Bandy Name Study

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The Bandy Name Study is for Bandy and variants anytime and anywhere, with emphasis on England and the United States.

Aside from primary documentation, the best source for Bandy information is The Bandy Families website (see link below), a compilation of data collected over decades by Bandy researchers. This is particularly important for the early English and American Bandys, for whom documentation is scarce to non-existent. Please consult this website, and check existing profiles thoroughly, before creating/importing new early American Bandys.

Anyone interested in the Bandy surname is welcome to join. Just contact Nan.

Statistics

04/01/2021 - 1398 Bandy profiles on Wikitree

Miscellaneous Records

A holding place for records that cannot be attached to a particular profile.
The Colonial Records of North Carolina. Volume I, 1662 to 1712. Raleigh, P.M. Hale, 1886. Pg. 587. to July Court from March Court Reffer & orders agst Marshall viz:
(1703, Perquimans County) Stanton vers Bandy
Tresspass on ye Case Return Executed

Participants

Nan. At the moment, primarily working on duplicates, and sourcing unsourced Bandy profiles. The Bandy surname gave me an important clue to one of my most circumstantial lines, so I hope to return the favor for other descendants.

Dennis. Connecting my grandmother and helping to cleaning up her family's profiles. Trying to gather various pieces of information into one place...
Wheeler-10589 19:11, 27 April 2016 (EDT) (how do I sign and date my comments?)

Research Notes

Barney, Martha, Silvira and children

Notes for Barney (1828 - 7 Sep 1904) and wife(s)
Married Martha Huntsman and also Silvira/Silvia possibly Huntsman.

Timeline (of some yet to be proven facts)

• 1826 - Martha born
• 1828 - Barney born
• 1834 - Silvira born
•  ?? - Martha married Street?
•  ?? - Street died/divorced?
• 1846 - Barney and Martha married
• 1849 - 1st (of eight), Silas Peter (name and photo from Lena's personal collection as "Papa's brother").
• 1851 - 2nd - John Richard and dup (name and photo from Lena's personal collection as Uncle Dickie)
• 1853 - Silvira and Jonathan married (they had 4 children, he had two previous (1835;1842))
• 1856 - 3rd - William B
• 1858 - 4th - Lorinda - married DM Fishburn
• 1860 - 5th - Emily (lived with Lorinda in 1880)
• 1863 - 6th - Cornila/Cordila/Delia Ann White list Martha Huntsman as mother on Death Cert.
• 1863 - Silvania first husband Jonathan dies
• 1865 - 7th - Geo. Thom. Sidney lists Martha Huntsman as mother on Death Cert.
• 1871 - 8th - Elvira
• ~1876 - Martha dies?
• 1878 - Barney and Silvina married

Lost track of Martha between 1870 and 1880 censuses. Silvia/Silvira enters the picture in 1880 census.[1]

[1]found (via Ancestry)...
Martha Huntsman's death - May 1880, Lung Disease

citation: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Federal Mortality Census Schedules, 1850-1880, and Related Indexes, 1850-1880; Archive Collection: T655; Archive Roll Number: 18; Census Year: 1880; Census Place: Allen, Kentucky; Page: 1

Does this mean she died in 1880, or that the death was recorded in 1880 at the time of the spring census (May)? Wheeler-10589 19:11, 27 April 2016 (EDT)

Martha (1826 - bfr 1878), marriage to Street?; marriage to Barney 1846 (Wagner) [2]
Silvira (1834 - 1911), marriage to Jonathan 1853 [3]; marriage to Barney 1878 (1890 census)

[2]Notes from Travis Wagner -- account closed

Family information I have is that he married Martha Street around 1846, we know he was married several times and he was living in Allen County Ky in 1880 - His kids names were lost to us, but I see this profile has many kids listed. A happy find for me : )

Martha was born in 1826 and would have been 20 years old. Was she old enough to have been married previously to someone else named Street? Wheeler-10589 19:11, 27 April 2016 (EDT)

Find-a-grave lists another husband for a Silvira Huntsman as Jonathan LaFon (1805-1863). Same Silvira? Could they have been sisters maybe? Or are there two different Silviras? Wheeler-10589 19:11, 27 April 2016 (EDT)

[3] Family info for Jonathan LaFon (1805-1863)

Around 1834 Jonathan married. A daughter 1835 named Selina and a son Avery in 1842 in NC.

Jonathan and children in Weakley Co TN for the 1850 census.

He married Silvira Huntsman about 1853 in Weakley Co, TN They had 4 children.

Thomas Bandy of Illinois

There's a pending merge for Thomas Bandy-769 and Thomas Bandy-192, both married to a Sarah. I'm starting to think that there should be two different Thomas Bandy's from Illinois (and maybe two different Sarah's), one is son of Horatio Bandy-116 and the other, as yet unknown.

I wonder if our Melissa Bandy-744 is a descendant of this as yet unknown Bandy, rather than Horatio, and she has mistakenly connected her family to Horatio. Maybe the connection to Horatio is correct, but I still have questions further down.

Melissa -> [private] -> Earl Leon Bandy-761 -> [private] -> Elihu Jackson Bandy-775 -> Thomas(769/192) -> Horatio(116) -> Thomas(57)

My confusion starts from Nancy Sheppard, daughter of Thomas(192). Her death certificate lists her husband R.B. Sheppard, and father John Bandy (not Thomas). She was born in 1851.

The 1850 Census shows a one year old Nancy in Thomas' family. Three years older than this other Nancy.

But then, who is John and how is he connected to the Illinois Bandys?

I'm also confused by Thomas Amos(771), who doesn't even show up in Thomas' Family Group Sheet. Why is that? But more importantly, he was born three counties over from a similarly named sibling?

Its too early to say for sure, I'm still researching... Maybe only Nancy is wrong, and the rest are ok? Let's back up to Horatio's father, Thomas Sr.

Thomas Sr(57) from Cumberland county, Virginia, married Mary Polly Christian from Bedford county, Virginia about 1768. They had five or six children from Bedford, Botetourt and Cumberland counties before Mary died in 1776.

Thomas Sr then marries Nancy Burns of Fredrick county, Virginia about 1785. They had five or six children mostly all in Botetourt county.

Thomas and Nancy eventually move to and die in Sumner county, Tennessee, as do most of the older children from his first marriage. These children have children that live and die in and around both Sumner county Tennessee and neighboring Allen county Kentucky. But the younger children move to and die in Illinois. Their children are born in Illinois and migrate to Texas.

Why the two different directions for the half-siblings?

All this is mostly just thinking out loud, but I'd love some input, if anyone has any thoughts.

Resources

• List of Bandys on Wikitree

• G2G feed of questions tagged "Bandy".

• Orphaned Bandy profiles on WikiTree.

• Unsourced Bandy profiles on WikiTree.

• Unconnected Bandy profiles on WikiTree.

• FamilySearch
  

• The Bandy Families
  

• Original Bandy Website