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15th November 2017 at 12:57 pm #656
47 – Editorial
05:26PM UTC – Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Contributed by: Alan Bunting
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Avid Gone A-Hunting readers — and hopefully all Bunting Society members come into that category – would have been mystified by the reference, on the EDITORIAL page of the last issue of the journal, to an article purporting to follow in subsequent pages about a William Bunting who, in the mid 19th Century, proved to be an embodiment of the label ‘jack of all trades’.
Those who turned eagerly to read the flagged article, written by the society’s webmaster Jerry Green, were beset with disappointment, because the piece was not to be found. The editor apologises to Jerry and to those expectant members left weeping and wailing and gnashing their teeth. There are no real excuses, but readers should know that the situation arose out of the biannual GA-H scenario, whereby the editor, having almost nothing to hand with which to fill the pages of the upcoming issue, makes a plea for Bunting-related articles, only to be hit by an avalanche of material.
The result is an embarrassment of riches which have to be sorted and fitted into the 20-odd pages available each time. This first issue of the journal for 2013 should hearten those readers overcome with distress last
autumn at missing the story of William the farmhand who went on to become a wool stapler before taking on an agency for an insurance company. They will find Jerry’s account of William’s surprising career moves, starting on page 5.
They will find lots more essential reading between the covers of this Spring/Summer issue of Gone A-Hunting, not least in a further instalment, starting on page 10, of Frank Bunting’s exceptionally detailed family history, emerging from his punctilious research work into the Bunting diaspora, especially those who found their way from Ireland to the antipodes.
We welcome a new member to the Bunting Society in the shape of Richard Burton, who has written a new biography of the renowned poet Basil Bunting, due to be published in a few months time. A briefer account of Basil’s life has been contributed by Richard for this issue of the journal, describing the poet’s humble beginnings.
Our sincere condolences go to the relatives and friends of two well-regarded members of the Bunting Society who have died in recent months. Tributes to both Tim and Daniel Bunting, from a daughter and brother respectively, begin on page 16.15th November 2017 at 12:57 pm #655Stuart W Bunting publishes book!
10:40AM UTC – Friday, 24 May 2013
Contributed by: Laura Bunting
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Stuart W Bunting of Debden (now living in Glensford) had just published his first book titled ‘principles of sustainable aquaculture ‘. He is a leading researcher In this field and his family are very proud of him.
15th November 2017 at 12:57 pm #654A Bunting Thief
08:23PM UTC – Saturday, 08 June 2013
Contributed by: Chris and Gwen Bunting
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Found in the Nottingham Magistrates Court Journel’s while looking for Women Convicts transported to Tasmania.
William Bunting of Mansfield Notts 4 January, 1841
William Bunting late of the parish of Mansfield in this county a labourer for feloniously stealing and taking to convey away 2 pieces of gold coins sovereigns and two pieces of silver called half crowns the mones of Joseph Girton. To which indictment the said William Bunting pleased not guility but upon his his trial was found guilty and was ordered by the court to be imprisoned in the House of Correction Southwell Notts and there be kept to hard labour for the term of 4 calendar months and during this one day per week in every month to be confined to solitary confinement.
Qrt sessions Shire Hall Nottingham 4th January, 1841
I am not sure which tree he belongs to there were no other details sadly, my husband is the Bonsall tree, this is how it was written in the most beautiful copper plate hand writing with no ink blobs!!
Gwen Bunting
15th November 2017 at 12:57 pm #65324th Annual Gathering and AGM
04:59PM UTC – Saturday, 28 September 2013
Contributed by: Jerry Green
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Join us this year in Derbyshire for the Bunting Society Annual Gathering. Everyone is most welcome. You do not need to be a member to attend. We look forward to seeing you!
Join us to explore the roots, lives and times of the BUNTINGS
Date and Time Saturday 12 October 2011 9.30am – 5.00pm
Venue Creswell Social Centre Elmton Road Creswell Near Worksop Nottinghamshire S80 4BH. Click on this link for map.
