Bundock Honors

 

 

 

Bundock Honors

 

It's really hard doing this research without feeling pretty frustrated at times. This is my page to blow off steam. And to have some fun.

 

Voted Most Frustrating

 

Ruth Bundock of Springfield

 

•no record of any birth for a Ruth Bundock between 1745-1800.

 

•but, John Bundock marries Ruth Mixer in 1780, so there's one Ruth Bundock.

 

•Ruth Bundock dies 05 NOV 1781. after only one year of marriage. very sad.

 

•then, Ruth Bundock dies 20 SEP 1783. OK. Maybe this is the wife, and there was an undocumented daughter, named after the mother, who was the one who died in 1781. very, very sad.

 

•then, Ruth Bundock dies 27 MAR 1788. I'm feeling hopeless to solve this puzzle.

 

•then, Ruth Bundock dies 06 MAY 1793. I give up.

 

•but wait; there's more! A Samuel Oliver and, yes, you guessed it, Ruth Bundock record their marriage banns in 1816: 04 AUG, 11 AUG and 18 AUG.

 

 

Voted Most Prolific

 

Thank goodness the Bundock family was pretty prolific, or I wouldn't be here. Here are two families who single-handedly assured the survival of the Bundock name.

 

Thomas and Ann (Franklin Dennis) Bundock of Leigh-on-sea:

1. Thomas              09 SEP 1816

2. Mary Ann          23 FEB 1817

3. Sarah                  19 APR 1818

4. Emma                 11 MAR 1820

5. Anna                    17 APR 1821

6. John                     24 NOV 1822

7. Charlotte           03 OCT 1824

8. Hannah              26 FEB 1826

9. Phillis                  27 JAN 1828

10. Eliza                  26 SEP 1830

11. Saul                    08 JAN 1832 (died as an infant)

12. Saul                   20 JAN 1833

13. Jonathan         04 JUN 1837

14. Samuel             25 MAY 1839

15. Mary Hannah 29 MAY 1842

 

 

John and Sarah Bundock of Woodham Walter:

(sadly, many of these children died young)

 

1. Phebe                  20 MAR 1763

2. Susannah          02 SEP 1764

3. Jane                     19 MAR 1767

4. Hannah              19 MAR 1767

5. James                  16 APR 1769

6. Esther                 17 APR 1769

7. Elizabeth           26 MAY 1769 (remember--these are baptism, not birth, dates)

8. John                     26 MAY 1770

9. Sally                    29 MAR 1771

10. Samuel             08 AUG 1773

then they moved to Woodham Mortimer:

11. Martha             22 MAR 1775

12. Joseph             28 SEP 1777

13. William            04 JUL 1779

 

 

The Bantock/Bundock Dilemma

 

It's a fact that most folks back 300 years ago could not read or write. So, they didn't know how to spell their names when the parish clerks asked them. Clerks had to spell names phonetically. Some clerks were quite consistent, but most freely changed the spellings of surnames.

 

The name "Bundock" is spelled a myriad of ways in parish records: Bundock, Bundocke, Bundoc, Boondocke, Bundick, Bundich, Bundoch, Bendick, Bunduck, Bunducke, Bondock, Bondoc, Bondocke... there are even others. But, when the "d" became a "t" sound, I decided to list that family separately. I am convinced it is all the same family. Nowhere is it as evident than in the parish records of Great Stambridge, when James and Ann Bundoch give birth to William Bantock.

 

Voted Most Confusing (a.k.a. The First Name Blues)

 

Trying to connect all of the Bundocks together is nearly impossible for a few reasons, but mostly because of the lack of creativity when it came to choosing first names. Here's a tally (as of 01 DEC 2004):

 

•98 John/Jonathan Bundocks

•110 Mary Bundocks

•81 Elizabeth/Eliza Bundocks

•69 Thomas Bundocks

•45 Anne Bundocks

•53 Sarah Bundocks

•46 Robert Bundocks

•46 Richard Bundocks

•31 James Bundocks

 

Saddest Stories

 

1. A note within the parish records of 1678 lists the tale of this Bundock family in Buttsbury:

 

John Bundock, his wife and two children buryed all within a week. August 27, a child; August the 30th the second; September the 2nd his wife; September 3rd the father.

 

2. Elizabeth Bantock, a single woman, delivers a baby girl, Mary, in Dedham on 21 May 1848. Her parents do not live there; perhaps she has moved there to live with her brother William, who married Betsey Polley there in 1847.

 

The daughter, Mary, dies at the age of 6 weeks old, on 10 JUL 1848. The mother, Elizabeth, then dies one month later, at the age of 19, on 13 AUG 1848.