Philip Dunn

ID# 2438, (c 1827-1855)
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Descendants of Martin Dunn (died c 1847)
2nd great-granduncle of Faye Louise Doyle
     Philip Dunn was born about 1827 in Co Wexford, IrelandG.1,2 He was the son of Martin Dunn and Sarah Keating.1 He immigrated to South Crosby Twp, Leeds & Grenville County, Ontario, with his mother, Sarah Keating, and siblings in the late 1840s.1,3 He was a lock laborer at Jones Falls in 1850. In August 1850, lockmaster Peter Sweeney quarelled with Philip and his brother Michael about the attentions they were paying to a daughter of Peter's friend John Smith.3,1 He drowned in 1855 while working on a steamboat in the St Lawrence River near Brockville, Leeds & Grenville County, Ontario.1 He was never married.1

Census Records

YearPlaceHead of Household
1851South Crosby Twp, Leeds County, OntarioPhilip Dunn4
Last Edited=8 Apr 2021

Citations

  1. [S297] Susan Warren, Hub of the Rideau - a History of South Crosby Township (Township of South Crosby: The Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee, 1997).
  2. [S89] 1851 Census (Crosby South, Leeds, Canada West), Library & Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario C-11733, Philip Dunn family.
  3. [S2073] Ken W. Watson, editor, The Sweeney Diary: The 1839-1850 Journal of Lockmaster Peter Sweeney (Smiths Falls, ON: Friends of the Rideau, 2008).
  4. [S89] 1851 Census (Crosby South, Leeds, Canada West), Library & Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario C-11733, Phiip Dunn family.