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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 ...

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I've never seen Bonamy/i/ie used as a female name, but that proves nothing. The world is large.