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Re: Bellamy
South Africans are notoriously bad at French - odd, since we're very proud of our French Huguenot immigrants who kick-started the wine industry. You often see well-intentioned spellings like Charl, because Charles "looks English", and because in Afrikaans a final -e is pronounced, diminutives like Annet occur. So, I'd imagine that Bellamy was taken from the surname, and that the (apparent!) presence in it of Amy did no harm at all ...I've never seen Bonamy/i/ie used as a female name, but that proves nothing. The world is large.
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