Brief Life History of Josiah
When Josiah Hunt was born about 1820, in Wilson, Tennessee, United States, his father, John Carroll Hunt, was 25 and his mother, Jane Moore, was 24.
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Family Time Line
Sources (1)
- John C Hunt Will
Parents and Siblings
1796–1869 Male
1797–1869 Female
Siblings (9)
1820– Male
1821– Female
1823–1883 Male
1826–1869 Female
1831–1919 Male
+4 More Children
World Events (3)
1820 · Making States Equal
Age 0
1820 · Making Land more affordable
Age 0
1835 · The Hermitage is Built
Age 15
Name Meaning
English (southwestern): occupational name for a hunter, from Middle English hunte ‘hunter, huntsman’ (Old English hunta). The term was used not only of the hunting on horseback of game such as stags and wild boars, which in the Middle Ages was a pursuit restricted to the ranks of the nobility, but also to much humbler forms of pursuit such as bird catching and poaching for food. The word seems also to have been used as an Old English personal name and to have survived into the Middle Ages as an occasional personal name. Compare Huntington and Huntley .
Irish: adopted for various Irish surnames containing or thought to contain the Gaelic element fiadhach ‘hunt’; for example Ó Fiaich (see Fee ) and Ó Fiachna (see Fenton ).
Possibly an Americanized form of German Hundt .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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