we are very sad to report the death
of one of the principal Bandy genealogists and historians:
Dr. Allen Hill Bandy, Sr.
Dr. Bandy, 86, of Newton, died Tuesday
December 15, 2009 at Abernethy Laurels in Newton after an extended
illness.
Born
August 3, 1923 in Maiden, NC, he was the son of the late Dr.
William Gaither Bandy and Myrtle Daniels Bandy. In addition to his
parents, he was preceded in death a brother, Dr. William Bandy and
sisters, Mary B. Bruton, Maude B. Hallyburton, Marguerite B.
Heafner, Helen B. Cox, Doris B. Caldwell, Frances B. Muth and
Joyce B. Teague.
A
longtime member of First United Methodist Church in Newton, he had
served and chaired many committees and was a member of the Parker
Sunday School Class. He was a lifelong member of the Newton Lion's
Club, having been presented as a Jack Stickley Fellow for
dedicated humanitarian services by the North Carolina Lions
Foundation. Serving in the US Army, he was a veteran of World War
II, stationed in Germany. After World War II, he returned and
graduated from Appalachian State Teacher's College and Illinois
College of Optometry in Chicago.
Dr. Bandy returned to North Carolina in 1951
to practice optometry in Maiden and later Newton, retiring from
Lifetime Eyecare in Newton in 1998. He had a keen interest in
genealogy and was the author of the book, 'The History of the
Bandy Clan' published in 1980.
Dr. Bandy is survived by his wife of 57
years, Jacquelyn Higgins Bandy, formerly of Union, SC; daughter,
Rebecca 'Becky' Bandy Rowe and husband, Mitchell Rowe of Hickory;
son, Dr. Allen 'Al' Hill Bandy, Jr. and wife, Debbie Bandy of
Newton. He was a loving grandfather to five grandchildren, Peter
Allen Rowe, Beau Rowe, Ashley Bandy, Amy Bandy and Laney Rowe; and
and many loving nieces and nephews.
Condolences may be sent to the Bandy family
at www.drumfuneralhome.com.
The Bandy family has entrusted the funeral
arrangements to Willis-Reynolds Funeral Home in Newton.
Published in Charlotte Observer on December 16, 2009
Dale Bandy publishes
third edition of his book
Dale writes: "After a
nine year effort, the third edition of The Bandy Family in
America is available. This expanded edition contains much new
information while retaining most earlier content. This edition
covers extensively the history of our Bandy family beginning with the
earliest references to individuals named Bandy is the 1600's and ending
with the 1930 census, the most recent available. Bandys helped establish
one American colony and died fighting in the American Revolution. The book
looks at these and other stories as I follow the Bandy family across
America and through time.
I list the names of Bandys who fought in the American Revolution and Civil
War and the names of those who died in World War II and Vietnam. I discuss
the famous, the almost famous, and the infamous. Heroes and villains. The
murderer and the murdered. The moonshiners and the bootleggers. Supreme
Court cases involving the tax evader and the shoot-out in Bandy’s Saloon.
There are stories of Bandy marriages. One lasted over 75 years. Another
produced 17 children. A 12 year old bride-to-be waited two years for her
just divorced husband-to-be to be to get out of prison. A 62 year old
Civil War veteran married a 12 year old bride. An alcoholic husband, shot
and wounded by the police, recovered only to be fatally shot by his wife.
An eccentric millionaire married for the first time in his sixties, but
his bride wasn’t after his money. And there was Bigamous Bill Bandy.
The second edition ended with the 1870 census. This edition extends census
coverage thorough 1930 connecting many early American Bandys with family
members we knew personally creating a direct connection to our history. In
light of the expanded coverage of this edition, the name has been change
from The Bandy Family in Early America to The Bandy
Family in America.
This new third edition is written with the benefit of computer technology
which allowed me to enter a name once and in an instant locate listings in
all census records from 1790 to 1930, birth, marriage, and death records
for all states, and other valuable databases. I do not claim that I have
included every one named Bandy who lived in the country before 1930. I
know that is not the case, but I do believe that I have included a
significant majority . In general, individuals born after 1930are omitted
in the interest of privacy.
DNA evidence also enabled me to extend the story back to times where few
documents recorded relationships.
I believe that you will find the greatly expanded third edition to be very
intriguing and informative.
The Bandy Family in America is available at
http://www.lulu.com/. The price is $27.88 plus shipping which is
approximately $10. Deliver takes two to three weeks. Hardcover. 8.25" X
10.75", 529 pages, 206,000 words, and 66 illustrations. I make no money
from the book.
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Welcome to the Bandy Family History Website
This
website is dedicated to promoting interest in, and contact among members of, the worldwide Bandy family. The site focuses on research into the history and genealogy of the Bandy family, but also carries family news and advertising to encourage family contact.
We depend entirely on contributed material to keep this site fresh and
interesting so please keep sending me your genealogies, raw data, opinions,
photographs and news. Our
policy is to publish everything we get (subject to owners permission)
and to keep it published, we don't remove any useful data once
it has been published - unless it is updated, extended or otherwise improved
upon.
We have had a great response and lots of support.
We now get around 10 hits a day on average, down from our peak of around
14, which is is pretty good for a genealogical site
specialising in a rare surname. I hope that every Bandy on the Internet knows about
this website by now. Please make sure that all your relatives know about us! The site includes masses of contributed material covering the US and Canada as well as Australia and England.
Thanks to our all our registered researchers and others we now
have over 2,600 pages and, at over 60 Meg, must be one of the biggest sites of this type on the web.
Thanks everybody
Derek Bandy
Hertfordshire, England
"BONDI.
One of the few English [i.e. not Norman] notables who retained land
and office for some time after 1066. He was probably Sheriff of
Bedfordshire before Ralph Tallboys"
footnote
from the 1978 Phillimore edition of the Domesday Book Perhaps the English Bandys came from
Lombardy
from "Calendar of
Letter-Books of the City of London" 1375-1399
17
December 1382 London folio clvb
"Abrocarius Grossar
also on the 17th December 6 Richard II, Peter Bandy "Lumbard",
servant of Gerard
Beck was admitted and sworn broker for the "Grossers""
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