Genealogy Report: Descendants of James Lavender DUNN
Descendants of James Lavender DUNN
1.James Lavender1 DUNN died 1864.
Notes for James Lavender DUNN:
For his day and locality he was a rich man, his possessions including two thousand acres of land, and sixty-five slaves.At the time of his death, in 1864, the value of his lands had been greatly lessened by reason of the Civil war, which brought death and destruction in its wake.
Dunn
In its form "Dunn" is an English surname, from the Old English dunn, "dark-coloured", and some of the surname in Ireland are undoubtedly of English descent. However, the vast majority of those bearing the name in Ireland descend from the Ó Doinn, from donn, used to describe someone who was swarthy or brown-haired. The Ó Doinn first came to prominence as lords of the area around Tinnehinch in the north of the modern Co. Laois (formerly Queen’s Co.), and were known as Lords of Iregan up to the seventeenth century. They were especially active in the resistance to the plantations of King’s and Queen’s counties in the sixteenth century. At that time the surname was generally anglicised as "O'Doyne". Today the name is still extremely common in that part of Ireland, though it is now also widespread throughout the country, with particular concentrations in Leinster. Perhaps because of the stronger English influence, in Ulster the name is generally spelt "Dunn", while it is almost invariably "Dunne" in other parts. In addition to the English connection, there was also a family of the name among the "riding clans" along the Scottish border, many of whom settled in Fermanagh after the clans were "broken" in 1603. With 364 births of the name in 1890, it was the 26th most common in Ireland. With commendable consistency, it was also ranked 26th in 1996. .Gillananaomh Ó Duinn (1102-1160) was celebrated in his day as a poet and historian. The Irish-American writer Finlay Peter Dunn is famous for the humourous "Mr. Dooley" books he published between 1898 and 1919. Joseph Dunn (1930-1996) was the founder and guiding spirit of Radharc Films, a maker of impassioned and committed documentaries on Irish television for 30 years. Among his published works are No Tigers in Africa (1986), No Lions in the Hierarchy (1994) and No Vipers in the Vatican (1996). Lee Dunne (1934 - ) is a Dublin novelist, playwright and scriptwriter best known for Goodbye to the Hill (1965) and A Bed in the Sticks (1968), his first two novels. Seán Dunne (1956-1995) was one of Ireland’s best-known younger poets, particularly identified with Cork and Munster generally, before his untimely death.
The table below shows the number of Dunn households in each county in the Primary Valuation property survey of 1848-64.
Click on a county name for a breakdown of the number of households by parish (paying).
Antrim 6
Belfast city 8
Carlow 4
Cavan 17
Clare 1
Cork 14
Cork city 1
Derry 24
Donegal 5
Down 12
Dublin 6
Dublin city 33
Fermanagh 5
Galway 5
Kerry 18
Kildare 14
Kilkenny 2
Laois 4
Limerick 10
Limerick city 1
Longford 3
Louth 13
Mayo 12
Meath 43
Monaghan 11
Offaly 97
Roscommon 7
Sligo 5
Tipperary 56
Tyrone 37
Waterford 20
Westmeath 8
Wexford 12
Wicklow 10
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Child of James Lavender DUNN is:
+ | 2 | i. | John Andrew2 DUNN, born in Georgia; died 1895 in Moneta, CA. |