Records of Thomas Hunter on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Thomas Hunter in your family tree. A vast range of data is available to search ranging from census records, births, deaths and marriages, military records and immigration records to name but a few. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Thomas Hunter and the Hunter Family History

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 below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. 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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Hunter Family Tree Databases

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Some Famous People called Thomas Hunter

Thomas Hunter (Irish politician)

Thomas Cornelius Hunter (10 November 1883 – 11 March 1932) was a militant Irish republican. He was a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), Sinn Féin, the Irish Volunteers, was twice elected to the Irish parliament, Dáil Éireann, and fought against the forces of the Irish Free State as a member of the Irish Republican Army during the Irish Civil War. While not widely known today, he was present at or directly involved in several major incidents during the struggle for Irish independence from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Source: Thomas Hunter (Irish politician), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Thomas Hunter (dentist)

Sir Thomas Anderson Hunter (10 February 1863 – 29 December 1958) was a New Zealand dentist and public health administrator. He was born in Dunedin, New Zealand on 10 February 1863.

Hunter was chairman of Massey Agricultural College from 1936 to 1938, when he resigned. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1918, in recognition of his role as director of dental services for the New Zealand military forces during World War I. In the 1947 King's Birthday Honours he was promoted to Knight Commander of the same order, for services in connection with dental health and welfare. In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.

Source: Thomas Hunter (dentist), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Hunter

Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.

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