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Patrick Dunn (View posts)
Posted: 11 Nov 2000 12:00PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Dunn, Dunne, Going, Olmstead, Pickard, Henderson, McDermott, Carroll, Henry, Burns
Looking for any information on the Dunn families of Michael and Catherine in the early 1830's and on. Early Dunns in the Oxford County region......
Note the web site to get more information on the families..
http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/users/d/u/n/Patrick-J-Dun...

Re: the Dunn families

Betty Allen (View posts)
Posted: 27 Mar 2003 4:01AM GMT
Classification: Query
I am researching the Pickard family in Oxford County, and its connection to my Grt Grt Grndfather, James Algernon Pickard in Perth County, Ont. His son Jeremiah Pickard said to have married his 3rd (?) cousin in Ingersoll - Margaret Pickard. Need to find proof. Have a Margaret Pickard marrying Nicholas P Dunn from the Woodstock Library online vital stats - need to know her parents.
It would seem we have a connection.
Betty

Re: the Dunn families

Posted: 26 Jun 2005 10:57PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Brown, Dunn, Hillman, Orum, Patience
Hello Patrick.

My aunt & uncle Nelson "Nels" Lewis Ambrose (1910 - 1999) & Katherine "Kate" Priscilla (1915 - 2001) (nee Patience) Orum lived & farmed on the North Half, Lot 12, Concession 2 of North Oxford Tp., Oxford Co., Ontario starting in 1947 until 2001. This ca. 100 acre farm latered named by my uncle to Palomino Farms was purchased from Hilton Gregg or Craig in about March 1947.

The road running north and south in front of their farm was called Dunn or Dunns Road and this side road started at Govenor's Road in the north (later named to Ontario Highway # 2 , Thamesford to Woodstock) to Ontario Highway # 19 in the south while passing through the Town of Ingersoll.

Dunns Public School was located and partitioned off of the south-east corner of their farm probably well before 1947.

Their neighbours on the north-east side/corner of Dunns Rd. were Peter "Pete" and Allen Dunn who lived with their widowed mother and on the adjacent farm south of the Dunn brothers farm lived their aunt & uncle Mr. & Mrs Herbert "Herb" Dunn southward next to Powerline Rd.

The North Oxford Cheese Factory that was owned & operated by Mrs. Mackenzie or McKenzie was located and partitioned off of the north-west corner of the Dunn brothers farm.

Other nearby neighbours included Charles Furtney, John Greenwood, James Mutter, Dr. James Gill, Mr. & Mrs. Barnham / Barnhem, Stanley Brown, Mr. & Mrs. Hacker, Mervin & George Cuthbert, Doug & Merle Harvey, Pat Huston, Pat Quinn, Tom Comiskey, Clare Milner, Pat & James Hanlon, Pat Shannon or the Shannon brothers, James Patterson or Patterson brothers, etc.

The Dunn brothers had a nephew named Patrick "Pat" Dunn who lived in Ottawa, ON who used to visit them and his grandmother Mrs. Dunn during the summer holidays from about 1955-65.

Patrick, I was wondering if you are the same person that I used to play with when we were young boys ??

I discovered from one of your earlier postings that you may live in Saskatchewan now ??

Also one of my mother's George Brown b. 1819 ancestors married a Dunn family member as referenced in an earlier posting as follows:

http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/an/localities.nort...

4.3 George BROWN b. 1819
+ Frances HILLMAN and they had at least (9) children:

Henry, William, Thomas, John, Mary, Martha, Frances, Priscilla, George Dymore BROWN

5.1 Henry BROWN b. 1839
+ Janet DUNN

Cheers from Gerald in Burlington, ON

Re: Dunn Families of Oxford & Norfolk Co.

Posted: 3 Aug 2005 10:58PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Dunn, Wilson, Helmer, Sutherland, Revell, Kerr, Brown, Comiskey, Patience, Forbes, Hammond, Pounds, Cartmale, Hutchison, Stephenson, Richardson, Ranney, Patterson, Jenvey
Here is a reference reply to a posting that I posted to the surname DUNN message board that I feel needs to be posted here at the Oxford message board to help other DUNN researchers as follows:

Subject: Dunn Families of Ontario & Alberta

Ref. URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/5538/surnames.dunn...

