery deepens as new suspect emerges…

So perhaps it was Charles Hull Sunter (a la Snowball family website) after all.  Jane is working as a servant at the Hull family each year.  The lads in the house could have been the suspects…but then there’s the Hull who lives a few doors away. Could there be more Hull family in the area […]

…and now what was Isabella doing in 1881

Now I’ve returned to the 1881 census.  As noted previously Joseph doesn’t seem to appear on this census.  But a search for his wife Isabella reveals that she has moved to West Derby, Lancashire and is living at 106 Edge Lane. The census entry reads: Isabella Sunter, head, 31, Milk Dealer William Sunter, son, 9, scholar, […]

1841 Census William Sunter

1841 Census This is the earliest Census data availalbe.  It is 1841 and again the Sunter family is strong in Lodge Green. Thomas Sunter, 60, Lead miner Mary Sunter, 60 Thomas Sunter, 30, Lead miner Christopher Sunter,25 Lead miner William Sunter,  15, Lead miner Ruth Peacock 15   There has to be a question mark […]

1851 William Sunter

…and so we head towards the end of the trawl through the Sunter tree via the census. Here is the 1851 Sunter family: William Sunter, head, 27, Grocer and Drapers, Gunnerside abt 1824 Hannah Sunter, wife, 26, Blades Thomas Sunter, son, 6, scholar, Lodge Green James Sunter, Son, 4, scholar, Lodge Green Joseph Sunter, 2, […]

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