I know this is a really old thread, but just some more info ...
Mary Ellen HUNTER is my great-great grandmother, and after she died in 1889, Mary Ann PARISH arrived to look after the many children Mary Ellen had with Joseph BRITTEN. In 1890, Mary Ann married Joseph, and the following year, her brother (my great grandfather) married her stepdaughter, Emily. I'm related directly by blood to all three families - Hunter, Britten and Parish.
It was my now defunct website quoted earlier in this thread. I do have a tree on TribalPages now, but this family isn't yet in it.
I haven't anything on Thomas Hunter.