John Buckman
1660 - Abt 1730 (70 years)-
Name John Buckman [1, 2] Birth 1660 Lincolnshire, England 
[2] Baptism 11 Jul 1676 Norfolkshire, England [2] Gender Male Death Abt 1730 Burial 15 May 1730 Sussex, England Person ID I23576 footsteps Last Modified 1 Jul 2025
Family Marriage Abt 1689 Lincolnshire, England Children + 1. John Baptist Buckman, b. 1692, Lincolnshire, England d. Abt 1743, Saint Mary's, Maryland, United States (Age 51 years) [Father: natural]Family ID F12997 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 1 Jul 2025
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One thing that does stand out about this person is the middle name "Baptist". My intial reaction was that the family were somehow connected to The Separatist and/or Baptist religion which has historical importance as far as Lincolnshire is concerned but having found a website which refers to this family it appears that they were actually Catholic which whilst interesting does make tracing their lineage far more complex. It makes it far more likely that the name Baptist was in reference to the Catholic religion than the namesake one!
One of the issues we face in the UK as genealogists is that whilst historically the government has issued laws to protect old parish registers for Church of England baptisms, marriages and burials many Catholic registers are still in the hands of the local churches and it is at their discretion who sees them. Some of them have been deposited for public viewing but there is no legal obligation for the church to do so. In Lincolnshire sadly only a handful of Catholic registers are in their archives and none of them cover the 17th century. From a genealogical perspective this has resulted in massive gaps when it comes to finding out who Catholic ancestors were. In addition, as John Baptist Buckman was born as far back as 1692 the chances of those baptism records having survived is minimal. The natural decay of many old registers as well as the fact that is wasn't compulsory to record vital information in the first place has resulted in so much missing genealogical information. To be honest with you I think there is very little chance of finding a baptism record for John Baptist and thus anything about his ancestry.
I decided to enlarge the search to find other Buckman's in Lincolnshire at the time in hope of stumbling across something which may be linked to John. I have searched the available Anglican parish registers for the whole of Lincolnshire for the name Buckman and found that between 1622 and 1740 there is no record of any person with that surname. This strongly indicates that either the Buckman family weren't native to Lincolnshire or if they were their faith means that there are no existing records in the public domain.
Perhaps if someone could pinpoint a specific town or village to him or his family rather than the country as a whole it may be possible to gain a better understanding of Catholicism in that area as well as possible reasons for him to leave. As far as possible emigration records are concerned at this time there are very rare as most were private concerns and it would be more likely for you to find something on the US side than th e English side.
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