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Edwin Brooks Bunting
11:58AM UTC – Thursday, 25 August 2005
Contributed by: David & Janet PinboroughHi
Has anyone information on the parents of Edwin Brooks Bunting, known as Don. He was born in 1902, I am almost sure he was born in the Lea-Holloway area of Derbyshire. He passed away in 1994 in Southend,Essex
Thanks & Regards
JanetBuntings in Portland Jamaica
12:29PM UTC – Tuesday, 30 August 2005
Contributed by: Camile StrauckJohn Clarke Panton Bunting, my Great -Great grandfather, lived in Jamaica in the 1800 and had two sons, John Clarke Panton Bunting Jr. and Charles Panton Bunting. John Bunting Snr. was married to a Ms. Panton, and they had a Plantation with slaves,John Bunting snr. and his family hadlaterhelpedin a fightto abolish slavery. When the abolishion of slaves took place in Jamaica. John Bunting Snr. gave the freed slaves the surnames Panton and Bunting then there was this arrange that thereafter, no one with the namesBunting was to marry or get involve with a Panton, because they were descendants of released slaves and and they were related. This was in Portland, Jamaica in a district called Manchioneal, a part of the Bunting Estate is still there as a tourist area, called Ras Craig. It is not known, who now owns it. Other parts of the property is occupied by other persons who have the Bunting name and the Panton Name (they are said to be the descendants of the slaves released from Mr. Buntings plantation). John Bunting Snr. later relocated to Boston, Ma of the USA. Charles Panton Bunting (Or Uncle Charlie as my grandmother called him died).
John Bunting Jr. is the father of my grandmother, Mrs. Dorrie Bunting Simpson. She was born to Ms. Maisie Aikman, who was black and she named her Charlene, however, Mr. Bunting, took his daughter from Ms. Aikman and re-named her Dorrie Elaine, why?????. John Bunting Jr. visited countries such as Cuba, Panama and Barbados/Bahamas, where it is said that he had a son, called Juan. Juan Bunting, born about 1940 up and his mother’s name was Ballentina. John Bunting Jr. later married a lady named Rita, her mother’s name was Lenora, apart from my grand mother he had another son, Harold, I don’t know who was his mother, if it was Rita, however he died too. We had a picture of my Grandparents Wedding and he was in it. John Bunting, Jr. was a reputable carpenter in Portland.
My grandmother’s first daughter, My mother, was named by Mr. Bunting, he named her Maria Charlotte, and loved calling her Charlotte or Trudy, apparently the names ran in his family lines?????.
If anyone identifies with these names and story, I would sure love to here your feedback or follow-up.
22 – Editorial 2000
06:25PM UTC – Wednesday, 21 September 2005
Contributed by: Jerry GreenHaving acquired my first computer in March last year (and thereby joined the ‘World of the Wired’ – or should it be ‘Weird’?), I was deprived of the main excuse I had previously put forward for not taking on the editorship of Gone A-Hunting.
Members should know however that though this issue carries my name, as editor, I have leaned very heavily on Mary Rixin gleaning raw material and physically putting the newsletter together.
You are exhorted to come forward with editorial contributions for future issues. Please work on the premise that if a Bunting-related piece of history or topical story just might be interesting, then let me have it. Address, phone, e-mail etc. details are given opposite; I even have a fax number (01582 768549). If none of those options suit, please feel free to remit contributions by Wells Fargo, pony express, pigeon post or ‘trusty native with cleft stick’.
24 – Editorial – Variations Enigma
08:42PM UTC – Friday, 23 September 2005
Contributed by: Jerry GreenThose who live in the south-east comer of England will know that Tonbridge is a town not far from Tunbridge Wells. Spell either of them wrongly and you’ll be in hot water with Men of Kent as well as Kentish Men (born respectively on the western and eastern side of the River Medway). Travel north of the Thames via the Dartford Tunnel and the M25 and you will reach the Al Great North Road coming out of London, at South Mimms in Hertfordshire. But how many people know – or care – that the adjacent village to South Mimms is North Mymms, spelled with a ‘y’.
Robert Buntin’s fascinating look in this issue of Gone A-Hunting at the spelling variations around the name Bunting – where the town of Dumbarton in the now-defunct Scottish county of Dunbartonshire comes into the story – serves as a reminder that family and place names were articulated verbally long before they ever came to be written down.
Getting down to specific cases, Jo and Gordon Bunting (see page 18) were able to pinpoint conclusively the point in their family history at which BUNTON became BUNTING.
At the 2001 Bunting Society gathering there was some discussion on the subject of making the society more ‘inclusive’. Even though the membership already includes numerous Buntins, Buntons, etc, it was felt by some in the body of the hall that members of the wider Bunting diaspora who did not happen to spell their surname exactly B-U-N-T-I-N-G, and who learned of the society’s existence, could be deterred from finding out more.
They might, it was suggested, therefore regard themselves as lacking in membership qualifications – perhaps even, heaven forfend, as ‘poor relations’. As nothing could be further from the case, any thoughts from readers on possible strategies as to how ‘Bunting variants’ might be made to feel just as welcome in the society as those whose surname has just happened to evolve over the last two or three centuries to the name identifying our society.
Please relay any ideas or proposals on the subject to one of the four Bunting Society contacts listed opposite.
Alan Bunting
FFHS October, 2005 Edition of the Newsflash.
05:59PM UTC – Monday, 17 October 2005
Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSGThe October issue of the Federation of Family History Societies newsletter –
NEWSFLASH – is now available online by visitinghttp://www.ffhs.org.uk/Societies/Newsflash/index.htm
To view the pages you will need to click on the PDF symbol just below the main header after you have used the link and arrived at the Federation site.
17 – Editorial – 1998
07:33PM UTC – Monday, 24 October 2005
Contributed by: Jerry GreenWell where has the year gone to! It seems as if Christmas was only yesterday and tomorrow it will be May!
Since our Gathering the time has just flown. Just after the Gathering David from Holkham put an article in his local paper and had quite a few responses, one of whom was related to him. A writer for the newspaper was prompted to write an article on the Bunting store in Norwich as a result, which in turn brought forward other memories of the store.
While I was at the Family History Conference at Crewe I again met Ruth Pearson from the Buntingfield tree and Roy Ashdown and his daughter Elaine from the only Hampshire tree.
It is now time to look forward to the next Gathering which has been booked at Alpheton Village Hall, once again the date being 10th October 1998. If you need accommodation there are plenty of good B&Bs in the area. The Gathering next year will celebrate ten years of The Bunting Society. It would be nice to do something special for this occasion. Please have suggestions ready for putting the wheels in action for organising the event.
Maybe it would be an idea to have a celebration dinner in the evening after the Gathering and perhaps a visit to a Bunting ‘haunt’ on the Sunday! It is not too far to go into Norfolk or across to Debden or Saffron Waldon.
The idea of putting together books on various branches of the Bunting clan seemed to be a nice way of celebrating ten years. I think some people are already working on books for their own branches. If you need help to get your branch stories into print please ask. There are people on the committee who have experience in this field. If you do start to do this please include background information on the area and occupations of your family.
The Bunting Society continues to prosper with more Buntings contacting us from around the world, especially as it is so easy with email. If since you sent your information in you have acquired an email address please let us know so that we can add you to our mailing list.
Please keep in touch and let us know the new twigs and leaves that need adding to your tree, and any older branches that you have discovered since last year. I try to get all the trees updated in time for the Gathering.
MaryRix
Buntings in Wednesbury/Walsall
04:09PM UTC – Tuesday, 01 November 2005
Contributed by: AnonymousHi,
I have got my tree to a William Bunting born 1814 Walsall, from birth certificates & census information 1851 onwards.
William married Ann Dibbing nee Carr in Edgbaston in 1835 and the family lived in various places around N & E Birmingham 1851-1871. William is a weighing machine maker when my ancestor was born.
The IGI has a record of a baptism Feb 1814 in Walsall which looks promising, giving his parents as Joseph & Mary.
Its here things start getting complicated!
I found 2 likely bunches of siblings; Joseph bap. 1822 & Mary bap. 1816 in Walsall, same church as William.
A second family, Elizabeth, Isaac & Abel, all baptised in St Martin’s, Birmingham, in 1837 (though the children were born 1825-1833). I have no idea when William left Walsall.
Question 1 – do you think the first 3 children & the second 3 are the same family, or are the parents names just a coincidence?
Question 2 – I need help finding the correct Joseph & Mary, William’s parents.
