The Bunker banner : the Bunker Family Association of America
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Quarterly

Quarterly (with three issues in vol. 1; and two issues in each of vol. 11 and vol. 12, published August, November, February, and May.

Vol. 1 no. 1 (Feb 1971) -

Editor: Ruth Bunker Christiansen (1971-1974); Edward F. Cooper (1975-1980); Gil Bunker (1981); Carole R. Bunker (1982- ).

Published: Turnersville, New Jersey; Durham, New Hampshire.

Indexed.

Vol. 12 nos. 3-4 (Feb 1982 & May 1982) were misnumbered as vol. 11. Vol. 3 no. 3/4 (autumn 1973) is a double issue. Designation vol. 26 no. 2 was used for three consecutive issues: Nov 1995, Feb 1996, and May 1996. Vol. 27 no. 1 (Aug 1996) was misnumbered as vol. 26 no. 1. Vol. 29 no. 2 (Nov 1998) follows vol. 29 no. 4 (May 1998); and was used again i.e. vol. 29 no. 2 (Feb 1999). Vol. 30 no. 1 (Aug 1999) was misnumbered as vol. 29 no. 1; likewise vol. 20 no. 2/3 (Feb 2000) was misnumbered as vol. 29 no. 2/3, and subsequent issues are likewise misnumbered.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Bunker (and variant spellings) families who probably came from England, France, and Germany. Some Bunkers lived in the Parish of Lee in Kent County, England, now part of Southeast London. Ancestors include (but are not limited to) the Huguenot immigrant Guilliume Bon Coeur, or William Bonquer who left France for England. Another ancestor was an Englishman, George Bunker who immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, and built the Bunker Garrison at Durham, Massachusetts in 1653. Other Bunkers settled in Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania in the 1600-1700's. Many were Quakers. Some joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and moved with the Latter-day Saint pioneers into Utah. During the 1800s, some Bunkers moved to British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec (Canada), Australia, East Africa, England, France, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, and to California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Later descendants also lived in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Washington D.C., and elsewhere.

Also available on microfiche.

The Bunker Family Association of America (also known as the Bunker Family Association, and the Bunker Families of America) was founded in 1913 at Turnersville, New Jersey. It was originally organized for descendants of the Massachusetts and New Hampshire Bunkers in 1979. Later membership was opened to all Bunkers and their collateral families. The three main branches are: the Charleston branch in Bunker Hill, Massachusetts for descendants of George (d. 1664) ; the Dover branch in Durham, New Hampshire for descendants of James who built the Bunker Garrison in 1653; and the Topsfield branch in Nantucket, Massachusetts for descendants of the immigrant George (d. 1658), the son of William the Huguenot. Other ancestral and regional branches include: Edward Bunker Sr. and Emily Abbott Family Association, Edward Bunker Sr. and Sarah Ann Browning Lang Family Association, William Edward Bunker Chapter, Clifton Thomas Bunker Family Organization, Edward Bunker Sr. and Mary McQuarie Family Association, Frances Bunker Family, Bunker - Stearns - Goodell Association, Chang and Eng Bunker Family, Bunker Family Association of New Jersey, Maine State Bunker Reunion, and others. For more information, see their Web site.

Includes a cumulative index to vol. 1 (1971) - vol. 29 (1999).