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  • #505
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      Buntings of Old Buckenham, Norfolk

      07:14AM UTC – Wednesday, 03 January 2007
      Contributed by: Mrs Julia Gibbs

      My ancestors include John Bunton/Bunting born c 1785 who married Sarah and they had sevral children born in Old Buckenham. These include my great great great grandmother, Anna Maria Bunting (known as Maria) born at Old Buckenham in 1814, who married Stephen Brothers.

      John and Sarah’s other children were Mary (1807), John (1809), Jemima (1810), Susan (1815), Jabez (1818), James (1820) and Elizabeth (1824).

      There were several Buntings/Buntons in Old Buckenham around these dates and the likelihood isthat they were all related. I have more details to share If anyone is interested and would love to hear from anyone who shares these ancestors.

      Julia

      #504
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        John Bunton – Boston USA

        07:00PM UTC – Monday, 15 January 2007
        Contributed by: Chuckie Blaney

        John Bunton, b ca 1810, and Mary Ann Bunton, b. ca. 1812, immigrated from Glasgow, Scotland to Boston in June 1842 with children Elizabeth, b. abt 1837, and John, b abt 1839. John, a color mixer, was possibly from Kilmarnock, Co. Ayr, Scotland. Where did they go after they landed in Boston? Have not found them yet in the US in 1850 or later censuses. What happened to them? Am interested in contact with anyone who can provide any information about this family.

        #503
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          Robert Bunten, b ca 1803, and Mary Bunten, b. ca. 1806

          10:40PM UTC – Monday, 15 January 2007
          Contributed by: Chuckie Blaney

          Robert Bunten, b ca 1803, and Mary Bunten, b. ca. 1806, immigrated from Greenock, Scotland to Boston in Sept 1851 with children James, b. abt 1843, George, b. abt 1848, and Mary, b. abt 1849.
          George was a weaver and was possibly from Kilmarnock. Have not found them yet in the US in 1860 or later censuses. What happened to them? Interested in contact with anyone who can provide any information about this family.

          #502
          Keymaster

            Buntings of Windmill, Derbyshire?

            09:02PM UTC – Tuesday, 16 January 2007
            Contributed by: Mrs Sharon Desaulniers

            I am looking for the parentage of Samuel Bunting, who married Ann Burgon and fathered William Bunting.

            Were Samuels parents Joseph Bunting and Mary Walton who married July 2, 1762 in Tideswell Derbyshire?

            Many thanks,

            Sharon Desaulniers

            Edmonton, Canada

            #501
            Keymaster

              Bunting Family Bible

              04:52PM UTC – Tuesday, 23 January 2007
              Contributed by: Anonymous

              Following the recent death of my parents, I discovered in their books an old, but undated, King James bible. On a previously blank page at the back, however, is a list of Buntings and their dates of birth.

              It would appear that the list was created at once, perhaps to aid the bible’s owner in remembering the birthday’s of each of his fifteen or so brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, etc! The birth dates range from that of Susan Bunting (b.3 August,1826) to Bertie Elmer (b. 21 March, 1885).

              #500
              Keymaster

                SoG/Brand Events Show, 2007.

                07:15PM UTC – Monday, 29 January 2007
                Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSG

                As a Member Society of the Federation of Family History Societies we have received the following bulletin, which as it affects attendance at the major family history fair in the UK this year, I felt I should print the detail in full.

                ?WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?? – LIVE

                Over the last three years, the hit TV programme ?Who Do You Think You Are?? has inspired a new generation to trace their ancestry and to join those who are already well on their journey towards uncovering their personal heritage.

                Following this unprecedented success, Who Do You Think You Are? is launching a National History Show, giving more people than ever before the opportunity to discover more about their heritage. ?Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE? (incorporating the Society of Genealogists Family History Show) will take place at the National Hall, Olympia, London on May bank holiday weekend, 5th ? 7th May 2007. The Show is supported by the Daily Telegraph and Ancestry.co.uk.

                Specialist speakers include TV?s David Starkey, Dan Snow, Bettany Hughes, Nick Barratt, Saul David and Jonathon Foyle plus experts from The National Archives and the world of family history.

                SPECIAL TICKET OFFER INFORMATION

                Save ?20!! 2 tickets for the price of 1 !!!
                You can buy 2 tickets for ?20*, saving ?20 on the full ticket price. Simply call 08701 660443 or visit http://www.whodoyouthinkyouarelive.co.uk and quote FFHS241 when asked for a code. The offer deadline is 22 April 2007.

                Normal adult ticket price is ?20, all theatres and workshops at the show are included in this price. Children (6-15 years) ?5 in advance. Calls charged at national call rate. Tickets must be bought in advance of the show. *
                Ticket booking fee applies.

                LIMITED FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY GROUPS DISCOUNT!!

                Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE? is also offering groups of 20 and over the chance to buy two Adult tickets for just ?15!! That?s a saving of ?25!

                This special society offer ends on 28th February. To claim your discount simply quote FFHSGROUPS when asked for a code ? it?s as simple as that!

                ***Please note that all activities, including talks etc at Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE are included in the special discount ticket price.

                #499
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                  Relationship of Samuel and Daniel Bunting

                  07:21PM UTC – Saturday, 03 February 2007
                  Contributed by: Col Joseph Thomas

                  I am requesting assistance in locating any documentation/information on the following individuals. If you have a copy of “Anthony Bunting and Ellen Barker of Matlock, England: descendants of sons in America. William Bunting, John Bunting, Samuel Bunting, Job Bunting” by Elizabeth Potts Koleda the information may be there. Your assistance would be greatly appreciated and I will be more than happy to pay any reasonable fees.

                  SAMUEL BUNTING III/DANIEL BUNTING
                  It is said that Samuel Bunting was born on 29 July 1743 in Falls Township Bucks County, PA and married Septama Cowgill on 5 May 1773 in Burlington County, NJ. It is also said that Samuel Bunting and his wife Septama (Cowgill) Bunting, in company with Jonah Cowgill (Septama’s brother), moved by ox-cart to Le Bouef Township, Erie County in northwestern Pennsylvania about 1797. Samuel and his wife Septama are listed in the1790 Census for Bucks County, PA and the 1810 and 1820 Census for Le Bouef Township in Erie County, along with Septama’s brothers Johan and Joseph Cowgill. Children of Samuel and Septama were John 1780, Tamazine 1791,Edmund 1798, Margaret 1779, all born in Bucks County, PA and their youngest child Daniel who was born in 1808 in LeBeouf Township, Erie County, PA.

                  #498
                  Keymaster

                    Buntings From New Zealand

                    06:20AM UTC – Sunday, 04 February 2007
                    Contributed by: Anonymous

                    I am interested in tracking down Lorraine Bunting from New Zealand, I believe she had three or four brothers and three or four sisters, she came to Adelaide, Australia in 1969 where I met her.

                    I believe one of her sisters married in Australia. Would really like to contact someone from the family.

                    Willow (Roylene)

                    #497
                    Keymaster

                      John Wesley Bunting

                      08:47PM UTC – Thursday, 15 February 2007
                      Contributed by: Anonymous

                      I have been unable to find parents for my great great grandfather, John Wesley Bunting.
                      My father said that he was born in 1787, Eastern Shore, Virginia and that he married Sarah Patterson Heath. I assume he is descended from William Bunting–b. 1653, Matlock, Derbyshire, England–who died on the Eastern Shore in 1716. I believe that many public records were lost in a fire and that is why I cannot find any record of his birth. I would certainly appreciate any genealogical information that would help me link these two together.