IGI has a likely marriage Joseph Bunting/Mary Smith 16 April 1811 but this is from a “record submitted by a member of the LDS church”. So far I’ve not found a baptism that quite matches Joseph’s likely age either. However, there do seem to be a lot of Buntings in Wednesbury, which is quite near to Walsall, and I’m sure there must be a connection.
As William had at least 1 brother & several children, is anyone else researching this particular branch?
regards
Vicky
John Robert Alexander Bunting
08:46AM UTC – Wednesday, 02 November 2005
Contributed by: Neil and Nonie RooneyDoes anyone have information on John Robert Alexander Bunting who was, I think born in UK but was married in New Zealand and had a son in about 1881 – John Stewart Wellington Bunting born in about 1881 in Balcairn, Canterbury, NZ. Any help would be useful. Thanks . 433
My Ancestors “The Buntings of Erie and Crawford County, PA”
12:35AM UTC – Saturday, 05 November 2005
Contributed by: Col Joseph ThomasSamuel Bunting and his wife Septama (Cowgill) Bunting, in company with Jonah Cowgill (Septama’s brother), moved by ox-cart from Bucks County, Pennsylvania to Le Bouef Township, Erie County in northwestern Pennsylvania about 1797. Le Boeuf Township is one of the first townships in Erie County where settlers came to establish homes in the wilderness. Here, French Creek and Le Boeuf Creek join in their rush to the Gulf of Mexico. Here, Indians camped and developed an early trail through the forest. Quarries were found and worked near the Borough of Mill Village This township received its name from Le Boeuf Creek, which joins French Creek within its limits. It is one of the original townships of the county, and belongs to what is known as “the Southern Tier.” It is bounded on the north by Waterford, on the east by Union, on the south by Crawford County, and on the west by Washington. Capt. Robert King, who took up 400 acres at the present Ford Bridge, selected the first lands in Le Boeuf Township in 1794. Samuel and his wife Septama are listed in the 1820 Census for Le Bouef Township in Erie County along with Septama’s brothers Johan and Joseph Cowgill.
Daniel Bunting was born in Le Boeuf Township, Erie County, PA on October 15, 1808; the son of Samuel Bunting and Septama Cowgill. He moved to Rockdale Township in Crawford County, PA in 1837; and resided there until his death. His wife, Nancy (Thompson) Bunting, was born March 21, 1813. In 1830 William Bunting conveyed land in Erie County to Daniel and Samuel Bunting. Daniel married Nancy Thompson on December 19, 1833 and they had eight children. Daniel and his wife Nancy are listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for Rockdale Township, Crawford County, PA. One of Daniel and Nancy’s children was Henry A. Bunting.
Henry A. Bunting and Adelle (Breeze’) Bunting were married at Thomastown, Rockdale Township, Crawford County, PA and lived there most of their lives. Legend says that as early as 1840, the Bunting and Breeze families were living in Rockdale Township in the settlement known as Thomastown. Henry and Adell had a son named Luther W. Bunting.
Luther W. Bunting was born August 2, 1863 in Little Cooley, Athens Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania to Henry A. and Adelle R. Breeze’. Luther was a farmer and on July 2, 1902, at the age of 39, he married Edith Eldora Alexander. In 1909, at the age of 46, he is found farming land that he had rented from Mrs. Sproul and his mailing address was listed as RD 71 Townville. The following year’s U.S. Census shows him still farming, married to Edith, with two daughters Maude and Evora. The 1930 U.S. Census lists Luther as still farming and owning his own land. His home is valued at $3,000 and has a radio set. His age in 1930 is listed as 66 and he and Edith are living on their farm by themselves. Luther died on November 30, 1934 and his wife Edith lived for 21 more years. Luther and Edith had a daughter Maude Hazel (my mother).
Maude Hazel Bunting was born on June 12, 1906 at her parents’ home in Little Cooley, Athens Township, and Crawford County PA. Both a brother and sister (Paul and Helen) died in early childhood and her only living sibling was a sister Evora who was born just two months shy of Maude’s second birthday. Maude attended and graduated from Willis Grove Consolidated School and went to Edinboro College in Edinboro, PA. In 1925, after attending Edinboro College she was awarded a Provisional Teaching Certificate and secured a teaching position at Taylor Stand School in Athens Township. Maude knew Milton Thomas from Willis Grove Consolidated School and Edinboro College and they began dating during her first year of teaching. At the completion of her first year of teaching Milton and Maude decided to get married and Maude’s uncle The Reverend Forrest Amy conducted the ceremony on June 12, 1926 at her home in Little Cooley. That fall they both traveled to Wilmore, KY where Milton entered his Junior Year at Asbury College and where in the spring of 1927 he graduated “provisionally. Following this Milton was ordained in the Methodist Church.
Maude a young “School Marm” from rural western Pennsylvania now became a minister’s wife and would spend the rest of her life supporting her husband, her family, and the Methodist Church. She was the mother of eight children; David, Virginia, Paul, John, James, Joseph, Vivian and Stanley. When she was living at Rimersburg in 1940, it was discovered that she had cancer of the throat. This was a terrible personal and family tragedy–she was so young–and her husband and children needed her so much. What seems like a miracle then and still today, the cancer was arrested and Maude recovered and went on to live for many more years and raises a large family. Thirty-four years later, in 1974, cancer once more struck this wonderful woman. Being the remarkable lady that she was, however, she again resisted this terrible disease and miracle of miracles–it was arrested for the second time. In 1976, it was discovered that her husband Milton had leukemia– miracles of medicine do happen and Milton’s cancer was also arrested.
Milton and Maude finally retired in 1973 and settled in Cambridge Springs, PA a town close to where they and their parents had grown up. Maude celebrated her 50th Wedding Anniversary on June 12, 1976 in the Methodist Church in Cambridge Springs. All of her children and their families, plus a large crowd of friends and former parishioners they had known for years joined in this “Golden Celebration”. Maude spent her final years with Milton at the Methodist Retirement Home in Meadville, PA, where she died on February 18, 1986, fifteen months after her husband. A true lady to the end–she requested–and her request was granted to have her granddaughters be her pallbearers.
Joseph L. Thomas
FFHS News: Lottery Money For Community Projects That Benefit The Disabled
06:23PM UTC – Wednesday, 09 November 2005
Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSGNovember2005 – The London region of Awards for All is seeking more applications to fund community projects that either benefit the disabled or their carers or increase accessibility for the disabled to community activities.
The Awards for All programme is able to provide grants of £500 to £5000 that will enable or improve disabled access to a wide range of organisation types and activities i.e: wheelchair ramps, disabled toilets, sign language interpreters, braille, IT such as talking books, sharing information, awareness raising etc.
There will be a workshop on Tuesday, November 22 to help potential applicants to understand the application process.
In order to register for the workshop or for further details of this
campaign please visit:http://www.awardsforall.org.uk/england/london/London_news.html
Maggie Loughran
Administrator, Federation of Family History Societies
http://www.ffhs.org.uk1 – From the Editor
07:37PM UTC – Wednesday, 16 November 2005
Contributed by: Jerry GreenHow good it is to be putting pen to paper to compile the first Bunting newsletter, which should have appeared in January but for the indisposition of first the chairman and then the editor!
I hope that as time goes on you will find it a stimulating source of interest and information. If you have a Bunting story to tell or have any Bunting history queries, we hope that you will not hesitate to write to me or any of the other researchers listed in this newsletter. We shall welcome suggestions for services or features.
To set the record straight from the outset, I shall briefly tell you about us.
The decision to put out a newsletter was taken on the 23rd September 1989 during our first Bunting Gathering held at Alpheton village hall near Long Melford in Suffolk. The meeting was arranged following the publication of a letter in the East Anglian Daily Times about my great-aunt, Annie Elizabeth Bunting. Letters and phone calls flooded in, and it seemed to me that we should make some effort to piece together our collective information. One or two people learnt of hitherto unknown connections, and we all enjoyed the exhibition of family trees and documents, a buffet lunch and talks from Mary Rix about the Buntings of Tolleshunt D’Arcy, Essex, myself on what I knew about Annie Elizabeth’s family and their moves between Derbyshire and East Anglia and George Bunting on his vast personal collection of Bunting memorabilia.
George Bunting has kindly agreed to be our chairman for the first year. My personal feeling is that this is a tremendous privilege.
Michael Bunting is our treasurer. He and his wife Jeanne are keen and competent researchers.
