John Dunkin Family of Southwark, London

John Dunkin (1727-1809) m. Ann Turner (1723-66/67)  and had the following children:

1. John Dunkin  (1753-1827) m. Joanna Hays (1754-1805) on 11 July 1774

a. John Hays Dunkin (1775-1858) married Sarah Francis on 16 May 1799 (she was most likely the sister of Henry Francis, who married John Hays Dunkin’s sister, Elizabeth, on 17 May 1803).

i. Henry Hays Dunkin, born 14 March 1800, at Cripplegate, London.  This may be the church the Dunkins are attending at that time, since his birth is recorded in the Nonconformist Registers (RG4_4663).

ii. Joanna Dunkin (17 August 1801, entered first at St. Peters, Maldon, Essex)

iii. Elizabeth Dunkin (5 July 1802) 

iv. Emma Dunkin (16 August 1804) 

v. John Hays Dunkin (c. 1807-1824), of Winsley, Wiltshire, late of Beeleigh, Suffolk. Obit. in GM,  135 (1824, part 1), p. 93. He was apprenticed in 1821 as a draper from Beeleigh.

b. Joanna Dunkin (c. 1777-1864) m. Nathaniel Palmer  (1774-1840) on 21 June 1798; they had no surviving issue.

c. Anne Dunkin (b. c.1785) m. John Lee on 17 October 1805

d. Mary Dunkin (1786-1855) m. Peter Wedd (1782-1817) on 29 June 1809

e. Elizabeth Dunkin (1787-1825) m. Henry Francis (1781-1847) of St. Aldermanbury, London, at St. Giles, Camberwell, on 17 May 1803

f. Thomas Dunkin (d. 1861) m. Mary Olton.

g. Emma Dunkin (b. c.1790) m. William Hills (b.1784) on 7 December 1810

h. Sarah Dunkin (1793-1875) married George Wedd (1785-1854) of Gainsford Street at Hazeleigh Church, Maldon, 20 August 1812.

i. Joanna Dunkin Wedd, age 35, born (5 April 1815) in Southwark, Surrey 

ii. Ellen Dunkin Wedd, age 34, born (1816) in Southwark, Surrey 

iii. Susanna S. Wedd, 32, born (17 June 1818) in Southwark, Surrey 

iv. George Wedd, 29, (c. 1821) born in Southwark, Surrey

v. Harriet A. Wedd, 29, born (possibly a twin of George above) in Southwark, Surrey

vi. Mary Dunkin Wedd, 25, born (c. 1825) in Greenwich, Kent 

vii. Joseph V. Wedd, 21, born (c. 1830) in Greenwich, Kent 

viii. Henry Arthur Wedd (21 March 1832-1889), 19, born in Clapton, Middlesex, married Lydia Budgett. Their daughter, Anne Frances Wedd (1875-1958), published  Love Letters (1925) and Fate of the Fenwicks (1927)

ix. Frances E. Wedd, 16, born (c. 1835) in Clapton, Middlesex. 

i. Marianna Dunkin (c. 1795-1840) m. William Bennett on 23 September 1817.

N.B.  Most likely the Sarah Francis and Henry Francis mentioned above are brother and sister. Peter Wedd and George Wedd were brothers; their parents were William Wedd (1755-1819) and Elizabeth Pattisson Wedd (1758-1845) of Fowlmere, near Cambridge. Both the Pattisson and Wedd families were well known to Crabb Robinson and, in some cases, related to him. Nathaniel Palmer was the older brother of Samuel Palmer (1775-1848), father of the Romantic artist Samuel Palmer (1805-81).

2. William Dunkin (1755-?)

3. Mary Dunkin (c. 1756- 1836) of Horsley-down, Southwark, died in Camberwell and was buried on 2 August 1836, in her 80th year. She is John Dunkin's sister who appears as “Miss Dunkin” (also called "Miss Prudence") in the Hays-Eccles correspondence. She did not marry, but she signed, along with her father, as a witness to the wedding of her younger half-brother, Summerhays Dunkin, to Martha Hemmings, in 1806.

4. Christopher Dunkin (1756, died prior to birth of next Christopher).

5. Henry Dunkin (1758-?)  lived in Southwark.

6. Christopher Dunkin (b. 19 January 1759; baptised 21 January 1759 [St. John Horsleydown]; buried 15 March 1825, at Horsleydown, Southwark, married Mary Eaton [sometimes cited as “Eason”] at Stepney on 8 June 1780. [Probably the same Mary Eaton born on 9 August 1759 in the White Row, Spitalfields Independent church where the Hills attended.]

John Dunkin, Sr. (1727-1809 ) married (2) Mary Summerhays (1740-9 February 1806) and had the following children:

1. Thomas Dunkin (1768-77)

2. Ann Dunkin (early 1770s - ?)

3. Robert Dunkin (13 June 1770- after 1785)

4. Elizabeth Dunkin (about 1775- after 1806) m. Thomas Hays (1772-1856) in 1796.

5. William Dunkin (October 1776-29 July 1779)

6. Sarah Dunkin (c. 1777), m. James Thompson in 1805.

7. Susan Dunkin (1778-31 December 1785, Bermondsey)

8. Summerhays Dunkin (1779-1823) m. Martha Hemming (25 February 1788-1866) in 1806.