N.B. Although the books etc. listed below are known to exist, many have not been seen by the webmaster Any copies or further information on any text mentioned here would be greatly appreciated
Author: John Dundon
Published: Au Dun Laoighire, County Dublin, Ireland, 1997
(copy held in the National Library of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, reference number 9292 d 27
Notes: This 300+ page book details huge numbers of references to the Dundon family in Limerick archives covering the period up to 1901. The author is a Christian Brother currently working in Sudan.
Author: John Dundon
Published: Dublin, Ireland, 2000
(copy held in the National Library of Ireland, Dublin)
Notes: A further seventy pages of Dundon material from the redoubtable Brother John, once again covering pre-1900 Irish records.
Author: John Dundon
Published: Au Dun Laoighire, County Dublin, Ireland, 1997
(available from the National Library of Ireland, reference number 9292 d 27
Notes: This is the account of the author's own family in Irishtown, Dublin, Ireland, from the early years of the nineteenth century.
Author: Thomas John Dundon (1853-1933), with notes and revision by William R Mitchell
Published: Middleton, Wisconsin, U.S.A., 1977
(available from:
National Library of Ireland, reference number 9292 d 12
LDS Family History Centres, reference number Book Area 929.273, D915m
- also on LDS microfilm, reference number Film Area 1321151, item 11
Notes: Limited print run. Includes index and bibliography. Details the descendants of John Dundon and Mary Coakley from County Cork, Ireland. There is a link to the family in Korn and Related Families by Phyllis Korn, listed below.
If connections are found to the family in this book, please contact your new-found cousin, Elizabeth Coppersmith-Dundon!
Author: Brother John M Feheney
ISBN: 0-9522059-6-3
Published: Iverus Publications, Mardyke House, Mardyke, Cork, Ireland, 1998, priced at around £10 IR
Notes: This local history book gives useful background to the Dundon family's home grounds in Ballysteen, 6km from Askeaton, County Limerick from the 13th century, and about the Dundons themselves from the 16th century.
Author: Cecil Dundon
Published: Warren & Son, Winchester, England, 1939
Notes: Nothing known
Author: R.Norman Kirchgraber
Periodical: Historical Wyoming, U.S.A., Volume 28, July 1991
Notes: A brief but informative five page narrative about the descendant's of Irish-born Michael Dundon (1839-1919) in New York state, USA. The site compiler has a copy of this article.
Contact: Raymond Barbar, Wyoming County Historian, 26 Linwood Avenue, Warsaw, NY 14569, USA.
Periodical: Beaver Briefs, Oregon, U.S.A., Volume 13, Issue 3, July 1991
Notes: Nothing known.
Periodical: Keystone Kuzzins, Pennsylvania,U.S.A., Volume 2, Issue 1, August 1973
Notes: Nothing known
Contact: Erie County Historical Society, 419 State Street, Erie, Pennylvania, 16501-1106, USA
Author: Priscilla W Dundon & James Wesley Miller
Published: Shore Line Times Co., Guilford, Connecticut ,U.S.A., 1976
Notes: History of towns in Middlesex County and New London County, Connecticut, U.S.A.
Author: Anne Dundon Richwagen
Published: U.S.A., 1996
Available from Amazon Books
Author: Gwen Dundon
Published: Australia, 1990s?
Available from Amazon Books
Author: Caitlin Dundon
Published: 1994
Available from Amazon Books
Author: Susan Dundon
Published: England,1994
Available from Amazon Books
Author: H Dwyer Dundon
Published: 1992
Available from Amazon Books
Author: H Dwyer Dundon
Published: ?
Available from Amazon Books
Author: Roscoe C Dundon, John G Gilmartin & Henry E Kentopp
Published: Newson & Company, New York and Chicago, U.S.A. 1939
Notes: An obituary to Roscoe C Dundon appeared in the New York Times, 19 June 1946, page 21, column 4
Author: Merle Leroy Dundon
Available: Ohio State University, U.S.A.. PhD Thesis, 1922
Author: Paul Scott Dundon
Available: University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Great Britain. Thesis, 1984
Transportation From the Clare Spring Assizes of 1849 - Violent Criminals
Periodical: Descent, Australia, September1991
Notes: Details the transportation of the "notorious" Martin Dundon, who was transported on the ship "Pestongee Bomangee" to Bermuda for several violent crimes including attempted murder and robbery. He was described as the terror of the country adjoining Broadford, Olonlara, and Killaloe.
Martin Dundon even made it into the pages of the "Hue and Cry", and carried a reward on his head. He had evaded the constabulary by his athletic prowess, but was eventually lured into a trap, and was taken into custody by the Kilmore constabulary. At the Clare Assizes he was convicted of burglary, and sentenced to transportation for fifteen years. However, in September 1856 he was discharged after serving less than half his sentence in exile.
