2014/10/28 by Edward J. Davies · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Labor Movements and Unions #Australian History and Society
paper · doi:10.1093/notesj/gju137
openalex publication_date 2014/10/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
THIS article discusses the parentages of several trade unionists who were prominent enough to be included in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB), but whose parents are indicated there to be unknown or uncertain.1 The ODNB states that Thomas Joseph Dunning, a trade unionist and a bookbinder, ‘was born in London in 1799, but nothing else is known about his early life’.2 It is also said in the ODNB that Dunning’s ‘wife Susannah, whom he had married on 28 June 1824, survived him’. However, Dunning was actually married to two different women named Susannah. He married first, on 28 June 1824 at Christchurch, Newgate Street, London, Susannah Hooper.3 He later married, as a widower, on 8 September 1840 at the Independent Chapel, Lower Street, Islington, Susannah Heath. The record of the latter marriage shows that Thomas Joseph Dunning was a son of Joseph Hill Dunning, a turncock.4