I have agreed to edit our newsletters, and act as secretary.
We felt that an annual subscription of ?2 should cover two letters per year and postage.
We hope you will like this idea and that we shall have plenty of feedback from our readers with further ideas and features.
Our next letter will only be sent out on request.
I would like to thank all those who replied to the letter in the East Anglian and Mention too the help I received from Miss Mary Bunting of Holme Hall, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Sadly Mary died two weeks before I was due to meet her, and without her help and encouragement, my effort would have been much the poorer. I would also like to thank her cousin and mine, Helen Ray of Mewbold, Derbyshire – Annie’s daughter -for all her help and for all the happy memories of the farm in days past!
This is YOUR news-letter, and we look forward to bearing from you. CHRISTINE GRAYSON-TOMS.
FFHS News – Civil Registration Modernisation.
08:00PM UTC – Thursday, 17 November 2005
Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSGMinisters and the Registrar General have since agreed that changes to the governance arrangements should be subject to consultation. The publication of the consultation paper ‘Registration Modernisation’, which also sets out how many other changes proposed in the 2002 White Paper ‘Civil Registration:
Vital Change’ are to be progressed, has been announced by John Healey, Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Minister for ONS.Full details are available on the GRO web site. Also a link is provided concerning the outcome of the review of “Civil Marriage Ceromonies”.
http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/aboutus/lookingahead/Latest_news.aspMaggie Loughran
Administrator, Federation of Family History Societies http://www.ffhs.org.ukDo You Have Royal Connections?
09:56PM UTC – Thursday, 17 November 2005
Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSGShine Limited, a TV production company are looking for people who think they may have a royal or aristocratic connection in their family tree.
They want to take seven families on a journey through their family tree to find out if there is a connection and find out about other interesting people along the way.
With their two presenters, a historian and a genealogist they want to bring your family’s history to life.It may be purely a story that has been in your family for years or you may have started to look into it.
Maybe you are related to the Bowes-Lyon family, the Parker-Bowles or the Fergussons?
Maybe you are descended from a royal mistress?
Maybe you are related to Grace Kelly or the French royal family directly?
Are you black and have reason to believe that you may have blood links with a white plantation owner?
If you have any royal stories from the past 300 years give Shine a call on +44(0)870 726 8873 or e-mail Emma Beckwith
Maggie Loughran, Administrator, Federation of Family History Societies http://www.ffhs.org.uk
FFHS-NEWS, A petition from the UK National Council on Archives
01:22PM UTC – Wednesday, 23 November 2005
Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSGSociety Members, both in the UK and Overseas, are invited to complete the petition form available on the web site link given below. In the line for “Organisation” fill with The Bunting Society for “Position” fill in with Member.
The National Council on Archives online petition:
Do you think that archives are worthwhile?You can help ensure that archives receive the funding they need by filling in The National Council on Archives online petition at
http://www.ncaonline.org.uk/announcements/save_the_countrys_memoryFollowing the publication of “Giving Value: Funding Priorities for UK Archives 2005-2010”, the National Council on Archives continue to lobby government and funding bodies to convince
them that putting archives higher up the agenda is worthwhile. Chronic under-funding of archives means that some UK collections remain un-catalogued, housed in unsuitable conditions or unused. In the worst cases important archives are sold to overseas buyers.
By signing the online petition you will be helping to protect the nation’s heritage and showing your support for archives. The petition will be sent to Tessa Jowell, Secretary of State for
Culture, Media and Sport.
In accordance with the Data Protection Act we will only use the data you provide to us for the purposes of lobbying on behalf of archives.For more information contact:
Ruth Savage
Policy & Development Officer
National Council on Archives
Tel:+44 (0)20 8392 5376
[email protected]William, With Nelson at Trafalgar
01:47PM UTC – Wednesday, 23 November 2005
Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSGWhilst browsing on The National Archives, UK, site I inevitably searched for the surname Bunting and I was pleasantly surprised that Marine, Private William Bunting appeared on the screen.
William served at the Battle of Trafalgar on the ship HMS Royal Sovereign with the extract of his name having been given in the ship’s pay book number (ML 57) dated 1 March 1805. The catalogue reference being ADM 36/15755.
Does anyone know more about William or can lay claim to him as an ancestor? No doubt there will also be a picture of the ship in the records too.
I am sure our Journal Editor would love to have an article about William and his family.
Quainton Parish Register CD of B,M and D 1599-1900.
08:29PM UTC – Saturday, 26 November 2005
Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSGOur contact in Quainton, Stan Cook, has kindly forwarded the following extract from his Parish Magazine.
Revd. Martin Partridge’s Legacy by June Hanson
Martin and Tessa have now left us for what we all hope will be a long and happy retirement, but before he left, he gave us, the Parish, a rather special legacy.
Not many are aware that the Rev: Cautley during his time as Vicar here in 1908. He undertook the task of taking the names and details off the three church registers that recorded all Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, starting from 1599 and up to 1900 and copied them into ledgers in alphabetical order. They are beautifully written up and these ledgers are now on permanent loan in the Buckinghamshire County Archives at Aylesbury for safekeeping.
But before placing them there, Martin has for some time prior to leaving, been scanning each page (776 in all) and putting them on disc. That has now been accomplished and the discs are available to interested parties. They will be invaluable to anyone researching his or her family tree or village history. It was a long, tedious job for both Reverends but such a worthwhile one and one which will be invaluable to future researchers.
So our most grateful thanks go to Martin for completing such a time-consuming and mammoth task
When Martin’s successor has taken up residence here in Quainton, we will hand the discs over to him or her, but in the meantime, should you wish to have one, contact either of the churchwardens, June Hanson or Philip Goddard, on +44(0)1296 655249 and +44(0)1296 651801 respectively.
A charge of UK £15 per disc will be asked which willcontribute to church funds.
Society Overseas Members should ask about the additional cost of packing and postage.
FFHSs NEWS: Has the ITV Takeover Affected the Online, UK, 1901 Census Service?
04:02PM UTC – Wednesday, 07 December 2005
Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSGYou will already be aware that QinetiQ recently sold its rights as licensee for the UK 1901 census online to Friends Reunited. It was confirmed today that ITV has bought Friends Reunited, and with it the right to operate the UK 1901 census service.
The acquisition, according to news reports, comes as part of an Internet spending spree by media companies such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. as they attempt to counteract sluggish advertisement sales in traditional areas such as television. Other companies vying for Friends Reunited apparently included UK publishers Trinity Mirror and Daily Mail & General Trust. The report on the http://news.bbc.co.uk website concludes by saying that “ITV has high hopes for the Genes Reunited strand within Friends Reunited. The site, which allows people to trace their family tree, has 46 million registered members.”
The Head of Online Services & Strategic Marketing at The National Archives has advised us they have been assured that ITV are extremely committed to maintaining and expanding the UK 1901 census service , and they are confident that ITV will be excellent licensees. Indeed, they understand that Friends Reunited’s expansion into genealogy was one of the main attractions for ITV.
The FFHS has been invited to put any specific questions we may have to either party. So, if any member society has serious concerns or queries about the future operation of the UK 1901 census service, as a result of the purchase of Friends Reunited by ITV, please let me know.
Geoff Riggs,
Director of Computer & Internet Facilities,
Federation of Family History SocietiesJeanne Buntings ‘Why Can’t I Find Them’
06:41PM UTC – Tuesday, 13 December 2005
Contributed by: Clive BillsonSome of the suggestions and tips that Jeanne gave, in her very informative talk at Tissington last October, were of immense value. My problem is that I cannot remember them all, now that more than a day has passed by. I wonder if there might be any chance of a transcript being made available? Perhaps posted on this web site.
FFHSs NEWSFLASH
01:59PM UTC – Wednesday, 14 December 2005
Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSGThe Society has just received its copy, no. 72b, of the NEWSFLASH. It occured to me that rather than wait for the Journal Editor or me to read it and extract items that you might wish to have your own copy. I down loaded the procedure for doing this from the Federation Web Site.
” FFHS-NEWS
This is a ‘one-way’ Mailing List which the FFHS uses to make announcements and to publish information of general interest. Anyone can subscribe to receive such messages from the List, but they will not be able to send emails posting to the List. This can only be done by the Federation’s Chairman, Vice-Chairman or Administrator.
If you wish to subscribe to FFHS-NEWS, send an email to [email protected] (no subject or message body are needed). You will receive a reply asking you to confirm your subscription.
If you later wish to unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] (no subject or message body are needed). You will receive a reply asking you to confirm the cancellation of your subscription.
