When Samuel James Bunker was born on 30 December 1860, in Rusagonis, Lincoln, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada, his father, Samuel Tracey Bunker, was 32 and his mother, Dorothy Stennix Wood, was 32. He married Carrie Florence Rowell on 1 November 1884, in Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Blissville, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada in 1871 and Gladstone, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada in 1881. He died on 15 October 1891, in Manchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 30, and was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Manchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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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.
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