Information for my book

Update - 1/10/23

I feel I am making some but steady progress.  I have travelled around the work and back, several times on this journey.  (Plus another move of house, hopefully not another for a while!)  When I have need a break from writing, I have been working on tree charts - some which I would like to include in the book if the pricing is ok.  

By the time I'm done with the initial research / draft, I will have a heap more new records to fill some gaps.  I am finding new people every day.

Remember, if you want to contribute - please let me know.  If you have any questions, feel free to contact me through the contact form here, or directly via email at gcnash74@gmail.com

Some new names added to my list:

Bunston          Nash          Morris          Peadon          Gavins          Ousley          Larson
Fairlie          McGarry          Cowley          Bailey          Doxsey          Ridgway          Roberts
East          Hurford          Bond          Luck          Reyland          McColl          Wilkie          Cairns
Robertson          Kellett          Thompson            Rodford            Sandiford    Sams    Bryant    Burton

Chant        Whyte        Langdon        Robins        Davies

Update - 9/6/22

I finally finished typing the notes I had written - 4 note books worth and over 90k words... Still haven't got to my direct line yet. I may need to make two volumes!  Full time work and life in general do get in the way of writing.  However, progress is continuing and I have plans now on how I want the finshed product to look.

Remember, if you want to contribute - please let me know.  If you have any questions, feel free to contact me through the contact form here, or directly via email at gcnash74@gmail.com

Some of the Surnames that feature in the book are listed below.

Bunston          Nash          Morris          Peadon          Gavins          Ousley          Larson
Fairlie          McGarry          Cowley          Bailey          Doxsey          Ridgway          Roberts
East          Hurford          Bond          Luck          Reyland          McColl          Wilkie          Cairns
Robertson          Kellett          Thompson            Rodford            Sandiford    Sams    Bryant    Burton

Update - 26/2/22

Still a work in progress, but it is progressing.  A lot of time has been spent on the chart, typing up notes, researching and finding photos and things of interest.

150 pages in and still going - it will be worth the wait, I just hope people are still interested.

If anyone is interested in contributing with information / stories / photos etc. rest assured that your name will be added to my list of acknowledgements.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me through the contact form here, or directly via email at gcnash74@gmail.com

Update - 17/2/21

Well, the book is still a work in progress.  I have decided to cut it back and will not be writing about people born after WWII.  Given the size of the book so far, I am actually thinking of going back to WWI.

There will be a family tree chart included in the book as well.  It is all very exciting, but a long process with work and family thrown into the mix.

It will be done one day, I promise!

Hi readers!

I am currently working on a book about the Bunston Family and their descendants.  It is a follow up to the one I compiled back in 2000 - The Bunston Family: Past and Present.

The book is becoming huge! I'm still only working on the first draft and have a long way to go.

Apart from the Bunston name, other names that feature in the book are listed below.  Note that the list will grow as more of the story unfolds.  The family has spread far and wide, throughout the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand (so far).

If anyone is interested in contributing with information / stories / photos etc. rest assured that your name will be added to my list of acknowledgements.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me through the contact form here, or directly via email at gcnash74@gmail.com

I'm looking forward to hearing from everyone interested.

Bunston          Nash          Morris          Peadon          Gavins          Ousley          Larson
Fairlie          McGarry          Cowley          Bailey          Doxsey          Ridgway          Roberts
East          Hurford          Bond          Luck          Reyland          McColl          Wilkie          Cairns
Robertson          Kellett          Thompson            Rodford            Sandiford

Esther Emma Peadon

 

A small piece taken from my upcoming book - Bunston Family Revisited 

Esther was born in Lincoln around June, 1877.  She was just three years old at the time of the 1881 census.  At the time, she was living with her parents and sisters at 18 Stanley Street, St Botolph.

 Ten years later, Esther was now 13 and she worked as a domestic for her parents, helping her mother with the five younger children.  The family still lived in Stanley Street.  By 1901 Esther had moved out of her family home and the 22-year-old was now employed as a general servant for Frederick and Rebecca Belton.  They lived in Southport, Lancashire at 133 Duke Street.

 On September 20, 1909 Esther married John Wilfred Ardern at St Botolph’s Church.  John was born around January 1878 at Altrincham, Cheshire.  He was the son of Joseph Arden and Mary Jane Chandling.

 Before he married Esther, John worked as a butcher’s assistant lived with his parents and siblings at 55 Shakespeare Street, Southport.  This was only a few blocks away from where Esther lived and worked in Duke Street.

 John and Esther had at least one child together, a daughter named Dorothy.

 At the time of the 1911 census, John and Esther had been married for a year and their daughter was with them.  They lived at 99 Cemetery Road, Southport.  John was employed as a butcher’s foreman.

 John died at the Liverpool Stanley Hospital on October 28, 1936.  At the time of the 1939 register Esther was living alone at 189 Portland Street, Southport.  She was living on a widow’s pension.   Esther passed away 12 years after her husband on March 3, 1948 at the Southport Infirmary.  They are buried in the Duke Street Cemetery which is a stone’s throw away from where they lived and worked.

Esther's grandmother was Elizabeth Bunston who married Eli Peadon.