                      Judith Bunting Hinkle

                      #496
                      Keymaster

                        Federation of FHSs’ Ezine – A Replacement for the Newsflash.

                        11:56PM UTC – Friday, 16 February 2007
                        Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSG

                        The Federation have issued their first replacement for the Newsflash in February 2007 and called it Ezine.
                        It is possible to subscribe (or to unsubscribe) by putting the following URL in your browser.
                        http://www.ffhs.org.uk/ezine/subscribe.php The Ezine has the advantage that it can be read by member family historians directly without have to request expensive (in time, effort, cost and postage) photocopies. Consequently you will have the latest news available.
                        One of the subjects in this issue is the programme of events leading to the withdrawal to The National Archives (TNA) of the census material by April 2008. It is claimed by TNA that it will save them ?1M p/a.
                        The impact of this change will be worst for those non metropolitan family historians who previously travelled to the central London main line stations and then in future will have to bear the extra cost of the journey to Kew and perhaps more importantly, to lose the two way journey time from an already short research visit.
                        Central Government through the TNA is forcing through unwelcome and unnecessary changes on the public.

                        #495
                        Keymaster

                          Lewis/Louis Bunting

                          12:23PM UTC – Sunday, 25 February 2007
                          Contributed by: Anonymous

                          I am looking for my grandfather’s brother Lewis/Louis Bunting. Lewis was born in Donaghadee Northern Ireland in 1887, he married Elsie or surname Else not sure which is ok on the 7/6/1917. Had one daughter Gladys who married Joseph Shepherd. Lewis was in the Merchant Navy. I have traced the fact that he was still there in 1928. I think he could have been married in England, the photo I have of the marriage, Lewis is in Navy uniform. Annette Bunting.

                          #494
                          Keymaster

                            10 – Editorial

                            08:49PM UTC – Wednesday, 28 February 2007
                            Contributed by: Mary Rix

                            Well, here we are again; No 10 now that means that we have been running for five years. It seems only like yesterday that the Bunting Society was formed, but we will soon be having our sixth annual gathering.
                            The information on the Bunting families is still coming in from all around the world. Nearly everyone who joins now can be linked to one of the existing trees. If you have any Bunting stories which you would like to pass on we would love to have them. It is these that put the flesh on the bones of the family tree.
                            I am sorry that this newsletter is so late but family problems have prevented me from finishing it in good time. I am hoping this will be with you before the Gathering and hope to see many of you there.
                            Christine has been collecting Bunting data from Norwich Library about three times a year when a “shopping” bus has been available. This year it will be different as Norwich Library was burnt down in a disasterous fire in August. It is said that the facilities will not be back to normal for at least three years. The fiche and film material is however still available as it is kept in a separate building. The Mormon church and the SOG also have copies of fiche and film material for Norfolk. It was lucky for us that Shirley Howell had kindly looked up some Bunting queries a few weeks previous to the fire.
                            Barbara Taylor who loved to come to our Gatherings (all the way from Cromer in a taxi), and told the story of her visit to the Bunting store in Norwich at last years event, has had a stroke so will be unable to join us this year. She continues to enjoy the newsletter and keeps an eye out for Bunting information. She sent the Bunting Society a copy of a new publication called “Life in Langdale”; the memoirs of a Lakeland farmer by Tom Fletcher Buntin. It gives some biographical details and also some photographs of the family. This will be available to see in the library at the Gathering.
                            Well it is now way past time to close this newsletter and take it to the printers. Anyone who is unable to come to the Gathering is welcome to telephone me to make an appointment see the Bunting archives when they are in the area.
                            Mary Rix

                            #493
                            Keymaster

                              Heinrich Bunting

                              01:54AM UTC – Friday, 09 March 2007
                              Contributed by: sibunting

                              Hi.

                              I’ve just came across this and thought people here might be interested and maybe have more information on him. Nothing is coming up in the search, though his map does seem to show in the corner sometimes!

                              http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/03/08/87-the-whole-world-in-a-cloverleaf/

                              Take it easy fellow Buntings!

                              Si

                              #492
                              Keymaster

                                Ann Bunting

                                03:16PM UTC – Sunday, 11 March 2007
                                Contributed by: Anonymous

                                Church of St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

                                No.526 Peter Oelrichs of the

                                island of Heligoland, bachelor and Ann

                                Bunting of this parish, spinster

                                Married in this church by licence

                                this fourth Day of April in the Year One Thousand Eight

                                Hundred and Nine. By me Richard Turner Revd. Minister.

                                This marriage was solemnized between us Peter Oelrichs

                                Ann Bunting

                                In the presence of Job Johnson, Sarah Johnson, Mary Bunting

                                #491
                                Keymaster

                                  11 – Editorial

                                  10:58PM UTC – Monday, 12 March 2007
                                  Contributed by: Jerry Green

                                  Once again the time has flown! I must apologise for the lateness of this newsletter. There just is not time to do all the things that have to be done!
                                  We shall soon be thinking about our next Gathering which will take place, according to the wishes of last year’s attenders, at Alpheton Village Hall. The date will be 14th October.
                                  This year we have again had an influx of new members, all adding their Bunting details to our Bunting Records. We try to keep everyone in touch with each other by printing the names and addresses of new members in the newsletter. If I have not put in your change of address please let me know and I will rectify it in the next newsletter.
                                  Mary Rix

                                  #490
                                  Keymaster

                                    John Bunting (1818-18??)

                                    02:43PM UTC – Thursday, 19 April 2007
                                    Contributed by: Anonymous

                                    My great grandfathers name was John Bunting. The 1820 census shows him living in Darby, Delaware County, Pennsylvannia. The names in his house hold were Samuel, Joseph, Samuel, and John Bunting.

                                    John moved his family to Berry’s Chapel New Jersey (Salem County). If you have any info on John who married Sarah Rodney Dorsey, please let me know.

                                    #489
                                    Keymaster

                                      Lloyd Hamilton BUNTING

                                      12:17PM UTC – Friday, 20 April 2007
                                      Contributed by: Anne Kirk

                                      Lloyd Hamilton BUNTING Junior (my father) was born in Detroit, Michigan on Valentine’s Day 1920. Some years ago I managed to get him to write something about his war service. This was a good idea as he now suffers from dementia and doesn’t remember too much of anything.

                                      Not too long ago my brother, Lloyd Hamilton BUNTING III put Dad’s story on the net and added a lot of links to explain or expand on various parts of the story.

                                      #488
                                      Keymaster

                                        John William Bunting

                                        01:07AM UTC – Monday, 23 April 2007
                                        Contributed by: Anonymous

                                        I’m trying to find information on my great grandfather.
                                        He was born in Indiana c. 1875, lived in Sistersville, West Virginia from, at least 1910-1930 with his wife Nora/Nell (Meals) and their three children, Joseph, Mary and Martha. He died c.1945 in North Baltimore, Ohio, but I have no other information on him.

                                        Thanks for any help you can give me

                                        Kate

                                        #487
                                        Keymaster

                                          Sidney Percival Bunting

                                          01:32PM UTC – Tuesday, 24 April 2007
                                          Contributed by: Jerry Green

                                          A new biography of Sidney Percival Bunting by Allison Drew: Between Empire and Revolution:
                                          A Life of Sidney Bunting, 1873–1936, published by Pickering & Chatto, 2007. This is the first scholarly biography of Sidney Bunting. His life offers a unique perspective on the British Empire, illustrating the complex social networks and values that were carried across the world in the name of empire. The lawyer son of renowned Wesleyan social activists, Bunting was radicalised in South Africa. He was a founding member of the Communist Party and campaigned for black emancipation.

