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From Rootsweb Review this week. Ignore the Ancestry search box on the top of the page and scroll down through the names which are in alphabetical order. I found no Bunkers but you may find some of your missing female ancestors. Bette NEW YORK. Names of orphaned children in Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum, Manhattan, from the 1900 census. Includes year and place of birth. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/orphans/orphans1900rc.htm NEW YORK. Names of orphaned children in Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Manhattan, from the 1900 census. Includes year and place of birth. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/orphans/orphans1900jewish2.htm NEW YORK. Names of orphaned children in Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society of New York, Manhattan, from the 1900 census. Includes year and place of birth. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/orphans/orphans1900jewish.htm NEW YORK. Names of orphaned children in Orphan Asylum Society, Manhattan, from the 1900 census. Includes year and place of birth. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/orphans/orphans1900oas.htm NEW YORK. Society for Relief of Half-Orphans and Destitute Children, Manhattan from the 1900 census. Includes year and place of birth. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/orphans/orphans1900half.htm NEW YORK. Names of orphaned children in Albany Orphan Asylum, Albany, from the 1900 census. Includes year and place of birth. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/orphans/orphans1900albany.htm ____________________________________________ Check out the Bunker Family Association. http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. If your name is Bunker and you are a male, consider joining our surname DNA project.

This has nothing to do with genealogy but only the cars we drive. To find out all kinds of good information about your car, including whether it has been licensed before, wrecked before, flooded before, sold before and resold to you as new, etc. there are several sites. http://www.Carfacts.com http://www.Cars.com http://www.AutoBytel.com I had the opportunity to hear a talk by a guy that is an expert in this field and he says never buy a car without checking them out on the internet first. Very good advice. Covers both new and used cars. Bette ____________________________________________ Check out the Bunker Family Association. http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. If your name is Bunker and you are a male, consider joining our surname DNA project.

From NEHGS News for this week. Alexander Parris: Nineteenth Century Architect Alexander Parris (1780-1852) was one of the better-known architect-engineers in Massachusetts during the first half of the nineteenth century. Many of the buildings for which Parris was responsible are well known and still standing today. His buildings in the Boston area include Faneuil Hall Market (Quincy Market), Watertown Arsenal, several buildings at the Boston Navy Yard in Charlestown, and the Bunker Hill Monument, among many others. During the 1830s Alexander Parris worked for the U.S. Treasury Department designing and building lighthouses and beacons up and down the East Coast from Maine to Florida. He was the chief engineer at the Portsmouth Navy Yard (New Hampshire) at the end of his career. Many of us have seen structures up and down the eastern seaboard that were designed and engineered by Alexander Parris. A visit to the Alexander Parris Digital Project (http://www.parrisproject.org) will give you some sense of the scope of this man's work. The Alexander Parris Digital Project is a project of the State Library of Massachusetts and six other repositories in Boston - Boston Athenaeum; Boston National Historical Park; Charlestown Navy Yard; The Boston Public Library; Historic New England; and the Massachusetts Historical Society. The project has produced a website with a searchable online archive, which contains images and transcriptions of more than four hundred items connected with Alexander Parris. The materials include architectural and mechanical drawings, specifications, correspondence, and accounts, for the period from 1803 to 1851. Click on the Search icon on the site's homepage to begin your exploration of the archive. You will find links to two lists on the search main page. One list is of Alexander Parris's projects and the other is a list of 300 personal names found in the documents in the archive. Many of the individuals mentioned in the documents were associated with Parris's engineering and construction projects. To access the site's search form, click on the Search Archive link. The documents in the archive are full-text searchable. Use the drop-down lists to search for specific projects or individuals. As noted on the Parris Projects page of the website, additional materials related to Alexander Parris may be found in a number of other repositories in Massachusetts, including NEHGS. The Alexander Parris Papers (MSS A P37) collection at NEHGS is comprised of letters and diaries covering the period from 1812 to 1851. During the War of 1812, Parris served as a superintendent of the Corps of Artificiers of the US Army. He was stationed at Sacketts Harbor, Plattsburgh, New York. The papers contain over sixty letters written to Alexander Parris during the War of 1812. These letters are filled with names and information about soldiers in the Corps, reports of recruitment successes and woes, and news from home. There are even letters from widows seeking their late husbands' final pay. The collection includes one letter written by Captain Parris and a diary that he kept in 1839. In one entry he writes about going down in a diving bell to view repairs to a landing slip in Portsmouth Harbor, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. There are a number of letters that Alexander Parris wrote about his experiences in Portsmouth in 1839 that may be found in the Alexander Parris Digital Project Archive. Search for Portsmouth in the Search Body of Document box to find the letters. Alexander Parris was a very interesting and talented man. Through his work he made contact with many individuals. Through his service during the War of 1812 he was in touch with and in charge of many more. You never know where you might find a reference to your ancestors. Visit the Alexander Parris Digital Project at http://www.parrisproject.org to see if they are there. The State Library welcomes feedback about the usefulness of the project materials to your genealogical research. And, when you are in Boston, you can visit the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections department at NEHGS to see if your ancestors can be found in the Alexander Parris Papers. ____________________________________________ Check out the Bunker Family Association. http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. If your name is Bunker and you are a male, consider joining our surname DNA project.

