John Charles Tunaley

b. 1850, Derby.

m. Mary Ann Fletcher, 1876.

John d. 1900, Beswick, Manchester.

Tom Tunaley

b. 27-1-1882, Beswick, Manchester.

m. Margaret Elizabeth Ann Simpson 5-9-1908, Prestwich, nr. Manchester.

(Margaret b. 1883, Ruston, nr. Scarborough, Yorks, d. 14-12-1963 Parkville,

Victoria, Australia).

Tom d. 15-5-1929, St. Vincent's Hospital, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia.

Burial: Fawkner Memorial Park, Fawkner, VIC.

Grave 175/Memoorial I.D. 212538288.

Biography of Tom Tunaley (1882-1929)

Biogarphy from People Australia/Australian National University, Canberra - first published in the Biographical Register of the Australian Laboor Movement 1788-1975.

* N.B. The "Bradford" mentioned in the biography is not the Yorkshire city but the area Bradford in MANCHESTER, also known as "Bradford with BESWICK." That is where Tom was living and working as a joiner prior to emigration-Tom's Manchester residence and occupation confirmed in the 1911 census kindly provided by Jane Holmes.

Go to the weblog "A Family Story" about the Tunaleys in Australia. Created by Louise Watson,daughter of Margaret Watson, nee Tunaley.

Tom Tunaley, John Tunaley’s grandson and son of John Charles Tunaley, b. 1850, emigrated
to Australia August 1911 aboard TSS Themistocles (the same year the ship was built).

Wife Margaret and one-year old William followed in the Gothic (Harland and Wolff built 1893) December of same year.

Tom emigrated with his cousin William Smith.

John Charles (b. 1909) remained in England and was brought up there by his grandparents (Margaret Simpson's parents - William Rodger Simpson and Sarah Simpson) living, in 1911, at 8 Dargai St., Clayton, Manchester.

Tom and Margaret founded the Australian Tunaley family