                                          Allison Drew draws on archival material which has only recently become available, including the Bunting family papers, records of Buntin’s Oxford years, trial transcripts from Buntin’s legal and political career, and the Comintern archives.

                                          Further information is available at:

                                          http://www.pickeringchatto.com/index.php/pc_site/monographs/between_empire_and_revolution

                                          #486
                                          Keymaster

                                            Availability of family trees

                                            12:30AM UTC – Saturday, 12 May 2007
                                            Contributed by: Mark Dodgson

                                            As a member who has enjoyed visiting two wonderful AGMs in the past, in addition to the pleasure of meeting other family members, it ihas been so good to have the opportunity of looking through the numerous family trees pinned up around the AGM meeting room.

                                            I have looked on this, the Society’s web site, but (unless I have missed a link) find no opportunity to view any of the trees on the site. I think this is a great shame. I would imagine most members are keen to obtain as much information about their branch of the family as they can; after all, is that not what the Society is all about? Obviously some members have spent many many hours, days and months compiling the trees, but surely once this work has been done, it would be perverse if other members had to recompile them from scratch?!

                                            Has the committee therefore given any thought to making the trees more widely available on the site or at least to publishing them on one of the commercial web sites? May be this is already the case; if so can anyone tell me where can they be found?

                                            #485
                                            Keymaster

                                              12 – Editorial

                                              10:28PM UTC – Friday, 18 May 2007
                                              Contributed by: Mary Rix

                                              Again the time has flown! It is nearly time for our Annual Meeting at Alpheton. We have arranged the programme and are ready to go!

                                              This year I went on holiday, with my family, to Scotland. I did not meet any Buntings but found reference to the Graham Crest and Tartan that the Buntings may wear. I came home with two bookmarks, one with the crest and one with the tartan.

                                              Most of the trees that have appeared in our centre pages have now been amended and updated. If any member would like an update, please send a SSAE to me and, I will print them out.

                                              #484
                                              Keymaster

                                                13 – Editorial

                                                06:44PM UTC – Monday, 21 May 2007
                                                Contributed by: Mary Rix

                                                The newsletter seems to get later and later as the pressures of life speed on. I lost my mother in March which put me almost two months behind schedule. I am now trying to catch up with everything.

                                                Since the last newsletter I have joined the internet with electronic mail, the world wide web and chatlines I have made many Bunting contacts some of whom have decided to join us. If they have not joined us many have given Bunting information. Michael Bunting is also connected to the internet so anyone with access can contact us that way. (See inside Front Cover)

                                                Our Gathering this year will be on 11th October at Alpheton Village Hall in Suffolk If you have not been before why not come along and meet the regulars. We have a very pleasant day meeting new-found relatives and swapping family stories. Hope to see many of you there.

                                                #483
                                                Keymaster

                                                  14 – Editorial

                                                  06:50PM UTC – Wednesday, 23 May 2007
                                                  Contributed by: Jerry Green

                                                  It is nearly time to meet again at our Annual Gathering at Alpheton Village Hall. This will be our eighth Gathering – doesn’t time fly when you are having fun!
                                                  Since the last newsletter I have spoken to more Buntings and made contact with others via the internet gradually finding out where the Buntings went throughout the world.
                                                  I have been in touch with two descendants of the Quainton, Buckinghamshire Buntings who both live in America. The tree seemed to stop in England but they have given me how the tree continues in the USA.
                                                  One of the grandchildren of Joseph and Emma Tunicliffe from Derby went to Ontario I have been in contact with the descendants
                                                  I have contact with two people whose Buntings came from Germany. A new area for the Bunting Society. The only thing we know about Buntings in Germany is that there is Bunting tea (the type you drink) there.
                                                  This year I have had visits from Myles and Brenda Bunting from Canada. Dawn Hutchinson and her sister Faye Bunton from Australia also visited. It was lovely to see them and hear their Bunting/Bunton news.
                                                  We are always looking for new articles for Gone A-Hunting. If you wish to write an article about your Bunting family. Please do, we would be pleased to accept it.

                                                  #482
                                                  Keymaster

                                                    15 – Editorial

                                                    04:58PM UTC – Friday, 25 May 2007
                                                    Contributed by: Jerry Green

                                                    The years seem to be flying past and more people still seem to be coming forward interested to join our Society. Our membership is now over the 150 mark.
                                                    The excuse for the lateness of the journal this time is a visit to Australia and New Zealand. Trevor, Timothy and I went for seven weeks to visit friends and relations and see the sights!
                                                    The first Bunton we met up with was Bob in Malabar, (Sydney). He has started a Directory of World Buntons on the internet. For those with internet access this can be viewed at http://wwv.ozemail.com.au/~bbunton/bworldb.html (This link no longer exists – webmaster). Bob showed us around Botany Bay which is five minutes from Malabar.
                                                    The next Bunting member we visited was Vivienne Parker in Remuera, (Auckland NZ). We just happened to be in Vivienne’s road and called. We were made most welcome and have now established an e-mail contact with Vivienne.
                                                    Back in Australia, in Melbourne, we met up with lan Bunton (Bob’s cousin) who kindly showed us around. lan was one of the first people to present a book on his Buntons to the Bunting Society.
                                                    At Geraldton in Western Australia I again left my family tree with my cousins. We met up with another Bunting member here – John Mellors who has been providing the Society with the IGI and American SS records as well as obits from the web and other Bunting information.
                                                    The next Bunton contact we made was in Queensland. When we got to Rockhampton I telephoned Jane Hulme. Jane’s husband Richard was at home and invited us to Mount Morgan to meet them. When we got there we were treated to a tour of Mount Morgan and invited to stay for the night. Jane showed me her Bunton information and gave me copies to bring home. She had a lovely photograph of her great-grandfather with his family presumably sent or taken out for her grandfather who worked in the gold mines there. I met one of Jane’s brothers and her sister and spoke to the other brother on the telephone.
                                                    After going through Brisbane we called on Elaine and Norm Whatmore who made us very welcome. We stayed in a little house in her garden at Bahrs Scrub. I transferred a copy of Elaine’s Bunting tree on to her computer for her use.
                                                    Only a short distance from Elaine’s lives another member Dawn Hutchinson at Coombabah. Dawn visited us here last year and we visited her this. She has amassed a lot of Bunting/Bunton information and makes lots of new contacts for us.
                                                    We took all Bunting Society members addresses with us and if we were in their area we tried to contact them.
                                                    I left the journal half finished before we went and have now come back revitalised to finish it. Michael has been kept busy with all the new contacts on the internet and keeping everything ticking while I was away.
                                                    We will be again having our Gathering on the second Saturday in October at Alpheton. Looking forward to seeing some of you there.
                                                    Anyone willing to come and help us get ready for the Gathering please contact me for information as to where and when
                                                    People with display material for the day please let me know in advance as we are usually tight on space.
                                                    Mary Rix

                                                    #481
                                                    Keymaster

                                                      Bunting Family Gathering & Reunion – September 22, 2007

                                                      02:55AM UTC – Thursday, 31 May 2007
                                                      Contributed by: Denise M Pino

                                                      All descendants of the five Bunting brothers (William, John, James, Charles & George) who emigrated to America from Quainton, Buckinghamshire, England in the 1830’s are invited to attend. So please come and join us for the day.

                                                      Place: Mt. Zion Community Center on Red Hill Road in Albion, Illinois (U.S.A.)

                                                      Directions: Take Route 15 through Albion, going west. Turn left (South) on the first road past the city limits, Red HIll Road. Go 4.5 miles on the blacktop to the Mt. Zion Church. Community Center is next to the church.

