When Louisa Harriet Maccann was born on 7 August 1845, in Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England, her father, John Beckit Macann, was 26 and her mother, Louisa Hanwell, was 21. She married George Dunk on 25 December 1860, in Leeds St Paul, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Mexborough, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1901. She died on 21 April 1907, in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 61, and was buried in Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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