1 – From the Editor
08:39PM UTC – Friday, 16 December 2005
Contributed by: Mr and Mrs Christine PaineHow good it is to be putting pen to paper to compile the first Bunting Newsletter, which should have appeared in January but for the indisposition of first the chairman and then the editor!
I hope that as time goes on you will find it a stimulating source of interest and information. If you have a Bunting story to tell or have any Bunting history queries, we hope that you will not hesitate to write to me or any of the other researchers listed in this newsletter. We shall welcome suggestions for services or features
To set the record straight from the outset, I shall briefly tell you about us.
The decision to put out a newsletter was taken on the 23rd September 1989 during our first Bunting Gathering held at Alpheton village hall near Long Melford in Suffolk. The meeting was arranged following the publication of a letter in the East Anglian Daily Times about my great-aunt, Annie Elizabeth Bunting. Letters and phone calls flooded in, and it seemed to me that we should make some effort to piece together our collective information. One or two people learnt of hitherto unknown connections, and we all enjoyed the exhibition of family trees and documents, a buffet lunch and talks from Mary Rix about the Buntings of Tolleshunt D’Arcy, Essex, myself on what I knew about Annie Elizabeth’s family and their moves between Derbyshire and East Anglia and George Bunting on his vast personal collection of Bunting memorabilia.
George Bunting has kindly agreed to be our chairman for the first year. My personal feeling is that this is a tremendous privilege.
Michael Bunting is our treasurer. He and his wife Jeanne are keen and competant researchers.
I have agreed to edit our newsletters, and act as secretary.
We felt that an annual subscription of £2 should cover two letters per year and postage.
We hope you will like this idea and that we shall have plenty of feedback from our readers with further ideas and features.
Our next letter will only be sent out on request.
I would like to thank all those who replied to the letter in the East Anglian and mention too the help I received from Miss Mary Bunting of Holme Hall, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Sadly Mary died two weeks before I was due to meet her, and without her help and encouragement, my effort would have been much the poorer. I would also like to thank her cousin and mine, Helen Kay of Newbold, Derbyshire – Annie’s daughter -for all her help and for all the happy memories of the farm in days past!
This is YOUR news-letter, and we look forward to hearing from you. CHRISTINE GRAYSON-TOMS
Buntain
04:00PM UTC – Tuesday, 27 December 2005
Contributed by: AnonymousWould love to hear from anyone that has connections to my illusive Buntain Family:
Descendants of Peter Buntain
Generation No. 1
1. P ETER 1 BUNTAIN He married ELIZABETH DUNCAN .
Child of PETER BUNTAIN and ELIZABETH DUNCAN is:
2. i. AGNES 2 BUNTAIN , b. 12 Nov 1837, Kilmacolm, Renfrew, Scotland; d. 29 Oct 1916, Vulcan Cottage, Glasgow Street, Millport, Bute, Scotland.
Generation No. 2
2. AGNES 2 BUNTAIN (P ETER 1 ) was born 12 Nov 1837 in Kilmacolm, Renfrew, Scotland, and died 29 Oct 1916 in Vulcan Cottage, Glasgow Street, Millport, Bute, Scotland. She married MATHEW SOMMERVILLE 22 Oct 1852 in Kilmacolm, Renfrew, son of THOMAS SOMMERVILLE and CHRISTIAN MCLARTY . He was born 17 Aug 1828 in Millport, Bute, and died 24 Jan 1890 in Vulcan Cottage, Millport, Cumbrae, Bute.
regards
Heather – Cape Town South Africa – [email protected]
Obituary, Group Capt. “Mac” Bunting
11:22PM UTC – Sunday, 12 December 2004
Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSGAlmost a half page of the obituary columns in the Daily Telegraph of Friday, November 26th, 2004 described the career of Group Captain Malcolm “Mac” Bunting. He died on November 14th 2004 aged 86yrs. Included in the obituary was a picture taken whilst accompanying Princess Margaret during a Royal visit to RAF Shawbury, Shropshire, UK.
FFHS Appointment
12:46PM UTC – Friday, 10 December 2004
Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSGThe FFHS is pleased to announce that, at the latest Board Meeting of its Executive, Dr Nick Barratt was co-opted as a Director of the Company and Trustee of the Charity.
He obtained his PhD in Medieval History and has worked as a specialist
reader adviser at The National Archives, where he developed the academic induction archival training scheme for students visiting there for the first time. He has written numerous articles and books, has given talks, presentations and document workshops, and has researched and appeared on several television programmes, the most recent of course being “Who Do You Think You Are?”.Rebecca Bunting – Norfolk
11:46AM UTC – Sunday, 31 October 2004
Contributed by: AnonymousI am looking for any info on Rebecca/Rebekah Bunting born 1837 in Norfolk. She married my 5xgf George Ward and they lived in Terrington St Clements, Norfolk. Any info would be greatly appreciated as I have traced their family through to present day and as far away as Australia
Many thanks
Claire
Daily Telegraph 20th September 2004 – Right to Roam
11:04AM UTC – Thursday, 28 October 2004
Contributed by: Anonymous400 guests including 3 MPs ( but not the Minister Alun Michael ) attended an event in the Derbyshire Peak District National Park . Under the Act more than 190 square miles of the Peak District , much of which is owned by the water and poer company is open to public access . Among the guests was JOHN BUNTING , 87, a former Sheffield steel worker ” I have been walking since I was 2 and been involved in mass tresspasses since I was a teenager , but I thought this time would never arrive. It is something we have worked so hard for and I am so proud that we have got there in the end. ”
Buntings in Quainton
03:58PM UTC – Friday, 22 October 2004
Contributed by: StanCookA list of Buntings in Quainton – and a few others places.
The Church Wardens and Overseer of the Poor, Accounts.
1791. William Bunting.
1822. George Bunting.
1829. Emanuel Bunting.
1801. Mrs Bunting.Quainton Church Graveyard.
1817 Jane Bunting.
1817 Eliza Martha Bunting.
1825 Sarah Bunting.
1846 John Bunting.
John Shirley and his wife Selina (No date shown).Miscellaneous Information.
Posse Comitatus 1798 – List of Bucks men aged 16-60, not serving in the Army
in that year.
John Bunting.
William Bunting.Northants Militia List, 1777. Long Buckby.
Thomas Bunting.
Richard Bunting.
John Bunting.
William Bunting.Patents.
1797 Edmund Bunting.65th Regiment.
3035 Pte. Robert Bunting, enlisted 1852.Family History Research Techniques.
11:06PM UTC – Saturday, 16 October 2004
Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSGBBC Television UK is transmitting a series of ten programmes, every Tuesday, about researching family history.
The hour long programme on BBC2 uses different, well known UK television personalities as the weekly example.
The half hour programme on BBC4 uses the cases of interesting members of the public. That on Tuesday, October 19th, whilst not using Buntings, has an American family, the Bailey’s of Ohio, who travel to Scotland in search of their roots.
As many video recorders are now multi standard there is a good reason for overseas members to persuade their UK cousins to make a tape or DVD for them as the techniques demonstrated do have a general application. The BBC in my day used to sell its programmes to companies abroad so an alternative may be to suggest to your local TV Service that they should buy the series!
See the “Calendar” for the latest programme detail.
Old Postcard
02:22PM UTC – Monday, 11 October 2004
Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSGColin Buck is a professional collector of postcards in the UK and the Society is on his distribution list to be notified when any bearing the surname Bunting or its variants come into his possession. He currently charges £1 for each plus package and posting.
Mary Rix and I have each been lucky enough to have one written by members of our own families.
At the moment I have two remaining for which I have not found a home. The first is addressed to a Miss Bunting, 124 Lower Rd, Rotherhithe, London. The post mark looks like the year 1911. The second is to Mr John Bunting, 66 Selborne Street, Attercliffe, Sheffield and is dated 1923.
If you know that either of these postcards was addressed to members of your family then contact me on my link above.