                                                      Food: Carry In Dinner – Same As Previous Years – Drinks and Table service will be provided. So please just bring meats, vegetables, salads and deserts to share.

                                                      Hotels In The Area – Located in Grayville, Illinois (U.S.A.)

                                                      1. Best Western Windsor Oaks Inn, 2200 S. Court Street – Phone: 618-378-7930 (9.2 Miles from Albion, Illinois)

                                                      2. Super 8 Motels, 2060 County Road 2450 North – Phone: 618-375-7288 (9.4 miles from Albion, Illinois)

                                                      Closest Airports:

                                                      1. St. Louis, Missouri (U.S.A.)

                                                      2. Evansville, Indiana (U.S.A.)

                                                      For further information, please contact the following:

                                                      Denise Marie Pino, 43439 Columbia Avenue, Fremont, CA 94538-6022 (U.S.A.) Email: supersect1@aol.com

                                                      Elaine Michels, Route 3 Box 193, Albion, IL 62806 (U.S.A.) Email: lanie48@wildblue.net

                                                      *Please bring photos of your families and ancestors to our scanning station to be preserved for a future publication of The Bunting Family History. Your contributions will be greatly appreicated.

                                                      If interested in more Bunting History (stories, photos, birth records, death records, etc.), please contact Denise Marie Pino (Bunting Society Member #369) to send you an invitation to visit the Bunting Website.

                                                      #480
                                                      Keymaster

                                                        16 – Editorial

                                                        09:01PM UTC – Thursday, 31 May 2007
                                                        Contributed by: Jerry Green

                                                        We are now getting to the end of a lovely hot summer – too hot for some – and beginning to look back to our winter hobbies. With the work in the garden lessening there is more time to think about family history. I have just come home from the Federation of Family History Societies conference in York where we had four days of lectures a research room to use and bookstalls to buy more family history books.
                                                        The Banquet at the conference – each conference has one – was at the York Railway Museum. We were entertained by a brass band and were allowed to go round and see all the exhibits. The banquet was on the railway platform!
                                                        I met up with Viv Parker, whom I had previously met in New Zealand and Ruth Pearson one of our Derbyshire members.
                                                        Christine asked in the last newsletter if anyone had ideas for the tenth reunion. Up until now we have had no suggestions. Maybe a special tenth anniversary publication or a special event. Please send in your ideas so that we know what you would like.
                                                        I am going to the Public Record Office in Kew on 20th September so hope to look up any army Buntings and also Buntings who worked on the railways.
                                                        For the Bunions who have asked about ‘Baby Spice’ of Spice Girls fame. Emma Bunton is on the Woodford Essex tree.
                                                        Any material for the Newsletter is welcome. It is good to have new contributors with their own Bunting Stories. Perhaps you have some family stories that you would like to relate. These stories could die out if they are not preserved. Please send copy for the next newsletter like this the stories with be distributed and preserved.
                                                        Michael and Jeannc Bunting arc in Canada and USA at the moment. They hope to be meeting some of the Buntings on the ‘other side of the Big Pond’.
                                                        Please keep in touch and let us know any updates that are necessary to your trees. This is recording first hand knowledge of the families. We could record Bunting births marriages and deaths in our newsletter if you let us know of any in your family
                                                        Man Ri.x

                                                        #479
                                                        Keymaster

                                                          A Bunting Looking for Bunting History

                                                          06:46PM UTC – Monday, 04 June 2007

                                                          Contributed by: Anonymous

                                                          I know that Matlock, Derdyshire is big on Buntings but I was wondering about the Matlock Bunting history but my family seem to know only a little bit can anyone help. please.

                                                          #478
                                                          Keymaster

                                                            25 – Editorial – Put The Flags Out

                                                            07:58PM UTC – Monday, 04 June 2007
                                                            Contributed by: Jerry Green

                                                            The Queen’s Golden Jubilee is being marked with diverse celebrations all over the country. As with her Silver Jubilee in 1977, cities, towns and villages are staging ‘official’ carnivals and pageants and on a more humble level, local initiatives have led to the organisation of street parties, where youngsters of all ages can enjoy themselves. Games are being played that many older partygoers will have almost forgotten and which are quite unknown to the ‘Nintendo generation’. It is said that hopscotch, for example, is enjoying a revival. Contributing in no small measure to the festive spirit – brightening the scene at street parties as well as at more formal Jubilee celebrations – is the bunting!
                                                            Draped from lamp standards and upstairs windows, fluttering prettily in the breeze, strings of red, white and blue bunting complement the more overtly patriotic Union Flags – ‘Union Jacks’ to most of the population – flown from the tops of buildings and, in miniature form, waved enthusiastically by children lining the routes of Jubilee processions.
                                                            How did decorative bunting get its name? A possible explanation put forward, after some historical investigation, by one Desmond Holden writing in Derbyshire’s Peak Advertiser a few years ago, was that in medieval times flour millers would sift their flour through coarse open-weave cloth called ‘bunt’. The name for the material might, posits Mr Holden, have come from one of its alternative uses, for packaging goods in bundles. Hence the process of flour sifting became known as bunting, and the participle was adopted as the name for the cloth once it had been put to its milling use.
                                                            Back then, even before the slogan ‘waste not, want not’ had been coined, and even before the claim by farmers and pork butchers was coined that every part of a pig could be put to productive use, apart from its squeak, little was thrown away. Companies like Biffa and Cleanaway would have had a thin time in those days.
                                                            Accordingly, as the flour millers’ bunting deteriorated in hard continuous use, losing its vital sifting properties, it was replaced with the old worn material being put to one side for alternative uses. One of those, according to Mr Holden’s researches , was to make ‘banners, streamers and flags’.
                                                            None of the bunting being used to brighten Jubilee celebrations in 2002 is likely to have had an earlier life in a flour mill. But at least the most probable origins of the name embody a suitable touch of history.
                                                            Alan Bunting

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                                                              Ian Bunting

                                                              11:27AM UTC – Wednesday, 06 June 2007

                                                              My name is Ian Bunting. I live in Wiltshire. I have 3 brothers and 1 sister. My Dad was from Northern Ireland his name was Samuel he passed away in 1998. Just wondered if I had any relations left in Ireland.

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                                                                26 – Editorial: At Last – The 1901 Census

                                                                06:52PM UTC – Monday, 11 June 2007
                                                                Contributed by: Jerry Green

