Records of Joseph Hunter on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Joseph Hunter and the Hunter Genealogy

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Hunter Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Hunter family tree.

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Some Famous People called Joseph Hunter

Joseph Hunter (antiquarian)

Joseph Hunter (6 February 1783 – 9 May 1861) was a Unitarian Minister, antiquarian, and deputy keeper of public records now best known for his publications Hallamshire. The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York, the two-volume South Yorkshire (a history of the Deanery of Doncaster), still considered among the best works written on the history of Sheffield and South Yorkshire, and his 1852 pamphlet on Robin Hood in which he argued that a servant of this name at the court of Edward II was identical with the famous outlaw. His name was adopted by the Hunter Archaeological Society. Source: Joseph Hunter (antiquarian), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Joseph Hunter (British politician)

Joseph Hunter (24 December 1875 – 24 July 1935) was a politician in the United Kingdom, and Member of Parliament (MP) from 1929 until his death.

In 1927 he had taken up a new post as Director of the Liberal Campaign Department centrally, a pivotal position duringthe run-up to the 1929 general election campaign when he was one of the party's national organisers.

At the 1929 general election, in his first parliamentary candidacy, he stood as the Liberal Party candidate for Dumfriesshire, winning the seat from the Conservative MP John Charteris. Hunter was re-elected in 1931 as a Liberal, but when the party split later that year over participation in the Conservative-dominated National Government, he joined the breakaway Liberal National Party.

Hunter died in office in July 1935, aged 59.

Source: Joseph Hunter (British politician), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Joseph Hunter (Canadian politician)

Joseph Hunter (May 7, 1839 – April 8, 1935) was a Scottish-born surveyor, civil engineer and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Cariboo from 1871 to 1875 and from 1900 to 1904 and Comox from 1890 to 1898 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.

He was born in Aberdeen in 1839 and educated there, concluding his studies at the University of Aberdeen. Hunter came to Victoria, British Columbia in 1864. From 1872, he worked performing surveys for the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1875, he was employed by the Canadian government to establish a boundary between the province of British Columbia and the state of Alaska on the Stikine River. In 1883, he became chief engineer for the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway; in 1886, he also became general superintendent for that railway. In 1878, Hunter married Frances Ellen, the daughter of John Robson. He died in 1935, aged 94.

Source: Joseph Hunter (Canadian politician), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Hunter

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