(Thanks to Colin Dundon in Australia for this information)
Korn and Related Families
Author: Phyllis Korn (Phyllis Maxine Dundon), 1917 -
Available: Unpublished typescript
LDS Family History Centres, Reference Number: Film Area 1673524, item, 11
Notes: Chiefly family group sheets, but details descendants of John Dundon and Caherine Aherne in the parish of Knockraha, County Cork, Ireland. There is a link to the family listed in The Dundon Family by T J Dundon, listed above.
The Story of the Sinnemahone
Author: George William Huntly
Published: Originally in 1936, but re-published recently by the Historical Society of Cameron County, Pennsylvania.
Available: via The Cameron County Historical Society, Pennsylvania, USA
Notes: The book is about the lumbering business of Cameron County, Pennsylvania between 1865-1885. The Dundon connection comes from approximately two pages referring to Ed(mund/ward) Dundon of St Marys, PA, who was a lumberman, an Irish immigrant, and the builder of a Roman Catholic Church in Cameron County.
Quotes from pp. 368, 369, 371: "Kaul hired a superintendent by the name of Ed Dundon, an Irishman recently from Ireland. ........he instructed Dundon not to skin the natives, but to give them a fair chance to support themselves as well as to prov their worth to the company. ......Ed Dundon was responsible for building a Catholic church at Sterling Run, in which services were held for several years. He hired Bill Smith, Larry Summerson, and Wel Summerson to build it. They, without any other help, commenced with the foundation and continued until the whole building was completed, including the painting and furnishings. Within the next few years many of the parishioners had moved away and the church was torn down. Nevertheless, it was a monument to Ed Dundon and his labour for the cause of faith and righteousness. ............The largest spar was hauled in February 1881.....Ed Dundon scaled it. After several measurements and calculations by Scribner's rule, he said that it contained fifty-two hundred feet, which put it in the class of the largest spars taken down the Sinnamahoning."
(Special thanks to James Wykoff in Clarendon, PA, for this information)
THIS IS!
Mick Abrahams and the This Was Band (1998)
Many of us oldies will remember the glorious days of the 1960s, and the folk-blues sound of Jethro Tull. Mick Abrahams played guitar on the first Tull album "This Was", and he has recently put a band together to recapture the magic of that album. Since singer and flautist Ian Anderson was otherwise engaged still fronting Jethro Tull, he had the good sense to recruit English-born Steve Dundon to take centre stage. The site compiler saw the band perform in Swansea, Wales, in October 1998 and met the singer, who gave away a few secrets about his own family's background in Tipperery, Ireland.
Copies of the band's excellent CD, and details of the band's touring arrangements are available from A New Day c/o Dave Rees, 75 Wren Way, Farnborough, Hampshire, England, GU14 8TA.
THE HISTORY OF COLUMBUS, FRANKLIN COUNTY, OHIO, VOLUME I
Author: unknown
The following extract is taken from page 322
The youthful days of James O. Niswonger were spent in the usual manner of farm lads. He assisted in the work of the fields through the summer months and in the winter seasons attended the district schools until twenty years of age, also enjoying he advantages of a commercial course. He afterward went to Arcanum, Darke county, Ohio, where he entered the employ of a cousin who was engaged in the dry-goods business, there remaining for two years. He afterward removed to Dayton, Ohio, in 1886, and secred a position with the dry-goods house of Bauer, Forrester & Company, acting as salesman and buyer of cotton goods. He was afterward buyer of woolen goods for the firm of Elder & Johnston and continued in that position until 1899, when he went to New York city where he engaged with James McCreary & Company. During his association with that house he was successively promoted until 1901. becoming manager of the branch store at Brooklyn, which he successfully conducted. In 1902 he was pro-meted to manager of he Columbus store which was conducted under the name of the Columbus Columbus Goods Company, being owned by Mr. Claflin of New York. Here he displayed the same qualities of careful. systematic and successful management until March, 1905, when a disastrous fire occurred, destroying much of the stock. A new firm was then organized, under the name of the Columbus Dry Goods Company, Mr. Niswonger being very active in the organization of the new company, of which E. K. Stewart is president and treasurer, Colonel J. D. Ellison, vice president and director, and T. J. Dundon, secretary with Mr. Niswonger as manager and director. These officers constitute the executive board. From the organization She business has been very successful, a rapid and substantial increase being shown each month. They handle a complete line of dry goods, draperies and general decorating goods and ladies and children's furnishings. This is one of the most progressive concerns in Columbus and its development is largely due to the careful sysem which Mr. Niswonger has inaugurated. Tireless energy, keen perception, honesty of purpose, genius for devising the right thing at the right time are numbered among his chief characteristics................