Much information relating to Robert James Tunaley and William Clement Tunaley courtesy of Paul Tunaley, Jean Parkinson and Rob Carman. pPicture right of Rue Bois Bonnet courtesy of Rob Carman (click on picture to enlarge).

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Robert: winning jockey on Bandmaster in the Prix la Haye Jousselin steeplechase Paris 1889, (click here).

Robert: winning jockey on Olifant in the Prix la Haye Jousselin steeplechase Paris 1894 (click here).

Occupation: Jockey.

1881 Census: R.J. Tunaley living at Market St., Wymondham.

In 1894, Robert living at 375, Rue Bois Bonnet, Maisons-Laffitte, Seine Et Dise, France (see picture below).

Maisons-Laffitte is a town/suburb lying approx. 10 miles west of Paris centre. It is famous for its race track and the town is twinned with Newmarket, Suffolk.

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Paris racecourse d'Auteuil - picture below reproduced courtesy of www.worldstadiums.com
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Racecourse at Maisons-Laffitte- picture below reproduced courtesy of www.worldstadiums.com

Edward: died, aged 29, 26 February 1919. Served in the Royal Army Service Corps and was attached to the 8th Motor Ambulance Battalion. Edward buried at Cologne Southern Cemetery.

William died after the Great War 1922, aged 28 (see panel left and click here).

The Tunaley Family History

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Henry Roch Tunaley

b. 1836, Wymondham, Norfolk.

m. Martha Leatherdale, 1857, Holborn.

Henry d. 1895, Henstead, Suffolk.

 

Martha Leatherdale, b. 1834, Wymondham, Norfolk.

m. Henry Roch Tunaley 1857, Holborn.

Martha d. 1908, Chapel St, Brixton Rd, Lambeth.

 

Robert James Tunaley

b. 2-4-1861, Fairland St., Wymondham, Norfolk.

m: Mary Elizabeth Clements

Wymondham Parish Church, 5th. January, 1888.

(Click here for newspaper announcement of Robert James'marriage - document courtesy of Jean Parkinson).

d. 4/8/1895, Maison Laffitte, Paris

(above date of death confirmed in public notice, London Gazette, November 29th., 1895 - click here).

 

The Tunaley Family History

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1. Edward b. 1890, died in the influenza epidemic 1919, whilst stationed in Cologne after the Great War (see panel right).

2. William Clement Tunaley b. kennington, 1894. d. 1922 aged 27/28 following malaria contracted in Egypt and resulting in T.B. (click here for more information).

3. Constance/Florence Tunaley b. Kennington, Surrey, abt. 1895 (click here).