Robert Bunten c1771

04:44PM UTC – Monday, 26 March 2012

Contributed by: Anonymous

Views: 2,614

Hello,

My name is Jim Ward and I am trying to find info on the family of a Robert Bunten who married Ann Ward Humphrey in Saffron Walden, Essex and had two children I think, prior to Ann’s death about 1799. I would like to add this line to my tree if possible.

Thanks in advance,

Jim Ward

Cobble Hill, BC

Canada

family link

11:20PM UTC – Wednesday, 04 April 2012

Contributed by: Elizabeth Card

Views: 3,364

Hello I have just started looking for my mothers family born Bunting 96yrs ago 1916. Her father died in 1917 at sea during the war, and knows nothing of him or his family.

She had a sister and they lived at Customhouse which she spoke of often. Visiting Matlock was a happy memory too, but people were never mentioned by name. Only an Aunt Alice.Her fathers father Aaron [by John and Mauds marriage certificate] had already died.
I am living in hope that I can find out more about my grandfather and finally start a tree for my children in New Zealand.
I do hope that this vague information may link with some other Bunting tree somewhere.
Regards Liz

23rd Annual Gathering and AGM

07:10PM UTC – Friday, 13 April 2012

Contributed by: Jerry Green

Views: 3,293

Join us this year in Cambridgeshire 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 6 October 2011 9.30am – 5.00pm

Venue Colonel Dane Memorial Hall, Church Street, Alwalton, Cambs PE7 3UU

Never been to a Gathering before? Here’s what will be happening –

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.

Talk We are planning to have a speaker during the day; who will focus on an aspect of Bunting or local history.

AGM Usually lasts only 30-40 minutes. It’s your opportunity to say what you want from the Society.

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 Steam Train trip on the Nene Valley Railway from Wansford Station to Peterborough and join the celebrations of a 1940’s weekend. Please reply ASAP if you are interested as it may be possible to book seats. Further details can be seen on the web site http://www.nvr.org.uk

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

We look forward to seeing you on 6th October

45 – Editorial

02:14PM UTC – Thursday, 19 April 2012

Contributed by: Alan Bunting

Views: 2,332

This edition of Gone A-Hunting marks more than one milestone in the history of the Bunting Society, some 23 years after its founding.

We sadly mourn the loss, at the age of 86, of one of the society’s founder members who became its chairman and subsequently its president. George H Bunting (and we have to include his middle initial to distinguish him from other notable George Buntings who have played key roles in the society’s growth and success) was greatly liked by everyone who came into contact with him, especially at Bunting Society annual gatherings. Fuller tributes to George, contributed by his daughter Pam Mitchell and by fellow founder member Christine Paine, can be found on pages 2 and 3.
A further event of note in this issue is to be found in our main feature article, written by Dr Thorn Bunting (see pages 4 to 9). Thorn is one of a number of Buntings from the USA who have joined the society over the years and who can trace their antecedents back to the UK. But Thorn has had more reason – and opportunity – than most to research his family origins on this side of the Atlantic, by virtue of his work; he is based in England, holding a senior position at the University of Bath.
Thorn knew his ancestors hailed from Old Warden, near Biggleswade in Bedfordshire and it can be seen from his article that his
researches have discovered a huge amount of detail. Unusually, however, our chairman and chief family tree ‘constructor’ Mary Rix has been unable to link Thorn Bunting’s Old Warden tree (see pages 10 and 11) with any of the numerous existing trees now held on computer — and accessible via the Bunting Society website. In other words the Old Warden Buntings were, until Thorn came along to the 2010 gathering in Chester, unknown to the society’s genealogical ‘sleuths’.
Much has been written about the catastrophic flood which enveloped the City of Sheffield in 1864, following the collapse of a newly-constructed dam on the River Loxley to the north-west of the city. It was known that Sheffield’s population, then as now, included a considerable number of Buntings. Precisely how many of them became victims of the flood cannot be determined. But a glimpse of the material damage they suffered can be gained from records of the hundreds, if not thousands, of insurance claims lodged by named tradespeople and their employees in and around the city which are now recorded in a city archive. A fascinating summary of the Bunting-associated claims can be found on page 14 of this issue.

