Brief Life History of Samuel
When Samuel Bunker was born on 28 July 1828, in Rusagonis, Lincoln, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada, his father, Samuel Bunker, was 40 and his mother, Rebecca Thomas, was 25. He married Dorothy Stennix Wood on 2 November 1855, in French Lake, Burton, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Blissville, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada in 1871 and Gladstone, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada in 1881. He died on 18 January 1899, in Tracy, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada, at the age of 70, and was buried in Tracy, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada.
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- Samuel Bunker, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Samuel Bunker, "Canada, New Brunswick Provincial Marriages 1789-1950"
- Samuel Bunker, "Find A Grave Index"
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1867 · British North America Act
The British North America Act or Constitution Act of 1867 caused three British colonies, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Canada to be united as one under the name Canada. Until this point New Brunswick had been the British crown colony.
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Name Meaning
English: nickname, of Norman origin, for a reliable or good-hearted person, from Old French bon ‘good’ + cuer ‘heart’ (from Latin cor).
German (Bünker): variant of Bönker (see Boenker ).
History: Bunker Hill in Charlestown, MA, was named as land assigned in 1634 to George Bunker of Charlestown, who had emigrated from Odell in Bedfordshire, England.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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