John Bunbury
1420 – 1468
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John Bunbury of Stanney, living 1446, served on twenty-eight county-court and twenty-seven gaol-delivery juries - fifty-five recorded acts of showing up, the very portrait of the fifteenth-century county gentleman doing his duty between harvests. He married Catherine Hooks of Flint, and the line ran on.
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✓ DOCUMENTED (Ormerod, Hist. of Chester II p.395 (Bunbury pedigree, confirmed by Dugdale's Visitation of Cheshire 1663) + the Harl. MS 1535 Visitation of Cheshire 1580 + numbered Bunbury-of-Bunbury stem; read 23 Jul 2026 (via Turtle Bunbury's Ormerod history).): JOHN BUNBURY of Stanney, living 1446; A JUROR OF CHESHIRE (28 county-court + 27 gaol-delivery juries during the Wars of the Roses, Cheshire being a Lancastrian stronghold); son of Richard x Alice Dutton; d. 1468/70. m. CATHERINE HOOKS. Father of John of Stanny (d.1506, our line). Direct ancestor. Added 23 Jul 2026.