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Author	Looking for ancestors... also curious about the ancestry of George Bayntun of Bath
Jakk	Posted Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - Post #36765
Famous Writer Customers Gamma GenoPro version: 3.0.1.4 Last Login: Wednesday, November 24, 2021 Posts: 249, Visits: 781	All that is known for certain beyond what is shown here is that Rev. John Starky's ancestors are said to be "of the ancient Lancashire and Cheshire family"... and the spelling seems to have changed with his marriage to the Bayntun heiress, as everything I can find (which is all in secondary sources) shows the spelling of the name in Lancashire and Cheshire to be "Starkey"... and possibly "Starkie" before that, although this connection is less clear. If I were employed and not worried about how to pay the bills next month, I'd buy my own STIRNET membership, because it looks like there is more to be found there (this is the paywall site mentioned in the popup in the image), but at the moment this is not feasible and I have found no printed sources beyond the book that got me started: "The Bayntun Family" by Hylton Bayntun-Coward. This source creates its own mystery. The author is the maternal grandson of George Bayntun of Bath (1872-1940), whose bookshop and bindery are still run by his family today, and they are descended in another line from the Bayntuns shown here, but the ancestors of George Bayntun himself are a complete mystery; nothing is said about his ancestry, and he is an apparent temporal anomaly; the Bayntun family name apparently no longer exists in the male line elsewhere beyond 1716. The red-framed individual in the top left is the last verifiable ancestor I have for that branch, and everything else I can find regarding the Lancashire and Cheshire family spells the name "Starkey" or (medieval) "Starkie". Many thanks in advance for any assistance. GenoPro: Best. Genealogy. Software. Ever. Edited: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 by Jakk
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Jakk	Posted Monday, February 29, 2016 - Post #36776
Famous Writer Customers Gamma GenoPro version: 3.0.1.4 Last Login: Wednesday, November 24, 2021 Posts: 249, Visits: 781	Re: Rolt name: That was my understanding from the information I have; I've now changed the formatting on the relevant individuals, but I didn't want to bother replacing the image in the post. I have a functional mouse again, so posting has become a much less painful process. Also, now that I have a mouse again, I can start back into the serious online research looking for those missing ancestors. George Bayntun's ancestors are the particularly frustrating ones, because his grandson (who wrote the book I've been using as my main initial source for the family, but passed away in 2000) seems to be sure (from information given in the book) that George is related to the main Bayntun line... and it would have to be via one of the sons of Anne Bayntun and Edward Rolt who retained the Bayntun surname, as I mentioned earlier... but I've had no luck tracing even George's parents at all. This branch of the family lives in Bath, and the main Bayntun line (later Rolt, and after that Starky) lived in Wiltshire before the family estates were lost to gambling debts in the late 19th century, and beyond this point I have to rely on other sources... which have been difficult at best to locate. GenoPro: Best. Genealogy. Software. Ever.

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Starky, poss. Starkey or Starkie, from Lancashire, Cheshire, Wiltshire... By Jakk ( Tuesday, February 23, 2016 )

Over the last year I've been trying (with a prolonged break in... By Jakk ( Thursday, March 23, 2017 )

Re: Rolt name: That was my understanding from the information I have;... By Jakk ( Monday, February 29, 2016 )

Rolt is the family name before Starky... stupid post glitched and I... By Jakk ( Sunday, February 28, 2016 )

About the marriage record. This is my transcript of an image of 'St... By appleshaw ( Monday, February 29, 2016 )

Just to complicate things, John's father might not actually be Samuel.... By appleshaw ( Tuesday, February 23, 2016 )

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