Watten Gunns, John Gunn Crowner Gunns, Cardiff Gunn ship owner and more; Sinclair Gunn History Supplement 17, 31.3.1903
REVIEW
This Gunn History Supplement is mostly of use for Gunns of Watten genealogy (if Watten genealogy is important see, also, http://clangunn1.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/gunns-of-watten-hastigrew.html ) and for descendants of the John Gunn, third son of the Crowner / Coroner. I like the report on the Irish Gunn family (Rattoo Gunns or ‘theatre Gunns’). The Cardiff ship owner Gunns – Sir John Gunn of Tormsdale and his brother - are mentioned which is nice as they have been forgotten...
A model of one of the Gunn of Cardiff ships is held 'in reserve'
at the Historic Dockyard in Chatham.
(A.H. and E. Gunn were sons of Sir John Gunn and his brother Marcus.)
at the Historic Dockyard in Chatham.
(A.H. and E. Gunn were sons of Sir John Gunn and his brother Marcus.)
KEY PEOPLE / PLACES / PHRASES
· Times 11 February 1893
· Gunns of Reisgill or Swiney, the property of the Gordons, previously the first laird Lieutenant Gordon, notable for the number of his children...
· Margaret Gordon became the wife of Lieutenant Gunn, merchant Swiney, first president of the Gunn Society at Thurso in 1821.
· Lord Low of the Court of Session... on a petition ‘by Miss Ctaherine Gunn of Reisgill, Lybster, Caithness and the other surviving daughters of Lieutenenat Gunn of Reisgill and Mrs Margaret Gordon or Gunn his wife .... under life limitation act for Scotland of 1891, that their brother James Gunn who left this country for New York in or about the year 1855 ... and their brother Peter Macdonald Gunn who went to New South Wales in the year 1870... last heard of in 1875... shall be both presumed to have died...’
· Chicago Tribune 13 July 1893 ‘ Alexander H. Gunn ... Evanston... widow and five children... real estate man’
· The Scottish Canadian 1899... Dr Robert J. Gunn of Whitby, Ontario ‘son of the late Rev. Alex Gunn of Watten... mother was the daughter of the Rev Robert Arthur... Dr. Gunn was born at Watten in Febbruary 1844, educated at private school and the University of Edinburgh... diploma in 1834... practised for some years at Thurso...1842 setlled at Whitby Ontario... thirty years...twice Mayor...J.P.... physician for the jail... 1849 married Agnes Pringle... four children, two dying young and two living... Mrs Mackay Indian head and Mrs J Ball Dow, Whitby.
· The first Rev. Alexander Gunn, Watten, married in or before 180?8 Elizabeth, the second daughter of Rev. Mr Arthur, Resolis, and died in 1836; their family the Rev. Alexander Gunn, Watten, the clan historiographer who died 14th December 1892, born 24th May 1809; Dr Robert, James William and Elizabeth. Rev Alexander, the son, married in 1837 Miss Muroch, Wick and thie family are Alexander in Singapore, married, with male issue, Johnin Java, James in Sumatra, Elizabeth, Janet, Alice and Mary, two of these daughters married, one to Rev Me M’Neill, Tongue, the other to Mr Nicholson, factor, Watten while his sister Elizabeth was the wife of Mr Eric Sinclair M.D., naturalist and antiquary. These Gunns claim to be Robsons or M’Robs.
· John, the third son of the coroner, was the ancestor of the Johnsons or M’Ians, the Bregaul, Cattag, or Dale Gunns, whose representative at the beginning of the last century was Captain John Sinclair, Dale, married at the 30 in 1800 to Anne Davidson, Buckies. Their family were Marcus, born in 1801, died 1806; Elizabeth (mother of the Hon. Principal Miller, Madras), born 1803, died 1892; John, born 1805 died 1839; William, born1806, died 1864; Marcus, born 1808, died 1881; Alexander and James, twins, born 1811; Anne, born 1813; and Margaret, the second daughter, wife of Donald Gunn of Latheron, who must have been born in 1810 or 1813, dying in 1886. Marcus, the fourth son, married Elizabeth Calder, with issue John, Dr Robert, Ellen, Anne. The twin Alexander, Dale, married Catherine Williamson in 1852; their family, John, naturalist, born in 1853, Donald 1855, Alexander 1858, Anne 1863, Christina 1865, William 1874. The other twin James in Sibster married Anne Calder and had John S. William, Ellen, Margaret, Elizabeth, and Jemima. The daughter Anne married Rev. David Ferguson, Westerdale F Church their children William, John, Anne, and Catherine. John in Glendhu, son of Marcus, who became sheep famer of Culgower, Sutherlandshire, married Caroline, daughter of Rev. Charles Thomson, Wick (1794-1871), but died without issue. Ellen Gunn his sister, married James Mitchell; and Anne, the other, William Mitchell, sheep farmer Ribigill.
· Report on Marcus Gunn and his brother Sir John Gunn of Tormsdale 1837-1918 ship owners of Cardiff (on my family tree and discussed in my book http://clangunn1.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/scotland-and-beyond-families-of-donald.html). An excellent other summary beinghttp://www.caithness.org/history/articles/sirjohngunn/index.htm
· ‘Humour’ Alexander Gunn of Edinburgh dismissed for some false report ‘A Gun discharged for making a false report’.
· Captain Gronow’s ‘Reminscences of 1810-1860’ reported on ‘two sisters, the beautiful Misses Gunn’. A Viceroy at Dublin castle ‘admired’ them.... The viceroy was drawn as Robinson Crusoe with a gun upon each shoulder...’ were they of the Gunn Rattoo Irish landlord family or one of famous theatrical proprietors of Dublin...
· Captain Alexaner Gunn... says William Gunn, Achkeepster endorsed a bill for for £80 in 1745 payable to Adam Sutherland, Achinarras, and that he was the noted Big William Gunn who kept an Inn at Achkeepster, grandfather of John Gunn, hotelkeeper, Dublin, whose successors were and are the theatrical people...
· Daily News 1903 ‘Miss Haidee Gunn, the daughter of the late lessee of the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin will start on a provincial tour... Miss Gunn made a promising appearance in Gertrude Lawrence production of ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Haidee Gunn can be found here http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/surnames.sudlow/79.1.1/mb.ashx there can't be more than one with that background and that name...
· Celtic Magazine of 1884 ‘Rory Gunn figuring in ‘A Legend of Girnigoe’... a passage of the life of George, fifth Earl of Caithness... 1635...’ True? Fiction?
· I note the report of the Draughts team after the Supplement; J.D. Gunn and W.N. Gunn played for Watten... Watten lost...