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Boniface One-Name Study

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Study details

Study: Boniface

Variants: Boneface, Bonneyface, Bonniface, Bonnyface, Bonyface

Category:  1 - A study where research using core genealogical datasets and transcriptions is in its early stages.

Contact: Mr Steven Everitt


About the study

Welcome,

The purpose of the Boniface website located at The Boniface Internet Group is to provide a gathering place for those interested in the BONIFACE surname and to find connections among them. My name is Steve Everitt and I am related to the Boniface name through my Mother, her name is Doris May BONIFACE.

The website offers access to others having the same interests by joining the group (no money involved by the way) and how to join us on the mailing list. There you will also find extracts and databases that the group have compiled. The Boniface Internet Group (BIG) is of course very interested in your BONIFACE connection, no matter how far removed and even if it's only singular. It may provide one of us with a piece of the puzzle we've been looking for. For you, it could provide many ancestors or cousins you didn't know you had.

Variant names

The following Boniface variants are under our wing. Bonniface, Boneface, Bonnyface, Bonneyface, Bonyface, Boneyface, Bonifas & Bonifacio.

Name origin

Hugh Boniface wrote in 1984 that the name Boniface as a surname is likely to have developed from the Saint's name given as a Christian name which later became a surname in the 12th or 13th century. Reaney's 'Dictionary Of Surnames' gives the earliest instances as Tomas Boniface (Yorkshire 1190) and Alis Boneface (Hampshire 1200)

He said that "€œif it is derived from the Saints name, the original spelling is probably BONIFACE but common variants are:-BONNIFACE, BONEFACE, BONNYFACE, BONNEYFACE and BONYFACE. The form BONIFAS is occasionally used but seems to refer to families of Huguenot origin."

€ Hugh states that in certain areas (especially his own area of N.W.Sussex) the abbreviated forms BONNEY, BONNY, BONNI OR BONY were also used. €œThese appear even in parish registers, ( sometimes as 'BONNEY or BONIFACE') census returns and on birth and marriage certificates. He believes that "€œthere is probably a separate surname of Bonney as it occurs in parts of the country where no Boniface'€™s are found. Some of the Bonneys in S.W.Sussex may be a family not derived from Boniface as Bonney is used in the earliest entries in the 16th century."

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Links

Another important Boniface web presence: Eastbourne Cousins

Contact Details

Mr Steven Everitt

General Search Results

Occurrences of the surname Boniface in the Guild Indexes
(Click on the number to view the search results in each index. Indexes marked by * are only accessible by logged in Guild members.)
  • Marriages of the World (public)  6
  • Inscriptions Index  1
  • Marriage Index 1837-1945* 252
  • Probate Index* 309
  • World Wide Marriages Index* 4
  • BMD Index* 27
  • Members' Data Stores in which the name Boniface appears* 9

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