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Dunne's from Kings County, Ireland & Quebec

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Dunne's from Kings County, Ireland & Quebec

Mike Crawford  (View posts) Posted: 11 Jun 2009 10:17PM GMT
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Surnames: dunne
I'm trying to research the Dunne side of my family, as much of it is unknown. My great-grandmother, Ann Patricia Dunne was born 1887 in Ireland and had a younger brother named Tom who was born 1895 in Kings/Offaly. They also had a sister named Winnifred and a brother named Jerry/Gerry (probably a nickname) and their father was Denis Dunne, mothers name unknown.

The majority of information I have comes from Tom, as he served in WW1. His memorial page is: http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=collection... and someone posted a black and white picture of him and wrote he came to Canada in 1911 with two sisters. I'm assuming those sisters were my great-grandmother and Winnifred.

Tom was killed in action in 1916 and his page also states his father was deceased when Tom died. The page seems to suggest his mother is "D Dunne", but I think it's a mistake. They mistakenly have his DOB as 1885 and 1895 elsewhere, but it is 1895. He wrote "D Dunne" was his father (next of kin) on his attestation papers, so his father probably died between 1914 and 1916 in Ireland.

We know Winnifred moved to Vancouver at some point and anyone alive know doesn't remember hearing much about my great-grandmothers family. I'm fairly certain some or all of them moved to England years later. We also have a small autograph book which shows my g-grandmother visited England in 1921 (assuming she originally came in 1911) and came back to Canada on the SS Victorian in January.

I have pored over sites and everything I can find, but I haven't found any passenger lists (including on Canada Collections) or any links to the other Dunne's in Ireland/England or Vancouver. Any help is appreciated, thank you.

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