I'm really surprised at the comment in this last email -- perhaps I'm reading it wrong. I've never had difficulty finding books, published materials or some websites for my MA, and Nantucket MA, Bunkers. I didn't answer the query because I'm related to what became the Quaker line of Bunkers and appear to be from the Boncoeur line. I'm adding some of the line, but since I haven't added the entire group to my database it is incomplete and w/o primary sources. By the way, you can find information on this line at a variety of places, not all listed below. The NHA site is super and you can even buy copies of the materials you need for your references/sources. 1) Source Title: Societies; Genealogy; Massachusetts, Nantucket Historical Association Manuscripts and Maps Author: Various Publication Information: Electronic; Database Source Call Number: http://www.crewnoble.com/nantucket/newman.htm Repository Name: Nantucket Historical Association Film/Volume/Page Number: Land, various people: Collection: 1000 Map Collection, 1626 - 2) Also here: http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org/bfa_pubs.html 3) Source Title: Website: Bunker Family Association Author: Various Publication Information: Electronic; Source Call Number: http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org/index.htm Film/Volume/Page Number: http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org/histories.html >1-- Guilluame Boncoeur (1600- ) ,,Nancy,France [Might be some >discussion with him] > sp-Joanne MNU (1592- ) > 2-- George Bunker (1620-1658) ,,Massachusetts > sp-Jane Elizabeth Godfrey (1623-1662) ,,Massachusetts > 3-- William Bunker (1648-1712) Topsfield,Essex > County,Massachusetts <<<My line > sp-Mary Macy (1648-1729) Salisbury,Essex County,Massachusetts > 4-- Jane Bunker ( - ) > sp-Shuball Pinkham ( - ) > 4-- George Bunker [Esquire] (1671- ) > sp-Deborah Coffin > (1676-1767) Nantucket,Nantucket,Massachussetts > 4-- John Bunker (1672- ) > sp-Mary Coffin ( - ) > 4-- Jonathan Bunker (1674-1721) > sp-Elizabeth Coffin > (1675-1769) Nantucket,Nantucket,Massachussetts > 4-- Pegleg Bunker ( - ) > sp-Susanna Coffin > (1679-1740) Nantucket,Nantucket,Massachussetts > 5-- Elizabeth Bunker ( - ) > sp-Daniel Allen > (1704-1788) Nantucket,Nantucket,Massachussetts > 4-- Jabez Bunker (1678- ) > sp-Hannah Gardner ( - ) > 4-- Thomas Bunker (1680- ) > sp-Priscilla Arthur ( - ) > 4-- Benjamin Bunker (1683-1721) > sp-Deborah Paddock ( - ) > 4-- Abigail Ann Bunker > (1686-1767) Nantucket,Nantucket,Massachussetts <<<My line > sp-Nathaniel Paddock (1677-1756) Yarmouth,Barnstable > County,Massachussetts > 5-- Priscilla Paddock > (1722-1803) Sherborn,Nantucket,Massachussetts > sp-William Coffin [I] (1720-1804) Nantucket > Island,Nantucket,Massachusetts > 4-- Daniel Bunker (1696- ) Nantucket,Nantucket,Massachusetts > 4-- Mary Bunker [II] (1714- ) or of > Nantucket,Nantucket,Massachusetts > sp-Tristram Coffin [III] > (1684-1763) Nantucket,Nantucket,Massachusetts > 5-- Tristram Coffin [VI] (1722- ) or of > Nantucket,Nantucket,Massachusetts > sp-Elizabeth Starbuck [II] (1731- ) or of > Nantucket,Nantucket,Massachusetts > 3-- Mary Bunker (1652-1724) Newburyport,Essex,Massachusetts > sp-Stephen Coffin (1652-1734) Newbury,Essex County,Massachusetts > 3-- Ann Bunker (1654- ) Topsfield,,Massachusetts > sp-Joseph Coleman [I] (1642-1690) > 3-- Martha Bunker (1656- ) Newburyport,Essex County,Massachusetts I'll be interested to go to the site Pamela mentions, sounds very interesting. Regards, K. McGee At 10:03 AM 9/19/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Pamela Briggs just sent me this and I thought I would send it along to the >list as others may be interested. > >Bette, Regarding your work on the Nantucket Bunker line, you may find it >difficult to find some of them because Nantucket was so isolated and >independent that many of the records can only be located in private records. >The historian there had sent me some of the Robinson info. I needed. >Yesterday I checked out their website and found they have added lots of >information. I found a treasure trove of Robinson's. A great deal of it is >in Eliza Starbuck Barney Genealogical Record. The Surname Index is at >http://140.186.109.142/bgr/BGR-p/surname_index.htm. You can also get back >to the homepage from there. There are oodles of Bunkers, some of whom might >not be listed elsewhere. The historian in Nantucket. told me this record >was the most reliable. Also, if you subscribe to Genealogy.com which I >believe you do, under "Genealogies of Mayflower Families, there are >"Marriages in Nantucket, 1717-1777, the records of which were kept by George >Bunker and Caleb Bunker whom as justices of the peace conducted many of >these records. Pamela > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Bette Richards" <betterichs@earthlink.net> >To: <BUNKER-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 2:36 PM >Subject: Bunker/Bancker connection > > > > I was just working on the Nantucket Bunker line and at the same time > working > > on the descendants of Laurens Bancker from Holland who later changed their > > name to Bunker. I found that the Nantucket and Dutch line intermarried. > > William Henry Bunker (RN18390, U805), son of George Henry Bunker & Betsey > > Wheeler m. Luella Mary Bunker (RN18389, N252), dau of Charles C. Bunker and > > Mary Heimbach. Anyone who is interested in more information about this > > family, please contact me. > > > > Bette <snip>