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Please could anyone advise me on the surname Bone please.
I have seen a thread on Ancestry that mentioned the surname Bone with the accent on the E as in Bonny, Bonney etc, would that be the normal pronunciation for the surname Bone.?

Bone is of Old French and Anglo Saxon origin.

French being a nickname from the Old French 'le Bon' meaning good fellow

From "search trees"

bond Bone boon bonney bones bonny bane boyne bohn bonnie boney

Thank you Quinsgran
I really do need to know about the pronunciation of the Bone surname as if it isnt a usual variation of the Bonny, Bonney, Bonet surname etc then thats one version I can forget about,
Where would I check for the pronunciation?
Thank you

Thank you SatNav
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and so It definatley is a variation of the Bonny surname!!

Since names change over the years then pronunciations will also change.

Hyacinth Bucket /Bouquet .
The writer of this program got his inspiration from someone called Bottom who insisted it was pronounced "Botome"

Thank you Quinsgran(**)

This interesting surname of French origin is a nickname for a handsome person, from the Northern dialect "bonnie" meaning "fine or beautiful", still a Scottish word, apparently a diminutive of the Old French "bon" meaning "good". The surname is found chiefly in Lancashire, the first recording of the surname dates back to the late 13th Century, (see below). Further recordings include one Agnes Bonny (1379), and Johannes Bunnay (1379) "The Poll Tax Records of Yorkshire". Church recordings include one Alice Bonnie who was christened on June 26th 1548, at Kirkham, Lancashire, Richard Bony who was christened on October 20th 1567, at St. Mary Whitechapel, London, and Elizabeth, daughter of Noye Bonney, was christened on December 29th 1590, at St. Ann's, Blackfriars, London. Elizabeth Bonny married Thomas Baker on August 23rd 1656, at St. Gregory by St. Paul, London. One Winey Bonny, aged 20, a famine emigrant, sailed from Dublin aboard the Fagan - Bealac bound for New York on May 17th 1847. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Agne Bonye, which was dated 1273, "The Hundred Rolls of Oxfordshire, during the reign of King Edward 1, "The Hammer of the Scots", 1272 - 1307. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

Hi Astra and SatNav and Ann of Green Gables

The surname I am really looking for Is Bonny but the Spelling could be any variation of this surname, the 1911 Census Family I have found are connected to my search but are not Bonny's and I have found them and they are correct.
But what I am trying to find is my birth fathers name and I think it will be in the area I have found the other Family name, Which is in Crawley in Sussex
my Fathers birth was C 1920,I have found the surname Boniface in the same road as the other family on the 1911 census and very close by are Boney and Bone,and so its a bit of muddle, but I was very very suprised to find the surname Boniface in such a close area to the other Family I have found and I am wondering if that could have been his surname.
The only way I can prove It to be his family and him is that he was in the RAMC in early 1948 a SGT and at Wheatley Military Head Injury Hospital Oxford.