John Feast Bunting
06:57PM UTC – Sunday, 10 October 2004
Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSGIt is sometimes useful being moderately extrovert and thus becoming known to most of the people at a family history conference. The conference in question being held at Loughborough University was called a “Flight of Yesterday” with a theme of “The 70s”. We took this to mean 1970 but others chose it to be 1770 and so each wore an appropriate costume for the evening party. On walking past one dining table an attractive, young woman remarked that she had a Bunting enquiry and was I interested. I was intrigued even more when she introduced herself as Rowan Tanner. My elder Grandson also has the name Rowan. Each of the boys was named after a type of tree, Rowan and Aiken (oak like). It seemed strange to me that a girl should be called Rowan. Her parents Steve Tanner and Gill Horlick, as did many couples in the 60s, decided to buy an engagement ring. Their searches for an appropriate one lead them to Portobello Road, London, in the August of 1968. Their choice was one that had a round moss agate stone set on a round gold saucer surmounting the gold ring. Whilst the appearance was the main reason for them to purchase the ring inscribed on the inside surface was the sentence “John Feast Bunting died 18 July 1888 aged 2 years 7 weeks”. They thought that originally it had been made to fit a man’s little finger. Gill and Steve were so captivated by the inscription that they made the decision there and then that when they bought the ring that they would they would name their first son, John, in memory of John Feast Bunting. Subsequently Rowan’s brother John was born in June 1973.
Rowan has posed the following challenges to the Society. Who were John Feast’s ancestors? Her Mother would dearly love to know. Also why was the ring sold? Did John Feast have any siblings and have they any descendants alive today?
Quite a challenge. Do you know answers?
From the Antipodes
12:35AM UTC – Friday, 01 October 2004
Contributed by: AnonymousAttention Ms. Prue James, An extraordinary coincidence from the antipodes.
My Father Robert Frederick Bunting (b 1908 d 1969) in Samarai Papua New Guniea to Arthur Frederick Bunting (Eldest son of Joseph Albert) married Gwendolyn Ethel JAMES in 1941. She is in very good health, despite being 90 yrs & still living by herself in an apartment in Sydney, where we also live.
Cheers,
PeterQuainton Bunting Information
09:17PM UTC – Thursday, 30 September 2004
Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSGStan Cook, who lives in Quainton, Buckinghamshire UK recently wrote to me about his village web site http://www.quainton.net
“I have over the years since 1985 been involved in researching the family history of many people with origins in Quainton. This included my transcriptions of the Parish Registers which were published by the Village Society. I have also provided various people in the Village with extracts from the 1841, 1851, 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901 census records. My 1901 census index was completed in January 2002 and although all my paper copies have now gone, I still have my master copy and a copy on disk.”
From previous work that I have done I am aware that we have at least one Member, in the USA who has ancestors originally living in Quainton. I was quite surprised to find that the President of my local group, The West Surrey Family History Society, Ray Anstiss, has an ancestor, Elizabeth Anstiss, who married John Bunting on the 12th July 1787 in Quainton.
Also other documentation I have used at The Society of Genealogists is a copy of a book entitled “Churchwardens Book 1668-1975”, which was presented by Stan so you can understand that he is quite an authority on the village records.The SoG also has a copy of “The Overseers Book, 1675-1925” and “The Enclosure Map of Quainton 1841”.
Basil Bunting
06:29PM UTC – Friday, 17 September 2004
Contributed by: AnonymousMy daughter (Charlotte Bunting Floyd) has a friend who vacationed in Durham, England, and found a postcard with the picture of Basil Bunting, poet. Charlotte found a lot of information on the internet about him. Lived 1900-1985 and recognized as a major poet by the top literary figures of his day. My daughter has ordered one of his books from Amazon.com.Both of us were intrigued, and wondered if Basil Bunting shows up in any family trees of the Bunting Society members. Any comments would be appreciated.My family tree shows a Samuel Bunting, who lived in Matlock, Derbyshire, England, and moved to Crosswicks,NJ,USA in 1678.
1851 Stray, Durham to Sheffield.
04:50PM UTC – Friday, 17 September 2004
Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSGMy thanks to John Bailey of Sheffield for this snippet. (I met John at the Federation Conference at the end of August which we each thoroughly enjoyed from the point of view of the accomodation at Loughborough University, the excellent food and unexpectedly good talks belying their subject titles.)
In the 1851 census reference HO107/2335, folio496b (District 12, page 6, schedule 24) and living at Rivelin Mill is:
William Bunting, Head, aged 29, a Journeyman Miller,born County Durham, place also Durham. He is married to :Charlotte aged 37 born Derbyshire, Dronfield -there are no children.
If this William is yours then make sure the Society has the information about his ancestors and descendants.
A shy lot
12:11AM UTC – Tuesday, 17 August 2004
Contributed by: AnonymousWhere is everybody? I don’t seem to be getting very far with the Bunting family. I did find a marriage between Mahala Evans and Thomas Bunting 29 December 1841 Doveridge, Derby. Mahala’s parents were John and Ann Evans. Mahala was baptised 20 February 1808 in Doveridge.
Quainton Buntings Mtg, Albion, Illinois, USA.
07:14PM UTC – Friday, 13 August 2004
Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSGIf you would like to attend and do not have an e-mail address or a telephone number for either Denise Pino or Elaine Michels or if you want the hotel contact detail then click on my name above.
I will then reply sending you the information you request.
JULY 2004
Website Security
07:41PM UTC – Friday, 23 July 2004
Contributed by: Jerry GreenThere was a security breach on the website today – you may have seen the offensive results. These have all been removed I hope.
The software has been upgraded to prevent this problem recurring.
Please let me know if you have any problems.
JULY 2004
FONS
07:09PM UTC – Wednesday, 21 July 2004
Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSGThe half day meeting shown in the “Events” for September 18th will have a talk decribing what it is in full.
You still want to know more about it because you can’t attend?
The title is an abbreviation of “Family Origin Name Survey” in which various archives in Britain and Ireland have been indexed and are made available to those who register to receive data from one of the four periods covered. You are charged a fee of £5 for each of the time slots selected; pre-1600;1600-1858; 1859-1900;1901-1958. Each record sent is charged at a further £2 but you can determine which credit limit band you think is practical.
Specific data exclusions are the Census of 1881 and 1901 plus the baptisms, marriages and burials before 1859.
If you want to join the scheme write for detail to FONS, 67 Chancery Lane, London WC2 1AF.
JULY 2004
Journal of One Name Studies
12:14PM UTC – Wednesday, 21 July 2004
Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSGThe Goons have just issued the July-September Qtr,2004 edition. It contains articles on the following topics:- One-name studies without a computer: Intelligent searching of 1837 online.com: The Oxford Seminar about DNA as well as many more smaller articles and readers comments.
JULY 2004
Half Day Regional Meeting DBY & STS
11:24AM UTC – Wednesday, 21 July 2004
Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSGA half day, Regional meeting, for Derbyshire and Staffordshire Guild members, is planned for Saturday, September 18th, 2004 at the Priory Centre, Stretton, near Burton on Trent. Talks about the Guild and the FONS organisation will be given and the afternoon concludes with a question and answer session. For more detail contact Ron Duckett, through me, by selecting my name above.
JULY 2004
UK 1901 Census Web Address Change
11:14PM UTC – Saturday, 17 July 2004
Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSGThe Federation of Family History Societies has advised us that the web address has changed for the 1901 Census for England and Wales.
The existing web address of http://www.census.pro.gov.uk is being replaced by a new address, in line with the re-branding of other Public Record Office websites, to reflect The National Archives name.
The new address is http://www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Please ensure you are using this new web address when you next wish to visit the site.JULY 2004
A A Bunting as Iago
11:11PM UTC – Friday, 16 July 2004
Contributed by: Jerry GreenAlan Merryweather has a watercolour picture of a man, bearing the legend ‘A. A. Bunting as Iago’. The distinctive Art Deco style of the lettering seems to date it from the 1920s and 1930s.
The artist’s monogram is OJTES, but the surname may start with
letter ‘T’.
The picture was handed down to Alan’s family from his Mother in Law Doris May Russell nee Fennell. His Father in Law was George Clement Russell. Each died within the past 20 years. Doris May came from East London and George Clement from the Wandsworth. It is possible that the A A Bunting was a friend of Alan’s In Laws.
Whilst Alan says the picture is not for sale, if someone can show a family connection he might be persuaded to sell it involving a donation to a charity.
The very least that we would hope for is that someone can identify the actor so that a family tree can be constructed.JULY 2004
Bunting Field Papers?
08:30PM UTC – Friday, 16 July 2004
Contributed by: Laverne Bunting HayesI received a message from David Bunton in AR. He and I have both visited Bunting Field in Darbyshire. He was told that someone in the Lee family had old papers on the land. Does anyone know anything re this? He said it might fill in some gaps in our history.
