Bunse History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Origins Available:
England

The ancient Anglo-Saxon surname Bunse came from the Old French word bon which referred to a jolly or good fellow.

Early Origins of the Bunse family

The surname Bunse was first found in Gloucestershire where they held a family seat from very ancient times, some say well before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.D.

Early History of the Bunse family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Bunse research. Another 89 words (6 lines of text) covering the years 1600, 1630, 1643, 1644, 1659, 1670, 1680, 1683, 1687, 1690, 1710, 1720 and 1741 are included under the topic Early Bunse History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Bunse Spelling Variations

Sound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Bunse family name include Bunce, Bunse and others.

Early Notables of the Bunse family

Notables of this surname at this time include: Sir James Bunce, (c. 1600-1670), 1st Baronet of Otterden, Kent, Sheriff of the City of London from 1643 to 1644; Sir John Bunce, 2nd Baronet (1630-1683); Sir John Bunce, 3rd Baronet (c. 1659-1687); Sir James Bunce, 4th Baronet (d. c. 1710); Sir John Bunce, 5th Baronet (d. c. 1720); Sir James Bunce, 6th Baronet (d. 1741). Joan Bunce (d. 1690), was an English Quakeress, daughter of Thomas Bunce, a substantial yeoman of Charney, Berkshire. "A pious...
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Bunse migration to the United States +

For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, the Canadas, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Bunse surname or a spelling variation of the name include:

Bunse Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Thomas Bunse, who landed in Massachusetts in 1822
Carl Bunse, who landed in Washington County, Pennsylvania in 1886 1

Citations +

Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)