Arthur Bunting of Belper

03:21PM UTC – Tuesday, 08 May 2012

Contributed by: Anonymous

Views: 3,020

Hi, I’ve just found this site and hope that someone out there can help me. My bunting ancestors are a bit of an enigma. My great grandfather was Arthur Bunting,

I know that he was born at The Ruff? in Belper and that he married twice (his second marriage was to my great grandmother (maiden name Cuer). They had 5 daughters and had moved from the Mansfield area over to North West Leicestershire. I also think they had a son (who family think may have been killed in a mining accident while very young). I know that my great grandfather had children from his first marriage – one of his daughters was called Lizzie. This is all I have been able to piece together with – there seem to be so many branches of the family and I have been unable to identify the name of his first wife, nor what happened to her.

Any help much appreciated

Bunting Footballer

03:36PM UTC – Thursday, 07 June 2012

Contributed by: Mr David Bunting

Views: 2,279

Is Richard Bunting ex Captain of Long Buckby Football Club who has joined Kings Lynn Town for next season a member of the Long Buckby Buntings?

Trimdon Buntings

03:43PM UTC – Thursday, 07 June 2012

Contributed by: Mr David Bunting

Views: 2,286

Are there any descendants of Samuel,Anthony and George Bunting coal miner at Trimdon,Durham in 1901? There were also three daughters of Samuel, Frances 18 in 1901,Martha 17 in 1901 and Clara 5 in 1901.

Improved Genealogy Tool on this Web Site

08:21PM UTC – Sunday, 05 August 2012

Contributed by: Jerry Green

Views: 2,247

The research tool, in Family Trees, is now very easy to use and even links to the new FamilySearch.org web site. On some of the sites you need to pay to access the search results.

In Family Trees the links to other web sites has been improved and updated. From an Individuals page click on Research Assistant tab and you will be able to link to any of these web sites to do a search. If nothing else it saves you typing in the search details.
Ancestry.com
Ancestry.co.uk
Ellisisland.org
Familysearch.org
Findmypast.co.uk
Genealogy.com
Geneanet.org
Werelate.org
Irishgenealogy.ie
Genealogy-Search-Help.com
Try it out and add information to your family tree. If you have any problems with using these links or want more parameters adding to the search please let me know.

Bunting Family Tree

03:25AM UTC – Friday, 28 September 2012

Contributed by: Anonymous

Views: 4,665

How would I go about discovering the history of the Bunting Family Tree from the UK ?

I am 46 years old ,was born and raised in Ontario ,Canada ,my Father ,Grandfather and Great Grandfather were all Canadian .

My Great Grandfather came here pre WW1

I would be interested in backtracking my Great Grandfathers roots back in England and all of the Family Tree from there ?

I am a 4th generation “Canadian” Bunting and have 3 children and would be glad to share what I know about our 5 generations which is all I know about our Family Tree .

I came across this website and find it very interesting .

Doug Bunting Jr.

[email protected]

46 – Editorial

10:49AM UTC – Thursday, 11 October 2012

Contributed by: Alan Bunting

Views: 2,204

Many surnames derive from occupations of yesteryear — miller, cooper, saddler and so on. Bunting cannot be readily categorised in that way. Apart from its well-known meanings of a bird or type of flag (or flag material), it can be the participle of the verb ‘to bunt’, a baseball stroke which has connections with the more common word ‘butt’.

It is perhaps not surprising then that researchers into the history of different Bunting families find their ancestors engaged in a very wide variety of occupations. That variety is often to be found in the life story of a single individual. In the 19th Century especially, work was even harder to come by than it is today, and Buntings took up whatever trades offered them an opportunity to earn a crust. Planning a lifetime career was frequently not an option.
In this issue of Gone A-Hunting you can read about a William Bunting who, 150 or so years ago, growing up in an agricultural community, turned his hand to general farming work, but then became a more specialised ‘wool stapler’. But then along came an opportunity for William to take on an agency for an insurance company.
Another William, featured in Frank Bunting’s article in this issue, who also came from farming stock, this time in Northern Ireland, emigrated to Australia where his initial occupation was described as a lowly ‘farm servant’. But the family line took a distinctly upward turn with one of his descendents earning a knighthood and becoming Australian High Commissioner to the UK.
Frank discovered yet another William in his home state of Victoria who had been born in England in 1821, but through his misdemeanours, was transported to Australia in a convict ship. He nevertheless seemingly failed to mend his ways and was accused of various thieving offences down under.
In the East End of London, in the early years of the 20th Century, life was hard for the majority of the population, one of whom was Jack Bunting, whose tragically short life is recounted by his granddaughter Liz Card. When worthwhile jobs in civvy street were scarce and poorly paid, military service was an understandably tempting option for a young man. Jack enlisted in the Mercantile Marine at the outbreak of war in 1914 and died in action when his boat was sunk by the Germans.
No greater contrast could be found than Keith Fowler’s grandfather Henry Bunting, whose whole working life was devoted to the foundry business, where he became a pillar of society in the Derby area. A few centuries earlier and he might have acquired the surname ‘Founder’ or ‘Foundryman’, .although the technique of casting of iron would not have been developed back then. Instead, his membership of the Bunting ‘clan’ enables us to read of his worthy role in his local community.

