Tabatha Maria Hunt

Brief Life History of Tabatha Maria

When Tabatha Maria Hunt was born on 3 January 1815, in Stillwater Township, Sussex, New Jersey, United States, her father, Thomas C Hunt, was 30 and her mother, Rebecca Turner, was 24. She married Henry Van Emburg Hopper about 1836, in Stillwater, Stillwater Township, Sussex, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Newark Township, Essex, New Jersey, United States in 1880 and New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States in 1880. She died in 1885, in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Milford Cemetery, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.

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Family Time Line

Henry Van Emburg Hopper
1813–1856
Tabatha Maria Hunt
1815–1885
Marriage: about 1836
Rebecca A Hopper
1840–
Charles Hinckley Hopper
1842–1937
Emma Louise Hopper
1845–1900
George Henry Hopper
1851–1895
Julia B Hopper
1854–1937

Sources (5)

  • Tabitha M. Harper, "United States, Census, 1880"
  • Maria T. Hunt, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
  • Tabitha M Hopper, "United States Census, 1860"

World Events (8)

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

1824

1824: Stillwater Township, Sussex, New Jersey, United States of America

1835

A strike involving more than 2,000 workers from 20 textile mills in Paterson, New Jersey. Many of those involved were children, Irish, or both. The primary goal of the strike was to reduce the daily working hours from 13.5 to 11. Employers refused to negotiate, but the strike ended with a declaration that the workdays would now be 12 hours during the week and 9 hours on Saturdays. Paterson employers also blacklisted many of the strike leaders and their families.

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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