Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Hunt was born in 1790, in Shilton, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Hunt, was 24 and her mother, Mary Gardner, was 27. She married Richard Smith on 5 November 1811, in Witney, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons. She died in 1861, in Witney, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 71.
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Sources (8)
- Elizabeth Smith in household of Richard Smith, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Legacy NFS Source: Elizabeth Hunt - Government record: death: after 1851; Witney, Oxfordshire, England
- Elizabeth Smith in entry for James Smith, "England, Lincolnshire, Parish Registers, 1538-1990"
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Children (6)
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World Events (7)
1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
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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