Thomas Hunt (abt. 1540 - 1606)

Born about 1540 in Leicestershire, England

Husband of Alice (Pollarde) Hunt — married 16 Oct 1559 in St. Nicholas, Leicester, Leicestershire, England

Descendants

Died 1606 at about age 66 in Leicestershire, England

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Biography

Thomas Hunt was born about 1540 in Leicestershire, England^{[citation needed]}. As of 2021 his parents remain unknown.

On 16 October 1560, Thomas married Alice Pollarde in the church of St. Nicholas.^[1]

Thomas was admitted to the freeman's guild as a pistor in 1563.^[2] Thomas Hunt was one of three fish testers for the city of Leicester in 1593-1594.^[3] His son, Thomas became a baker's apprentice and freeman in 1598-1599.^[4] In a charter granted by Queen Elizabeth on June 1 to "ratify, etc., or create anew the said Mayor and burgesses of the borough of Leicester "into another body corporate and politic" with additional liberties, Thomas Hunt was named in the "Company of eight and forty" burgesses called the Common Council of the borough of Leicester to "help the Mayor and Alderman in all matters touching the borough."^[5]

On 31 October 1599, instructions were issued concerning a suit brought by Thomas Hunt, Roger Hall, and other bakers of Leicester.^[6]

Hall Papers II, No. 736. (Oct. 31, 1599.)

Suit to the Common Oven.

After our hartie commendacions, whereas certaine variances have latelie depended in the Duchie Chamber at Westminster, betwene Thomas Hunt, Roger Hall, and others bakers of your towne, plaintiffs, and William Beckett weaver of the same towne, defendant, aboute the baking of spiced breade and cakes and other smale thinges of like nature, not therby withdrawing suche sute as, with baking of his other breade, is due to the common backhowse there, wherewith the saide bakers seeme not to be contented: In respecte whereof we are to require yow, yat yow take suche order with the saide bakers, that yow and they permitt the saide Beckett to bake suche smale thinges (as he hath vsed in your towne) in his owne howse, as divers others in that towne have done, which in our opinyons maie be done in some measuer, considering how the price of corne is fallen, withoute preiudice either to your corporacion or the said bakers of the said towne. Of your accomplishment whereof in some moderate sorte we doe not doubte. From Westminster, this last of October, 1599.

Your loving frendes

Rob. Clerke

Jo. Savile

Ja. Brograve

Whether or not the timing of this judgement had to do with Soul Cakes on Hallow's Eve (aka Halloween) is not known. In 1599-1600, son Richard became a freeman and apprentice to Thomas.^[7]

Again in 1602-1603, Thomas was one of the company of "The Forty-eight" members of the Common Council of the borough of Leicester.^[8]

Children

Thomas and Alice had the following children:

1. Samuel Hunt (1560 - )
2. Richard Hunt (1563 - ~1656)
3. William Hunt, sonne, 1 Nov 1563^[9]
4. Angelica Hunt (1564 - 1603)
5. Robert Hunt (~1565 - 1616)
6. Johane Hunt, daughter, 20 Sep 1565^[9], m. John Overinge, 20 February 1597^[9]
7. Thomas Hunt, sonne, 10 Apr 1567^[9]
8. Richard, sonne, 18 Oct 1569^[9]
9. Elizabeth (Hunt) Nurce, daughter, 13 Nov 1571^[9], m. Thomas Nurce, 3 Feb 1598.^[9]
10. Margaret Hunt (1573 - 1590).

Thomas Hunt BIRTH 1530 DEATH 4 Dec 1606 (aged 75–76) BURIAL Leicester Cathedral Leicester, Leicester Unitary Authority, Leicestershire, England MEMORIAL ID 185072737 · He was the son of Thomas Hunt, Allison Stevenson; His wife: Alice Pollarde, was the daughter of Geo. Pollarde, Petronell Chudleigh; Husband of Alice Pollarde. (Their parental information will have to be sourced. ) Father of: William Hunt; Johane Overinge; Robert Hunt; Richard Hunt; Elizabeth Nurse; Anne Hunt; Margaret Hunt and Thomas Hunt. burial info: Leicester... BURIAL info shows: St. Martins Church, Leicester,ENGLAND or Leicester Cathedral, Eng for his/his father family, and as the oldest church in the area where this family was married, baptized, and were buried.^[10]

Thomas was buried on 4 December 1606^[11] with the will Thomas Hunt, probated in 1608.^[12][13]

