Re: Stark One-Name-Study

Nadine, I am fairly certain Aaron was not a Scotsman. Further, there are Starks all over Europe who have no Scottish relatives. Stark was one last name of some German mercenaries who came to Scotland to fight for Catherine of Burgandy, when the French part of England was fighting was fighting with the Briton part. That may be the first occurrance of Starks in Scotland, but no one knows.Aaron was called "young Englishman of very little promise" by the Hartford Court and I suspect they knew how to distinguish one from another. A good bet is he was an indentured servant who came along with the Thomas Hooker group of Dissenters who settled Hartford. He was there either right then or soon after their arrival on the scene and there was nothing else there before they came.John Stark