Never been to a Gathering before? Here’s what will be happening –
From 9.45am Arrival Coffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits
10.30am Welcome and AGM of The Bunting Society
11.15am- 12.00 pm Speaker: Frank Bunting “ Shottle Bunting Goes to Ireland “
12.30pm- Lunch
2.00pm- Visit to Creswell Crags
2.00pm-Time for research with The Bunting Society records and archives.
4.00pm- Coffee/tea /soft drinks4.45pm- Departure
Bunting Records The Society’s increasing collection of records will be available – Bunting Family Trees, Birth, Marriage, Death certificates, Wills, Census returns, Newspaper and Photo Archives. We hope to provide copying facilities and internet access. There will be opportunities for research during the day.
Displays We welcome Bunting photos and memorabilia that members would like to bring for the day. The Society cannot be responsible for exhibits so please bring copies, not originals, of photos, letters etc.
Food Coffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits on arrival and before departure. 2-course buffet lunch followed by coffee/tea. Please inform Lynn Whitman when booking if you have any special dietary requirements.
Car Parking There is plenty of parking adjacent to the centre in which we shall meet.
Disabled Access The Hall is equipped with access and facilities for the disabled.
Saturday Afternoon Visit We hope to arrange a to Creswell crags where Britain’s only known Ice Age rock art was discovered in 2003 at the Robin Hood Cave
Transport For Public Transport Details to this Venue follow this link.
Accommodation For Bed and Breakfast in ther Local Area follow this link.
Advance Booking is essential. Please book your place as soon as possible
Book your place now by mail or Book your place now online with payment via PayPal
Everyone is most welcome. You do not need to be a member, so please bring your family and friends. We look forward to seeing you on 12th October!
15th November 2017 at 12:56 pm #65248 – Editorial
02:28PM UTC – Monday, 21 October 2013
Contributed by: Alan Bunting
Views: 714
Thanks to television programmes such as ‘Who do you think you are?’, family history research has become an ever more popular activity for those interested in their ancestry, especially the geographical origins, trades or professions and lifestyles of their antecedents.
In the age of the internet, that research has been made much easier and less time-consuming and costly than in decades past, when the price and unpredictability of the postal services, to and from to distant parts of the world was a deterrent for many. Index-based websites, with titles like ‘Family search’, ‘Find my past’ and ‘Ancestry’, enable those with even the most cursory interest in their forebears to discover a great deal about those – typically with the same surname, such as Bunting – who preceded them in a family line. They have spawned what one might call a new breed of family historians with ‘megalomaniac’ tendencies, whose prime aim appears to be to construct a bigger family tree than anyone has managed previously -but alas all too often with doubtful accuracy and veracity.
But as Bunting Society chairman and record keeper Mary Rix points out, those electronic website records need to be approached with caution. It is all too easy for the unwary to be ‘led astray’. There can be errors, unwittingly introduced by earlier compilers, which are hard to identify. Other ‘self imposed’ errors can creep in, through insufficient cross-checking, especially where, in times past, a family had a particular favourite forename, such as William or Anthony, bestowed on successive generations, or even on the children of same-generation siblings or cousins. Variations in spelling, of both surnames and forenames, were commonplace in past centuries, when only the select few were proficient in reading and writing. Such capricious spellings add to the challenges of genealogical research. Where exact name spellings are uncertain, online investigation can sometimes be helped through so-called ‘fuzzy’ searches, where a suspected one-letter name spelling discrepancy can be clarified by substituting a question mark for the uncertain letter. If the first and last letters of a name are known, but those in between and the length of the word are not known, an asterisk can be inserted to obtain the name in the electronic records which ‘fits’.
More foolproof family tree research comes from the old-fashioned and painstaking method of leaving the computer behind for a while and getting out to physically trawl through parish registers, albeit with additional reference to census returns – most of which in the UK are now available online. Some enthusiastic family researchers are so proud of their efforts that they have set up their own ‘private’ family tree websites, which they are then prepared to share with others, though sometimes with access restricted to nominated individuals, that is through entering a password. Those ‘lovingly tended’ websites are often illustrated with photographs of family members going back several generations -something which provides to some degree a confirmation of accuracy.15th November 2017 at 10:24 am #270 -
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