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John Dunn

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Facts and Events

Name	John Dunn
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	13 Feb 1802	Bondleigh, Devon, England
Marriage		Englandto Anne Rowe
Will^[2]		Mount Barker, South Australia, Australiapublished in The Advertiser, 29 Oct 1894
Death`^?`	13 Oct 1894	Mount Barker, South Australia, Australia

References

↑ Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry
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John DUNN, of Mount Barker, near Adelaide, South Australia, J. P.; b. at Bondleigh, co. Devon, 13th February 1802; m. first Anne, daughter of Captain Rowe, ...
Mr. Dunn m. secondly 27th February 1872, Janet, eldest daughter of the late John Williams.

Mr. Dunn emigrated to South Australia with his family in 1840, and is therefore one of the pioneers of that colony. He was the first mill-owner in South Australia.

His father, Charles Dunn, migrated from the midlands to Devonshire, where he was engaged in farming pursuits, and d. in 1846, the same year as his wife Tamsen.
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↑ Will is very lengthy. Some of the people named are:
Wife Jane; brother William Dunn, deceased; brother Charles Dunn, deceased; brother George Dunn, deceased; brother Richard Dunn, deceased; brother Henry Dunn; Maria widow of brother Edmund Dunn; nephew George Dunn; nephew Herbert Dunn; niece wife of Abraham Walters; sister Elizabeth Bennett, deceased; nephew Thomas Paltridge; nephew John Paltridge; niece Mary McKenzie, widow of Roderick McKenzie, deceased; son John Dunn, deceased; daughter Elizabeth Paltrige of Mount Gambier, widow of William Paltridge; Elizabeth Dunn, widow of son John Dunn; Mary Dunn, widow of son William Henry Dunn, deceased; grandson Frederick William Dunn, eldest son of son John Dunn, deceased; daughter Mary Ann, widow of William Hill, deceased;