Ann Gunn

This is just an idea for a book at the moment. I haven't written a single sentence yet but have been doing tons of research. This idea started from looing into my family tree and I found a fascinating family, who got themselves all the way from Norfolk to Utah, America in the 1860s, where they helped establish the town of Parowan. George Morphew Munford, Ann Gunn's brother, actually had a reservoir commemorated to him on his death- the Munford Reservoir.

I want to show their journey, through thick and thin, through the freezing winter with people dying and the horrendous hardships, travelling over the mountains and plains in their covered wagons.

Actually, I've just found that Charles Dickens may well have been on the same ship that Ann Gunn sailed over on and I have his report of the journey, noting the number of Mormans, escaping persecution in England, to set up in Utah.

Ann met and married while there and produced numerous offspring, so I wish to show their romance.

So, do you think it's a good idea?