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Bunty
« on: Sunday 18 July 10 19:21 BST (UK) »
My Scottish great-aunt was called Bunty Munro and came from the Lenzie area.
Can anyone tell me what her proper christian name would have been?

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Re: Bunty
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 18 July 10 20:37 BST (UK) »

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Re: Bunty
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 18 July 10 20:38 BST (UK) »
I know two Buntys, their real names are Christine and Mary - I can't help but think it's a general nick name because I see no rhyme nor reason for it.
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Re: Bunty
« Reply #3 on: Monday 19 July 10 16:37 BST (UK) »
Came across a headstone in Lanarkshire today

Elizabeth (Bunty) Hamilton

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Re: Bunty
« Reply #4 on: Monday 19 July 10 19:57 BST (UK) »
Thank you all for your replies. It would seem, from the variety of names put forward, that the term is used more for the person than for a name substitute. If only our ancestors knew the problems they were creating for us. :(

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Re: Bunty
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 19 August 10 12:46 BST (UK) »
Mr Grandfathers sister was known as Bunty - her real name was Jean!  No idea who the name came about.

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Re: Bunty
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 21 August 10 12:19 BST (UK) »
The Scottish writer Graham Moffat wrote a play called "Bunty pulls the strings" in the early 1900s, and when I was young there was also a girls comic called Bunty, published, I think,  by DC Thomson in Dundee. So I guess these 2 sources may have inspired some parents to name their children Bunty.

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Re: Bunty
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 21 August 10 13:00 BST (UK) »
Mums name was Barbara but she was known as Bunty or Babbie sometimes

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Re: Bunty
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 22 August 10 15:40 BST (UK) »
Thank you to: bairnj, Elwyn Soutter, and suzilad for your replies.
Unfortunately, there does not appear to be a definitive answer.  :(
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