Hi Again Min,We try to take one Request at a time.So as to give other Members a Chance.So if we dont Answer all your Requests Straight away.We will Eventually get to them.

 

Mike

Hi Again Min,I have Contacted the Person With Starr Family.So Hopefully she will contact me soon

 

Mike

Hi Mike,

 

Just wondered if you have heard from the person with the Starr Family you said you'd contacted.  I realise you've been pretty busy, but was just checking the boards and thought I'd ask.

 

Thanks,

Min

Miggy42

Hi min.The person Concernened is our Manager Teri.Because your Family line is From Sussex Area.Teri Believes they are a Different Side.Her family are From Northern Ireland.By all means leave a Message for teri Explaining your Starrs,As i Know she will Explain to you

 

Mike

Hi Min

Firstly, my apologies for not responding to your STARR message.  I did not do so as I have no connection to STARR from England.  My family are Stars, changed to Starrs in later years. 

 

I have info somewhere re STARR  in England. I cannot remember it all off hand but do recall that it stated that this name, in England, orginated from the name Desterre, which came from France to England at the time of the Norman Conquest (1066) and is mentioned in the domesday book. I will see if I can find this info for you.

 

I dont feel, therefore, that my Stars, which is my maiden surname is of relevance to you in your present quest.

 

Cheers

Teri

 

 

Hi Teri,

 

This is most interesting.  My Starr research here in Australia has been ongoing over the past 30 years and I've amassed lots of family listings.  There are several different families here, originating in East Sussex which are my own and which we've traced back to the 1500s.  There is a line from Cheddar, Somerset; another from Nottingham although not quite as large as the former two. In South Australia another large family which goes back to the 1700s in Cambridgeshire and several other odd ones from other different English counties.  Then there is a large family who came here from Ireland.  Then of course there is the Kentish family of Comfort Starr, who we feel are connected to our lot because of the name, some of these went to America in the 1600s. 

 

I was told years ago that the Irish family originally came from Devon, but not quite sure just how true that is.  Another person has told me they came from the East Sussex family.  So who do you believe?

 

Would be most interested in the origins of your Starrs if you are able to send them. 

 

As you would know my lot come from the Conqueror area, so it's quite a possibility that they do stem from that family.  Would be most interested in any thoeories you or others might have.

 

Many thanks,

Min

miggy42

 

 

Hi Min

 If you do a search in Ireland for D'Esterre on LDS site you will see that they moved there and there were a few are around Dublin and the rest around Limerick.  They seem to have been be mainly landowners.  A group of Starr are also to be found in that area, I'm told they were originally D'esterre.  You will also see when you search on lds that the name changed to Duster and Doster as well.

 

Family legend is that my own name - Stars, later Starrs, was the English version of what was my families original name - which was something like Roulihan or Relihan, which sounds like the Irish for stars.  A lot of Irish names were anglicised from Cromwell's times onwards.

 

I havent yet laid hands on the info on D'esterre but will post it when (or if!!)  I do.

Cheers

Teri

Miggy i was looking through the Parish Clerks site for Sussex and found two Starr Records.Unfortunately No Spouses name

 

Mike

 

Where married: St Dunstan, Mayfield
Register: Not available
Page: Not available
Entry: Not available
Date: 23 Aug 1590
Husband: Name: Starr, John

Where baptised: St Dunstan, Mayfield
Page: 
Entry: 
Date: 30 May 1591
Last name: Starr
First name: John
Birth Date: not given
Father: John
e

 

 

Hi Mike,

 

These are around the timing of our most ancient ancestor who was a James Starr baptised in Whatlington in 1580 to one Comfort Starr.  We have no other children born to Comfort or know anything further about him. 

 

We do know there were a couple of Comfort Starrs in Kent, who went to America in the 1600s, (father and son) but these are around 100 years later than our particular fellow. 

 

This John in Mayfield is also another who I cannot fit into our family, although it's quite possible.  I don't think Whatlington and Mayfield are all that far from each other are they?

 

Thanks for this.  Do appreciate any help at all on this Starr family,

 

Regards,

Min

miggy42

Min will see if i can find anymore

 

Mike

Min have you heard of a site called the Weld,This is set For Starr family

 

Mike

 

Ref Whatlington And Mayfield

 

Whatlington is a small hamlet located between the A21 Hastings to London road and the small town of Battle, it contains many thatched and attractive buildings. Before
 Mayfield is a large village in north-east Sussex, 9 miles south of Tunbridge Wells off the A267.

 

Min as you can see Whatlington is near Battle just outside Hastings,Mayfield is near Tonbridge wells .About 10 miles if that

 

Mike

Hello Mike,

 

Many many thanks for sending me this website.  I haven't seen it before, but I know I will be going back to it from time to time as it has so much info for me, if not on the Starr families I am researching, certainly about the places where they lived.  It's a really great site and I am going to love going through it.

 

Sincerely,

Min