Bunn Family History
Bunn/Smiley family link
On 26 August 1894, Marion Harley Bunn, daughter of Henry Alfred and Margaret (Wilson) Bunn of St Kilda, married Thomas Alexander Ward Smiley, son of Shepherd Parkman and Margaret Phoebe (Ward) Smiley. This part of the Smiley family website explores a little of the Bunn family story from ancestors in England in the late 1600s down to the Australian generation of Marion Harley Bunn.
Walter Harley Bunn 1863-1923
Family line:
John Bunn ca1680 → James Bunn 1703 → James Bunn 1737 → William Bunn 1765 → George Bunn 1789 → Henry Alfred Bunn 1827-1905 → Walter Harley Bunn 1863-1923.
Walter Harley Bunn, born on 31 May 1863 at St Kilda, Victoria, was the 3rd of the 12 children of Henry Alfred and Margaret (Wilson) Bunn. In his early work life he was a designer. Later he became a railway employee.
On 18 December 1886 he married Louisa Maryann George who was born in 1866, the daughter of Edward and Ellen (Marshall) George. They had 5 children with two dying in infancy.
The family lived in Melbourne at Marlborough Street, St Kilda, North Road, Newport, Douglas Parade, Newport, Hotham Street, Elsternwick and McHenry Street, St Kilda.
Walter Henry Bunn died on 6 August 1923 when aged 60. Louisa remarried (to a Captain Saxby) and died on 25 March 1962 aged about 96.
Children:
- Walter Henry Bunn (1887-1889)
- Norman Frederick Bunn (1889-1944) married 1913 Ellen Grace Paxton (ca1890-1972)
- Muriel Ellen Bunn (1890-1890)
- George Alfred Bunn (1893-1957) married 1916 Martha Ashworth (1889-1976)
- Clarence Walter Bunn (1896-1963) married 1926 Margaret Laurie Carson (1897-1989)
Further information
Siblings of Walter Harley Bunn.
