Hi, I am new to this list. Can anyone help me find out more about James Wm DUNN and his family. (I believe he may be the father of my -great- great-grandfather also James William Dunn.) This entry comes from Birmingham Census: (Reel 13) 1861 Census Boats laying at Worcs Wharf:Is it the Worcs 1861 Census. 'The Mary of Birmingham' 25 tons. canal boat - timber. JAMES William DUNN M aged 34, Master - born Glous. I have the 1851 Census for Glous and I've found several DUNN's all of whom are entred as 'Boatman' born Glous: They could be the same James and his brothers - although according to the 1861 entry James should really be aged 24 not 19 - but we can allow for the discrepancy. 1962 1851 CENSUS HO107/1962 FF.0363 - 0387 ED.2C SOUTH HAMLET Piece: 1962 Folio: 0381 Schedule: 128 Address: Back Of Pound - DUNN Mary HD W 60 - (MOTHER?) - - (c1791) DUNN John SO U 22 Waterman GLS Glo'ster (c1829) (Brother) Henry DUNN Waterman U/M aged 23 is a patient at the Infirmary, Southgait Street, South Hamlet, Glouscester City. James DUNN is visiting in Gloucester: 1962 1851 CENSUS HO107/1962 FF.0041 - 0066 ED.2 ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST Piece: 1962 Folio: 0064 Schedule: 170 Address: Mitre Street,41 BUSSELL Caroline HD U 21 Laundress GLS Uley (c1830) CROSS Elizabeth VR U 20 Laundress GLS Gloucester (c1831) MATTHEWS Sarah VR U 27 Laundress YKS York (c1824) KILMISTER Eliza VR U 22 Laundress GLS Cirencester (c1829) DUNN James VR U 19 Waterman GLS Gloucester (c1832) What would a red-blooded 19 year old being doing visiting 4 fancy free and presumably, nubile laundresses, I ask myself? Or is 41 Mitre Street what I suspect it is..... Mind you, James seems to be the only visitor, so may he really have been there to have his collar starched;)!! The again, perhaps the good burgesses and gents of the town scarpered at the approach of the Enumerator with his ink pot! There are more watery DUNN's on the 1851 Census for Glous: I suspect these are headed by James DUNN Fisherman aged 73 in Tirley (Deerhurst District). His wife was Ann aged 65 and there sons may have been: Edward DUNN aged 33 HD Boatman born Tirley Joseph DUNN aged 26 Boatman b. Tirley. There is also Samuel DUNN aged 50, Waterman, born Marston Wilts, who was in 1851 a prisoner in the County Gaol in Glous. I don't know which bunch if any he might belong to - perhaps an uncle to the other younger watermen. (The Source for all these entries was the GFHS CD 1851 Glous Census). This is what I know of my great-great grandfather: Also James William DUNN (born abt 1850?). Married a Mary Jane and had several children, none of whom I can find on the UK census 1881!!! Their daughter, my great grandmother was Elizabeth Mary DUNN who married James William DENNING in Bristol in 1903. James William was dead by the time of the marriage - he's said to have died of TB - merely entered on the certificate as 'labourer - deceased'. Elizabeth DUNN was born about 1882, and her brother Joseph DUNN witnessed the marriage in Bristol. But I cannot find the family anywhere else in the UK. So I wonder whether they were so elusive because they were waterman. Mary Jane was said to have come from Eccles, but again I have not found her on the Lancs List - maybe because she was the daughter of a waterman? She was born in 1853, unfortunately, I do not have a maiden name. After her husband died she remarried, George BALCH of Somerset and died in Honiton Devon, in 1944 aged 91. So far James Wm DUNN master of 'Mary of Birmingham' is my only lead from here...... I'd be delighted to hear from anyone with links to the DUNN family of Glous or anyone who could help find his family - possibly in Birmingham in 1861. TIA. Lisa GLS/ - Wasley, Marshall/Jeenes (Alstone) , Jaynes/Webb (Alderton), Green, Tovey, Pearson.. Bristol - Denning, Morgan, Thomas. DEV - ( Buckfastleigh/Ugboro') Adams, Stentaford, Willcocks. System AV protected. Plain Text.