Tragic Hunt family

[revinkevin]

Hello and many thanks to everyone who has responded to my first post on this thread!

I would just like to add a little about my father, Norman Windham Hunt.  My mother, after her divorce placed me in the care of my grandparents (on her side of the family - family name Fleming).  (My mother remarried in 1948.)  When my grandmother died in late 1949, I was sent to a boarding (or care) school at the beginning of 1950 (Crossways) in Gorey (Co. Wicklow - now in Co. Wexford).  I saw my father quite often during my stay in Gorey but I was removed from the school and returned to my mother in summer 1950.  That was the last time I saw my father.  I had sporadic correspondence with him (although this was not encouraged by my mother) until I was about 16.  My father worked in a number of boys care homes in Australia one of which was the Swan Boys Home in Perth (Western Australia).  I tended not to investigate too much in that area since there is some uncomfortable history associated with the care homes in Australia.

[heywood]

 there is a death record for a Helen Hunt in 1919 https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FR2B-HTL  when it comes to first names they were often mis heard or mis transcribed so any name that even remotely resemmbles the name your looking for is worth looking at...

The age is out here but that can happen. There is no Helen Hunt in 1911 in Limerick so it would be worth checking.

[revinkevin]

Just a footnote on the Co. Clare connection.  After my mother and father (Norman Windham Hunt) separated/divorced, I went on a holiday with him to Kilkee, Co. Clare - which is where Robert and Aileen lived, according to my father's birth certificate.  I was about six at the time so it is possible that my holiday visit was to enable my father's family to see me!  I remember some things about Kilkee and the surroundings and even have a photograph of me looking into the sea at Loop Head.

I seem to remember being told that Robert Windham Hunt held a fairly high post in Irish politics; does that make sense to anyone?

[aghadowey]

Might be family tree details through this site? Robert Windham Hunt listed:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tompkins/names/dunning-names.html

Robert Hunt shown as retired military officer in 1911- no clue to a political roll there:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cork/Blarney/Curraghnalaght/383499/

[loudam]

Heywood

For me when it comes to peoples ages I take no notice of ages on death certs to a certain extent, i'd allow about 10 years either side of their known age, I've a few death certs where their ages are out by 10 years or so compared to census or birth certs.. I'd always allow 10 years either side of the known age when searching for a death record, if I didn't find one I'd allow 15 years either side....

[loudam]

Revin Kevin

I'd imagine if Robert Hunt was connected in politics it would come up somewhere in google but thats not to say he isn't though!


Loop head is a lovely spot, we often go up there for a drive...

Wonder was it when you visited that that might have been when Aileen Hunt died??

[loudam]

Another thing I was thinking about today is if Robert Hunt died in 1920 and Aileen didn't die until the 1940's thats 20 or so years in between, I wonder if she got married again in this time which would explain the lack of a death cert..

[revinkevin]

I have a picture of me at Loop Head dated summer 1947 and will scan and post later.

[loudam]

Loop Head Lighthouse is now open to the public so the drive out there is even more worth while!!

On Harry Elmhirst, there are a lot of connections on Ancestry for Harry Elmhirst, his death record, will etc, I've found at times that side stepping with siblings to see where they've ended up often leads to more info especially so with the Electoral registers in London where I've found one person with others, along with military records, a British Overseas birth cert led to me finding a military record that then had other little bits of info..