                                                                At long last the 1901 census index is available on the internet! Since it arrived on-line, opening it up for regular use, I have endeavoured to find all the Bunting-related entries. That may sound a straightforward exercise, but it is surprising how some of the Buntings are indexed. I first collected the easy ones the Buntings, Buntons, Bimtens, Bimtins and Buntines. Then I moved on to find less obvious variations, including those which earlier emerged from the 1881 census, like Bimling, Burton or Burting and all the Bantons and Bantings (some of which are correct). I had to use the General Record Office indexes to check which were ‘genuine” Buntings and which were not.
                                                                The Buntings found were marked and checked against the Bunting (on. en, in) Births and Marriages indexes. 1 then looked to find children that had died young and would therefore not be found in those indexes. Having excluded them. I set out to find what had happened to the rest? In due course I found some that would not have come to light without the GRO indexes.
                                                                For example I found some Bunters in an area where there should be Buntens. So I checked the GRO index against the names of the children Winifred. Katie. Freddy, Jenny and Elsie in the Croydon registration district. There I found Winifred Man’, Kate. Frederick George, Annie Jane and Elsie Emma whose ages matched. I also found a John Bunter, born in Saffron Walden. who was a painter and glazier. Having established these two facts, I knew he /Wto be a Bunten. Another family of Bunters also proved to be Buntens. The Christian name Latimer was the clue. The final “n” probably was a little short that made it look like a V.
                                                                At another stage in my search. I was looking for a Charles Bunting, bom in Norfolk but living in Cambridgeshire. There was no sign of the family under the name Bunting. But I eventually found them under the name Buntley!
                                                                Later I was looking for one Jacob Bunton in London. Of him there was no sign under any of the usual spellings of Bunton. However 1 did a search entering the forename Jacob and found the family under the surname Santon.
                                                                With virtually all records a hundred years ago being handwritten, I thought about ways in which ‘Bunting’ could be poorly inscribed. 1 duly looked under Burling (Bunting with an incomplete ‘n and without the ” crossed). It led me to an Albert 1 had been looking for in Wakefield.
                                                                Having failed to find a family of Buntons in Hartlepool, I checked the forenames -which I knew – and found them indexed under the surname Buxton. Meanwhile, one of the misspellings I found in the 1881 census was Bimting, so I instigated a search (no longer laborious or time-consuming in the age of the computer) using this variation, and duly located two known Buntings in Norfolk.
                                                                There are inevitably members of the wider Bunting ‘clan’ who were around in 1901, but who slipped through the net of my internet search. Among the most likely reasons are a) poor handwriting, b) illiteracy in knowing – or caring – how to spell correctly, either by family heads or by the transcribing census officials, c) the related risk of officials mis-hearing a name given audibly and, of course, d) a person either wilfully or accidentally failing to be enumerated, and also not being enumerated.
                                                                If you can not find your ancestor in the 1901 census index. It is worth trying some of the above tactics!
                                                                Mary Rix

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                                                                  28 – Editorial

                                                                  06:00PM UTC – Wednesday, 13 June 2007
                                                                  Contributed by: Jerry Green

                                                                  In the centre of this issue of Gone A-ffunting is your invitation to the Bunting Society’s 15th Anniversary Gathering in July next year. This promises to be a rewarding weekend for everyone, whether they are avidly – or just mildly – interested in family history.
                                                                  Even if you groan inwardly at the thought of yet more family trees, parish registers, census returns etc, then please don’t be deterred – there will be plenty for you too! The innovative ‘What Buntings Do’ display will, hopefully, get you thinking about the contributions you can make, and those dark winter evenings between now and next July could be the ideal time for preparations for the display. A summer weekend in lovely surroundings with good food, accommodation and company – it sounds good! And it will indeed be good if you respond as we hope! Please support the Bunting Society by coming to the 15lh Anniversary Gathering and also by passing on the invitation to all your Bunting ‘clan’ relations and any others you know with Bunting blood in their veins. By the way, membership of the Society is not a pre-condition for attendance at next year’s Writtle event!
                                                                  We are. looking forward eagerly to a memorable celebration next July and to welcoming plenty of newcomers as well as familiar faces. The success of the 15th Anniversary Gathering depends on your response!
                                                                  Please copy the invitation as many times as you wish, and if you would like more information contact our Secretary, Prue James. Her contact details are on the opposite page.
                                                                  Meanwhile, the 2003 annual Bunting Society gathering is almost upon us. The date is Saturday October 11, at the now traditional venue – the Village Hall at Alpheton, Suffolk, roughly midway between Bury St Edmunds and Sudbury on the A134. Though more modest in scope than next year’s special celebration, it promises plenty of Bunting family history interest. We have a number of speakers who will be talking about the fruits of their research into particular ancestors whose names appeared in the 1881 British Census.
                                                                  Prue James & Alan Bunting
                                                                  MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY
                                                                  Please could you notify me when you change your name, address and more especially your email address. . .
                                                                  Prue

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                                                                    29 – Editorial – Pictures Please

                                                                    06:09PM UTC – Thursday, 14 June 2007
                                                                    Contributed by: Jerry Green

                                                                    For ordinary mortals, if Goons come up in conversation, happy memories are evoked of the sadly-missed Messrs Seacombe, Milligan and Sellers (and, originally, Bentine: ‘the only Peruvian born in Watford’, as he called himself)- But GOONS as an acronym is something quite different, of particular relevance to anyone on a genealogical quest. The Guild of One-Name Studies, which has recently celebrated its 25* Anniversary, is a body whose aims are to help those wanting to research a particular surname. The Bunting Society is GOONS affiliated; Mary Rix and Michael Bunting are regular attendees at its meetings.
                                                                    Each year the GOONS holds a competition to find the best one-name society newsletter. For 2003, the Bunting Society’s Gone A-Hunting was entered for the first time and. to the surprise of many, not least the editor, it was awarded the creditable 3″1 prize.
                                                                    It later transpired that the winner – from the Metcalfe Society – and the runner-up publication were more ambitiously illustrated than the issue of GA-H that was submitted for the judges’ scrutiny. Thanks to the flexibility of modern printing technology, as well as the ability to scan nearly all photographs, drawings or other illustrations, there are no real technical obstacles to our more widespread use of pictures in these pages.
                                                                    Those Bunting Society members who have branched out into the brave new world of digital photography will know that taking pictures and then sending them through cyberspace is fast and hassle-free, once one has mastered the initially daunting process of downloading the images from the camera into the computer. But once saved, and possibly adjusted in size, any selected shot can be attached to an e-mail and sent over the wire.
                                                                    If you have some ‘Bunting relevant’ pictures, let us have them please. If they are hard-copy prints or transparencies, mail them to the editor’s address (see opposite), or you can e-mail them to a.bunting@btclick.com. Don’t forget to include a caption or, better still, a story telling GA-H readers the background to the picture. In particular, try to give us the names of people in the picture and an indication, where pertinent, of when the photograph was taken or the sketch drawn.
                                                                    Alan Bunting (177)

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                                                                      30 – Editorial – Who do we Think we are?

                                                                      06:33PM UTC – Friday, 15 June 2007
                                                                      Contributed by: Jerry Green

                                                                      Record Offices, parish record holders other historical sources of family information are expecting a rush of visitors – either through their doors or via e-mail or telephone -in the wake of the BBC1 television series Who do you think you are?, which began in mid October and is scheduled to go for ten weeks.
                                                                      Established personalities, like Private Eye editor lan Hislop, ‘Goodie’ turned bird-spotter Bill Oddie and petrol-head Jeremy Clarkson, will show how – no doubt with BBC researcher assistance – they have delved into their families’ past to find out more about their ancestors.
                                                                      No one called Bunting appears to figure among the participants. But it seems highly likely that across the UK at least the series will stimulate a goodly number of Buntings, Buntons, Buntens et al to take up the genealogical torch in an effort to find out more about long-lost relatives.
                                                                      There are often dark secrets about uncles or cousins that, as children, we heard whispered by our parents or grandparents, though they would demur from talking about further, except perhaps through tantalising references to a certain incident or maybe a relationship ‘not being very nice’. The BBC series will undoubtedly whet many appetites to bring such mysteries out into the daylight.
                                                                      A pull-out supplement to the Radio Times accompanying the series lists the many information sources available to family history researchers. They include over 20 archive and record centres, many of them in and around London, as well as half a dozen useful website references. To go with the TV series, the BBC has itself established a new website at [www.bbc.co.uk/familyhistory].
                                                                      It would be nice to think that Who do you think you are? will also encourage people to make contact with organisations like the Bunting Society, and hopefully, in due course, become members. If you have kindred who till now have shown little or no interest in joining the society, but who have been ‘turned on’ by the BBC series, then please let them know that by coming along to the next Gathering – scheduled for Saturday October 15 2005 – they could well, under expert ‘hands on’ guidance, find out a lot more. There is a good chance that their place on one of the many Bunting family trees on display in the hall can be pinpointed.
                                                                      At this year’s Gathering, several looks of delighted amazement were elicited from people who were able to confirm ancestral links – contributing in its own way to the ongoing Society aim of connecting (thereby enlarging) the existing known trees and reducing their number. In theory, it should be ultimately possible to trace the relationship between any two Buntings!

