When Charity M Bunting was born in 1862, in Kings, New York, United States, her father, Solomon Bunting, was 49 and her mother, Sarah Wihelmina Smith, was 29. She died on 3 January 1894, in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States, at the age of 32, and was buried in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States.
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English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English bunting ‘corn bunting’, perhaps used of a short, plump person. Compare Bunt and Scots buntin ‘short and thick’, Welsh bontin ‘rump’, bontinog ‘large-buttocked’.
History: Sarah Bunting (1686–1762), born in Matlock, Derbyshire, became a noted Quaker minister in Cross Wicks, NJ. It is believed but not certain that other members of her family, including her father, John Bunting, came with her to NJ sometime before 1704, when her marriage to William Murfin is recorded.
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