Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Bunt was born on 25 September 1796, in Braddock, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Bunt, was 40 and his mother, Thomasine Garland, was 37. He married Kitty Knight Richards on 26 December 1826. He lived in St Eval, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Bodmin, Cornwall, England in 1871. He died on 21 May 1879, in Bodmin, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 82, and was buried in Bodmin, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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Sources (5)
- Thomas Bunt, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Thos Bunt, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Thomas Bunt, "Find A Grave Index"
Spouse and Children
1796–1879 Male
1808– Female
Parents and Siblings
1756–1817 Male
1759–1806 Female
Siblings (6)
1782– Male
1785–1813 Female
1787– Female
1791– Female
1796–1879 Male
+1 More Child
World Events (6)
1801 · The Act of Union
Age 5
1815
Age 19
1823
Age 27
Name Meaning
English: from an unrecorded Middle English bunt ‘something swollen’, related to modern English bunt ‘swelling, bag-like end of a net or sail’, and to Middle English bunting ‘small bird, corn bunting’. The name could have been a nickname given to a plump person. Derivation from Middle English bonte, bunte ‘sieve’ is formally also possible but less likely.
English: alternatively, from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Bunt(e), Old English Bunt(a), perhaps derived from the same sense as in 1 above.
Dutch (mainly Van de Bunt): habitational name for someone who lived at a place called after its vegetation, which consisted of bunt grass, i.e. a meadow with tufts of a tough kind of grass.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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