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                                                                        31 – Editorial – Moving North!

                                                                        08:35PM UTC – Saturday, 16 June 2007
                                                                        Contributed by: Jerry Green

                                                                        Derbyshire and adjacent counties are a hotbed of Buntings! Society membership and other records and extensive family trees confirm that the number of people per square mile with a Bunting pedigree is as great in that part of the world as anywhere else in Britain.
                                                                        Unfortunately, logistics and simple geographical ‘detachment’ have, since the society was created 16 years ago, been a bar to many of those BS members and other interested Buntings, Buntens, Bunions et al domiciled in the Midlands northwards attending the annual gathering at its traditional Alpheton venue in rural Suffolk.
                                                                        It was therefore decided at a BS committee meeting in March to explore the possibility of holding the Autumn 2005 gathering of the clan in a location more convenient for Buntings living in Derbyshire and points north and west.
                                                                        We have accordingly arranged for the annual gathering this year to be held in Derbyshire. It will be a one-day event on Saturday October 22. The venue will be the village hall in Tissington, about four miles north of Ashbourne, in the heart of the glorious Peak District National Park.
                                                                        Many members of the society scattered across the UK can trace Bunting roots back to Derbyshire, and we hope they will take this opportunity to visit or revisit the area. For those whose roots are elsewhere – why not enjoy a day or a weekend in this delightful part of England? We’re hoping for a good response from you!
                                                                        There is a wide choice of Bed and Breakfast accommodation in the area, of which the society can provide details. For those wishing to use public transport, we also hope to be able to help with transport from railway stations or bus termini.
                                                                        At the gathering we plan to have genealogical records available for anyone to carry out their own Bunting research. Morning coffee, lunch and afternoon tea will be included as usual. There will be speakers and a brief AGM. The cost per person will be £10. Members and non-members are all welcome to attend. Full details and an application form are enclosed in this issue of the journal.
                                                                        If you have yet to respond, by e-mail or telephone, about your intention to come to the Tissington gathering, Prue James (contact details opposite) would be pleased to hear from you. The application form enclosed with this issue of Gone A-Hunting should be returned to her with a cheque, as a firm booking, before August 31.

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                                                                          32 – Editorial

                                                                          11:37PM UTC – Saturday, 16 June 2007
                                                                          Contributed by: Jerry Green

                                                                          Those attending the Bunting Society’s 2005 Gathering on October 22 will, we are sure, be enchanted with its new venue this year: the Derbyshire village of Tissington, some 4 miles north of Ashbourne just off the main road to Buxton. The meeting is being held in the village hall, itself a picturesque building on the edge of the expansive triangular village green.

                                                                          Tissington is famous for its ‘well dressing’. Each Ascension Day six water wells in the village are decorated with flowers. Although now a Christian event, it is thought to have its origins in Roman or even pagan offerings in thanks to the gods for water.

                                                                          Tissington village is effectively part of the private estate of Tissington Hall, home -to this day – of the FitzHerbert family for over 500 years, although the current hall, which is open to the public, dates from around 1600. Just behind the village hall is St Mary’s Church (see back cover) which dates from about 1100. The tower has walls that are 4 feet thick at the base, and one of the original windows remains in the south wall.
                                                                          Visible wear to the stonework around St Mary’s main doorway is attributed to arrow sharpening by local bowmen who, from 1363, were required to keep their weapons ready for immediate use. Numerous members of the FitzHerbert family are interred in the church, with a particularly elaborate memorial to Francis Fitzherbert who dies in 1619 and his son John who died in 1642. A cursory stroll by your editor round the churchyard failed to locate any Bunting graves.

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                                                                            33 – Editorial

                                                                            09:52PM UTC – Monday, 18 June 2007
                                                                            Contributed by: Jerry Green

                                                                            Last autumn’s Bunting Society gathering at Tissington was the best attended in die society’s 16 year history, with over 90 people present, many of them from the Midlands and north of England, who might previously had been deterred from travelling south to our traditional venue in Suffolk. A new feature of the gathering was the opportunity, in a break in the main proceedings, to visit a local centre of interest, in this case Tissington Hall, ancestral home of the FitzHerberts, and the hub of life in what is, historically speaking, an ‘estate village’. The Hall is a fine solid 17th Century building for the most part, set in a fabulously green hilly landscape. Despite the autumnal season, there were still some flowers in the borders contrasting with wonderful green hedges to the rear.
                                                                            Sir Richard FitzHerbert was at the front door to greet us and give us a broad history of the house, which is very much a family home despite its size. He handed us over to our guide, Ruth, who took us on a comprehensive journey through the house. Among the Hall’s collection of fine portraits is a full-length one of George the Third, copies of which we were told hang in other important buildings.
                                                                            After much debate it has been decided that the 2006 gathering will return to Alpheton village hall in Suffolk. Make a note of the date: Saturday October 14 ! However, so successful was the Tissington Hall visit that we plan to incorporate an ‘excursion’ again. It will take the form of a tour around nearby Lavenham, a medieval wollen town, famous in the Middle Ages for its widely exported blue cloth, as well as being a nationally important industrial centre.
                                                                            Our guide will be my husband Clive Paine, a local Suffolk historian based in Bury St Edmunds who enjoyed a few minutes of fame on the television screen in a BBC programme featuring Jeremy Paxman exploring his family roots, which involved some researching in Bury records office. ‘
                                                                            The plan is to visit Lavenham’s magnificent parish church of St Peter & St Paul and to take a walking tour through an ancient area of beautiful timber-framed houses. Also included on the planned itinerary is a visit to the town’s 16th Century Guildhall of Corpus Christi, for which there is an entry charge – unless you are a National Trust member.
                                                                            Christine Paine (2)

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                                                                              34 – Editorial

                                                                              03:13PM UTC – Wednesday, 20 June 2007
                                                                              Contributed by: Alan Bunting

                                                                              Genealogical research is fascinating but usually also time consuming. The Bunting Society’s extensive family records have been compiled laboriously over a period of some 16 years and are fairly jealously guarded, to the extent that ‘casual’ visitors to the society’s website are unable to pursue their ancestral investigations free of charge. Not unreasonably, we ask that they should become members – at the extremely modest cost of just £4 a year for individuals in the UK, or £6 for those living overseas. There are today of course plenty of other sources of family history information. The arrival and subsequent growth of the internet has given relatively easy access to census returns, notably those from the 19* Century, augmenting the data which has always been available from national and local (county and parish) records. The latest quite different internet-based facility to make an impact is Genes Reunited, an offshoot of the arguably notorious Friends Reunited, which has acquired a reputation for dangerously re-igniting long-quiescent fires of passion.
                                                                              Genes Reunited serves its purpose. But from the point of view of a family history group like the Bunting Society it seems a shame that those who have started off by undertaking their own painstaking research in dusty townhall or parish archive rooms should then make all their findings available ‘to the world’ through a brash ‘all names’ genealogical website. If those with Bunting antecedents instead were to contribute their initial family information to the Bunting Society archive, with its many firmly identified and geographically-rooted ‘trees’, they would find their exploration to be more fruitful and probably surprising!
                                                                              OUR NEW LOOK
                                                                              This issue ofGoneA-HHUfinghas been given a fresh and arguably more professional appearance, making what we think Bunting Society readers will agree is an improved use of pictures and a two-column layout which should be literally easier oh the eye. Society member Louise Bunting, who currently produces a club magazine in the vintage car world, has taken on the task of putting the journal together. We sincerely hope it will meet with members’ approval. The editor (contact details opposite) will welcome any — preferably constructive — comments about our ‘new look’. Even more welcome will be contributions of Bunting-related stories, either historial or topical, to grace the pages of future issues.

