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Bunton Name Origins
BUNTEN, BUNTIN, BUNTINE, BUNTING, BUNTON, BONTEIN etc. are all ancient Scottish septs that are well documented, much of them online. McFarlane describes Buntine of Ardoch as a "very Ancient family in the county of Dumbarton" (1750-1751). Most probably a branch of the English BUNTINGS, found in several of the English counties in the 13th century. Thomas Bunting one of an inquest at TRAQUEYR in 1274 may be Thomas BUNTYNGE of Peebleshire who rendered homage in 1296. Finlay BUNTING had a charter of the lands of MYLNETELANE in the barony of CARDROSS from Robert III. Robert and William BONTYNE had remission for their share in burning the town of DUNBERTANE (Dumbarton) in 1489, and Nicholas BUNTYNE witnessed in favour of James, son of the Earl of Lennox, 1490. John BUNTYNE of ARDOCH was a follower of the Earl of Argyll in 1536 and cautioner ("cautioner" could mean "adviser") for Walter MacFarlan in the same year. John BOUNTENE served on an assize in 1541. John BUNTYNE was a burgess of Glasgow in 1580. John BUNTENE was was retoured (may be a legal term) heir in lands of ARDOCH-BUNTEIN etc. in 1605. William BUNTEIN was burgess of Sterling in 1614 and Margaret BONETOUN is recorded in QUHYTRIG, parish of MORROUNSYD (Muiravonside) 1618, Archibald BONTEIN was secretary to the "Bluidy MacKenzie". The form BONTEIN, as spelling for the family name, was adopted by Sir James BONTEIN in 1782. The BUNTINGS of England, according to Kemble, were an old Anglo-Saxon clan. BUNTENE 1603, BUNTIN 1591, BUNTYN 1513, BWNTENE, 1556, BWNTENE 1563, BUNTYNG 1452, BUNTON are all variations of the name. From BRADLEY - "Dictionary of English & Welsh Surnames. BUNTING, BUNTIN - "good little pet" - a term of endearment for little child. BUNTIN - adj. "short and thick", as a "buntin brat", a plump child. (Idea here is a good healthy child). FRENCH - bonnetin or bonneton, from "bonne" good, with the diminutive "et" - bonnet, and second diminutive, "in" or "on" - bonne-et-in or bonne-et-on. This became BUNTIN, or with excrescent "g" - BUNTING. The name is curiously as surviving in one of our favorite nursery rhymes, a strong proof of its antiquity:- "Baby baby Bunting, Thus BUNN - "good" is the first stage: BONNET or BUNNETT, "a good little one" the second, and BUNTING the third. All are well preserved in our directories. From The HISTORICAL RESEARCH CENTRE - Family Names in History The Irish surname BUNTON, a variant of BUNTING, is originally of English origin but has long and distinguished associations with Ireland. It is derived from a nick name and finds its root in the French word "Bonneton". from "bonne", meaning "good". The diminutive "eton" indicates that it was a term of endearment for a little child and was then applied more generally. Thus the name simply means "good little pet". BUNTON and BUNTING are particular to Ulster with BUNTON being concentrated in Cos. Armagh and Down. It probably arrived in Ireland during the Plantation of Ulster (1608) as the earliest record of it dates to 1640 and one James BUNTING, a trooper in Ormand's regiment at that time. The name was established in Ulster by the middle of the seventeenth century with two of the name appearing in the Tyrone Hearth Money Rolls of 1664. In the Antrim Rolls of approximately the same date five householders who appear as BUNTIN, BUNTINE and BUNTAINE are presumably also BUNTINGS. Other early instances of this name include a record which relates that the will of an Anthony BUNTING, yeoman, of Co. Antrim was proved in 1672. Among the first settlers of this name in America was Richard BUNTING, aged seventeen, who sailed from the Port of London aboard the Dors on September 13th, 1635, bound for the New World. Notable bearers of this name include Edward BUNTING (1773-1843) who spent his life collecting Irish music. He organized a great harp festival in Belfast at the age of nineteen and three years later published the first of his three large collections of Irish airs. A good book available about Edward can be ordered here.
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According to "Black's Surnames of Scotland" and other resources I've found
the name "Bunton" appears to have come originally fron the Bunting sept of the