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Wiltshire Lookup Requests / Re: Lookup request for BUNDY Wiltshire
« on: Thursday 27 August 09 04:47 BST (UK) »
If we think back to periodic times... All the villages and hamlets were on "main roads"... Usually dirt roads that lead from one village to the next... Easy access to business and marriageable partners.
Hence the fact that many spouses were from Nunton, Redlynch, Weeks and so forth... Basically they lived "up the road".
I have found that many families married into lines numerous occasions through the generations... Take the Eastman lines for instance. They married into the Smith family twice that I have been able to find.
Also, as Downton would have been small at the time (no doubt it is a bit bigger now) everybody knew everybody, all the children would have played and grown up together and marriages between the families would have happened over and over in most if not all the Downton families.
I have found that even though generations have passed, human nature remains the same. Illegitimacy occurred, but these days it is far more accepted than it was back then.
I still find it very interesting that George Bundy never seemed to have taken on the surname of Snelgrove. Mind you, it could have simply have been the case that Bundy sounded better than Snelgrove did... Taking human nature into consideration again.
Mind you, back then the most concerning thing in regard to illegitimate children was recognition of paternity... If his father "acknowledged" George as his biological son, then that would have made everyone content and perhaps George simply kept Bundy by choice... Or, he did not like his father!
We could guess at this for hours.
Yes, do keep your eye out for the word "base" or "base born". "Base born" is a very old fashioned term. It stems from the term "baser instincts".
Hence the fact that many spouses were from Nunton, Redlynch, Weeks and so forth... Basically they lived "up the road".
I have found that many families married into lines numerous occasions through the generations... Take the Eastman lines for instance. They married into the Smith family twice that I have been able to find.
Also, as Downton would have been small at the time (no doubt it is a bit bigger now) everybody knew everybody, all the children would have played and grown up together and marriages between the families would have happened over and over in most if not all the Downton families.
I have found that even though generations have passed, human nature remains the same. Illegitimacy occurred, but these days it is far more accepted than it was back then.
I still find it very interesting that George Bundy never seemed to have taken on the surname of Snelgrove. Mind you, it could have simply have been the case that Bundy sounded better than Snelgrove did... Taking human nature into consideration again.
Mind you, back then the most concerning thing in regard to illegitimate children was recognition of paternity... If his father "acknowledged" George as his biological son, then that would have made everyone content and perhaps George simply kept Bundy by choice... Or, he did not like his father!
We could guess at this for hours.
Yes, do keep your eye out for the word "base" or "base born". "Base born" is a very old fashioned term. It stems from the term "baser instincts".