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Born a Baggins; married into the Bolger family
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The Bolgers were most associated with Budgeford in the Eastfarthing
Meaning
Named for the flower, pansy

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Pansy Baggins

One of Bilbo Baggins’ great-aunts

The second child and eldest daughter of Balbo Baggins and Berylla Boffin. Pansy Baggins' father Balbo was the earliest recorded patriarch of the Baggins family, and his daughter Pansy was therefore one of the earliest recorded Hobbits belonging to that family. She had one elder brother, Mungo, and three younger siblings; Ponto, Largo and Lily. Pansy married into the Bolger family, wedding Fastolph Bolger, and the two evidently gave rise to numerous descendants (descendants of whom, however, we have no detailed accounts).

Pansy's elder brother Mungo was the father of Bungo Baggins, and Bungo was the father of Bilbo Baggins, and so Pansy Baggins was Bilbo's great-aunt. Pansy would have been seventy-eight years old when Bilbo was born, and it seems likely that she would have known him as a child. We are not told how long Pansy lived, but if she survived to the age of ninety-nine (an old but perfectly plausible age for a Hobbit) she would have seen the terrible cold of the Fell Winter descend on the Shire.


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