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June 28th, 2010 at 6:32 am

Capt. Eber Bunker

Murray Reid of Auckland, New Zealand posted a note on the Bunker list at Rootsweb that I thought was worth sharing on the Bunker web site:

I have recently read Thomas Keneally’s latest book Australians-Origins to Eureka.  This is a major publication covering the first 70 years of Europeans in Australia. I was very surprised to see that there is only one short, and not very complimentary, sentence devoted to Eber Bunker. I would have thought he deserved more.

BFA genealogist Bette Bunker Richards commented back:

… Sometimes when people do not leave male descendants the family is sort of forgotten and that seems like what this author has done to the “father” of New Zealand whaling.

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