Tragic Hunt family

[aghadowey]

Death notice for W. L. Hunt but Robert and George not mentioned-
http://www.limerickcity.ie/media/11%2018%201919%20hunt%20obit.pdf

announcement-
http://www.limerickcity.ie/media/11%2018%201919%20hunt,%20clune%20in%20mem%201918.pdf

[heywood]

Mary Hunt had died in 1907 http://www.limerickcity.ie/media/hunt%20funeral.pdf

On that site there is no announcement or obituary for a Robert in 1920/21

[mellomom]

George was actually William George and he and Robert came to South Africa and although the census says prospectors, George was actually with the Cape Mounted Rifles then changed to the British SA Police. He was my grandfather. He married and in WW1 he first served in SWA then joined Baileys South African Sharpshooters. He was sent to France in 1916 and 2 weeks after landing was killed. So he died before his father. When I first started this query I knew very little about the family and did not know when Robert's parents died but it's now obvious that they could not have done much to help the family with whatever the problem was.
I don't think Aileen could have married again as in 1920 their eldest daughter was 10 years old and would surely have had some knowledge of this. The daughter was living with her mother's brother and family in the UK. I think finding out what happened to Aileen after Roberts death is the key to the mystery. How would I find out if she was in a sanatorium or something like that?
Thanks everyone, for all the help and suggestions
Mel

[heywood]

Thanks for that information. I think I would start with Robert's death to see how he is described and who was the informant.
Are you sure that he is interred in that family grave?

[oldkingkole]

It does seem still very unclear if your relative really was admitted to an asylum...however just to give a possible hint for future research..I managed to find a death certificate placing a relative as dying at the Cork District Lunatic Asylum in 1909...(....it was once the longest building in Ireland and still sits grandly looking over back towards the town)...I can't recall where  I came by this contact but the Dept of Consumer Affairs, Health Service Executive South, Wilton Rd Cork was able to provide me with a number of details of my relatives admission and illness. I have an email of a staff member there who was very helpful and I'll send it on to you. In those days long term asylum admissions were centralised  so there were patients from all over Cork. It maybe a long shot but you never know?

Padraig

[brionne]

As this family were of means,is it possible that Aileen drowned at sea.
There are no less than seven Hunt deaths at sea between 1919 and 1923.
The images on FindMyPast show two passenger deaths in red.   Maritime BMDs.[details are sparse]

           Ship  Egba,  May 1919.
           Hunt.

           Ship, Mersing  August 1919.
           Hunt.

Brionne.

[loudam]

This is the timeline for the Hunt Family

Irish civil registration index has birth of Robert Wyndham 1868 Limerick registration district volume 10 page 569. Fits with information in 1911 census.
There is a marriage for a Robert Woodham Hunt (Oct./Dec.1909 Dublin South volume 2 page 553). Aileen Melita Elmhurst (Oct./Dec.1909 Dublin South volume 2 page 588 553)- there are 2 entries with the 2 different page numbers on LDS site.

1907 Mary Hunt (Roberts Mother) Died
1909 - Robert and Aileen Marry

Norman Wyndham Hunt (1913 Cork),
Ethna Mary Hunt:    Jan - Mar 1911 (Cork)
Cecily Elmhirst Hunt (Jan./Mar.1914 Limerick).
Priscilla Hunt July/Sept.1916 Ennistimon registration district, Co.Clare (volume 4 page 177)-
Rachel Hunt on the same page.

1919 - William Louis Hunt (Roberts Father) Died

There is no mention of Aileen in William Louis Hunts Funeral announcement but there is a mention of another Daughter in Law, so by this time the "story" might have happened....

It might be worth posting a link to this thread on the Clare and Limerick boards too...

[loudam]

I meant to add too in terms of Aileen Marrying again, I've a British Army man who married a Cork woman in 1903, they had 3 children in South Africa between 1904 and 1907/1908, his wife died in 1908 so he sent the 3 kids back to Cork to their grandparents, he finished in the Army in 1919, but in 1915 remarried and lived in London with his second wife and her daughter, his own 3 kids stayed in Cork, so I wouldn't rule out Aileen marrying again either and just leaving her kids where they were.... Unfortunately in those times kids weren't told a whole lot about what was going on..

[ballydw]

BRIONNE.  Did you know that Aileens mother was Frances Dorothea HUNT b. Limerick 1838
Married Charles Elmhirst in Limerick 9th January 1861 Vol 6 Page 642. She died 29th Sept 1904
Charles died 1893. Is there a connection to Aileen (Hunt) husband from her mother?
Aileens brother Harry Rochfort Elmhurst  b. 1863 Corfu Greece,  married Agnes Lockwood in Yorkshire 1907. He died in 1937.
You probably know there are several online trees ref Aileens parents - thought they may hold some clue, but all state Aileen died in 1940 - no documentary evidence