Brief Life History of John
John Hunt was born about 1794, in Claines, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom. He married Caroline Pearkes May on 2 October 1824, in Claines, Worcestershire, England. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years.
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- John Hunt, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- John Hunt, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
- John Hunt in entry for Jane, "England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1984"
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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.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1830
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
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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