When John Bunnell was born on 11 October 1879, in Whitewater Township, Hamilton, Ohio, United States, his father, Daniel A. Bunnell, was 46 and his mother, Elizabeth Henrie, was 34. He had at least 2 sons and 1 daughter with Ruth Ann Kinnett.
English:
habitational name from Bunwell in Norfolk. The placename is from Old English bune ‘reed’ + wella ‘spring, stream’. Old forms of the surname suggest a second, non-habitational source.
(of Norman origin): possibly from French Bunel, a shortened form of Busonal, a nickname derived from buson ‘buzzard’ used for someone considered simple, silly.
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