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and Lew is indeed badly missed!

It's always appreciated when posters let us know the outcomes -- thanks for telling us!

Dare I say -- I was right? ;)

A footnote -- it's always good to see Lewella's name. Lew died last year and is missed by us on the boards.

I would like to thank all those members who helped me trace my Ellen Bunnage. She turned out to be the first and illegitmate child of Joseph Bunnage and Sarah Daiseley. Born London as Mary Ann Daiseley and migrated to Australia in 1875 as Mary Ann Bunnage / Burrage on some records. She died from TB in 1878 Maryborough Queensland.
I have had contact with Daiseley/Bunnage descendents via Genes but sadly, none of them knew of Mary Ann's life story.
Many thanks, Katherine

Just wondering:

"She arrived in Australia as Mary Ann Burrage and adopted the name Ellen Mary aged 21 yrs for her marriage certificate 1875."

The 1861 and 1871 households above on this page of the thread have

Mary A Bunnages 16 (1871)
Mary Bennings 7 (1861)
(both = Bunnage)

Is this the family then??


1871 household in Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire:

Arthur Bunnages 2
Elizabeth Bunnages 12
Esther Bunnages 8
James Bunnages 6
Mary A Bunnages 16
Sarah Bunnages 36
Walter Bunnages 4
William Bunnages 10


Search Trees for Bunnage born 1850-1870 in Cambridgeshire -- Walter 1866, e.g., is in several trees here at GR.

Well, blast from the past.

I should note that a PM was received at the time:


From Katherine,
I would like to thank you very much for the time you have spent hepling trying to find my relative Ellen Bunnage. I have just had some addditional more confusing information. The Queensland death certificate shows Ellen Mary O'Hara died 20th May 1878 age 26 yrs Died of TB last seen by a doctor on 17th April, 1878. Parents Joseph Bunnage & Sarah Basley. Born London Middlesex. Arrived in Queensland age 21 years. Marriage certificate also has her as Ellen Bunnage. BUT the Maryborough cemetery register has her buried on the 21st May 1878 as Mary Ann O'Hara.
But all have her being born around 1852. She must have come to Australian around 1873. She should be somewhere on the 1861 or 1871 census records.
She was educated for the time and read and write well, which was rare amongst the Irish immigrants to Queensland at that time. Her O'Hara inlaws could not sign their 1850 Newcastle-upon-Tyne marriage certificate. They could only make their mark, of a crucifix cross.
Thank you again,
Katherine.



JC
KB as was back then

Thank you to all those who took time to help me trace the Bunnage family..
The Australian official records had many mistakes with names and ages etc. The O'Hara family into which she married were illiterate with heavy Geordie accents mixed with Scots and Irish.
My Ellen Bunnage was born the year before Joseph and Sarah's marriage and was a Daisley (written Baisley on all Australian records). She adopted the name Bunnage after her mother's marriage. She arrived in Australia as Mary Ann Burrage and adopted the name Ellen Mary aged 21 yrs for her marriage certificate 1875. She died 3 yrs later from TB as Ellen aged 26 yrs.
The letter she wrote to England located in the Maryborough Historical Society has no donation records relating to this letter.
As none of her Australian family could write I do not think that the Bunnage family in England were ever informed of Ellen's death.
Many Thanks Katherine

There are entirely too many Bunnage men with wives named Sarah born in Potton, Bedfordshire.


This is one, in 1861, and in fact the children look an awful lot like the children in the 1871 household above:


Name: Sarah Bennings -- it says Bunnage
Age: 26
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1835
Relation: Wife
Spouse's Name: John
Gender: Female
Where born: Potton, Bedfordshire, England

Name: John Bennings
Age: 28
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1833
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Sarah
Gender: Male
Where born: Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire, England

Civil Parish: Gamlingay
County/Island: Cambridgeshire
Country: England

Registration district: Caxton
Sub-registration district: Caxton
ED, institution, or vessel: 13
Household schedule number: 154

Eliz Bennings 3
John Bennings 28
Mary Bennings 7
Sarah Bennings 26
William Bennings 7Mo


I'm up to my ... okay, I won't say it ... in Bunnages. I'm going to leave them for now and let you see what you think.

