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| Birth: | Bet. 1591 - 1609 in Bengeo, Hertfordshire, England |
| Death: | Bet. Mar 1663/64 - Oct 1664 in Malden, Massachusetts (will made and proved date) |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | George Bunker b. in of Bengeo, Hertfordshire, England |
| Mother: | Ellen (Bunker) Unknown b. About. 1578 in England |
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| Ancestral File #: JWQ7-1S |
| Reference: 6035 |
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| Judith Major (Wife) b. About. 1604 in England
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| Marriage: | 8 SEP 1624 in Odell, Bedfordshire, England |
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 Benjamin Bunker b. 20 Sep 1635 in Charlestown, Massachusetts
 John Bunker b. 28 Jun 1630 in Odell, Bedfordshire, England (baptism)
- Joseph Bunker b. 15 Apr 1632 in Odell, Bedfordshire, England (baptism)
- Mary Bunker b. 3 Jul 1625 in Odell, Bedfordshire, England (baptism)
- Martha Bunker b. 15 Apr 1627 in Odell, Bedfordshire, England (baptism)
- Elizabeth Bunker b. 19 Dec 1628 in Odell, Bedfordshire, England (baptism)
- Jonathan Bunker b. 8 Apr 1638 in Charlestown, Massachusetts (baptism)
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| Margaret (Howe) Unknown (Wife) |
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| Marriage: | 1647 in Massachusetts |
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Individual:
From : Bunker Family Association Web Site (http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org/index.htm)
Charlestown Branch
In America the earliest mention of a Bunker is of George Bunker, who founded the Charlestown, Massachusetts branch of the Bunker family. George Bunker was designated C-1 in the Bunker genealogies. George, a wealthy emigrant, settled in Charlestown prior to January 1633. He was a great-grandson of Roger Bunker who died in 1515 in the parish of Tingrith, Bedfordshire, England. The history of this family is briefly described on the Bedfordshire page. George's original birth record has been copied but is, according to Henry Bunker's research, practically illegible. We do know George was younger than 18 in 1609. George, as did James Bunker (D-1) and cousin George Bunker (N-1), signed his name Buncker at times.
In 1624 George married Judith Maior (Major) at the parish church of Odell in Bedfordshire. George and Judith had seven children, five born in England and two in Charlestown. The family came to Charlestown between April 1632, when son Joseph was baptized in Odell, and January 1633, when George was allotted a 10-acre lot in Massachusetts.
By 1638 George owned 22 parcels of land in Charlestown, plus 200 or more acres in Malden and almost 300 acres in Woburn. The land assigned to George Bunker extended from Main Street over the hill to the north to the Mystic River. One of his pastures reached over the summit of Bunker Hill, which was given his name by early and common consent to the connected ridges of elevated ground on the peninsula.
George Bunker sold his home in Charlestown in 1648, two years after the death of his wife Judith, who died Oct. 10, 1646. She was the first of the Bunker family to be buried in the ancient burial ground under the shadow of Bunker Hill, where still stands a headstone in memory of her youngest son Jonathan, grandson Captain Benjamin Bunker, and four great-grandchildren. Although George was undoubtedly buried there in 1664, no memorial stone has survived in that location.
George Bunker's descendants were not numerous and by 1793 they were dead or had moved west to Smyrna, New York, where Benjamin Bunker (C-9) built and operated the Bunker Hotel. The only male member of the Charlestown branch of the Bunker family alive at the time of the battle of Bunker Hill was Benjamin Bunker, and to the best of our current knowledge there were no Bunkers of any branch who fought in the battle, which occurred on Breed's Hill, lower down the main hill from Bunker Hill
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- Title: Ancestral File (TM)
Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publication: July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996
- Title: Bunker Genealogy, vol. 2, by Edward C. Moran Jr.
Page: pg. 7
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