Our ancestral home was found by us in 1990. Bunting Field was given to John Bunting by King Edward I in 1285 as a land grant. It is located in Derbyshire (middle England) between Matlock and Chesterfield. In the 1600’s, the King looked for it to destroy as it was a meeting place for Quakers. It stayed in the Bunting family until 1819 when another John Bunting sold it and moved 15 rooms of the house to Chesterfield where it served as a school and hospital. This building was demolished in August of 1990. “Bunting Field” is still on the gate today. It is currently owned by Mr. E.Joseph Lee. One part of the house is stucco with a seal, “B, I&E, 1638”, on the front. This part was built by Isaac and Elizabeth Bunting who are buried in the family cemetery behind the house. The newer part is built of red brick and is dated 1819. It consists of 112 acres and is used as a dairy farm. Mr. Lee also raises sheep and horses. It is a beautiful estate. Many Buntings have visited over the years.
JULY 2004
Divorce Records on the Internet.
11:45AM UTC – Monday, 12 July 2004
Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSGBrowsing through my copy of Practical Family History No. 80 for August 2004 I found, on page 43, an article written by John Hanson which in its first picture shows a list of Buntings involved in Divorces between 1858 and 1903. Figure 2 portrays an example of a Bunting divorce extract. This magazine has a UK price of £2.50 and can be purchased from WH Smiths.
In essence the article is about the National Archivist pay per view site http://www.nationalarchivist.com which has an index described as listing Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, 1858-1903. The index has headings such as Event Year, Surname, Title, Forename and Middle name. To acquire further information a payment is required. The minimum credit charge being £7 for 35 credits (1 credit = 20p), these are then valid for 45 days. Typically three credits may be required for each view.
The site will possibly develop so that documents can be ordered as with other pay per view sites and you can register an interest now.
MAY 2004
Buntings in Rutland
06:13PM UTC – Sunday, 30 May 2004
Contributed by: AnonymousI am interested in Buntings in Teigh, Rutland around 1750-1850. I have an unmarried mother in my tree – Elizabeth SPURR (1800-1872) who had at least 3 children, the second having the name John
Bunting SPURR. I suspect that John BUNTING from Teigh 1777-1834 may have been the father, but I am also aware of other BUNTINGs in Teigh around this time and also that some of the BUNTINGs had “some reputation”. Can anyone help me shed more light on thes TEIGH BUNTINGs? The 3 fatherless children involved are:John SPURR c1826-1827
John Bunting SPURR 1835-1835
Daniel William SPURR 1839-1912, all born in Teigh, Rutland
Their mother, Elizabeth,had the “respectable” job of Schoolmistress at the girls’ school in Wymondham. Please send any comments or advice to spurr.fh-at-btinternet.comAlso note that I have some gravestone photos of various BUNTINGsfrom Teigh churchyard. Could someone confirm that John BUNTING’s parents were George and Frances?
Thanks, John H Spurr, Maidenhead, UK
APRIL 2004
A Bunting Re-Union in the States
10:20PM UTC – Tuesday, 13 April 2004
Contributed by: Laverne Bunting HayesTWENTY-FIRST BUNTING FAMILY REUNION
It’s that time again–to meet new relatives and reminisce with the ones you know! Buntings from birth to 90+ come every year and we want all in between to join us for good food and fellowship.Time & Place – Mark Your Calendars!
Saturday, April 17, 2004 at 3:30 p.m.
Cedar Grove Community Center
(Remember, our reunion is the third Saturday of April each year!)What to Bring
A covered dish (plates, cups, napkins and utensils will be provided), family pictures, pictures from last year’s reunion, a Bunting who has never attended.Directions
From Asheboro, travel west on Hwy #49. Two miles past the city limits turn right on Union Church Road. The building is number 1379, 1/8 mile on the right (the opposite end goes to the airport). Please drive safely!Officers to Serve You
President: Gary Waisner, Ramseur
Gary descends from Solomon’s first son, Alson Gray.
Vice President:George York, New London
George descends from Solomon’s daughter, Elizabeth Jane.
Secretary/Treasurer:Joyce Williams, Sophia
Joyce descends from Solomon’s daughter, Elizabeth Jane.
Historian: LaVerne Bunting Hayes, Charlotte
LaVerne descends from Solomon’s fifth son, Samuel Franklin.
Thanks to all our officers for doing an outstanding job! Who is Your Ancestor? Children of Solomon and Louisa Smith Bunting:
1.Alson Gray Bunting (b. 1-1847, d. 5-2-1919) m. Elizabeth Jane Coltrane (b. 2-8-1850, d. 8-22-1932), d/o Nelson and Mary Davis Coltrane. Alson was a school teacher; he lived and is buried at Cedar Grove.
2.Arrington G. Bunting (b. 9-26-1849, d. 5-14-1913) m. Emma Cornelia Woodburn (b. 1-31-1851, d. 1-11-1931). He was a school teacher and lived in Randolph Co. and Greensboro. Emma was a teacher/co-founder of Guilford College. Although Arrington was a Quaker, he is buried at Lee’s Chapel United Methodist Church, Greensboro.
3.Jonathan Worth Bunting (b. 10-1855, d. 1913) m. Mary M. Haddock (b.1861, d.4-1917). He was a farmer and gold miner and is buried at West Bend Methodist Church in Asheboro.
4.Elizabeth Jane Bunting (b. 6-2-1858, d. 11-1922) m. Henry Voncannon (b. 9-19-1851, d. 12-31-95). She is buried at Springfield Friends Meeting, Guilford Co.
5.William Hix Bunting (b. 7-7-1865, d. 7-30-1900) m. Mattie Ledwell
(b. 1875, d. 1922). He is buried at Asheboro City Cemetery.
6.Samuel Franklin Bunting (b. 12-17-1870, d. 5-29-1933) m. Effie Jane Coltrane (b. 5-7-1879, d. 6-3-1928), d/o Spencer Allen Coltrane and Katherine Purdie Hoover. He is buried at Charlotte Methodist Church, Lexington Hwy, Asheboro.
The remaining four: Abigail (b. 1851, d. between 1860-70); Asa, died young; infant, died; and Delphinia (b. 1860) died at age 29 in 1889, born blind. All are buried in Asheboro City Cemetery (at the parking area to the left from Salisbury Street entrance).
A history of William and Abigail Bunting and their ten documented children are listed in the newsletter for 2003. A few copies of this history will be available at the reunion this year.Wedding Bells Ring!
Eric John Murray, son of Johnny and Debbie Bunting Murray of Asheboro, and Kathie Lin Roebuck of Durham, were married Sept. 20, 2003 at Greystone Manor in Durham. Eric descends from Solomon’s 5th son, Samuel Franklin.Wes C. Bunting of Raleigh and Heather S. Landis of Kinston were married Dec. 2, 2003. Wes is the son of Duane Ray Bunting of Asheboro and the grandson of Ray Bunting. Wes descends from Solomon’s 1st son, Alson Gray.
Jennifer Bunting, daughter of Gene and Nancy Bunting of Asheboro and Mark Cox, were married in Franklinville on May 10, 2003. Jennifer descends from Solomon’s 5th son, Samuel Franklin.
Alison Wesley of Richmond VA, daughter of Robert, Jr. and Susan Bodsford Wesley, and Matthew Ponchihi were married Oct. 18, 2003 at Bald Head Island. Alison descends from Solomon’s 4th son, William Hix.
Tawny Leigh Smith and Joseph R. Gonzales were married May 31, 2003 at McDonough, GA. She is the daughter of Richard and Kathy Kennedy Smith. Tawny descends from Solomon’s 5th son, Samuel Franklin.
Chris Allen, son of Larry and Sue Bunting Allen of Asheboro and Susan Bristow, were married Mar. 20, 2004. Chris descends from Solomon’s 5th son, Samuel Franklin.
Kristen Bunting and Nick Beckle of CA were married Oct. 2003 at Miramar Air Station. Kristin is the daughter of Rick Bunting of CA and granddaughter of William Worth and Lillian Davis Bunting. Kristin descends from Solomon’s 5th son, Samuel Franklin.
Welcome to the Bunting Family!
April Leonard Wilson was born in 2004, granddaughter of Bruce Bunting and Joanne Wrape Spencer of Sophia. April descends from Solomon’s 4th son, William Hix.Sophie Beth Macon was born July 3, 2003 in Guilford Co. to Keith and Crystal Shaw Macon of Randleman. Sophie descends from Solomon through daughter, Elizabeth Jane. Jack Redmond Bunting was born to Kyle and Elizabeth Murphy Bunting in CA on August 5, 2003. Kyle is the son of James and Peggy Bunting of Chapin, SC. Jack descends from Solomon’s 4th son, William Hix.
