Laurence Hunt1

M, #5661, d. 1872
     

Patrick's father was Laurence Hunt. Laurence left Ireland in the famine years. We have been unable to trace the family back to Ireland, but we have strong evidence to suggest that they came from Sligo.

The first record we have for Laurence is the 1851 census where he is working as a farm servant at a place called Causeway End in the parish of Penninghame in Wigtownshire, Scotland (the nearest town is Newtonstewart. Causeway End was basically a small farm, and his future wife (Ann Carlin) was also living there. Laurence came over with his brother (who was married with children), and his brother's in laws.

Laurence Hunt and Ann Carlin were married in the nearby parish of Kirkinner, and their first two children were born in Scotland.2

John Hunt writes: Isabella, there was three brothers of my father, His name was Lawrence Hunt, your grandfather name was Tom Hunt and the other brother name was Ted Hunt, I never seen him. These three brothers was all killed with a fall of rock. Your grand dad was killed in a place called Washington, in the mine with a fall of rock. My Dad took me to his funeral, we walked three miles, that was about 1870, I was seven years old. My father got killed in 1872. The other brother Ted got killed with a rock in a tunnel in America. It is curious how three brothers was killed in same kind accident.3

Laurence Hunt married Ann Carlin at Kirkinner, Scotland.1

Laurence Hunt died in 1872 at Sringfield Pit, County Durham, England.4

Children of Laurence Hunt and Ann Carlin

Citations

  1. [S314] Joyce Rutherford, "Patrick Hunt," e-mail to Maurice J. O'Grady, 21 Sep 2004.
  2. [S315] Joyce Rutherford, "Re: Patrick Hunt," e-mail to Maurice J. O'Grady, 22 Sep 2004.
  3. [S325] Letter, John Hunt to a cousin Isabella, 15 Sep 1940.
  4. [S315] Joyce Rutherford, "Re: Patrick Hunt," e-mail to Maurice J. O'Grady, 22 Sep 2004, citing the 1881 Usworth, Durham Census.