Hunt

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Hunt ~ First Generation

		Issue of John Hunt and Sarah Marshall
1.		Sarah Ann HUNT Bap of Sarah Ann Hunt 2 Sep 1750 at Gravesend St George, Kent, dau of John (ref findmypast).
2.		John HUNT (1) Bap of John Hunt 5 Mar 1751/52 at Gravesend St George, Kent, son of John (ref findmypast). Burial of John Hunt 12 Jan 1752/53 (ref findmypast).
3.		Jane HUNT Bap of Jane Hunt 10 May 1753 at Gravesend, Kent, dau of John (ref findmypast).
4.		John HUNT (2) Bap of John Hunt 15 Dec 1754 at Gravesend, Kent, son of John (ref findmypast). After reviewing all available data, this John appears to be of the right age and place to marry Tracy Bland. Marriage of John Hunt to Tracy BLAND. Tracy Bland was born c1760 (ref her death cert). The Bland connections are very hard to find. There are 3 baptisms of interest in the neighbourhood: Sarah Bland bap 16 Jan 1754 at Chatham, dau of William Bland & Sarah; Elizabeth Bland bap 21 Mar 1756 at Chatham, dau of William Bland & Sarah; Jane Bland bap 29 Feb 1760 at Frindsbury, dau of Thomas Bland & Mary (all in Ancestry, no images). John and Tracy's marriage was 3 Aug 1781 at Saint Nicholas, Rochester, Kent (ref IGI). Witnesses were Ann Meager & Thomas Harris (ref image, seen 2018). John Hunt was a Shipwright at the Chatham naval dockyards, and he died before January 1840. No records of a death of John Hunt at Medway dist are found in FreeBMD from Sep 1837 to Mar 1840. His burial not found (not the 1829 one). Death reg of Tracy Hunt Mar qtr 1840 at Medway dist (ref FreeBMD). The death certificate reads as follows: Registration District Medway / 1840 Death in the Sub-District of Gillingham in the County of Flint / No. 432 / Fourteenth of January 1840 [illegible possibly 1pm] at High St Chatham / Tracy Hunt / Female / 79 years / Widow of John Hunt Shipwright / [Cause of death] Old Age / [Informant] The Mark of X Maria Hunt Present at the Death High St Chatham / [Registered] Sixteenth of January 1840 / [beautiful but illegible signature] Registrar (ref Thomas Burton 2012 from her DC). Tracy was buried 19 Jan 1840 at St Mary's Chatham, abode Chatham, aged 79 (Ref burials in the parish of Chatham). This church is lovely but derelict, on the short road from High Street to the Dockyard. Very few of the graves, ones between the church and gate, are marked, but there is no sign of graves, though there must have been hundreds. (Note from Thomas Burton) FROM WHOM ELIZABETH SHADE NEE GRIERSON IS DESCENDED.	IGI records
		Children:
	1.	Tracy HUNT bap 1782 at Saint Margaret, Rochester, Kent
	2.	John James HUNT bap 1784 at Chatham, Kent
	3.	William John HUNT bap 1787 at Chatham, Kent
	4.	Catherine HUNT bap 1789 at Chatham, Kent
	5.	Sarah Ann HUNT bap 1791 at Chatham, Kent
	6.	John HUNT born 1794, bap 1794 at Saint Margaret, Rochester, Kent
	7.	Elizabeth Ann HUNT born 1796, bap 1796 at Saint Margaret, Rochester, Kent
	8.	Ann HUNT bap 1803 at Chatham, Kent
5.		William HUNT Bap of William Hunt 2 May 1756 at Gravesend, Kent, son of John (ref findmypast).
6.		James HUNT Bap of James Hunt 8 Jan 1758/59 at Gravesend, Kent, son of John (ref findmypast). Burial of James Hunt 8 Sep 1759 (ref findmypast).
7.		Herbert HUNT Bap of Herbert Hunt 25 Nov 1759 at Gravesend, Kent, son of John (ref findmypast). Burial of Herbert Hunt 29 Aug 1761 (ref findmypast).
8.		Robert HUNT Bap not found.. Burial of Robert Hunt 29 Aug 1762 at Gravesend, Kent, son of John (ref findmypast).

Updated 23 Oct 2023