Brief Life History of Bishop
When Bishop Dunning was born in 1723, his father, John Dunning, was 21 and his mother, Hannah Whitehead, was 21. He married Mary Wiltshire on 24 December 1740, in Winfrith Newburgh, Dorset, England. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters.
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- John, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- John Dunning, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
- John Duning in entry for Henry Duning, "England, Dorset, Parish Registers, 1538-2001"
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1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from a place called Dunning in Lower Strathearn (Perthshire), recorded in 1200 as Dunine and later as Dunyn, from Gaelic dùnan, a diminutive of dùn ‘fort’.
English: variant of Downing .
Irish: variant of Dineen .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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