Birth: 1811 Godalming, Surrey, UK
Father: Richard Dunce 1776-1862
Mother: Charlotte Stent 1774-1854
Christening: 19 January 1812 Godalming, Surrey, UK
Marriage: 13 October 1832 St Michael and All Angels, Thursley, Surrey, UK
Wife: Hannah Bookham 1813-1886
Death: 6 May 1889 Petersfield, Hampshire, UK
Burial: 9 May 1889 St Stephen, Shottermill, Surrey, UK
Richard Dunce 1833-1832
William Dunce 1834-1910
Edward Dunce 1836-1837
Charly Dunce 1838-1838
Thomas Dunce 1839-1895
John Dunce 1841-a1861
Edwin Dunce 1843-1882
Charlotte Dunce [Frogley] 1845-1922
Mary Ann Dunce [Baker] c1848-1933
Caroline Dunce [Chuter] 1851-1915
Emily Dunce [Lyddiard] 1854-1925
Eliza Dunce [Wood] 1857-1930
Two entries in Ancestry All England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Edward Dunce baptised 19 January 1812 in Godalming, Surrey, parents Richard and Charlotte Dunce.
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973 for Edward Duntze and Hannah Bookham on 13 October 1832 in Thursley, Surrey.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936 for the marriage of Edward Duntze and Hannah Bookham on 13 October 1832 at Thursley, Surrey. " Page 34 Marriages solemnized in the Parifh of Thursley in the County of Surrey in the Year 1832 Edward Duntze of this Parish Bachelor and Hannah Bookham of this Parish Spinster were Married in this Church by Banns with Consent of [blank] this Thirteenth Day of October in the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty two [he signed his name, she made her mark] No. 100".
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1937 for the marriage of Edward Duntze and Hannah Bookham on 13 October 1832 at Thursley, St Michael and All Angels. "Page 34 Marriages folemnized in the Parifh of Thursley in the County of Surrey in the Year 1832 Edward Duntze of this Parifh Bachelor and Hannah Bookham of this Parifh Spinster were Married in this Church by Banns with Confent of [blank] this Thirteenth Day of October in the Year One thoufand eight hundred and thirty two [he signed his name Edward Dantze, she made her mark] No. 100"
His five sons were baptised in Haslemere on 10 November 1833, Godalming on 5 November 1834, and in Shalford on 4 September 1836, 4 February 1838 and 1 December 1839.
In the 1841 census as Edward Dunse (sic - in the index, Dunce on the original) aged 30, born in Surrey, a miller, and living with Hannah (wife?), and John, Thomas and William (sons?) in Ockford, Godalming, Surrey.
His son was baptised at St Mary the Virgin, Frensham on 15 January 1843 when he was a miller living in Frensham (which included Shottermill).
In the 1851 census as Edwards Dundy (sic - on the original) aged 39, born in Gauntmin (sic), Surrey, a journeyman miller, and living with his wife (Hannah), five sons (Edwin, George, John, Thomas and William) and two daughters (Caroline and Mary Anne) at Shottermills, Frensham, Surrey.
In the 1861 census as Edward Rumee (sic - in the index, Dunce on the original) aged 49, born in Godalming, Surrey, a miller, and living with his wife (Hannah), three sons (Edwin, George and John), five daughters (Caroline, Charlotte, Eliza, Emily and Mary Ann), and father (Richard) at Lion Green, Frensham (in Pitfold, Shottermill), Surrey.
In the 1871 census as Edward Dance (sic - in the index, Dunce on the original) aged 59, born in Frensham (sic), Surrey, a miller and grocer, and living with his wife (Hannah), and three daughters (Caroline, Eliza and Emily) in Lion Green, Shottermill, Frensham, Surrey.
Entry in Ancestry UK, City and County Directories, 1766 - 1946 for Edwd Dunce grocer, Miller and postmaster in Shottermill, Surrey in 1878, but also an entry for Edward Dunce in Petersfield.
In the 1881 census as Edward Dunce aged 69, born in Godalming, Surrey, a miller, and living with his wife (Hannah), daughter (Eliza), granddaughter (Bessie), a lodger (William Word aged 22, born in Abingdin, Surrey single and a bricklayer) and a servant (William Nichols aged 15 and born in Havant, Hampshire), at Lion Inn (sic - in the index, Lane on the original), Shotter Mill, Frensham, Surrey.
His wife was buried on 7 October 1886 at St Stephen, Shottermill.
Two entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Edward Dunce address a cottage, Lion Green, Shotter Mill near Petersfield, Hants, Frensham, Haslemere, Guildford in 1886 and 1887.
Two entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Edward Dunce address a cottage, Kion Green, Shotter Mill near Petersfield, Hants, Frensham, Haslemere, Guildford in 1886 and 1887.
Death of Edward Dunce in FreeBMD in April-June 1889 aged 76 in Petersfield (2c 78).
Entry in St Stephens Shottermill Burials for 367 Edward Dunce Petersfield 9 May 1889 76.
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Edward Dunce died 6 May 1889 in Southampton probate 27 June 1889. "Dunce Edward Personal Estate £298 12s. 6d. 27 June. The Will with a Codicil of Edward Dunce formerly of Shotter Mill in the Parish of Frensham in the County of Surrey but late of Petersfield in the County of Southampton who died 6 May 1889 at Petersfield was proved at the Principal Registry by William Lyddiard of The Rookery Bromley Common in the County of Kent Gardener one of the Executors".
There are seventy two entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Edward Dunce.
Page 350 in Shottermill Its Farms, Families and Mills Part 2 1730 to the Early 20th Century by Greata A Turner published by John Owen Smith 2005 contains information on the Dunce family and Shotter Mill - the mill was a corn mill owned by the Oliver family. "Originally in the early 1860s [he] occupied the house on the corner of the main road and Lions Green probably now Bell's grocery shop. He was still living somewhere in Lions Lane in the late 1880s running a grocer's shop which was managed in the 1870s by his daughters when he was at the mill."
Edward Dunce was the father of Mary Ann Dunce, wife of Albert Baker, my half first cousin three times removed.
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