QUESTIONS AND HUNCHES
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
All genealogical
pursuits are bound to end up with unanswered questions and this one is no
exception. There is always a generation
at the fringe of the study about which complete information cannot be
found.
We have listed below a
number of questions. If any reader
feels he/she has answers for them, we would appreciate being informed. We hope that future researchers may be able
to come to additional understanding on them.
1. Regarding 1795
Richard:
a. Was he the
original immigrant ancestor? There were
persons in MD with last names of Bandy, Bondy, Bundy and Banning in very early
1700s[1]
b. Was he the
Richard born in 1722 in Bedford, England?
c. If not, when and
where was he born?
d. Did he really
marry Jane Cummins? If so, when and where? When did Jane die?
e. Who was Richard's
wife, Elizabeth? When and where did they marry?
f. If Richard
married Jane before Elizabeth, which of his children were born of which wife?
g. Did he really
have twins? If so, who were they? Or
was he a twin?
2. Regarding Avy
Bandy:
a. Was the name Avy,
Amy, Ary, or what?
b. Was Avy female or
male?
c. Who was her/his
spouse?
d. What was her/his relation
to 1795 Richard?
e. What happened to
Avy's son, Thomas?
3. Who was the
Solomon Bandy reported in Warrenton, NC, records as having served in the
Revolution[2]?
Was he a brother, or son, to 1795 Richard?
4. "Richard
Bandy and Jane, his wife", were grantors of an 1801 Botetourt County, VA,
deed [3].
Was this Jane the Jane Cummins of the legend?
5. Who was Edward
Bandy (last name questionable), grandson, named in 1815 Richard's will?
6. Who was Lewis
Bandy, the GA Revolutionary soldier who married Mary Barnes in 1785[4]?
7. Barbara Lee Bandy
(Mrs. Luther E.) Jones[5] reports her ancestry back to a William
Bandy who was born in 1780 in North Carolina, married a Judith and died in 1863
in Arkansas. Kathryn (Mrs. J. Thomas)
Roller reports her ancestry back to a William Bandy, born circa 1808 in North
Carolina, who married Dicy Green and died in 1870 in KY. Both report considerable data on
descendents, but we cannot link these to other Bandys we have. Could either be a son of the above Solomon
or Lewis?
8. Judith Evans
(Mrs. E. E.) Keeler reports that her great-grandfather was a William Bandy who
married Sarah Frances Delk around 1875.
She believes he was also married (at the same time) to someone else and
left Sarah Frances to return to the other wife. We cannot link him with any other Bandys we have. Who was he?
SPECULATION, IMAGINATION AND HUNCH
In the Family Group
Records which follow, we have shown a possible answer for some of the above
questions. In these instances, there
is little, if any, data to support, much less prove, what we show. What we show in these cases is the result of
our speculation, imagination and hunch.
In each case, the reference cited is {900} - the current section you are
reading.
In giving these
possible answers to these unanswered questions, we run the risk of starting new
"family traditions" by being quoted out of context. We take this risk so that we may, in an easy
manner, include some "dangling information" which might be important
to a later researcher.
The hunches we have
included are:
1. We show 1795
Richard marrying Jane Cummins.
2. We show 1795
Richard as having a brother of unknown name who married Avy Bandy.
3. We show 1795 Richard having a possible son, Solomon, with a note that he may have been a twin to either Richard or Thomas and may be the Solomon who was the NC Revolutionary War soldier.
