Status Report 20-May-2003All the
information (nearly all from Cheri) is published in full in the other
sections of the report (menu above).
Summary
According to "The Complete Book of Emigrants
in Bondage" 1614-1775 by Peter Wilson Coldham at least two BANDYs were
transported to North America. The earliest in 1688 was a John BANDY of
Pulloxhill in Bedfordshire. R for America landed Feb 1688. Bedfordshire
(Assize Court-Norfolk Circuit). A Richard BANDY (alias ADAMS) was
transported for 7 years in April 1770 on Ship "New Trial" Master Douglas
McDougal to America. Ref T1/478. Surrey (Assize Court- Home circuit).
This latter might be "1815" Richard. We haven't tracked either of them
in England with any real confidence.
We don't have any information about any early voluntary immigrants.
We can see that the CUMMINS family was
certainly present in the right areas from at least 1687, but it looks as if
there was a JANE CUMMINS transported as a Jacobite Rebel from from Liverpool,
to Virginia on board the "Johnson" in 1747. A JOHN BRANDY was on the
same ship
There may also have been BANDYs in the right area at earlier times as well,
but there is a reference to a RICHARD BANDY/JANE CUMMINS marriage in the work
of GREER family genealogists. Cheri is tracking this down
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