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Offline gypsypotato

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Hunte
« on: Monday 03 May 10 20:17 BST (UK) »
I was just going through "The rising in East Anglia in 1381 : with an appendix containing the Suffolk poll tax lists for that year"
http://www.archive.org/stream/risingineastangl00poweuoft/risingineastangl00poweuoft_djvu.txt
and while I was looking for the surname Hunt in the poll tax list I kept finding several people with the name "Hunte".
Can anyone tell me if this was the old version of Hunt or was it a variant of some sort?
I've searched the internet but can't seem to find anything on it.

Offline Suffolk Mawther

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Re: Hunte
« Reply #1 on: Friday 21 May 10 16:27 BST (UK) »
No doubt this was just the way that the clerk/scribe wrote it down.
There were no right or wrong ways to spell names, especially that long ago.
Back then many of our Bridges appeared as Briggs  ;)

Pat ...
Every time I find an ancestor,
I have to find two more!

SUFFOLK - Pendle, Stygall, Pipe, Fruer, Bridges, Fisk, Bellamy, Sparham - all link to  Framlingham 
DERBY - Bridges and Frost (originally Framlingham/Parham)
NOTTINGHAM - Lambert & Selby
BERKSHIRE/then Hammersmith LDN - Fulker
LDN/MDX - Murray, Clancy, Broker, Hoskins, Marsden, Wilson, Sale
 
GGfather Michael Wilson born Cork, lived Fulham London - moved to Boston USA 1889, what happened next?