This regards the new law being proposed that will be highly detrimental to all people attempting to "prove" who their ancestors were. This is a law and political. If you do not want to read "political stuff" now is the time to delete. If you do genealogical research you should be very interested in these kinds of laws. ____________________________________________ Check out the Bunker Family Association. http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. If your name is Bunker and you are a male, consider joining our surname DNA project.

Thanks Sally. The only Sutphin I can find in our file is Virginia who was born in 1916 in Surry Co., NC and married Ralph Conroy Bunker, a descendant of Eng Bunker. I wonder if Mary married another Bunker twin descendant? Many of them went to Missouri. Does anyone know this lady and who she married? Bette ____________________________________________ Check out the Bunker Family Association. http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. If your name is Bunker and you are a male, consider joining our surname DNA project. -----Original Message----- From: Sally Rolls Pavia [mailto:sallyinaz@cox.net] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 5:00 AM To: BUNKER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: More info on Mary F BUNKER, nee SUTPHIN .. of Trenton, Missouri; formerly of Newton, Iowa Mary F. Bunker November 18, 1923 - November 16, 2004 Trenton, Missouri; formerly of Newton Visitation: Friends may call from 10 a.m., Monday, November 22, 2004 at the funeral home until the time of service. Funeral Service: 1 p.m., Monday, November 22, 2004 at the funeral home. Interment: Immediately following the funeral service on Monday, November 22, 2004 at the Newton Memorial Park Cemetery in Newton. Those left to honor Mary's memory are her daughter and+ son-in-law, Marilyn and Vernon Sholley of Trenton, Missouri; 6 grandchildren, 58 great-grandchildren and her 5 great-great-grandchildren; and sister, Pauline Ackland of Kellogg, Iowa. She was preceded in death by her parents, Frank and Marie (Beason) Sutphin; grandson, George Sholley; 2 great-grandsons, Brendan Sholley-Gonzalez and Isaiah Sholley; and her brother, Rayford Sutphin. Mary enjoyed doing embroidery, going camping and square dancing, and playing bingo. Mary was a member of the Zoar Church in rural Newton prior to moving to Missouri. Memorials in Mary's name may be left at the funeral home. Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com "Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors." .. Carl Sagan List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus" ==== BUNKER Mailing List ==== Post your information and queries. We love it. No BUNKER rock left untouched. Spelling variations ok - we don't "know" the original.

Mary F. Bunker November 18, 1923 - November 16, 2004 Trenton, Missouri; formerly of Newton Visitation: Friends may call from 10 a.m., Monday, November 22, 2004 at the funeral home until the time of service. Funeral Service: 1 p.m., Monday, November 22, 2004 at the funeral home. Interment: Immediately following the funeral service on Monday, November 22, 2004 at the Newton Memorial Park Cemetery in Newton. Those left to honor Mary's memory are her daughter and+ son-in-law, Marilyn and Vernon Sholley of Trenton, Missouri; 6 grandchildren, 58 great-grandchildren and her 5 great-great-grandchildren; and sister, Pauline Ackland of Kellogg, Iowa. She was preceded in death by her parents, Frank and Marie (Beason) Sutphin; grandson, George Sholley; 2 great-grandsons, Brendan Sholley-Gonzalez and Isaiah Sholley; and her brother, Rayford Sutphin. Mary enjoyed doing embroidery, going camping and square dancing, and playing bingo. Mary was a member of the Zoar Church in rural Newton prior to moving to Missouri. Memorials in Mary's name may be left at the funeral home. Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com "Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors." .. Carl Sagan List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"

Name of Deceased: Mary F. Bunker Age at Death: 80 Birth Date: abt 1924 Death Date: Nov/16/2004 Newspaper Title: Newton Daily News, The Newspaper Location: Newton, IA, US Obituary Publication Date: Nov/20/2004 Locations Mentioned in Obituary: Newton; Trenton, MO Other Persons Mentioned in Obituary: American Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com "We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds." List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"

I hit send too soon on the last message including the site for Distant.Com. Your only got the Wisconsin stuff. Here is the URL for all they have. http://www.distantcousin.com/Links/surname.html It is a good one to link to from the BFA website so I am sending it to Doug our webmaster too. Bette ____________________________________________ Check out the Bunker Family Association. http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. If your name is Bunker and you are a male, consider joining our surname DNA project.

