Lydia Ann Hunt

Brief Life History of Lydia Ann

When Lydia Ann Hunt was born on 21 June 1870, in Huntsville, Butler, Kentucky, United States, her father, Daniel Hunt, was 37 and her mother, Sarah Catherine Watkins, was 31. She married James Redman Mayhugh on 19 October 1892, in Butler, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Rochester, Butler, Kentucky, United States in 1880. She died on 18 May 1898, in Huntsville, Butler, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 27, and was buried in Huntsville, Butler, Kentucky, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Redman Mayhugh
1871–1950
Lydia Ann Hunt
1870–1898
Marriage: 19 October 1892
Lofton A Mayhugh
1893–1967
Rhea E Mayhugh
1895–1974
Osco F Mayhugh
1897–1898

Sources (14)

  • Lidda Hunt in household of Daniel Hunt, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Lydia Hunt, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
  • Lydia Ann Hunt Mayhugh, "Find A Grave Index"

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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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