Thomas Bunbury
1605 – 1668
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Thomas Bunbury, born in 1605, was a younger son of the Cheshire family whose sons went to Ireland. The Bunburys had held Stanney since the fourteenth century and Bunbury itself long before that.
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✓ DOCUMENTED (Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, BUNBURY (Bart. of Stanney) + RICHARDSON-BUNBURY lineages (pp.331-32), photographed & read 23 Jul 2026.): THOMAS BUNBURY, b. 1605 - YOUNGEST SON of Sir Henry Bunbury, Knt. of Stanney, by his 2nd wife Martha Norris; "ancestor of Bunbury of Llanevagh and Moyle, co. Carlow and KILFEACLE, co. Tipperary". m. 1st ELEANOR BIRKENHEAD (dau. of Henry Birkenhead of Backford - note-only; mother of Benjamin, our line, and of a Joseph who settled in Ireland 1666); m. 2nd Margaret Willcox; d. 1668. Direct ancestor. Added 23 Jul 2026.