Cunnabell / Cambell family
My name is John Parnell and I reside at Wanganui, New Zealand.
I am a keen researcher, along with my Wife Frances on anything to do with our ancestors - John Cunnabell (b.1650) and Capt. Tamberlin Campbell who married Hester Cunnabell.
I am a 10th generation Cunnabell and a 5th generation Campbell - Tamberlane Joseph Campbell is my great great grandfather.
Here is my lineage"
TAMBERLIN & HESTER (nee CUNNABELL) CAMPBELL
Ex Carelton County - also known to live in Nova Scotia - ex St. John...
Samuel Cunnabell and Tamberlane had land at Falmouth and Woodstock...
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Tamberlane & Elizabeth Campbell
actually are second cousins. Tamberlane was Tamberlin and Hesters grandson. Taberlane is the great great grandson of John Cunnabell, who had Samuel, who had Preserved, who had Hester
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George & Jessie (nee Watt) Campbell
George was only 3 years old when his parents, Tamberlane and Elizabeth came to New Zealand in 1852/53
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Wilfred Ernest Campbell at a Brunswick Centennary (1853-1953) - note picture of Tamberlane and Elizabeth on the wall behind my grandfather. Sitting is my mother Zena Jane (nee Campbell) Parnell and her Mother Elizabeth Campbell
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John Parnell
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My Wife Frances with one of our grandsons
I am very very keen to get anything at all about Tamberlin & Hester and of course Tamberlane Joseph and Elizabeth, especially their life in New Brunswick...building of the Brig "Australia" which I understand was built at St. Martins or Quaco. A picture would be awesome.
Any pictures most welcome. Pictures of Tamberlin and Hester would be fantastic! but probably a big ask.
Pictures of gravestones, houses, farms etc etc....always welcome.
A Mr. Ralph Connable (modern name for Cunnabell) seems to have changed about the 5th or 6th generation...
p.s. there's a sequel out ,carrying on from the book I have, "Memoirs of the Cunnabell, Conable or Connable Families 1650-1886" called the same but added from 1886-1935 by a Ralph Connable in America. You can also get a CD Rom for $10.95 USA in the US with both books on it. I have just written to the publishers asking how 'pictorial' these are.
I'm really hungry for pictures, photos, sketches, paintings etc from the era of Tamberlin & Hester and Tamberlane and Elizabeth.
Contact John Parnell