England Select Baptisms St. Oswald, Guiseley, Yorkshire
Baptism January 28, 1798 John Nunns son of Robert Nunns

In the 1841 census Tadcaster registration district, Branham sub district, Bardsey civil parish, Skyrack (Lower Division) hundred, Yorkshire.
John Nunns, age 40 [remember rounded ages in the 1841 census], J. Joiner, born in Yorkshire.
Wife Mary Ann Nunns, age 40, not born in Yorkshire.
Daughter Charlotte Louise Nunns age 18, born Yorkshire.
Jane Field Nunns, age 9, born Yorkshire.
Eliza Thorne, age 7, born Yorkshire.
Henry Thorne age 5, born Yorkshire.
Edwin Thorne age 3. born Yorkshire.
Mary Jane Thorne age 1, born Yorkshire.
[I wonder what was the relationship, if any to the Thorne children.]

In the 1851 census East Keswick.
John Nunns, head, married, age 53, Journeyman Carpenter, born Horsforth?, Yorkshire.
Wife Mary Nunns, age 56, laundress, born Quebec, Canada.
Daughter Sarah Nunns age 24, born Horsforth Yorkshire.
Daughter Jane Field Nunns, age 19, born Horsforth.
Grandson, John Nunns, age 6, born Harewood.
Grandaughter Ada Nunns, age 3 born Leeds. [Ada is the daughter of Mary’s daughter Sarah.]

In the 1861 Census, 42 Hilda Street, Hartlepool district, civil parish of Stranton, Durham England.
John Nunns, head, married, age 58 [must be a mistake], joiner, born Yorkshire.
Wife Mary Nunns, age 63, born America Quebec, B. Subject. [This was before Canada became a country in 1867].
Granddaughter Ada Nunns age 13, born Leeds.
[Note Stranton became West Hartlepool in 1860. It was merged with a became a part of Hartlepool in the 1970’s.]

In the 1871 census, 44 Hilda Street, West Hartlepool, Durham.
John Nunns, head, widower, age 74, house carpenter, born Horsforth, Yorkshire.

Parish Records All Saints, Harewood, West Yorkshire
Burial, July 11, 1876 John Nunns, abode Leeds [In the margin marked E. K. ( East Keswick)], age 84,

Compiled by Joseph Henry Lowe Nov 14 1905 (Sunday)
Copied at East Keswick? At the Church of St.Mary Magdalene by Joseph Henry Lowe Nov. 15th 1905 (Wednesday)
Also of John Nunns who died July 7th? 1876 aged 84yrs [This must an error as he would be in his 74th year.] married Mary Kidd [I think Kidd should be Field] 1819 (see Nunns) of Horsforth Yorkshire also history of Kirkstall Abbey. She died at Hartlepool

Note: Previously I had John Nunns as the son of Matthew Nunns and Sarah Colley. However him being the son of Robert Nunns and Louisa Amory is much more likely. For the following reasons. 1) John would have been only 16 years old when his oldest child was born. 2) Robert Nunns was from Horsforth, whereas Matthew was from Rothwell. 2) John and Mary Ann named one of their daughters Ann Amory Nunns whose middle name matches John’s mother’s maiden name. I would like to thank Chris67lufc and his NunnsYorkshire Tree at ancestry.co.uk for putting me back of the right track.

Parish Records Guiseley, Yorkshire
Marriage John Nunns of this parish and Mary Field of this parish married by Banns on August 10 1818 by Joseph Pukles Curate signed John Nunns and Mary Field her mark in the presence of Benjamin Rawson and Thomas Unthank?

In the July to September 1870 death index, Mary Nunns, age 84, Hartlepool district, Durham, volume 10a, page 111. [If this is correct then there is a problem with the age.]

Her death certificate states
subdistrict Hartlepool, County Durham
August 26 1870: Hilda Street, West Hartlepool: Mary Nunns: female: wife of John Nunns, joiner: age 81 years [or possibly 82 or 84 as it looks like 8h]: cause of death - old age certified: informant J. Nunns, present at the death West Hartlepool: registered ????? September 1870.
[It seems her age is reported inconsistantly in various records
1841 census 40 years (Rounded to the nearest 5 years, but different methods were used)
1851 census 56 years
1861 census 63 years
1870 death certificate 81, 82 or 84 years
so I would suggest her age at death was iabout 74 years.]
[This must be her as it matches the street address in the last census, husbands name and his occupation.]