Sarah with the kids in 1871:


Name: Sarah Bunnages
Age: 36
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1835
Relation: Head
Gender: Female
Where born: Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire, England

Civil Parish: Gamlingay
County/Island: Cambridgeshire
Country: England

Registration district: Caxton
Sub-registration district: Caxton
ED, institution, or vessel: 15
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 88

Arthur Bunnages 2
Elizabeth Bunnages 12
Esther Bunnages 8
James Bunnages 6
Mary A Bunnages 16
Sarah Bunnages 36
Walter Bunnages 4
William Bunnages 10


Can I find them in 1861? Not on your bummage I can't.

Just at a loss for finding Sarah, though, in any census.


Oh, finally -- 1881:


Name: Sarah Bunnage
Age: 46
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1835
Relation: Wife
Spouse's Name: Joseph
Gender: Female
Where born: Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire, England

Name: Joseph Bunnage
Age: 47
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1834
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Sarah
Gender: Male
Where born: Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire, England
Condition as to marriage: Married
Occupation: Agl Labr

Street address: Elmdon Road Cottages

Registration district: Linton
Sub-registration district: Duxford

Civil Parish: Ickleton
County/Island: Cambridgeshire
Country: England

Registration district: Linton
Sub-registration district: Duxford
ED, institution, or vessel: 2

Edward Bunnage 13
Elizabeth Bunnage 23
Ellen Bunnage 5
Fanny Bunnage 7
Frederick Bunnage 3
James Bunnage 17
John Bunnage 9
Joseph Bunnage 47
Sarah Bunnage 46
Walter Bunnage 15
William Bunnage 21


But there is a 5-yr-old Ellen!!!!

I'd say: named in memory of your Ellen, but the timing's wrong:


Name: Ellen Bunnage
Year of Registration: 1876
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
District: Linton
County: Cambridgeshire, Essex
Volume: 3b
Page: 546


But that birth cert might at least establish whether these are the parents in question.

Joseph seems to have been a travelling man; I'm going to bet this was him in 1861:


Name: Joseph Buney
Age: 28
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1833
Relation: Lodger
Gender: Male
Where born: Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire, England

Civil Parish: Islington
Ecclesiastical parish: All Saints
County/Island: Middlesex
Country: England

Occupation: Bricklayer's labourer
Condition as to marriage: Married

Registration district: Islington
Sub-registration district: Islington West
ED, institution, or vessel: 50
Household schedule number: 100

Joseph Buney 28
Emma Chapman 33
Leonard Chapman 33

1871:


Name: Joseph Bunnez -- it says Bunneg
Age: 38
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1833
Relation: Foreman
Gender: Male
Where born: Gaudingay, Cambridgeshire, England

Civil Parish: Duxford
Ecclesiastical parish: St John and St Peter
Town: Duxford
County/Island: Cambridgeshire
Country: England

Condition as to marriage: Married

Registration district: Linton
Sub-registration district: Duxford
ED, institution, or vessel: 1
Household schedule number: 213

Emily Blackwill 12
Joseph Bunnez 38
Ellen Hall 16
Maria Hodson 21
Gertrude H Jackson 5 mo
Sarah Jackson 29
Thomas Jackson 31 - head, merchant and innkeeper
Emily Rayner 19
Joseph Russell 28

1851:


Name: Sarah Daisley
Age: 14
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1837
Relation: Daughter
Father's Name: Edward
Mother's Name: Esther
Gender: Female
Where born: Potton, Bedfordshire, England

Civil Parish: Gamlingay
County/Island: Cambridgeshire
Country: England

Registration district: Caxton
Sub-registration district: Caxton
ED, institution, or vessel: 1d
Household schedule number: 21

Ann Daisley 12 <<< Aunt Ann?
Edward Daisley 35
Elizabeth Daisley 10
Esther Daisley 34
Fanny Daisley 4 Mo
John Daisley 4
Mary Daisley 3
Sarah Daisley 14
Susanna Daisley 6

This is the only death that's any match for Joseph:


Name: Joseph Bunnage
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1833
Year of Registration: 1910
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
Age at Death: 77
District: Linton
County: Cambridgeshire, Essex
Volume: 3b
Page: 225


Every single Daiseley birth in the GRO is in Caxton.

