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The Brunning Family

Genealogical Information

This element can be traced back to a marriage between William Brunning and Rachel Ingate in October 1700 at Sotterley, East Suffolk.  Family sons left Suffolk to go to Australia and America in the mid 1800's; however, the Suffolk connections were virtually broken early in the 1900's when most of the remaining siblings moved to the Liverpool area.  One eventually married a Welsh girl and moved from Liverpool to the Cardiff area as a shop keeper: his son remained in the area as a Church in Wales minister and although now retired, is still living in South Wales.

Another sibling that moved to Liverpool married a Birkenhead girl and they had two sons, one of which was my father who also married a Liverpudlian girl.  In the late 1930’s my father’s employment took them to live in Newtown in Mid-Wales, here they had and brought up three sons, of which I am the youngest.  Although of English stock and having lived in Wales for only 19 years before moving away to Suffolk to work, I still always support the Welsh rugby team and jump for joy when we put one over on the English team.

Having left Wales to be a police officer in Newmarket, West Suffolk in 1962, I then went back home in 1964 but only to marry the Welsh ' girl next door', whom I had known for 15 years and had been courting for the previous four years, and to whisk her off to Suffolk where another generation was started in 1968.  We only managed to produce the one child and he, with his wife and own next generation now live in Cambridgeshire.

My elder siblings produced one boy and three girls between them; with my son producing two more girls, it is now down to the remaining male child to produce a son to have any chance of continuing our line of the Brunning family name.

Other members of the group that moved to Liverpool have now scattered around the country and the last Brunning left in Liverpool from our family was my father’s brother.  His two daughters were last known to have emigrated to Australia and, if still with us, will be at least ten years older than me.

The English Connection