Hello Terry - I found another Joseph Dunn from Calgary, Alberta, Canada who might be related to you somehow at the Norfolk Genealogy website (Norfolk County, Simcoe, Ontario) as there are about 20 DUNN B-M-D entries listed there:

Ref. URL: http://www.nornet.on.ca/~jcardiff/index1.html

Dunn -- Joseph Dunn of Calgary married Miss Florence M. Wilson of Simcoe, 3 Aug 1910 at home of her brother-in-law, Mr. Helmer, of Simcoe [BC19100817p4] BC = British Canadian Newspaper

Another excellent source for learning more about the DUNN families of Oxford County, Ontario are the Woodstock Public Library's Local History Collection (HALINET) where the newspapers are held on microfilm; and the Oxford County Historical and Genealogical Society at ocbogs"at"oxford.net.

Search for DUNN where about 134 entries were found there at:

Ref. URL: http://www.woodstock.library.on.ca/searchindex/search.asp

Another excellent source for learning more about the DUNN families of Oxford County, Ontario is the Oxford County Library (Ingersoll, Ontario) where there are several DUNN family members mentioned in the book (currently out of print) entitled: History of North Oxford Township: 1867-1967, compiled by the North Oxford Centennial Project Committee in 1967.

Members of the historical committee included: Miss Jean Sutherland, James Revell, Mrs. William Kerr, Stanley Brown, Thomas Comiskey, Mr. and Mrs. Alwyn Patience, James Forbes, Wallis Hammond, Mrs. George Pounds, Mrs. R. Cartmale, Arthur Hutchison, Harry Stephenson, E. J. Richardson, D. W. Ranney.

Ref. URL: http://www.ocl.net/genealogy/historynorthoxford.shtml

Please see Reference Index Page 5 of 16 where there is mentioned Dunn Road, Dunn's School, Dunn's Community (General History) and Dunn's Cheese Factory (It was later named the North Oxford Cheese Factory) along with the following Dunn family members: A. Dunn, Andrew Dunn, Charles Dunn, H. P. Dunn, Michael Dunn, Peter Dunn, Stanley Dunn, Thomas Dunn and William Dunn at:

Ref. URL: http://www.ocl.net/genealogy/HistoryofNorthOxford.pdf

I hope that the listing of the search engines mentioned above will help you and other DUNN family researches from England, Ireland & Scotland who are trying to locate other DUNN family members in CANADA !!!

Cheers from Gerald in Ontario, Canada

Re: the Dunn families

Posted: 13 Jul 2010 2:56PM GMT
Classification: Query
An update to the previous site has been made, with a new email contact address....

http://www.genealogy.com/users/d/u/n/Patrick-Dunn/

Re: the Dunn families

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 5:07PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Dunn Noble
Does anyone recognize the names Joseph Thomas Dunn married to Joyce Noble in 1949 in Vancouver, BC then moved to Calgary, Alberta in 1954?

Re: the Dunn families

Posted: 17 Apr 2014 4:17AM GMT
Classification: Query
Much of what has gone before in this thread is accurate. In 2008, my partner Kathy Dunn and I went back to Ingersoll to look into the ancestry. The immigrant Dunn name came with William Dunn who came from Scotland (others in the family have all the details). William Dunn started the Cheese factory. All that is visible now is the foundation, then under a pile of logs when we drove into the driveway. While they started out over here Scottish, the line switched to be more Irish. I think that was with the marriage to Annie Agnew by one of William Dunn's sons, John if memory serves.

Many of them, including William and his wife, are buried in the Ingersoll cemetery. A descendant who knew the whole history lives in Ingersoll. His name is Alan Dunn and he is a very nice man. He knew where the whole line was buried.

Kathie's grandfather was David Dunn. He was born in Ingersoll and ended up in Regina where he took up with a beautiful daughter of a church minister there. They had several children, he got locked up in the States, where some of the children were born, in the Prohibition times, and then came back to Canada and got married. He ended up with a brother Herb working on the Alaska pipeline and died from an insulin coma after a rescue flight got him to Anchorage too late. He is buried in Anchorage. His son Don was my father in law. He passed away in Salmon Arm eight months ago. His other son Doug passed away in Alberta about three or four years ago, and his daughter Dorothy passed in Langley about the same time.

Re: the Dunn families

Posted: 9 Jun 2015 7:41PM GMT
Classification: Query
My great Grandparents were Michael and Catherine Dunn. I would be interested in sharing information.

Re: the Dunn families

Posted: 9 Jun 2015 7:44PM GMT
Classification: Query
My grandparents were Nicholas P Dunn and Margaret Pickard. Interested in sharing information..
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