Mary Ann Nunns (nee Field) is the first known family member to be born in what is now known as Canada. The next was John Simmonds born about 125 years later. The 1851 census states she was born in about 1795 in Quebec, Canada. The 1861 census says she was born in about 1798 in Quebec, America and was a British Subject. From this we can conclude she was born in the British Colony of the Province of Lower Canada, known previously the British Colony Province of Quebec and in 1867 the Canadian Province of Quebec.

The circumstances of her being born in Quebec and married in Guiseley about 20 years later are unknown. My pet theory (guess?) is her father was British soldier who served part of his time in Quebec and returned home with his family to his home area of Guiseley.

1. In the 1841 census in Bardsey (population about 100), East Rigton about 2 miles from East Keswick Mary Ann was the only person not born in Yorkshire. No one with Fields as a last name
2. In the 1851 census in East Keswick (population about 500), 1 person was born in Sweden, Mary Ann in Quebec and all others in Great Britain, most in Yorkshire. No one with Fields as a last name.
3. In the 1861 census they moved to Stranton, Hartlepool, Durham
4. There are Fields baptised, married or died at St. Oswald, Guiseley old enough to be of a previous generation.
Moses Field, February 1 1735, son of William
Jonathon Field married Rose Hardy, July 7 1746
Jonathan Field, June 16 1747, son of Jonathon
Ann Field, April 7 1751, daughter of Jonathon
John Field May 16 1756, son of Jonathon
William Field buried January 2 1760
William Field, February 10, 1760, son of Jonothon
Ann Field, November 2 1760, daughter of Thomas
James Field, February 13 1763, son of Jonothon
Samuel Field, November 10 1765, son of Jonathon
William Field, March 15 1767, son of Moses
Ann Field married Peter Watson, September 1 1771
Thomas Field, July 4 1773, son of Thomas
James Field, July 28 1776, son of Thomas
Jonathon Field married Martha Burgges June 20 1779
Bartholamew Field married Dinah Woolbank, September 23 1781
William Field, January 15 1782, son of Jonathon
John Field married Mary Hardy, September 12 1782
Hannah Field, April 20 1784, daughter of Barthomelew
Hannah Field, buried May 7 1784
Rosemond Field, August 23 1784, daughter of Jonathon
Jonathon Field, April 9 1786, son of Jonathon
Nanney Field, May 23 1785, daughter of Bartholomew
Jonathon Field son of Jonathon buried June 15 1787
William Field, buried July 10 1792
John Field, March 9 1794, son of Samuel
Nancy Field married James Horton, January 22 1797
Rose Field wife of Jonathon Field, buried July 26 1803
Rosamund Field married Michael Wood, April 7 1806
Jonathon Field of Horsforth, buried January 8 1808
Mary Field married John Nunns, August 10 1818

West Yorkshire Select Land Tax Records
Horsforth, 1798, 1809, , 1810, 1812, 1815
Samuel Feild [as spelled], self [ie he owns his own plot of property] [5 pence]

Baptisms, Marriages and Burials - St Margaret, Horsforth, West Yorkshire

A Samuel Field son of Jonathon Field baptised November 10 1765 Norsforth

This is a huge stretch however its a slight possibility.
There was a Marguerite Field baptised on August 3, 1788 in Quebec as a Protestant
Her father was Benjamin Field a private in Captain Scotts Company of the 26th Regiment [The Cameronians], her mother was Christiana, godparents Robert Lidle, private and Elizabeth McIntosh.
Could Margueurite be a sister to Mary Ann???
According to Wikipedia
he regiment embarked from Cork in May 1787, with a full establishment strength of around 350 men, and arrived in British North America in August. They were garrisoned around Quebec, moving to Montreal in 1789, and then to the frontier posts along the Niagara River in 1790. It moved to St. John in 1792, and then returned to Montreal in 1794. In March 1795, Major-General Sir Charles Stuart was appointed the regimental colonel. The regiment moved back and forth between Montreal and Quebec over the following years, absorbing a large draft of men from the 4th Foot in 1797 in order to bring it up to the new strength of ten companies.
In May 1800 the regiment moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where it served in garrison duties for four months before sailing for England in September. On their return, however, one of the three transport ships was captured by a French privateer, the Grand Decidée, with the men paroled and allowed to return to England on the promise that they would not serve until exchanged for French prisoners.