Tamar Hunt

Brief Life History of Tamar

When Tamar Hunt was born about 1819, in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom, her father, Joseph Hunt, was 34 and her mother, Mary Worthy, was 45.

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Family Time Line

Joseph Hunt
1786–1831
Mary Worthy
1775–1832
Mary Hunt
1803–
Tamar Hunt
1819–
John Hunt
1805–
Thamar Hunt
1807–
Thomas Hunt
1807–
Jane Hunt
1811–1887
Joanna Hunt
1820–

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World Events (3)

1823

Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.

1830

Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).

1833 · The Factory Act Restricts Child Labor

The Factory Act restricted the hours women and children could work in textile mills. No child under the age of 9 were allowed to work, and children ages 9-13 could not work longer than 9 hours per day. Children up to the age of 13 were required to receive at least two hours of schooling, six days per week.

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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