Brief Life History of Abner
When Abner Hunt was born about 1754, in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Henry Hunt, was 29 and his mother, Hannah Eastman, was 24. He married Mary Hunt on 15 August 1776, in Wakefield, Carroll, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters.
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- Abner Hunt, "New Hampshire Marriages, 1720-1920"
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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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