A web log of my family history research
1932 Jane Emma Sunter marriage Originally uploaded by timsunter Christmas Eve, 1932 – at 21 years old Auntie Jennie gets married to Uncle Jim Matthews in Solihull. Jim is an ‘ashman’ by occupation. Interesting to note that one of the witnesses is Robert Main. Research from Durham Record Office indicated that Jennie was placed […]
Sunter, Charles – 1907 Workhouse Entry Originally uploaded by timsunter At 5 minutes past 8 on Christmas Eve 1907, Charles Sunter entred the Middlesbrough workhouse. The entry lists Charles as a labourer, a Wesleyan, and living at the home of his sister in Thornaby. It appears that Charles was not well at the time as […]
Amazing…great great grandparents Hannah Gardiner and Thomas Dyer get married Q4 1841 at Stratford on Avon. They were boat people. On the waterways history website is “The story of the Gardner family”. This has a Joseph Gardner and an Elizabeth Dyer marrying in Q4 the year before…at Startford. Seems the families were very close http://virtualwaterways.co.uk/The_Story_of_the_Gardner_Family.html
County archives now confirm that Lofty entered children’s home in January 1921 (his three siblings had been admitted a year earlier). On 8th December 1931 he was moved to Medomsley Cottage Homes from where he was discharged from ‘Daisy House’, to Church Army Training Farm, Hempstead on 25 June 1934. He seems to have been […]
Previously held theory of Charles Sunter having died in hospital in 1918 in Scotland has been disproved. News from the Durham archives shows that from February to July 1920 he was alive and well…and in Durham Prison, for amongst other things stealing two horse rugs.
http://www.pendletoday.co.uk/columnists/Flashback-to-halcyon-years-of.4449797.jp
16th June 2009…some interesting thoughts from Rick McGarry on the life of Joseph Sunter. What were the goings on in Bishops Auckland in the early 1880s? Did the Hulls do something decent for Jane Snowball? Read on… Re Joseph SUNTER (b.1849). I am a little puzzled about Joseph SUNTER. As you know, he was born at […]
From Durham Records Office, 16th June 2009: Dear Mr. Sunter, Further to your telephone call to this Office today I have established that a William Sunter, born 1917, son of Charles and Emma, was admitted to Stockton Union Children’s Homes in January 1921. As discussed over the telephone, if you require any further searches of […]
Both the birth and death certificates for Lofty’s mother Emma arrived today, and, as ever there is some sadness.
1901, Who, What , Where, When What our ancestors were up to according to the 1901 Census…