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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 Thursday, March 23, 2017 - Post #37778
Famous Writer Customers Gamma GenoPro version: 3.0.1.4 Last Login: Wednesday, November 24, 2021 Posts: 249, Visits: 781	Over the last year I've been trying (with a prolonged break in activity from mid-November to about ten days ago, for a variety of reasons) to locate the ancestors of the Rolt family identified in my earlier posts in this thread. Edward Rolt of Pertenhall, Bedfordshire marries Mary Cromwell (first cousin of Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell) in 1628 and they have three sons: eldest Edward; middle unnamed; youngest Thomas (whose son Edward marries Anne Bayntun, and their descendants include yours truly); Mary's family, of course, is very well documented... but Edward's family is uncertain. According to the sources I have been able to access, he is the eldest son of Thomas Rolt of Bolnhurst, Bedfordshire and an unknown Kent of Aston... but Edward is also called the son of Edward by historyofparliamentonline.org. Further, Henry Rolt of Darent (Darenth?) is the father of Mary Rolt (1612-1696) who marries John Halladay... and their male-line descendants end with one John Henry "Doc" Holliday of OK Corral fame. Darenth is east of London and significantly south and east of Bedfordshire. My primary question is, how likely is it that Henry Rolt and Edward Rolt are related? The Rolt name does not appear to be particularly common... but my search for common ancestors of Henry and Edward (or, indeed, any ancestors at all apart from a disagreement over Edward's father's name) has come up empty. 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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