Thomas Welch Hunt

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1824

Biography

Slave-owner on Dominica. Nephew and heir of Thomas Hunt of Oundle (q.v.). His estates have yet to be definitively identified, but it seems very likely that the man transcribed as 'J.W. Hunt', owner of Little Capuchin in 1817, was in fact Thomas Welch Hunt.

S[on] Rowland of St Andrews London arm. CHRIST CHURCH matric. 8 May 1815, aged 18. BA 1819, of Wadenhoe Hunts. [sic], killed by brigands with his wife when on their wedding tour in Italy in 1824. Under his will he left his property to his wife and their children, in default of whom to his aunt Mary Hunt of Palace Yard Gloucester and then to his cousin Mary Caroline Hunt of Stoke Doyle, Northamptonshire. The will is silent on property in enslaved people.

Sources

Ancestry.com, Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886 [database online]; PROB 11/1694/134.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Spouse

Caroline Isham

University

Oxford (Christ Church) [1815 ]

Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

SD - Association Start Date
SY - Association Start Year
EA - Earliest Known Association
ED - Association End Date
EY - Association End Year
LA - Latest Known Association

1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner

Little Capuchin, St John [ Dominica ]

Legacies Summary

Cultural (1)

Paintings

Dual portraits of Thomas Welch Hunt and Welch Hunt nee Isham, commissioned to commemorate their marriage in Feb. 1824 and now in the Peterborough Museum. The couple were killed at Paestum on their...

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