See also Francis Tunaley, b. 1814, Derby.

Thomas Tunaley Jnr b. 1796, Nottingham..

Elizabeth Tunaley c. 13-4-1798, Nottingham.

Henry Tunaley b. 1799, Nottingham.

William Tunaley b. 1802, Derby.

Edward Tunaley b. 1806, Derby.

Charles Tunaley b. 1808, Derby.

Sarah Tunaley b. 1809, Derby.

Samuel Tunaley b. 1810, Derby.

John Tunaley b. 1813, Derby.
Click here for John Heathcoat of Duffield and his undoubted influence on the Thomas Tunaleys with his invention and dicovery of the lace-making machine, 1807.
The Old Silk Mill looking down the Derwent River-click picture to enlarge.
The Huguenot/Tonnelier-Norman Link

Thomas Tunaley Snr.

General Dyer

Tenant St. Derby abt 1800 onwards.

Between 1795 and 1800 Thomas Snr. appears, judging by the dates of marriage and location, to have moved temporarily to Nottingham.

Possibly, it was in the city of Nottingham that he learned the dyeing trade.

 

 

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Read here about an even more amazing character: Samuel Slater, from Belper, father of the American Industrial Revolution following apprenticeship with Samuel Need and Jedediah Strutt in Belper, Derbys.

The Tunaley Family History

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(last updated January 2009)

The two Tunaley dyeing houses appear to have been set up at the time of the Napoleonic wars 1799-1815 when there was a blockade on trade with France.Dyeing rapidly died out in Derby and the rest of the country following the repeal of the Corn Laws, the German manufacture of synthetic dyes and the Cobden free trade agreement (around 1860).Consequent to these events,thousands of dyers were put out of work.

Recovery took place in the Derby area in the form of new processes as exemplified by Stevenson's dyers of Ambergate, who became world leaders in dyeing for the next 100 years.

Catherine Hefford

b. 16-1-1742.

m. Thomas Tunaley, 11-6-1764, All Saints, Derby.

Thomas Tunaley Snr. Master Dyer

b. Derby, 1772.

m. Elizabeth Potter, 16-10-1795,

St. Peters, Nottingham.

Thomas d. Derby, 1849 ; Elizabeth d. Derby, 1843.

Thomas Tunaley

b. Derby, abt. 1743.

m. Catherine Hefford, All Saints, Derby, 11-6-1764.