Here is a site to look for obituaries in all states. http://obituarydatabase.com/ And here is one to look for lots of things. Over 100 Bunkers listed on this site. http://www.distantcousin.com/ Bette ____________________________________________ Check out the Bunker Family Association. http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. If your name is Bunker and you are a male, consider joining our surname DNA project.

When searching for your ancestors, do not forget the state archives or vital records departments. Many of them have online records that are not on the regular genealogy databases like Ancestry, Rootsweb, Genealogy.com, etc. For instance there were many Bunkers in Illinois. http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/death.html is a database with Illinois death records prior to 1916. http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/genealogy/forms/idphd eathsrch.htm has the death records from 1916-1950. http://www.sos.state.il.us/GenealogyMWeb/marrsrch.html has Illinois marriage records 1763 to 1900. Try http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/illinois-vital-records.htm for births and more records. http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/databases.html is the main page for the state archives and has links to the above as well as military records, coroner's records, almshouse records and many others. On the above sites you will find hundreds of Bunkers. Many states had very few Bunkers but even if your family was the only there it would be worthwhile for you to look at the state archives, deaths, marriages, births, military records, land records, etc. Bette ____________________________________________ Check out the Bunker Family Association. http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. If your name is Bunker and you are a male, consider joining our surname DNA project.

Hi Katie: Samuel Jackson Bunker RN 4886, b. 28 Feb 1797 Concord, New Hampshire, m. 27 Feb 1823 in Rumford, ME, Charlotte Howe (parents unknown) b. 22 Aug 1798 Concord, NH. Samuel is a descendant of James Bunker who settled in Dover, NH about 1640. We have Drusilla's name as Louisa Drusilla. Samuel and Charlotte were listed in the census for Mexico, Oxford Co., ME in 1850. Bette ____________________________________________ Check out the Bunker Family Association. http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. If your name is Bunker and you are a male, consider joining our surname DNA project. -----Original Message----- From: Katie Bond [mailto:katieibond@earthlink.net] Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 12:49 PM To: BUNKER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Bunker, Samuel J. married Charlotte Howe, Feb. 1, 1823 Who are the parents of Samuel Jackson Bunker? Intention to marry Charlotte Howe, 1 Feb 1823 per http://www.rootsweb.com/~meoxford/a-b.htm; they had Louisa Drusilla Bunker (born 7 Jul 1828, Roxbury, Oxford Co., Maine) who married my cousin Artimas Putnam (b. 17 July 1822, Roxbury, Oxford Co., ME; d. 4 Nov 1914, Woodruff, Rich Co., Utah) Your help is appreciated! Katie Bond Portland, Oregon ==== BUNKER Mailing List ==== Douglas G. Detling (list coordinator) e-mail: doug.detling@greencity.org

Who are the parents of Samuel Jackson Bunker? Intention to marry Charlotte Howe, 1 Feb 1823 per http://www.rootsweb.com/~meoxford/a-b.htm; they had Louisa Drusilla Bunker (born 7 Jul 1828, Roxbury, Oxford Co., Maine) who married my cousin Artimas Putnam (b. 17 July 1822, Roxbury, Oxford Co., ME; d. 4 Nov 1914, Woodruff, Rich Co., Utah) Your help is appreciated! Katie Bond Portland, Oregon

I have to quit looking at the census records. I keep finding more Bunkers I have never heard of before. The latest is Pablo. His name is spelled Bablo in the census but I think it was just an enumerator that did not understand well. Pablo is a common nickname for Francisco or Frank. With a Spanish accent it would sound like Bablo to a gringo. 1930 Coryell Co, Texas Bablo Bunker age 47, married at age 29, b. TX, parents b. TX, farmer; Lucy age 45, married at age 29, b. TX, parents b. TN; Alma age 28 b. TX; Boyce age 17 b. TX; Carrie Fry, mother-in-law, age 75, widow b. TN, parents b. TN; Herschel Bunker age 22, son, married at age 17, b. TX, laborer on farm. There are no other Bunkers living in this county. Has anyone ever heard of this family? Bette ____________________________________________ Check out the Bunker Family Association. http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. If your name is Bunker and you are a male, consider joining our surname DNA project.

