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.

Historic photographs

	Henry Alfred Bunn (1827-1905) and Margaret (Wilson) Bunn (1833-1898) - a studio portrait probably taken in the mid-1890s. Click here to see larger image.
	Henry Alfred Bunn (1827-1905) and grandchildren Bernard Valentine Bunn (1901-1986) and Gwenda Jessica Bunn (1903-1992), who were children of Arthur Bernard Bunn (1873-1952) and Jessie Maria (Harris) Bunn (1868-1948). Picture taken about 1903. Click here to see larger image.
	A letter dated 28 August 1881 written by Henry Alfred Bunn (1827-1905) to his 10-year-old daughter Mabel (Margaret Mabel) Bunn (1871-1958). Henry was away from home at the time, staying at Kilmore. Click here to see larger image.
	A photograph taken outside one of the Bunn family homes, this one in Alexander Street, East St Kilda, about 1901. Pictured, from left, Henry Bunn, Jessie Maria Bunn, Arthur Bernard Bunn and possibly Jane Harris holding Bernard Valentine Bunn. Click here to see larger image.
	Henry Alfred Bunn's grocery store at 168 Hotham Street, St Kilda, established in the 1860s or early 1870s. Click here to see larger image.
	Henry Alfred Bunn's grocery store in St Kilda. Click here to see larger image.
	A Bunn family gathering in 1892. Back row, from left: Alfred, Walter Harley, Arthur, Gilbert, Harry, Harry Hughes, Henry Alfred, Marion Harley, Edgar, Margaret Mabel, Francis Ackroyd. Front row: Charlotte, Enid (at back), Norman (at front), Louisa, Millicent, Edith, Dorothy Ackroyd, Emily with Phyllis, Francis (seated on ground), Margaret, Isabella with Eunice and Gertrude. Click here to see larger image.
	A news item from The Argus of 8 July 1905 reporting the death by drowning in the Yarra River of Henry Alfred Bunn. Click here to see larger image.
	The marker on the St Kilda Cemetery grave of Henry Alfred Bunn, Margaret (Wilson) Bunn and their son, Jessie Edwards Bunn. Click here to see larger image.
	Henry (Harry) Bunn (1861-1926), son of Henry and Margaret (Wilson) Bunn, married Emily Charlotte Rutherford in 1887. Later he became superintendent (district officer) with the Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Brigade and Grand Treasurer of the Freemasons' United Grand Masonic Lodge of Victoria. Click here to see larger image.

Historic photographs - second page.

Bunn family information

Early Bunn family history
Henry Alfred and Margaret (Wilson) Bunn