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« on: Friday 10 October 08 16:18 BST (UK) »
Hi Does anyone know what the name 'Bunty' is short for?
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Re: Bunty
« Reply #1 on: Friday 10 October 08 16:29 BST (UK) »
Hi Rainbowbright

Welcome to Rootschat  :)

From what I can find, the girl's name Bunty is of English origin,  pet name for a little lamb, from the verb to "bunt", meaning "to butt gently". Nickname and occasional baptismal name.

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Re: Bunty
« Reply #2 on: Friday 10 October 08 16:38 BST (UK) »
Hi Barbara

Thank your for your welcome!

I wasn't sure if Bunty was a proper name or a nickname.  Do you have any idea what it may be the nickname for?

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Re: Bunty
« Reply #3 on: Friday 10 October 08 16:49 BST (UK) »
Hi,

It looks as if it could be both.  Hopefully someone else will be able to give you more information.

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Re: Bunty
« Reply #4 on: Friday 10 October 08 16:55 BST (UK) »
I dont think its a dimunitive* as such - so its a nickname that just 'fitted' in most respects perhaps. Barbara is right about it being a name in its own right.


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Re: Bunty
« Reply #5 on: Friday 10 October 08 16:56 BST (UK) »
Hi

Thanks Barbara

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Re: Bunty
« Reply #6 on: Friday 10 October 08 16:59 BST (UK) »
In my book of First Name Variants it only gives Bunty - not any others.  About the only name in there that does not have them!  Maybe it is a "proper" name.  I always associate it with jolly hockey sticks and fun in the dormitory - all those books I used to read as a child!   Very few showing up on FreeBMD and nearly all in the 1920s.
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Re: Bunty
« Reply #7 on: Friday 10 October 08 17:00 BST (UK) »
Hi

So the person I am looking for could be baptised Bunty.  I will try another search to see if I can find anything.

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Re: Bunty
« Reply #8 on: Friday 10 October 08 17:01 BST (UK) »
I had an "Aunty Bunty" and didn't know until she died that her real name was Margaret ... "Aunt Margaret" wouldn't have suited her at all!  

I think Barbara has it right in that it was more usually a nick-name and occasionally a given name.  

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