Sources

1. ↑ Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society. Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural And Archaeological Society. Leicestershire: Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society, 1855-1914. Volume 6, Page 345. https://archive.org/stream/transactionsofle615leic#page/344
2. ↑ Henry Hartopp, ed., Register of the Freemen of Leicester 1196-1777. Volume 1, Page 76. Leicester, Corporation of the City of Leicester, 1927. Available through Allen County Public Library.
3. ↑ Leicester (England); Bateson, Mary, 1865-1906; Chinnery, Gilbert Allen; Stevenson, William Henry, Stocks, John Edward, Stocks, Helen. Records of the Borough of Leicester; being a Series of Extracts from the Archives of the Corporation of Leicester, Volume 3, Page 486. Publisher London : C. J. Clay, 1899. https://archive.org/stream/recordsofborough03leic#page/486
4. ↑ Henry Hartopp, ed., Register of the Freemen of Leicester 1196-1777. Volume 1, Page 96. Leicester, Corporation of the City of Leicester, 1927. Available through Allen County Public Library.
5. ↑ Leicester (England); Bateson, Mary, 1865-1906; Chinnery, Gilbert Allen; Stevenson, William Henry, Stocks, John Edward, Stocks, Helen. Records of the Borough of Leicester; being a Series of Extracts from the Archives of the Corporation of Leicester, Volume 3, Page 361. Publisher London : C. J. Clay, 1899. https://archive.org/stream/recordsofborough03leic#page/361
6. ↑ Leicester (England); Bateson, Mary, 1865-1906; Chinnery, Gilbert Allen; Stevenson, William Henry, Stocks, John Edward, Stocks, Helen. Records of the Borough of Leicester; being a Series of Extracts from the Archives of the Corporation of Leicester, Volume 3, Page 376. Publisher London : C. J. Clay, 1899. https://archive.org/stream/recordsofborough03leic#page/376
7. ↑ Henry Hartopp, ed., Register of the Freemen of Leicester 1196-17770 (Leicester, Corporation of the City of Leicester, 1927), Page 97. Available through Allen County Public Library
8. ↑ Leicester (England); Bateson, Mary, 1865-1906; Chinnery, Gilbert Allen; Stevenson, William Henry, Stocks, John Edward, Stocks, Helen. Records of the Borough of Leicester; being a Series of Extracts from the Archives of the Corporation of Leicester, Volume 3, Page 462. Publisher London : C. J. Clay, 1899. https://archive.org/stream/recordsofborough03leic#page/462
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6} T. W. Owen, "The Parish Registers of S. Nicholas Leicester," Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society Vol. 6 (Leicester: Clarke and Hodgson, 1888), 344-352 at 346. https://archive.org/stream/transactionsofle615leic#page/346
10. ↑ Find A GraveMEMORIAL ID185072737
11. ↑ Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society. Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural And Archaeological Society. Leicestershire: Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society, , Volume 7, Page 38. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101073397596;view=1up;seq=56
12. ↑ Leicester, Eng. (Archdeaconry); Hartopp, Henry, ed; Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society; Leicester (England). St. Margaret Parish. "Peculiar" Court; Rothley, Eng. (Manor). "Peculiar" Court; Groby, Eng. (Manor). "Peculiar" court; Evington, England. "Peculiar" Court, Calendars of wills and administrations relating to the county of Leicester, proved in the Archdeaconry court of Leicester, 1495-1649, and in the Peculiars of St. Margaret Leicester, Rothley, Groby, Evington, and the unproved wills etc., previous to 1801. All now preserved in the Probate registry at Leicester. Page 24. Publisher London, The British record society, limited, 1902. https://archive.org/stream/calendarswillsa00socigoog#page/n122/search/Hunt
13. ↑ Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society. Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural And Archaeological Society. Leicestershire: Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society, , Volume 8, Page 235. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b753349;view=1up;seq=277

• Find A GraveMEMORIAL ID185072737

• Mitchell J. Hunt, THE ANCESTORS OF THE PIONEER JONATHAN HUNT (1637-1691) OF NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS

See also:

The following source is based on the OneWorld Tree, which is notorious for its many false medieval lineages:

• Thomas Hunt (1530 - 1606). Accessed November 17, 2015 at 12:47 PM. http://www.howegenealogy.org/getperson.php?personID=I2432&tree=tree1

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Donna Gehring for creating WikiTree profile Hunt-4879 through the import of wikitree.ged on Jun 28, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Donna and others.

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• This person was created on 19 October 2010 through the import of Ancestors of Lois Greene.ged.