This interesting website has lots of info about CA including about 20 Bunkers. Click on CA name index on the left side of the page to look for your people. http://www.calgensoc.org/ Bette ____________________________________________ Check out the Bunker Family Association. http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. If your name is Bunker and you are a male, consider joining our surname DNA project.

Here is the site to get onto NEHGS register for the weekend for free. I sent the notice before but this gives the URL to go to and explains what you have to do. Filling out the survey will only take a few seconds and there is so much information about our families in the Register you may be there all weekend. I think the last I looked for just the surname Bunker there were well over 1,000 entries. You will also find all our relatives like Swains, Coffins, Drews and lots more. Bette Free Non-Member Access to the Register Online Over Thanksgiving Weekend! NEHGS is pleased to offer free access to its New England Historical and Genealogical Register database on NewEnglandAncestors.org over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend! Normally only available to NEHGS members, the Register database will be accessible to all from Thursday, November 25 through Sunday, November 28, 2004. We encourage all NEHGS members to spread the word about this offering, and we hope that those of you who are not members find a veritable feast of ancestors in the Register database! Published quarterly since 1847, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register is the flagship journal of American genealogy and the oldest journal in the field. The online database includes issues from 1847 to 1994. The Register has featured articles on a wide variety of topics since its inception, including vital records, church records, tax records, land and probate records, cemetery transcriptions, obituaries, and historical essays. Authoritative compiled genealogies have been the centerpiece of the Register for more than 150 years. Thousands of New England families have been treated in the pages of the journal and many more are referenced in incidental ways throughout. The articles in the Register range from short pieces correcting errors in print or solving unusual problems to larger treatments that reveal family origins or present multiple generations of a family. To obtain free access to the Register, we only ask that you complete a short survey to help us better define future free offers. All information given in the survey is kept strictly confidential within NEHGS. After completing the survey, you will automatically be taken to the Register database. Search for your ancestors in the Register at http://surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=46883732209! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- ____________________________________________ Check out the Bunker Family Association. http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. If your name is Bunker and you are a male, consider joining our surname DNA project.

Another mystery from Sally's latest obits. Lowell W. Bunker b. 29 Jun 1916, d. 20 Oct 2004. He appeared in the 1930 census with his grandparents John Bunker age 85 b. IN, pop b. NY, mom b. IN and Mary age 72, b. IA, parents b. KY. They were living in Fremont, Hamburg Co., Iowa. Listed also with their grandparents were Dorothy age 16 and another girl whose name seems to be spelled Beuna age 11. All the children were born in Iowa. Lowell died in Billings, MT and named in his obit in the Billings Gazette was Bessie (Neeley) Bunker; John A. Bunker; Louise Snitziner; Gary Clough. Does anyone know who this man belongs to? We have a gazillion Johns and Marys in our database so his grandparents do not help me at all. Bette ____________________________________________ Check out the Bunker Family Association. http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. If your name is Bunker and you are a male, consider joining our surname DNA project.

The obituary of Bruce "Archie" Bunker was published in the Hampton Union in Exeter, NH on 5 Nov 2004. Bruce died 10 Sep 2004. Does anyone have a clue who he is? Bette ____________________________________________ Check out the Bunker Family Association. http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. If your name is Bunker and you are a male, consider joining our surname DNA project.

Clifford George Bunker, b. 13 Oct 1926, d. 24 Aug 2004 has mentioned in his obituary, Michael D. Bunker, Clifford Bunker, Patricia M. Ruo; Steven F. Bunker, Debra Ann Miller; Robert C. Bunker; Henry Bunker; Dorothy A. (O'Donnell); John Raposo. The obit was published in the Sun Chronicle in Attleboro, MA. Sally Rolls Pavia picked it up from the Ancestry.com obituaries but that just gives names and not the full obituary. Clifford was the son of George Clifford Bunker (RN 8540) and Vera E. He had a brother named Henry. I have no further information about this family. Does anyone know anything about this family? Bette ____________________________________________ Check out the Bunker Family Association. http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. If your name is Bunker and you are a male, consider joining our surname DNA project.

A good site for learning something about Topsfield, MA, an early home for Bunker ancestors, is http://www.rootsweb.com/~mactopsf/ This site gives links to other Massachusetts sites that could be helpful too. Bette ____________________________________________ Check out the Bunker Family Association. http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. If your name is Bunker and you are a male, consider joining our surname DNA project.