Brief Life History of John M
When John M Hunt was born on 31 March 1797, in Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Israel Hunt, was 38 and his mother, Catharine Nowell, was 31. He married Mary Ann Munroe on 28 January 1833, in Dunstable, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died on 30 October 1885, in Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (23)
- John M Hunt, "United States Census, 1870"
- John Hunt, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
- John M. Hunt, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
Spouse and Children
1797–1885 Male
1812–1894 Female
Children (3)
1837–1915 Female
1839–1839 Male
1842–1920 Female
Parents and Siblings
1758–1850 Male
1765–1850 Female
Siblings (5)
1795–1875 Male
1797–1885 Male
1799–1874 Male
1799–1887 Male
1801–1821 Male
World Events (8)
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
Age 3
1808 · Concord Becomes the Capital
Age 11
1820 · Making States Equal
Age 23
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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