Brief Life History of Arthur William
When Arthur William Hunt was born in 1905, in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William James Hunt, was 34 and his mother, Louisa Rest, was 35. He died in 1976, in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 71.
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- Arthur Hunt in household of William Hunt, "England and Wales Census, 1911"
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World Events (8)
1908
London, United Kingdom hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1914 · Britain Enters the Great War
After Germany declared war Russia, Britain entered The Great War and declared war on Germany on August 4, 1914. The war ended on November 11, 1918, as Germany signed an armistice that brought fighting to a halt.
1924
First UK government led by the Labor party under Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.
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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