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                                                                                33rd Annual John Henry Bunting Reunion

                                                                                02:22AM UTC – Thursday, 21 June 2007
                                                                                Contributed by: Denise M Pino

                                                                                This was sent to me by my cousin Roland Lee Bunting of Michigan regarding his family reunion. If you would like to find out more information about his branch of Bunting’s or are interested in attending the family reunions, please contact him at roland@alldial.net
                                                                                The 33rd Annual John Henry Bunting Reunion was held on July 15, 2006 in West Branch Michigan. John Henry was a great-great-great grandson of James Bunting, Sr., who emigrated to Albion, Illinois from Quainton, England in 1830. The reunion is always on the third Saturday of July and all Buntings are invited to attend. Reunions of other James Bunting descendants are also held annually in Genessee County, Michigan and Dunklin County, Missouri.

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                                                                                  BUNTING, Sarah abt 1828

                                                                                  06:17PM UTC – Thursday, 21 June 2007
                                                                                  Contributed by: Anonymous

                                                                                  Looking for birth and parents of Sarah Bunting b. abt 1828 and living at Willenhall, Staffordshire when married in 1857 to Thomas Whitehouse. Her father, on marriage application, is Henry. Thanks

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                                                                                    35 – Editorial – Widening Our Catchment Area

                                                                                    07:02PM UTC – Thursday, 21 June 2007
                                                                                    Contributed by: Alan Bunting

                                                                                    Membership of the Bunting Society is at an all-time high. At the time of writing the newest member was allocated number 464 — heading towards the magic 500 mark! Active membership is of course a lot more modest than that figure, but we have every reason to be optimistic.

                                                                                    On page 2 of this issue of Gone a-Hunting, one of our most recent members, Jan Rogers, whose interest in the society was stimulated after attending (as a non-member) the annual gathering at Alpheton last October, gives us a fascinating account of her Bunting childhood in Pennsylvania, with recollections of her American ancestors.
                                                                                    Unlike Jan, who now lives in the UK, a number of potential members residing overseas, most notably in the United States and Commonwealth countries, have been discouraged from joining the society, or in some cases from renewing their membership, because of irritating procedural difficulties in the payment of their subscriptions. We are now taking active steps to sort out this problem, so that members outside the UK can pay their subscriptions simply and easily by credit card.
                                                                                    We hope to give more details of those updated payment arrangements in our Autumn/Winter issue. In the meantime, we are endeavouring to make the Bunting Society’ better known across the British Isles. We know that North of the Border, for instance, there is a plethora of Buntings, Buntaines et al. And we regularly encounter Buntings in England who can trace their ancestors back to Inland, either North or South.
                                                                                    Please pass on the contact details of any would-be Bunting Society members you know of, who are out there on the ‘Celtic Fringe’. We need the input from their family histories to help forge those all-important genealogical links which can help bring together distant — often previously unknown – relations.

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                                                                                      35 – Lavenham Walkabout

                                                                                      07:57PM UTC – Thursday, 21 June 2007
                                                                                      Contributed by: Mr and Mrs Christine Paine

                                                                                      Following the Bunting Society’s annual gathering at Alpheton last October, members had the opportunity of visiting nearby Lavenham, a delightful Suffolk town steeped in history. We know from records going back to the year 1327 that it was already an established industrial centre, notable for its production of woollen cloth.

                                                                                      In 1524, Lavenham claimed to be the 14th wealthiest town in England, paying the government more in tax than Gloucester, Lincoln or York. Nearly five hundred years later it remains arguably the best example of a small medieval English town, with its Gildhall (ancient spelling) and market place, together with a number of entire streets of original timber-framed 15* and 16* Century houses.

                                                                                      A highlight of the Bunting Society walk around the town was the imposing Gildhall of Corpus Christi, built c.l529-30 by Lavenham’s wealthiest clothiers. The prolific use of durable timber — then one of the costliest of building materials — and the high quality carving of corner posts, doorway and window frames, reflects the wealth of those who today might be called the town’s captains of industry, many of whom lived nearby in comparably ornate houses.
                                                                                      Rural gilds were not linked to trades or crafts, but were places for social gatherings and feastings for their members, something like the Round Table organisations we have today. More important was that, after death, gild members were guaranteed prayers for their souls, at the Gild Altar in the parish church of St Peter and St Paul, at least once a year. However, in 1547, both prayers for the dead and the gilds themselves were abolished under a ruling from King Edward VI.
                                                                                      The Gildhall now houses an excellent museum, reflecting the history of Lavenham since the Middle Ages. Many of the museum’s displays relate to early-woollen cloth manufacture, including part of an original tenter frame, complete with its tenter-hooks (hence the expression!). Others cover the history of communications, including the arrival of the railway in this part of Suffolk. There are also exhibits illustrating religious developments and the buildings of Lavenham. A local personality of note duly recognised in the museum is Jane Taylor, joint author with her sister Ann of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star’. Jane, who lived from 1783 to 1824, was a resident of Shilling Old Grange, Lavenham.
                                                                                      From the Gildhall we walked to the church, which vies with Holy Trinity, Long Melford, just five miles away, for the distinction of being the largest parish church in Suffolk. En route there was the chance to admire Lavenham’s numerous timber-framed jettied and gabled houses. St Peter and St Paul church was rebuilt and enlarged between about!485 and 1525.
                                                                                      Two notable families were largely responsible for footing the bill for the rebuilding. They were the local Lords of the Manor, namely the Earls of Oxford, and three generations of the Spring family. Each made sure of incorporating their coats of arms, heraldic devices or inscriptions on the parts of the church building they had paid for! Expense, within reason, being no object, most of the edifice, except for parts of the 141ft (43m) tower, was constructed of high quality stone which had to be shipped from distant quarries. There was no stone available in Suffolk which met the patrons’ exacting requirements. The nave for example, designed by John Wastell, is lined with Casterton stone from Lincolnshire.
                                                                                      Inside the church is spacious and light, with the only stained glass, all Victorian, at the east end of the building. The chantry chapel of Thomas Spring III, dating from 1525, has a magnificent wooden screen, with fretwork carving, shields, foliage, figures and saints. The architectural writer Nikolaus Pevsner called it ‘a glorious piece of woodwork, as dark as bronze’. ,

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                                                                                        William Bunting, DoB 20/10/1892 (UK d/m/y).

                                                                                        10:03PM UTC – Friday, 22 June 2007
                                                                                        Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSG

                                                                                        Have you got an ancestor, William, born on this date and who might have attended Cromford school? Our Record Keeper, Mary Rix, has the full transcription.

                                                                                        The source was the DerbysGen list and is a useful source of information. To subscribe e-mail derbysgen-request@rootsweb.com and write Subscribe.

