Person:John Starling (8)

In the 1891 census, there were 2,322 Starling people recorded throughout England and Wales, of whom just over half were in Essex or East Anglia. The county with the highest number was Norfolk with 540. [1]

The "Sterling Genealogy" asserts that the Starling family of England were a branch of the "Sterling" families of Scotland, citing as evidence that the coats of arms of some English families was the same or similar to those recorded for the Scottish families. However, it notes that the Suffolk family did not use this coat of arms. [2]. It mentions the marriage of Susan Starling of Colchester to William Welbeck of Higham, Suffolk, in 1577. The earliest record on FreeREG is of the burial of Ciceley Starling in Norwich in 1543.

The lineage of the Blakeney Starlings (8 separate households were living in Blakeney in 1861) is given here