Nunn wills: City of London

The year given is the year of probate. These wills are either Preregotive Court of Canterbury or are held by the London Metropolitan Archive.

John Nun of the City of London, goldsmith, 1627

• Richard Nun, William Nun: sons
• Mary Nun: daughter
• Elizabeth Nun: wife, exec
• Christopher Smith: clerk, to preach at his funeral
• Church of St Mary at Bungay, Suffolk
• Witnesses: Robin Bidbancke, Richard S* junior
• Source: LMA

William Nunn of the Precinct of Bridewell, 1658

• John Nunn: father
• Richard Nunn, John Coltman: brothers
• Mary Nunn, Elizabeth Wandwright: sisters
• John Smalridge, Richard Wallwin, Derick Dorickson, Henry Symans: witnesses
• Born in the parish of Bridewell, engaged to travel to the East Indies
• Source: PCC

Abraham Nun, Citizen and joiner of the City of London, 1670

• Mary: late wife, buried at St Mary Aldermanbury
• Hugh Noden: cousin
• William Brett: grandchild
• Randall Nuns: son
• Susan Harrison, wife of Robert Harrison: daughter
• Mary Harrison daughter of Robert and Susan: granddaughter
• Susan Harrison, wife of William Brett: granddaughter
• Roger Crooke and his wife, William Read and his wife: late servants
• Henry Travers, scrivener: friend, exec
• Samuel Harwar, Citizen and Draper of London: friend, exec
• William Hunt, Roger Crooke, William Reade, Jno. Farrant: witnesses
• Source: LMA

Isaac Nunn of St Albans Wood Street, 1718

• Elizabeth Nunn: wife, exec
• John Sheffield jnr, William Batley, Jos. Readshaw?: witnesses
• Source: LMA

Isaac Nunns, tailor of Crete, City of London, 1735

• John Nunns: son, exec
• Sarah Nunns, daughter, exec
• Benjamin Bradshaw, John Crowse: witnesses
• Source: PCC

Elizabeth Nunns, spinster of Bridgewater Sq, St Giles Cripplegate, 1786

• James Lashbrooke, gent of same: nephew, exec
• Gwinn Radford, Mary Joomer: witnesses
• Source: PCC

William Nunn, coachman of Bishopsgate Street, 1813

• Ann Newman: friend
• John Smith, coachman, and Thomas Stedman, yeoman of Colchester: execs
• Joseph Hill, Grace Bateman?: witnesses
• Source: PCC

William Nunn, surveyor of Coleman Street, 1825

• Admon to Sophia Mason, wife of Thomas Mason, upholsterer of Princes St, Leicester Sq
• Aunt and next of kin to Gertrude, Julia, William, Sophia and Emily Nunn, minors, the children of William Nunn
• Source: LMA

Elizabeth Nunn, widow of 129 St John Street, London, 1855

• Son-in-law: James Adam of Pudding Lane, City of London, orange merchant, executor
• Thomas Bryer of 44 King William Street, City of London, mercer
• Daughter Phoebe Nunn
• Daughter Mary Smith
• Daughter Harriet Smith
• Daugther Elizabeth Adam
• Witnesses: George Humphrey of 21 College Hill, London; Wm Smith, clerk to Messrs. Wilde, 21 College Hill
• Source: PCC

Transcriber’s notes: Elizabeth Nunn appears at the Bell Tavern on Lower Thames Street in the 1820 Robson’s London Directory. She was the widow of Thomas Willett Nunn (who was born in Cambridge in 1770, the son of James and Ann Nunn, and died in 1817 – he was buried at St Botolph’s Billingsgate), and they had married at St Dunstan’s in the East in 1799. She was born Elizabeth Skipper, daughter of John Skipper. They had at least seven children.

Their daughter Elizabeth had married James Adam at St Magnus the Martyr in 1826. Their second eldest daughter, Ann, had married Hugh Murphy at the same church in 1838 (marriages for the church at that period don’t appear to have survived). An announcement in the Sun on 19 Sep 1838 says that Hugh was the nephew of “Mr T Bryer” of King William Street, London Bridge, who is presumably Thomas Bryer, one of the executors.