Bunty

[Forfarian]

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.

When I was a child I remember buying the very first issue of D C Thomson's 'Bunty' (and of her sister comic 'Judy'), so the comic must have started in the 1950s. The personal (nick)name 'Bunty' was well established long before that, because I remember lots of older acquaintances known as Bunty.  However it has never featured as a given name in the lists published by the Registrar General for Scotland, and as has been pointed out, it doesn't seem to have been associated with any particular name.

[jongle]

Thanks for your input Forfarian but, sadly, I don't think I'll ever know her real name.

[sancti]

Have you traced her birth or death record to confirm her real name?

[jongle]

Hi, sancti. The answer to your question is no as all I have is a photo of her from about the 1930s and I would guess her age to be in her 40s. Although the family came from the Lenzie area, the surname Munro is not uncommon. Also, I do not know for sure if she is a blood relation or one from marriage. All I do know is that my mother called her, "Aunty Bunty".