Ancestors - Hunt, Leigh-Hunt Family

Born 1846 Middlesex London. Father was John Horatio Leigh Hunt. Mother was Harriett Lapham. Harriet married, aged 22, Edward Poole, in May 1868.
Children were....

Harriet is recorded in the 1861 census, 1871 census,
1881 census, and the 1901 census.

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Some known addresses...
1851 - 18 Shoe Lane - aged 4
1861 - 8 Wine Office Court - aged 15
1871 - 11 Union Place - aged 24
1881 - 8 Paved Court - aged 35

Born 1812. Father was James Henry Leigh Hunt. His mother was Marianne Kent.  Married to Harriett Lapham in 1840, and they had four children...

All four of their daughters were christened in 1846 at Saint Brides, Fleet Street. John was an author.

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Some known addresses...
1840 - 5 Wellington Strand - aged 28
1841 - 5 Martlett Court - aged 29,  (Just off Bow St.)
1843 - 36 Farringdon St - aged 31
1851 - 18 Shoe Lane   (Just off Fleet St.)
1861 - 8 Wine Office Court   (Just off Fleet St.)

Born 1784 Southgate England. Mother was Mary Shewell. Father was Isaac Hunt. Married Marianne Kent in 1809...
The children were...

Essayist and poet, Leigh Hunt was editor of a number of literary periodicals, including the radical weekly Examiner, in which he published the works of Keats and Shelley, then little known. A friend of Byron, Lamb and many important writers, Leigh Hunt played a prominent role in London's literary and political affairs. He was famously imprisoned for two years in 1813 with his brother John for libeling the Prince of Wales. Approx 1802 he set up the weekly Examiner, with his brother John. This was the first of a series of journals he edited, which included the Reflector, Indicator, Companion, Tatler and London Journal. The character of Harold Skimpole in Charles Dickens's Bleak House was allegedly based on him.

The National Portrait Gallery currently hold some portraits Leigh Hunt and one of his son Thornton.

The 1851 census for Leigh Hunt, & IGI marriage record.

Some known addresses...
19/10/1784 - Southgate, Middlesex
1813 to 1815 - Surrey gaol
1815 to 1816 - Maida Vale, Edgware Road
1816  -  Hampstead Heath
1822  -  Pisa
1823 to 09/1825 - Florence
1825 - Highgate Hill, London
1828 to 1832 - Epsom, Old Brompton, St John's Wood, & finally New Road, Marylebone
1833 to 1840 - 4 Cheyne Row, London
1840 to 1851 - 33 Edwardes Square, Kensington
1851 to 1853 - 2 Phillimore Terrace
1853 to 1859 - 7 Cornwall Road, Hammersmith

Born 1742.
Mother was Elizabeth Bryant. Father was Isaac Hunt .

Married Mary Shewell June 18th 1767

Educated at the William Smith College in Pennsylvania, obtaining a law degree in Philadelphia.

Isaac was staunch loyalist, and had made a name for himself by defending other loyalists in court. Also as the author of many pamphlets championing the cause of the British Crown. The inflammatory nature of these activities, carried out in the face of the revolutionary winds that were blowing at the time, ultimately triggered predictable consequences.

Early one morning in 1775, he was taken from his house and, along with a Dr. Kearsley, an equally dedicated Tory, was driven about the streets of Philadelphia in an open cart, the intention being eventually to tar and feather both men. At the last minute the two Loyalists were spared the ordeal of being tarred and feathered when a friend of Colonel Robert Shewell, Mary Hunt's uncle, managed, to overturn the tub of hot tar that had been prepared for the purpose.

After being paraded up and down the streets, both men were imprisoned. Isaac bribed a prison guard and escaped,ending up in England, via Barbados. It was almost two years before his wife and children were able to join him.

Once In England the Hunt family fell on hard times and Isaac, unable to practice law, became a preacher. He even spent some time in debtors prison. Kings Bench... which was located on the exact site of what was to become Queens Buildings, in Southwark.

The Duke of Chandos, James Henry Leigh, having heard Isaac preach, employed him as a tutor to his nephew. Upon the birth of Isaacs fifth son in 1784, the baby was then named, James Henry Leigh Hunt. Subsequently all of James Henry Leigh Hunts Children and as far as I know, grandchildren, all were Leigh Hunt instead of just Hunt.

Isaac and Mary's children were...

Died 1809.

All information here is gathered from a number of internet sources. To best of my knowledge, after cross referencing many sites, this information is correct.

Father was Brian Hunt, Mother was Anne.
Married to Elizabeth Bryant.

Isaac Hunt died in 1759 and is buried in the chancel of St. Michael's Church, Barbados.

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Mother was Catherine Courthope. Father was Isaac Hunt.
Married to Ann (surname unknown).

Records at Cambridge University in England state that Reverend Dr. Brian Hunt, who was born in Kent in the late sixteen hundreds, was admitted to Corpus Christi in 1704. In 1722, according to Fothergill's Emigrant Ministers, he was sent to Virginia, and the following year he became a missionary with the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in South Carolina. He went to Barbados in 1731 to be rector of St. Joseph's in Bridgetown. He died in 1744.

I've read on a genealogy forum that the Hunt family in Barbados are well documented. This has not been followed up.
Children Of Brian and Anne were:

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Married to Catherine Courthrope.
Son was Brian (b.1685)

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Father was Eusebius Hunt. Mother was Elizabeth Crafts.
Married to Sara (Surname unknown).
Married to Sara. Children were:

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