My great grandfather George William Gunn (butcher)born1858 Prahran, died aged 30years 1888 and is Buried at St Kilda cemetery. His wife Charlotte(nee watmore) may have changed her name, as we cannot find any record of her after 1894. ANY HELP THNK U.
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Their son George Charles Gunn died 1945 New South Wales
Registration Place: Randwick, NSW
Reg: 12203
GUNN -June 3 1945, at his residence 26
Chatham Street Randwick. George Charles
Gunn, dearly beloved husband of Emma and
dear father of Linda (Mrs Mathews), George
(deceased), Walter Arthur and Thelma aged
65 years
Sydney Morning Herald 4th June 1945
You can view the Will of George W. Gunn, Butcher of Malvern died 30th December 1888 online at Public Records Victoria-Wills. May have some information if you have not seen it
Charlotte Emily Watmore
Born: Abt 1857 Prahran, Victoria
reg: 1857/5163
Parents: William George Watmore and Mary Ann Anders
Anders is actually Andrews
William George Watmore married Mary Ann Andrews in Victoria 1854 reg.531
Possible second marriage for Charlotte Emily GUNN nee WATMORE.
No children located.
Groom: Alfred D GORE.
Bride: Charlotte E GUNN.
Year married: 1892.
Place: Wentworth district, New South Wales.
Reg. #7711/1892.
DEATH.
Name: Charlotte GORE.
Year died: 1922.
Place: Scone district, New South Wales.
Father: William.
Mother: Martha.
Reg. #17035/1922.
No guarantee this is your Charlotte and needs to be confirmed.
Mother's given name of Martha is wrong but this means nothing.
William George Watmore , cabman of Prahran was usually known as George Watmore. He died at The Alfred Hospital June 1892 He's buried at St.Kilda Cemetery.
NSW.BDM
DEATHS
6814/1901
SURNAME: GUNN
GIVENNAMES: CHARLOTTE E
FATHER: GEORGE
LOCALITY: RANDWICK
The Telegraph (Brisbane) Tue 29 March 1932
The Gunns are an ancient and recognised
Scottish clan with the rose-wort for a badge.
This will be new to some readers who have
asked for the surname to be included here
and who have suggested that they origin-
ally derived the name from guns. Their
surmise, however, Is correct. The Scottish
Gunns got their name from Norse ancestors,
who got it from gunner which had refer
ence to arms. The surname is found so
freely scattered over the West of England
and in South Wales that it may be doubted
if these bearers have any links with the
Scottish clan. Some probably have, but all
certainly owed their name to the weapons.
This accounts for so much ancient humour
about It. Few surnames have produced
such a fund of judicial and other wit. To
the great lawyer Coke Is attributed the
sally to a witness who was difficult to move
under examination and cross-examination,
"Come, Mr. Gunn, don't hang fire."
In such a prosaic quarter as an old cus
toms house book at Edinburgh there is an
entry, "A. Gunn was discharged for making
a false report." The Gunns have scarcely
deserved so much fun at their expense. Yet
they were such a famous fighting clan in
Sutherland and Caithness that there was
great temptation to make play with the
surname. One of the romances of the clan
relates to the beautiful Helen Gunn, who
was to have been married to her cousin.
On the eve of the nuptials came a Keith,
whom she had rejected, with an armed band
who killed many of the Gunns, and the
dare-devil lover carried off the lovely Helen.
His conquest was short-lived for she threw
herself from his castle tower. The Gunns
and Keiths were always at loggerheads.
George Gunn, the fifteenth century chief of
the clan, thought to end the feud by arrang
ing a battle royal between twelve horsemen
a side. But the Keiths arrived with two
horsmen on each horse and won the day. One
of the Gunn families In Wales may be
traced to the Scottish source for Sir John
Gunn," who was a Cardiff shipowner, and
held many public offices In the last century,
came of Caithness stock. It Is also a fami
liar Irish name, though the old Kerry landed
gentry who bear It are called Gun.
Professor James Andrew Gunn, who was
born at Kirkwall, has been professor of
pharmacology at Oxford University for
fifteen years. It Is a remarkable coin
cidence that his brother, Professor John
William Cormack Gunn, holds a precisely
similar professorship at Cape Town Univer
sity. Throughout the cricketing world the
name of Gunn is a household word; four
have played for Notts and one for Surrey.
Australian GUNNS