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Burials at Blythburgh

Harriet Hunt 10th Sept 1844 age 5
John Hunt 22nd November 1840 age 60
Walter Hunt 22nd January 1868 age 20
Abner Hunt 31st October 1874 age 71
Elizabeth Hunt 19th February 1880 age 65

Monumental Inscriptions:

Walter third son of Abner and Elizabeth Hunt of this parish who died January 19th 1868 age 20 years
Long verse unreadable

This stone is erected here to perpetuate the memory of Harriet elder daughter of Abner and Elizabeth Hunt who died 7th September 1844 aged 5 years and 4 months

In affectionate remembrance of Elizabeth wife of Abner Hunt who departed this life February 15th 1880 aged 65 years
There shall be a resurrection of the dead, of the just and unjust

In affectionate remembrance of Abner Hunt who departed this life October 27th 1874 aged 71 years
The Lord gave and the Lord hath
taken away, Blessed be the name
of the Lord

Hi, and a huge thank you again for this information.  I especially note the fact that a John Hunt died and was buried 22 November 1840 aged 60, so I shall do some research on him and in due course order his death certificate just to see who was the informant and where they were all living, which might give a little bit of an indication to follow up some more.  No mention of a Sarah Hunt in the graves though!

Great information, very helpful and gives me something else to look up/research etc.  Thank you so much I really do appreciate your taking the time to look up this information for me.

Hello  Many thanks for the prompt reply.  I do already have his death date etc noted and his descendents are pretty well tracked and documented.  I am really trying to see if I can find anything out about where Abner Hunt came from.  If he was baptised and where and the two starting options are the ones I gave.  I am trying to trace backwards to see if it is possible to find his parents and/or siblings (if he had any siblings), but am hoping that someone might either already know some of this information or be able to do some look ups.  But thanks for the information.

Hello

Yes, the photo is in the Accrington Pals book as I just had a look at my copy.  It may well also be on the website.  My grandfather was an Accrington Pal and so I have already had the pleasure at looking through their extensive website and hence the reason we also have the book.  My grandfather is mentioned a couple of times in the book as he was interviewed about his experiences.  We also sent copies of some of my grandfather's documents to be placed on the website.  My grandfather was one of many going 'over the top' on the first day of the battle of the Somme, finding himself standing alone and wounded whilst everyone else around him had been decimated so I have a family interest in this area.  My grandfather is supposed to have joined the Pals because a relative (Richard Sharples) was part of it, but quite how they are related is not yet known or confirmed and maybe we will never know what the connection is.  My great aunt remembers Richard Sharples making regular visits with a companion to the family home to make payments to the family, from where or from whom or for what reason are unclear, but it has something to do with them being linked by family or so the story goes - those relatives are sadly no longer with us, so all we have to go on are their notes.  Some day I must go to Lancashire to look out the many boxes of archived records that are held which relate to the Sharples Solicitor's business to see if I can glean any answers from there, but that is for another time another day. 

Hello again Tessa

I should add that I obtained the marriage certificate for William Lebond and Sarah Poole and I also obtained Sarah's death certificate.  I have found Sarah in the census records with her parents, before her marriage and also in all the census records with her husband/children after their marriage.  William dies sometime before 1901 as she is shown as being widowed on that one.  I also found her in the 1911 census.  Please get in touch as we may be able to help one another.

Thanks to everyone who has replied.  I have established that unfortunately there are no surviving coroner records for that time which is very disappointing and that my best bet is local newspapers for the time and the local Staffordshire records offices.  I don't live in Staffordshire, so it will have to go on my 'to do' list for records offices to visit to gather data etc.  Pit records might still exist so I might get lucky and be able to track something down from any records surviving from there or from their history archives if they exist.  As my relative's accident was just a single accident involving him alone there is no memorial as with bigger accidents/events.  However, I guess that if there wasn't much going on in the news in the days/weeks/months after my relatives fall down the pit and subsequent death, it might just have made a few lines in a newspaper of the time.  But I will have to wait and see for that.