Allison Elizabeth was born October 18, 2003 to Rick and Susan Wesley at Bald Head Island. Susan is the daughter of Colleen Bunting Bodsford. Allison descends from Solomon’s 4th son, William Hix.
Avery James was born to Craig and Tammy LeGlue in High Point on May 9, 2003. Tammy is the daughter of Jim and Shelby Johnston. Avery descends from Solomon’s 3rd son, Jonathan Worth.
Karley Amanda Long, daughter of Kelly Long, was born December 23, 2003. Karley descends from Solomon’s 2nd son, Arrington, father of Baxter Blair.Madison Danielle McMasters was born August 16, 2003 to Mike and Patricia
Shaw McMasters. Madison descends from Solomon’s daughter, Elizabeth
Jane.Wedding Anniversary
George and Ardell Bunting of Asheboro celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary Jan. 20, 2004. They received many gifts during the enjoyable occasion. George descends from Solomon’s 1st son, Alson Gray.We Are Sad to Have Lost
Rodney Dale Bunting, 16, of Asheboro died December 23, 2003 at his home. He was the son of Joey and Elaine Bunting. Rodney was a descendant of Solomon’s 1st son, Alson Gray.Thomas Raymond “Ray” Peak III, 41, of Randleman, died February 17, 2004, at his home. He was the son of Thomas and Gertrude Peak. Ray was a descendant of Solomon through 3rd son, Jonathan Worth.
Ronnie Michael Davis, 49, died July 1, 2003. He was the grandson of Harvey Shaw and the son of Hortence. Ronnie was a descendant of Solomon’s daughter Eizabeth Jane.
Ernest N. Harvell, 87, of Asheboro, died March 22, 2003 in Greensboro. He was the father of Peggy Harvell Bunting of Chapin, SC and father-in-law of James Bunting who descends from Solomon’s 4th son, William Hix. His grandsons, Mark Bunting of TX and Kyle Bunting of CA were pallbearers.
Lois Elaine Dorsett Bunting, 76, of Asheboro wife of Ray Bunting died July 15, 2003. Ray descends from Solomon through 1st son, Alson Gray.
Marie M. Bunting, 75, of Seagrove, died March 9, 2004. She is survived by husband, Raeford Bunting and son, Wayne J. Bunting. Raeford descends from Solomon’s 3rd son, Jonathan Worth.
Evelyn Charlene Shaw died March 11, 2004. She was the widow of the late
Joseph Lee Shaw. Joseph was a descendant of Solomon’s daughter,
Elizabeth Jane through daughter Alice Shaw.Education and Job Recognition
Lauren Link of Indian Trail, daughter of Jane Crowell and David Link, graduated from Piedmont HS in May 2003 and is attending Appalachian. Lauren descends from Solomon through 4th son, William Hix.Justin Ballzglier, son of Perry, will graduate in May from UNC-CH. Hunter, son of Perry, is attending East Carolina University. Justin and Hunter descend from Solomon through 2nd son Arrington, father of Baxter Blair.
Rob Wesley III, son of Robert Jr. and Susan Wesley of Winston-Salem, graduated from NC State University May 2003. Robert descends from Solomon through 4th son, William Hix.
Kerry Thompson, daughter of Becky and Adron Thompson, is now serving in the Army in Honolulu, Hawaii. Kerry descends from Solomon through 2nd son, Arrington, father of Baxter Blair.Jordan Wesley, son of Robert Jr. and Susan Wesley, graduated from RJ Reynolds HS in Winston-Salem May 2003. He attends Washington and Lee University in VA. Jordan descends from Solomon through 4th son, William Hix.
Morgan Sink, daughter of Sybil and David Sink and April Thompson, daughter of Becky and Adron Thompson are attending Alamance Tech this year. Morgan and April descend from Solomon’s 2nd son, Arrington, father of Baxter Blair.David Wright of Greensboro, son of Bob and Doris Wright of Asheboro, has been promoted to Manager of Professional Development at Jefferson Pilot Financial Corp. David descends from Solomon’s daughter, Elizabeth Jane.
Sons of Confederate Veterans and United Daughters of the Confederacy Membership
All members of our family, descendants of Solomon Bunting 1822-89, are qualified for membership in SCV and UDC using Solomon’s infantry service for credentials. Matthew Waisner is commander of SCV in Asheboro and his father, Terry, is a re-enactor. Matthew and Terry descend from Solomon’s 1st son, Alson Gray.Pictures Found and Pictures Needed!
We have pictures of: Solomon and Louisa Smith Bunting, wedding picture, 1846; Arrington (b.1849) and Emma Cornelia Woodburn Bunting with family in 1902; Elizabeth Jane Coltrane wife of Alson Gray Bunting; Elizabeth Bunting (b.1858) and Henry Voncannon; William Hix (b.1865) and Mattie Ledwell Bunting; Samuel Franklin (1870-1933) and Effie Jane Coltrane Bunting.We need pictures of: Alson Gray Bunting (b.1847); Jonathan Worth Bunting (b.1855) and Mary Haddock Bunting (b.1861). Please help!
Bunting Website
wordpress.buntingsociety.org.uk
The Bunting Society, in Lavenham, Suffolk, England, has a website. It includes membership details, the purpose and activities of the Society.Bunting Birds
According to the Audubon Society there are more than 40 species of Bunting birds worldwide. There are 14 species known to exist in North America and there are 14 species illustrated in National Geographic’s Field Guide to the Birds of North America. This book will be on display at our reunion. All Bunting birds are members of the Finch family.Origin of Our Name
Clothing of the Anglo-Saxons was called “Bunt”; ing or inge meant descendant or family of. We are descendants of the people who wore the Bunt.Bunting Field – Our Ancestral Home
Our ancestral home was found by us in 1990. Bunting Field was given to John Bunting by King Edward I in 1285 as a land grant. It is located in Derbyshire (middle England) between Matlock and Chesterfield. In the 1600’s, the King looked for it to destroy as it was a meeting place for Quakers. It stayed in the Bunting family until 1819 when another John Bunting sold it and moved 15 rooms of the house to Chesterfield where it served as a school and hospital. This building was demolished in August of 1990. “Bunting Field” is still on the gate today. It is currently owned by Mr. E.Joseph Lee. One part of the house is stucco with a seal, “B, I&E, 1638”, on the front. This part was built by Isaac and Elizabeth Bunting who are buried in the family cemetery behind the house. The newer part is built of red brick and is dated 1819. It consists of 112 acres and is used as a dairy farm. Mr. Lee also raises sheep and horses. It is a beautiful estate. Many Buntings have visited over the years.Tartan
Some of the Bunting Family settled in Scotland. There were not enough to form their own clan, therefore, they became a sept under Clan Graham of Menteith. You are qualified to wear this tartan. It is blue and black.Announcements
If you would like to receive the Bunting Society Newsletter twice yearly from England contact: Prue James, 143 Lodge Rd., Writtle, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 3JB, England. Phone: 011-44-787-247836. Six pounds British Sterling or about $10.00 (British Sterling must be sent).OLD ENGLISH LULLABY: Bye Baby Bunting, Daddy’s Gone A Hunting, Gone to Get A Rabbit Skin, To Wrap The Baby Bunting In.
APRIL 2004
Family Record Centre Strike.
09:26AM UTC – Tuesday, 13 April 2004
Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSGThe Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS) and of which we are a member has advised us that there will be a 24 hour strike on Tuesday, April 13th, 2004, affecting ONS Staff who service the Births, Marriages and Deaths Section.
It is said that the Census Area is unaffected but it maybe and there isalmost certain to be a picket line!
APRIL 2004
Buntings in Birmingham and Bradford
08:27PM UTC – Sunday, 11 April 2004
Contributed by: Jerry GreenMy Great Grandmother was Frances Williams Bunting, she was one of eleven children of William Bunting of Spratton, Northants and Elizabeth Lantsbery. Her husband died in 1893 aged 65 but she lived on for another 41 years, in Creaton Northamptonshire, and she appears to have been supported in this time by her eldest brother and her youngest sisters’ husband. The following are the details I have of these siblings but details of how they financially supported my Great Grandmother will follow in a future story. Any more details especially on the Bradford Buntings would be very gratefully received.
