Dunbar Family Records Reach Back to Early 1700s
Family Lived at Hingham and Bridgewater, MA
Jul 4, 2009
In the mid 1950s Dunbar Schuetz of Wausau, WI, reported to the New England Historical and Genealogical Register some records kept by his grandmother, Letitia (Single) Dunbar (1856-1941). Her husband was Charles Francis Dunbar (1845-1915), a native of Belchertown, Massachusetts. He was a son of Charles Thomas and Mary D. (Blood) Dunbar.
The grandparents of her husband were the Charles Dunbar born at Bridgewater, MA, in 1779 (who descended from Robert Dunbar of Hingham, MA) , and his wife, the former Susan G. Gates. There are at least two Mayflower ancestors through maternal lineages in this branch of the Dunbar family.
Correcting a Dunbar Family Error
Lincoln’s History of Hingham (1893) unfortunately mis-identified the Samuel Dunbar born in 1706 as the son of Peter Dunbar. Instead, this Samuel Dunbar, a 1745 Harvard graduate, is the Samuel Dunbar of Hingham and Bridgewater, MA, who was a son of the John Dunbar, who came from Scotland to Boston via the West Indies.
The Family Records
These are the records kept in the Dunbar family.
Marriages:
Charles Dunbar and Susan G. Gates, Aug. 12, 1804
Charles T. Dunbar and Mary D. Blood, Feb. 8, 1835
Births
Charles Dunbar, Jan. 9, 1779
Susan Gates, Nov. 26, 1786
Francis Dunbar, June 3, 1805
Susan Dwight Dunbar, Aug. 23, 1808
Charles T. Dunbar, Nov. 11, 1814
William H. Dunbar, Aug. 28, 1840
Henry M. Dunbar, Dec. 29, 1842
C. F. Dunbar, Oct. 8, 1845
Margrete/Margaret M. Dunbar, June 19, 1848; died Oct. 6, 1852
Corrine Bell Dunbar, Jan. 23, 1865
Charles R. Dunbar, Jan. 15, 1873
Walter Dickenson Dunbar, April 2, 1875
Warren Dwight Dunbar (twin), April 2, 1875
Marriages: Children of Charles T. and Mary (Blood) Dunbar
William H. Dunbar and Olive Leavitt, Sept. 30, 1861
Henry M. Dunbar and Sarah A. Philby, Oct. 3, 1869
Charles F. Dunbar and Letitia Single, Nov. 20, 1876
Deaths
Robert Dunbar, Oct. 6, 1807, age 66
Charles Dunbar, Jan. 7, 1842
Susan G. Dunbar, Jan. 11, 1847
Susan D. Dunbar, Jan. 3, 1814
Charles T. Dunbar, Aug. 12, 1874
Mary D. Dunbar, Jan. 3, 1889
Corrine Bell Dunbar, July 18, 1858
It is Charles Francis Dunbar who left his Belchertown, MA, home and went to Wisconsin, where he wed Letitia Single, who was born Nov. 3, 1856 in Wausau, WI, the daughter of Charles Alexander Single, born in 1822 in Hereford, England, to Benjamin Single and his wife. Letitia’s father, Charles, married Letitia’s mother, the former Elizabeth Taylor, who was born in 1824.
Sources:
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. CX, October, 1956, Boston, MA; Sibley’s Harvard Graduates (Vol. 7).
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