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Bontavern Surname Definition:

BONTAVERN: Alexander Bontawerne was juror on an inquest at Cupar in 1522 (SCBF., p. 266), and John Bontavern witness in Fife, 1548 (Gow, 40). George Bontaverone is recorded in Wester Kilsleif, parish of Creich, in 1593 (St. Andrews), and Thomas Bontaveron in Lethame in the parish of Monymaill in the same year.

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BONTAVERN: Alexander Bontawerne was juror on an inquest at Cupar in 1522 (SCBF., p. 266), and John Bontavern witness in Fife, 1548 (Gow, 40). George Bontaverone is recorded in Wester Kilsleif, parish of Creich, in 1593 (St. Andrews), and Thomas Bontaveron in Lethame in the parish of Monymaill in the same year. Other twelve of the name are recorded in St. Andrews. David Bontaverone was retoured heir of Thomas Bontaverone, portioner, his father, in 1643 (Retours, Fife, 653), and Mariota Bontavorine, spouse to Thomas Alison, is recorded in Dunblane (Dunblane). compare Holyn de Prontauerin (a place near the Clyde and Nethan), c. 1208—18 (Kelso, 103). This name seems to have become Bonthron which see.

— The Surnames of Scotland (1946) by George Fraser Black (1866-1948)
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