Hi Debra, My Starr line is from England, but I don't know the origin of the name either. However, "Early Starrs in Kent and New England by Hosea Starr Ballou 1944, says on page 7, "There is a tradition that originally the Starr family came from Flanders and was identified with the weaving industry, brought to County Kent about 1331, in the time of Edward III." There were Starr's in other counties in England that do not seem to connect to those in Kent and the name is found spelled various ways including Star and Starre. I descend from Dr Comfort Starr, a line that seems to have been well documented. However, because of that, I haven't spent much time working on it. I would love to see someone put that line in an online database that would allow descendants to send in information on their branches. If this has already been done, I haven't stumbled onto the site so far, and hope someone will point me that way so I can add my info. (I won't volunteer cause I love the research but not the data entry <G>). Anyway, hope you find your WV bunch, post what information you do have and maybe someone will recognize something. Or have access to records that would help. And maybe some of Comforts descendants went that way...you never know. Good luck, Connie Starr Bishop in NM ----- Original Message ----- From: "Starr" <starr@waveone.net> To: <STARR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 6:40 PM > Hello my name is Debra Starr, my Starr family are from West Virginia, around > Logan. I do not that much info on the Starr line. Are there any of you > Starr's out there might be able to help me, or are possibly from West > Virginia? I really want to find out my back ground. I don't even know what > the Starr name means. Or the orgin of it. My father says that we have > Indiana in us, and that's where the Starr name comes from, but I can't find > any trace of Indian Hertiage in my line. I would really appreciate any help > that any one could offer. Thank you much. > Sincerely, > Debra Starr of Indiana > > >