Dunkley family tree

Origins of the name

The Dunkley name can be found in all counties of England today. It travelled throughout the British Empire during the 1700s and 1800s. Early records show the name in Northamptonshire during the 1500s. In the 1600s the name spread to Bedfordshire, Leicestershire, Middlesex and Rutland.The name was generally found in the south and east of the country until the 1800s when it spread to all parts of the UK. By the 1700s in America the name could be found in Philadelphia, Georgia, New Hampshire and North Carolina, in Census records.

The name was generally found in the south and east of the country until the 1800s when it spread to all parts of the UK.

By the 1700s in America the name could be found in Philadelphia, Georgia, New Hampshire and North Carolina, in Census records.

Place names

The Dunkley name can be found in place names all around the world:

Dunkley House in Cape Town, South Africa. Famous Manor House.
Dunkley Square, England.
Dunkley Avenue, England.
Dunkley Street, Whitmore, England.
Dunkley, (town) British Columbia, Canada.

Famous family

During WW1 a Lieutenant Colonel Best Dunkley, age 26, was awarded the V.C. (Victoria Cross), for bravery on the 31st July 1917, at Wieltje, Belgium. He was serving with the Lancashire Fusiliers when led his men against the advancing German Army with heavy machine gun fire. He later died of his wounds.

The name today

The name is linked to the Wellham name through the descendants of Thomas Dunkley born 1839 in Bedfordshire, he married a lady called Martha. They had a son called Arthur Dunkley who was born in 1877, he married Agnes. They had a son called Harold Augustus Dunkley born 1909. He married Phyllis Styles (Harmer), born in 1909. They had a daughter called Christine Sylvia Dunkley in Chatham, Kent. She married Anthony James Bullock of Malvern, they had three daughters, Debbie, Diane and Sally.

Christine later re-married to Brian Hall. Diane Bullock married Simon Wellham of Worcester. They had two sons Jamie George William and Luke George Brian Wellham.