Further Details

01:58PM UTC – Friday, 19 October 2012

Contributed by: Laura Bunting

Views: 2,297

Hi,

Thanks to the Bunting Society & it’s family tree’s I was able to locate myself and my family on the STS Tatenhill Tree. So now I have all the names and dates I wondered if anybody knew of any further details, such as stories and possiblily photos to go with this family or point me in the direction of where I could search myself?

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks

Laura Bunting

Martha Kennell nee Bunting, c1803-1853

10:36PM UTC – Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Contributed by: Richard C Kennell

Views: 2,487

Can anyone help me trace Martha’s ancestry, please? She was born at Watford NTH (adjacent to Long Buckby, a known Bunting “hub”) about 1803 according to the 1851 census, and marrried my great-great-grandfather James Kennell (aka Kinning, Kenning) at Piddington NTH on 24.10.1825. She had been baptised as an adult at Piddington on 22.2.1825, parents Joseph (labourer) and Mary Bunting of Hackleton (then part of Piddington parish). Although James’ abode was given as Daventry NTH, he was a native of Long Buckby and the couple were back there by 1828, some of their children being baptised at the parish church and others at the Independent church. James died of consumption in 1845, and the 1851 Long Buckby census states Martha to be a pauper working as a shoe-binder. After James’ death, she appears to have joined the Baptist church in Long Buckby. She died of enteritis aged 50 on 15.12.1853.

I cannot find any matches on the trees, particularly KEN New Romney which I believe encompasses most of the Long Buckby Buntings. She is clearly not the Martha (1379) born 1797 at East Haddon NTH. Neither Joseph (1260) m Mary Kintch 1784 at Long Buckby nor Joseph (1388) m Martha Smith 1808 at Watford appear to be her father. Nor is it clear why Martha and her parents were living at Piddington / Hackleton; there do not seem to be any previous Buntings resident there and the villages aren’t particularly close to Long Buckby and Watford. They are however not far from Newport Pagnell BKM, where Joseph (1388) and Martha appear to have moved, their children being baptised there in one of the Independent churches between 1808 and 1825. Could there be a connection here?

Any information about this most elusive ancestor would be welcome

Private information

02:50PM UTC – Wednesday, 12 December 2012

Contributed by: victor bunting

Views: 2,256

Would someone kindly explain to me the privacy rules operating on the Bunting family tree charts on the web site? I have just looked at my family tree (Matlock 3) and in particular the details of my parents. I find my brother’s details on the chart but mine are not shown and are marked as private. I do not recall being asked whether I wanted it this way and I cannot understand the Society’s reluctance to show this information. Can it really be that it is because I am still alive? And if that is the case what is the point as this information is available from many other sources. And please don’t come back with the old chestnut of data protection. Surely in a society which is all about family history there must be a way of showing fully all available information even it means asking the members to opt in or out.

Secondly, am I alone in finding these charts almost impossible to navigate easily?

Vic Bunting(425)

Adam Bunting born 1811

07:42PM UTC – Thursday, 20 December 2012

Contributed by: Derek Bunting

Views: 2,279

is there any reason why Adam’s 2nd wife and family are not included in the family tree on Matlock 1? i have been trying to check this out but cannot find any trace of them on your site. you have quoted his details as found on the 1851/61/71 census and his other children and wife (Mary Knowles b1823, m1845) are clearly there. There are 10 further children and a stepchild.

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