hello, I appreciate this is quite an old thread, but thought I'd throw my hat into the ring, as Edward Couchman Hunter is my gg grandfather. My grandmother told me my actual surname was hyphenated, Couchman-hunter, but not much detail on why, as my grandfather, her first husband, Major Leonard Hunter was killed in WW2 and she had later remarried. Consequently I didn't know much about my Hunter ancestry. Edward is a bit of a mystery, and I haven't yet come across anyone who knows more of what was his history. My mother told me he was a black sheep, and possibly a gambler. He shows up at 449 Oxford St in the 1871 census, was it one of his father's premises? Oxford St numbering was altered in 1882 and I can't find out what the equivalent building would have been afterwards.