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                                                                                          The London Gazette

                                                                                          10:23PM UTC – Tuesday, 03 July 2007
                                                                                          Contributed by: Jerry Green

                                                                                          In the will of an ancestor of mine thousands of pounds were shared between his children, but; his eldest son was left one shilling. This seemed a bit strange to me. I searched the London Gazette for the year the will was made and found his eldest son in debtors prison as a bankrupt. I looked up some Buntings around the same period and found the following interesting records. The London Gazette archive can be searched.

                                                                                          I WILLIAM BUNTING, at present, and for three years last past, residing at Newport Pagnell, in the couuty of Buckinghamshire and being a butcher, do hereby give notice, that I intend to present a Petition to the Court of Bankruptcy, in, the city of London, praying to be examined touching my debts, estate, and effects, and to be protected from all process upon making a full disclosure and surrender of such estate and effects, for payment of my just and lawful debts; and I hereby further give notice, that the time, when the matter of the said Petition shall he heard, is to be advertized in the London Gazette and in the Northampton Mercury Newspaper, one month at the least after the date hereof; As witness my hand, this 8th day of March, 1844- The

                                                                                          WILLIAMX BUNTING. Mark of

                                                                                          Enclosure 6.

                                                                                          A List of Casualties in the Royal Naval Brigasde before Sevastopol

                                                                                          KILLED.

                                                                                          William Fleming, A.B., London

                                                                                          CONTUSED.

                                                                                          James Murray, A.B,, London, severely

                                                                                          William Bunting, leading seaman, Albion, severely

                                                                                          Total—
                                                                                          1 killed

                                                                                          1 wounded severely 6 wounded slightly 2 contused severely

                                                                                          HENRY KEPPEL,

                                                                                          Captain Commanding Royal Naval Brigade.

                                                                                          WOUNDED. ‘

                                                                                          Arthur Thomas, A.B., Rodney, severely

                                                                                          John Remlo, Ord., Rodney slightly

                                                                                          William Murray, Ord., Queen, slightly

                                                                                          Robert Bucklcy, Ord., Wasp, slightly

                                                                                          David Wildish, A.B., London, slightly

                                                                                          Charles Stevenson, Ord., London, slightly

                                                                                          William Owen, Ord. London slightly
                                                                                          Royal Naval Brigade before Sevastopol for 6th September, 1855.

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                                                                                            Congratulations Michael

                                                                                            10:03PM UTC – Monday, 09 July 2007
                                                                                            Contributed by: Jerry Green

                                                                                            Our Vice-Chairman receives recognition. At their AGM, Michael Bunting was made a fellow of The Society of Genealogists. We all congratulate Michael Bunting FSG.

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                                                                                              Mary Ann Bunting born 1767

                                                                                              03:58AM UTC – Thursday, 09 August 2007

                                                                                              Contributed by: colleen newbold

                                                                                              Mary Ann Bunting born 1767 Kings Lynn , Norfolk , England married John Woodham on May 18, 1786 at Burnham Ulph with Sutton. The vicar was the father of Lord Nelson. This couple are 4th great grandparents of my husband

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                                                                                                Death of Lloyd H Bunting

                                                                                                11:22AM UTC – Monday, 20 August 2007
                                                                                                Contributed by: Anne Kirk

                                                                                                Advising of the death of Lloyd Hamilton Bunting junior on the morning of Friday 17th August 2007 (aged 87 years) He was born in Detroit, Michigan, USA on Valentine’s Day the 14th February 1920 to Lloyd Hamilton Bunting and Anna Wanda Bunting (nee Thiele).

                                                                                                He attended Battle Hill Elementary School, White Plains High School, Taft and Yale University before enlisting in the US Army Air Corps in May 1941. He was stationed at Hickham Field, Honolulu in December 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour. He later served with the 5th Army Air Corps in the Pacific theatre of war. He met his future wife Pauline Prentice a member of the WAAAF in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and they were married on the 23rd March 1945. At war’s end, Lloyd returned to the USA and was followed shortly afterwards by Pauline. Lloyd returned to his studies at Yale University and it was at New Haven, Connecticut that their first child, Lloyd Hamilton Bunting III, was born in February 1947. Lloyd, Pauline and their baby returned to settle in Australia late in 1947 and Lloyd continued his studies in Architecture at Sydney University. The family increased with the birth of daughter Anne in 1948 and son Bill in 1950. In 1955 the family relocated to Port Moresby, PNG where they lived until 1962. They returned to live in Springwood, New South Wales, Australia and moved into a house designed by Lloyd in March 1963. Pauline and Lloyd lived the rest of their lives in Springwood (later renamed Winmalee). Pauline died at home on the 12th April 1991 and Lloyd died at home on the morning of Friday 17th August 2007 They are survived by their children – Lloyd and Sue Bunting, and their son Lloyd Anne Kirk Bill and Kerry Bunting, and their daughters Chloe and Laura

                                                                                                For more on Lloyd see these articles.

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                                                                                                  Quainton Publications

                                                                                                  02:30AM UTC – Wednesday, 03 October 2007
                                                                                                  Contributed by: Denise M Pino

                                                                                                  I’m looking for the following publications:

                                                                                                  Quainton Lipscomb’s Village by John Harris

                                                                                                  Quainton Then & Now by Gordon Rodwell – 2000

                                                                                                  Quainton History of Some Old Houses and Their Inhabitants by GGH Rodwell – March 2005

                                                                                                  Holy Cross & St. Mary Quainton

                                                                                                  A History of Quainton 2nd Edition by Laurie Cooper – 1998

                                                                                                  If anyone can help me it would be most appreciated.

                                                                                                  Also, if you know of any other Quainton publications, please let me know.

                                                                                                  Thank You,

                                                                                                  Denise

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                                                                                                    Henry Bunting/Henry Humphrey

                                                                                                    07:47PM UTC – Sunday, 07 October 2007
                                                                                                    Contributed by: Mrs J Lesley Thomas

                                                                                                    I would be interested to know whether any members have Henry Humphrey in their family tree. We are in possession of a carved panel, dated 1638, said to have come from a coffer. The panel has been passed down through the Bunting line. However, so far I have been unable to find any information earlier than Henry Bunting born Dec 1815 in Long Buckby ( my gt, gt, gt grandfather).

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                                                                                                      Cry Baby Bunting

                                                                                                      01:09PM UTC – Tuesday, 09 October 2007
                                                                                                      Contributed by: Anonymous

                                                                                                      What is this nursery rhyme about? Who was baby bunting supposed to be?

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                                                                                                        Bunting, Sarah – Ireland

                                                                                                        03:11PM UTC – Saturday, 20 October 2007
                                                                                                        Contributed by: Andrew Telford

                                                                                                        Hello

                                                                                                        I am attempting to track down some of the family history which relates to Sarah Bunting of Ireland (Ballymena area). What I know is Sarah was born circa 1878. Married Samuel Telford (my greatgrandfather) and died in Scotland on 10 May 1920. Sarah had 5 children

                                                                                                        Annie
                                                                                                        Greta
                                                                                                        Martha
                                                                                                        Robert [DOB:?? – DOD: 1978]
                                                                                                        Samuel [DOB: 1914 – DOD: 1974] – my grandfather

                                                                                                        I am led to believe that on the death of Sarah Bunting, the Children were sent to Ireland to be looked after by relatives. I am not sure who the relatives where (Telford or Bunting). My mother was born in Ireland and recalls discussing with my grandfather people in the area that they both knew. One in particular was Samuel Bunting (aka Black Sam). It is possible that Samuel Bunting was the brother of Sarah or at least a relative of some kind.

                                                                                                        If you are able to assist in locating the relatives, it would be much appreciative.
                                                                                                        Andrew

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