CFHS code : AL208
Parish : St Andrew the Less
Inscription : In Loving Remembrance of STEPHEN YORKE DUNN d May 15th 1887 aged 71 and of ANN DUNN d Dec 16 1915 aged 75 also of JULIA ANN DAISY DUNN d June 2 1943 aged 62
Monument : Headstone/Stone cross/Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
This headstone with cross and kerb stones, in the parish area of St Andrew the Less, is located close to the more southerly north wall, about twenty rows from the central path. The cross from the top of the stone is missing and, although tilted, the monument is quite stable.
Inscription
In Loving Remembrance of STEPHEN YORKE DUNN who died May 15th 1887 aged 71 years.
Also of ANN DUNN died Dec 16 1915 aged 75.
Also of JULIA ANN DAISY DUNN died June 2 1943 aged 62
Stephen Yorke Dunn (1813 – 15 May 1887)
Stephen was the son of Anthony and Sarah (née York) Dunn and was baptised at St.Andrew the Great Church on 21 November 1813. His father was a blacksmith and Stephen worked as a baker. He co-habited with Mary Ann Roberts at Coronation Street, from c.1832 onwards. In March 1843 he was charged with ‘having feloniously and burglariously entered the dwelling house of the Rev. Thomas Smart Hughes, of St. Andrew’s Street…and stolen therefrom 12 silver sppons and 12 silver forks of the value of £5 and upwards’. He had been seen by policeman Daniel Cowell acting suspiciously at 4.30am, with ‘a parcel under his arm’. At court the policeman said it was only because Stephen had a respectable position that he had not stopped him. The missing items were found at Coronation Street, in the Stephen’s clothes box, together with a neck of pork, which was also stolen at the same time. Stephen pleaded not guilty, but the jury returned a guilty verdict. John Shadbolt also stood charge for the same crime, but was found not guilty. Rev. Hughes addressed the court, and said that he did not believe Stephen Dunn was the principal offender, and that he hoped the court would therefore ‘extend its mercy towards the prisoner’. Stephen was sentenced to 10 years transportation. He was moved from the town gaol to the ‘new model prison at Pentonville’ in April 1843. He arrived in Tasmania aboard the Sir George Seymour in 1845 and married widow Lydia Bedkell (1811-1879) on 2 February 1847 in Hobart, Tasmania. He was officially pardoned in 1848.
Stephen and Lydia returned to England, and he continued to work as a baker. By 1868 they were living at 22 Brandon Place, Cambridge and in 1871 he was noted as a retired baker. He was widowed in March 1879 and married Ann Moore on 25 November 1879 at St. Andrew the Less Church. Stephen and Ann had one daughter: Julia and lived at 4 Brandon Place. He died at home in May 1887, and although the grave monument states he was 71 years, it is believed that he was actually 73 years old.
Stephen’s first wife Lydia Dunn was buried in the St. Andrew the Less part of Mill Road Cemetery on 18 March 1879. It is not known if she is buried in the same grave.
Ann Dunn (née Moore) (1840 – 16 December 1915)
Ann was the daughter of John and Mary and was baptised in Histon on 20 December 1840. She grew up on Histon Road and her father was a gardener. After she was widowed Ann lived with daughter Julia at 4 Brandon Place and died aged 75 years old.
Julia Ann Daisy Yorke Dunn (7 October 1880 – 2 June 1943)
Julia lived with her mother, and both women were documented on census returns as being of independent means. She lived at 4 Brandon Place for the whole of her life and died at the Chesterton Infirmary.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
Parish burial records transcribed by CFHS
by Claire Martinsen
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