Hello, thanks for your interest in these NC Buntings (they have many name spelling variants). They are undoubtedly part of your group. Frank Bunting (editor) here. The post below you mention was compiled by me. I guess you are not a member (yet, perhaps) of our Society. That’s because my post relates to an article (the first of 3) about the Bunting ancestry (probably Kent, UK) of our NC member Donna Bunting Flake. That first article (titled “Daniel Bunting”) was in the Spring-Summer 2020 edition (No. 61) of our journal. It looks at Donna’s paternal line. The next edition (No. 62, currently being sent out to members) has a follow-up article on Donna’s maternal Bunting ancestry (from Derbyshire UK). The final article (in prep.) will look at the pre-NC history of her paternal Buntings. The pre-NC history of her maternal Quaker Buntings is well known. In Journal 61, we presented a best-fit Family Tree for Donna’s paternal line and it shows how we think your Geraldus Buntyn and wife Elcy link to Donna’s line. If you make contact (via the “Request Advice” button on the Home page) with our webmaster Trevor mentioning this discussion… and provide your email address and name, I would be pleased to send you a PDF copy of Donna’s first article and that Tree. Better still, also join the Society, see all the Journals and contribute (if you choose) to the on-going research into your and Donna’s line. The latest Journal (No. 62) also has an in depth article describing a (completely different) Bunting group from Rowan county NC. There are at least 3 different Bunting groups with NC history. They have got tangled up in some people’s family history work due, in part it seems, to the patchy nature of early official records.

Better late than never…
Buntingwood is located about 4 miles SE of Bonsall. In 2015 (Journal 51) I wrote an article “Lost English villages called Bunting” which mentions it and has a photo I took at Buntingwood. Some Satellite images show cryptic circles and other features in a field beside Buntingwood that could be evidence of a pre-Roman settlement. A Roman road passes nearby from Whatstandwell to the lead mines of Wirksworth and Bonsall, and then on the the hot springs of Buxton.

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