Click here for newspaper announcement of Thomas' marriage to Catherine - copy of source document courtesy of Jean Parkinson. E |
Tunaley vs Roch - April 27th, 1857 - a challenge to mother Constantia's Will by the other Tunaleys, following her death, 1854. Challenge appears to be whether on Constantia's death estate should go to Constantia Maria Roch or divided equally between Robert's children. |
Catherine Tunaley d. Camberwell, 1883, aged 57 - i.e. d.o.b. 1825/6 - the Camberwell location suggests Catherine might at some later stage have gone to live with Susannah Tunaley (nee Sparks) click here, also living in Camberwell. |
Go to transcription of Robert's Will. This will was dated 14/2/1805 and approved 17/4/1821. |
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b. abt. 1746, m(1): Mary Needham, 11-6-1770. Mary d. Derby, 1775. m(2): Constance Snape, Derby, 27-1-1800 Robert d. August, 1820, Derby. |
Constantia Snape c. 17-12-1763. St. Werburgh's, Derby. m. Robert Tunaley, 27-1-1800. d. Duffield, 1854. |
A Chancery Court notice published in the London Gazette (7/8/1857), involving Thomas Snape (deceased), Catherine Tunaley, daughter Kathleen and Constantia Maria Roch vs Robert James Tunaley, indicates that Thomas Snape died 1856/57. This case seems to have followed on from the case mentioned in panel right. |
Thomas Snape Tunaley b. 5-6-1802, Derby. m. Catherine Smith, 28-6-1850. Bloomsbury, Middlesex (see panel right). Thomas d. 1856/7 (see panel left). |
Thomas, like his father Robert, appears to have been a dance master operating in Derby, Mansfield, Nottingham and Kegworth, Leics. Thomas would have taken over the business after father Robert died. Click here for further details. It seems highly likely that Thomas is the man referred to as "Tunnaling" in Chapter 4 of Graham Stevenson's excellent book "Defence or Defiance." One section refers to a political riot which took place just outside Derby in 1831 and prior to the Reform Act of 1832. The book describes an account of the riot written by Edward Soresby of Brailsford. Elizabeth Cox, Meynell and Curzon are all mentioned along with "a man named Tunnaling (a dancing master)". What is especially interesting is that Sarah Tunaley subsequently married into the Cox-Soresby family in 1838. See also Cox-Soresby-Tunaley Tree. |
The Tunaley Family History
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