Her eldest brother was William Lansbery Bunting who appears to have been in business in Bradford, Yorkshire. He had four children but I have no information on their life other than on the third child Jonathan Craven Bunting who I believe died in Victoria, Australia in 1947.
Her youngest sister was Mary Georgiana Bunting who married Frederick Keep from Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire
Obituary to Mr F Keep from Birmingham Daily Post
We greatly regret to record the death of Mr Frederick Keep, which took place early yesterday at his residence, Beechfield, Ampton Road, Edgbaston, from pneumonia. He had recently been in a very delicate state of health. Early in 1898 the sudden development of a deep-seated malady, from which he had long suffered, compelled him to undergo an operation. While this was successful in saving Mr Keep’s life, it left his health much impaired, and necessitated his complete retirement from business.
The deceased gentleman was born at Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire in 1831. He was educated first in London, and afterwards at the Birmingham and Edgbaston Proprietary School, then under the headmastership of Dr Ryall. His father Mr JohnKeep had removed from Newport to Birmingham in 1839, and carried on the business of a hardware factor in partnership with Mr William Hinkley (a gentleman even now probably remembered by some Midland Counties ironmongers under the name of Keep & Hinkley. On leaving school the deceased gentleman decided to follow the business of a corn miller and was apprenticed to the firm of John Perry and Son in Northampton with whome he remained ?? years. On the completion of his apprenticeship Mr Keep came to Birmingham and endeavoured to find a mill in which he might carry on business, but as nothing suitable was to be obtained he employed ??? if for some time at The Old Steam Mills in Snow ??? then, as now, carried on by Messrs Rayner and ???. At that time the colony of Victoria (Australia) was just opening out as a market for English goods, ??? Mr Keep’s brother, Edward (who had gone into partnership with Mr W H M Blews) went to Melbourne to open business, Mr Blews remaining as ???nt partner in England. The trade of Blews and Keep rapidly increased, and further assistance being needed, Mr Keep transferred his services to the firm, and thus commenced his long connection with the hardware trade. His next move was to Stourbridge, where for some time he assisted his brother Alfred, who was partner in the well known firm of Keep & Watkins. In 1854 Mr John Keep’s partnership with Mr Hinkley was dissolved (Mr Hinkley retiring from business), and in the same year Mr Keep took into partnership his son, Mr Joseph s Keep, the style of the firm being altered to Keep & Son.
Mr Frederick Keep was offered a position in the new firm, and on the death of his father in 1857 he joined his brother, Mr J S Keep, in partnership, the business henceforth being carried on under it’s present title of Keep Brothers. Seven years later, in consequence of the very large expansion of their foreign connection, the firm disposed of the home trade branch of their business to Messrs Deeley, Wignall, and Wilson, resolving to confine themselves entirely to the export trade, in which they have been ever since engaged. In 1873 the business (from which Mr J S Keep had previously retired) was removed from Russell Street to large premises in Broad Street; and there Mr Keep continued engaged until his retirement.
In private, as in business life, Mr Keep’s habits were equally energetic and industrious. Although never taking an active part in municipal or political affairs he early identified himself with religious, temperance and philanthropic work, and was a most generous subscriber at all times to both public and private charities. Commencing his work at Carr’s Lane Chapel in the days of the Rev J Angell-James, he was one of the original founders of the Edgbaston Congregational Chapel in Francis Road where he laboured with unwearied devotion. For twenty five years he acted as treasurer to Spring Hill College until its removal to Oxford and was Chairman of the Birmingham Dispensary for about six years, whilst, as a deacon of Francis Road Chapel, as superintendant of the Sunday schools connected therewith for forty year, and as president of the Adult Bible Class assembling there, he will be gratefully remembered. In the district of Ladywood, where he was a constant visitor to the sick, poor, and afflicted, many will long treasure the recollection oh fis name.
Mr Keep married, in 1857, Miss Mary Bunting, of Northampton, who died in 1896, leaving a family of three sons and three daughters.
The funeral will take place at King’s Norton on Wednesday at 3 pm.
Funeral of Mr F Keep April 1904
The funeral of Mr Frederick Keep, who died on Sunday at his residence, Beechfield, Ampton Road, Edgbaston, took place yesterday, at King’s Norton. The first part of the burial service was conducted at the home of the deceased gentleman by the Rev W S Houghton the pastor of the Congregational Chapel, Francis Road, Edgbaston, and then the coffin was conveyed by road to King’s Norton Churchyard. The hearse was followed by ten mourning coaches, the mourners being Mr & Mrs H F Keep, Miss Keep, Mr A W Keep, Nurse Grimes, Mr & Mrs A King-Smith, Mr & Mrs C King-Smith, Mr & Mrs C E Keep, Mr Walker, Mr Joseph Keep, Mr Samuel Keep, Mrs Brierley, Mr Milner, Mr Ronald Keep, Mr H Ayres Keep, Mr Bidmead, Mr & Mrs J H Lloyd, Mrs Houghton, Mr Rayner, Mr H Rayner, Mr Dunkley, Mr H Bunting, Mr C Wallis, Rev J H & Mrs Jowett, Mr G J Johnson, and the servants at Beechfield. A large number of friends and representatives of various institutions with which Mr Keep was associated assembled in the churchyard to pay a tribute of respect to the memory of the deceased. Francis Road Congregational Chapel was represented by several deacons including Messrs G Smith, H Rungs, W E Warden, N Hotchkiss and Edwin Wright; Alderman Edwards represented the Birmingham Association of Congregational churches and London Missionary Society; Mr Walter S Edwards represented the Trustees of the Spring Hill College Endowment; Alderman Edwards, Mr W S Edwards and Mr H J Manton represented Mansfield College, Oxford; Mr E W Forrest represented the Birmingham General Dispensary; Alderman Edwards, Councillor Bishop, Mr A E Butler and Mr & Mrs J T Wilson represented the Birmingham Police Mission and Institute; Dr H Bagster-Wilson represented the Birmingham Medical Mission, Mr G Davis the City Mission, and Mr H Whitwell the Young Men’s Christian Association. There were also present Dr McCardie, Messrs E Williamd, F H Jordan, H Williams, Cuthbertson and eighteen members of staff of Messrs Keep Brothers, Great Charles Street, with which firm the deceased was identified for a great many years. The service in the chuchyard was also taken by the Rev W S Houghton, and the coffin, was laid in the family grave, where Mrs Keep was buried in 1896. The coffin which was of polished oak, and bore the inscription “Frederick Keep, died April 3rd, 1904 aged 72 years,” was covered with beautiful wreaths contributed solely by relatives. The arrangements for the funeral were carried out by Messrs Bach & Barber.
Probate 1904 May 17
Keep, Frederick of “Beechfield” Ampton-road Edgbaston Birmingham
gentleman died 3 Apr 1904 Probate Birmingham 17 May to Arthur William
Keep, Henry Frederick Keep and Charles Edward Keep merchants.
Effects 99,435 pounds 9s 2d.APRIL 2004
A 2004 Easter Bonnet.
10:51PM UTC – Tuesday, 06 April 2004
Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSGA joyful event will take place on Easter Saturday, April 10th, 2004.
Christine Grayson-Toms, one of the Society’s founder members and our first Secretary, will marry Clive Paine at 2.00pm in St Mary’s Church, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK.
Sadly Christine does not have a computer on which to receive any congratulations directly but any sent to me at [email protected] before 11.00am on the preceding Friday, April 9th, will be relayed to her.
Michael.
APRIL 2004
GOONS, MEMBER’S JOURNAL COMPETITION.
10:11PM UTC – Sunday, 04 April 2004
Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSGThe Guild of One Name Studies held its Annual General Meeting and Twenty-Fifth Anniversary this weekend, 2nd – 4th April, 2004.
This year we entered the competition for the best Society Journal for the first time in the Category A section. The latter is intended for the larger Societies, such as our own, as opposed the smaller, individually run groups. Roy Stockdill, the Editor of the Guild’s Journal in announcing the result reported that The Bunting Society Journal was third placed. Well done Alan and Mary.
MARCH 2004
Obituary, Group Capt. “Mac” Bunting
11:22PM UTC – Sunday, 12 December 2004
Contributed by: Michael Bunting FSGAlmost a half page of the obituary columns in the Daily Telegraph of Friday, November 26th, 2004 described the career of Group Captain Malcolm “Mac” Bunting. He died on November 14th 2004 aged 86yrs. Included in the obituary was a picture taken whilst accompanying Princess Margaret during a Royal visit to RAF Shawbury, Shropshire, UK.
