There is also a line of Bonners who came from John BONNER, and englishman who settled first in Vermont and then in Remson, Oneida Co., NY. A History of the town has the following paragraph:"In 1795 three more families came into town; these were John Bonner, Barnabas Mitchell and Amos Bull. Mr. Bonner was an Englishman, but came in from Vermont and settled on the lot afterwards owned by Jenkin Jones; later he moved west. Mr. Mitchell settled on land afterwards owned by his son Milo Mitchell, and his daughter Polly, who became Mrs. Van Slyke, was the first white child born in the town. Amos Bull settled on the tract which was long known as Bull's Commons, and later as the Camp farm; discouraged with the land and his prospects he removed to Floyd, where he died." I believe this John had 4 or 5 sons, each had rather large families as well. Cheryl Higgins ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 2:41 PM Subject: [BONNER] Re: Origins of the BONNER Name > In a message dated 7/23/02 2:00:44 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > << Through my research of Bonner's I believe that there are at least two > distinct 'populations' that use the surname, Bonner. > > One line has its origins in the Irish Catholic population that is > originally from County Donegal, Ireland. Many of them poor and illiterate, > left Ireland in the nineteenth century and settled near large northern > cities such as Philadelphia. In Philadelphia for example, the vast majority > of Bonner's are descendant from Irish Catholics. [This is where my line > comes from]. > > There is at least another population that came from Scotland (including the > so called, Scotch-Irish) and/or England. These folks were largely from the > Protestant faith. In this latter population my research in the Bonner > surname suggests that many of the Protestant Bonner's settled into the > southern United States during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It's > my opinion that this Bonner population has no "blood relation" to the Irish > Catholic one mentioned above >> > > > Dear List Readers, > > I thought this above information to be very interesting but the writer has > left out a large number of Bonners that have their origins in Germany, > Austria, and a few in Switzerland. The word "Bonner" translates to mean a > person from Bonn which is a large city in Germany and for a long time was its > capital seat. > > Judy Martin <[email protected]> >