Look what I've found:


Marriages Sep 1855
BUNNAGE Joseph Caxton 3b 673
BUNNEG Joseph Caxton 3b 673 (originally mistranscribed?)
Daiseley Sarah Caxton 3b 673


DAISELEY, Basley ... pretty surely.

Caxton is in Cambridgeshire, FreeBMD says.

In the same place as the children in the workhouse, in 1861:


Name: Joseph Bunnage
Age: 28
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1833
Relation: Son
Mother's Name: Ann
Gender: Male
Where born: Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England

Civil Parish: Stevenage
County/Island: Hertfordshire
Country: England

Registration district: Hitchin
Sub-registration district: Baldock
ED, institution, or vessel: 15
Household schedule number: 69

Ann Bunnage 63
John Bunnage 44
George Bunnage 42
William Bunnage 36
Hannah Bunnage 31
Joseph Bunnage 28
James Bunnage 10 - grandson:

Name: James Bunnage
Age: 10
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1851
Relation: Grandson
Father's Name: Joseph
Gender: Male
Where born: Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England


All unmarried children of widowed mother, no indication of whose child the grandson is.

The same family is transcribed as Bromage in 1871.

If Ellen's parents weren't married when she was born:

Name: Ellen Basley
Year of Registration: 1852
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Liverpool (1837-1934)
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8b
Page: 1

There are some interesting Bunnage children in the 1861 census:


Name: Elizabeth Bennage (it says Bunnage)
Age: 8
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1853
Relation: Inmate
Gender: Female
Where born: N

Name: William Bunnage
Age: 10
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1851
Relation: Inmate
Gender: Male
Where born: Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England

Name: Thomas Bunnage
Age: 8
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1853
Relation: Inmate
Gender: Male
Where born: London, England


Civil Parish: Hitchin
Town: Hitchin
County/Island: Hertfordshire
Country: England

Registration district: Hitchin
Sub-registration district: Hitchin
ED, institution, or vessel: Union Workhouse Hitchin


Children in that situation were not necessarily orphans; their parent or parents could have been unable to care for them.

And they would have been prime candidates for being child migrants -- "Home Children" -- sent mainly to Canada and Australia, ostensibly for adoption but usually ending up as domestic or farm labourers.

We have a searchable (though incomplete) on-line database of child migrants in Canada. I don't believe there is a similar facility for Australia.

On a quick check of 1871, I don't see that William Bunnage, but an Elizabeth born c1850 could be that Elizabeth.

There are two Bunnages in the child migrants database for Canada:

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/archivianet/home-children/001015-100.01-e.php

but both are later.

Just some musings for the moment.

Suzi Wong,
Thank you for checking the marriage records for me. It could be possible that Joseph Bunnage and Sarah Basley were not married. Although the O'Hara side were strict RC's, it dosen't mean that the Bunnage family were. My source of information re Ellen Bunnage's parents was her buriel register in Maryborough Queensland. Regards, Katherine

Hi Sylvia,
Many thanks for checking the census. I don't have access to them. Still awaiting reply from Maryborough Historical Society regarding donation source of Ellen's letter, may give me a clue to location in England.
THanks, Katherine

Hi Lew,
Will try to get copy of govt marriage certifcate. Have tried for, but all the local Maryborough church records were lost / washed away in the disasterous Queensland floods of 1893. Brisbane was devasted by the same floods. Regards, Katherine