Researching Walter Hunt
Dig into the past of Walter Hunt using the links below. We hope you find this information useful!
 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 39775 people with the Hunt surname? In that year Hunt was ranked number 75 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Walter means "powerful warrior" and is of German origin.
Records of Walter Hunt on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Walter Hunt 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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DNA
Sometimes you can run into a brick wall in your tree and you just don't have enough evidence to make that next step back in time. A DNA test can sometimes help to make a link to a particular family name if you find you share common DNA with people who have the same or similar surnames as each other. If you are lucky then you may get a match within a few generations and discover some Hunt ancestors. Additionally, the modern DNA test can give you a breakdown of your ethnic mix - you may be surprised at the results!
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Walter Hunt and the Hunt Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Hunt 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 Hunt family tree.
Look at Parish Records for Walter Hunt at Find My Past.
Look at for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Walter Hunt using the FreeBMD database.
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Check out the LDS Database for records about Walter Hunt.
Research the Hunt surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Hunt Military records.
| Did you know that there are currently 48708 people with the Hunt surname in the UK? Hunt is now ranked number 83 for popularity in the UK. |
Hunt Family Tree Databases
Another way to build your tree quickly is to use the research other people have already done. This can help to confirm or refute your own deductions - however, be wary of taking this data at face value as other researchers may not have been as meticulous as you. Always try to back up deductions with some definitive sources rather than relying too heavily on others.
Look at the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Walter Hunt.
Study MyTrees for information on the Hunt family and people looking to contact living Hunt relations.
Investigate One Great Family for Hunt records submitted by people who are already researching the Hunt Family Tree.
Find Walter Hunt from Ireland on findmypast.ie
Hunt Forums
There are a number of forums which are dedicated to rearching particular surnames. These can be good places to share your findings and also to tap into the knowledge that others may already have. These can sometimes be a good way of finding living relations as these tend not to show up on the other sources of information for privacy reasons.
Research the Hunt surname using Genealogy.com forums .
| Did you know that there are currently 191410 people with the Hunt surname in the USA? Hunt is ranked number 94 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Hunt Databases
Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Walter Hunt. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Walter Hunt
Walter Hunt (inventor)
Walter Hunt (July 29, 1796 – June 8, 1859) was an American mechanic. He was born in Martinsburg, New York. Through the course of his work he became renowned for being a prolific inventor, notably of the lockstitch sewing machine (1833), safety pin (1849), a forerunner of the Winchester repeating rifle, a successful flax spinner, knife sharpener, streetcar bell, hard-coal-burning stove, artificial stone, street sweeping machinery, and the ice plough.
Walter Hunt did not realize the significance of many of these when he invented them; today, many are widely used products. He thought little of the safety pin, selling the patent for $400 to the company W R Grace and Company, to pay a man to whom he owed $15. He is said to have failed to patent his sewing machine at all because he feared it would create unemployment among seamstresses. (This led to an 1854 court case when the machine was re-invented by Elias Howe; Hunt's machine shown to have design flaws limiting its practical use). In seeking patents for his inventions, Hunt used the services of Charles Grafton Page, a patent solicitor who had previously worked at the US Patent Office. Like Howe, Hunt is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
Some of his important inventions are shown here with drawings from the patent.
Patent 4927File:Patent 6281.jpg|Safety pin
Patent 6281File:Patent 3305.png|Nail making machine
Patent 3305File:Patent 11,161.jpg|Sewing machine
Patent 11,161File:Patent 9,527.jpg|Swivel-Cap Stopper
Patent 9,527File:Patent 4221.jpg|Inkstand
Patent 4221File:Patent 6,663.jpg|Firing cock repeating gun Patent 6663File:Patent 958.png|Ice Boat
Patent 958
Other names that sound a bit like Hunt
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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