Researching William Hunt
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 | 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 William means "resolute guardian" and is of German origin.
Records of William Hunt on Ancestry
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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 William 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.
Investigate Parish Records for William Hunt at Find My Past.
Look at for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of William Hunt using the FreeBMD database.
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Look at the LDS Database for records about William 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
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Search the WikiTree database for user contributed records for William Hunt.
Study MyTrees for information on the Hunt family and people looking to contact living Hunt relations.
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Find William 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
Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on William Hunt. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called William Hunt
William Holman Hunt
William Holman Hunt (2 April 1827 – 7 September 1910) was an English painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid colour, and elaborate symbolism. These features were influenced by the writings of John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle, according to whom the world itself should be read as a system of visual signs. For Hunt it was the duty of the artist to reveal the correspondence between sign and fact. Of all the members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Hunt remained most true to their ideals throughout his career. He was always keen to maximise the popular appeal and public visibility of his works.
Source: William Holman Hunt, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
William Henry Hunt (painter)
William Henry Hunt (London 28 March 1790 – 10 February 1864), was an English watercolourist. Hunt was "one of the key figuresin nineteenth-century English watercolour painting. His work was extensively collected in his lifetime, particularly his genre pictures of children, often in humorous situations, and his detailed, naturalistic still lifes of fruit, flowers, and birds' nests that earned him the nickname ‘Bird’s Nest’ Hunt."
Source: William Henry Hunt (painter), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
William Morris Hunt
William Morris Hunt (March 31, 1824 – September 8, 1879) was an American painter.
Born into the political Hunt family of Vermont, he trained in Paris with the realist Jean-François Millet and studied under him at the Barbizon artists’ colony, before founding a similar group on his return to America. He became Boston's leading portrait and landscape painter, also working as a lithographer and sculptor. In 1871 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician. Many of his works were destroyed in the Great Boston Fire of 1872. Another disaster was the deterioration of the stone panels in the State Capitol at Albany, New York, on which a number of his murals had been painted. This is believed to have led to his depression and presumed suicide.
Source: William Morris Hunt, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaWilliam Dennis Hunt
William Dennis Hunt (March 1, 1944 – June 14, 2020) was an American actor. He was known for his role as Emperor Wang the Perverted in Flesh Gordon (1974) and Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders (1990). He is also the only actor to appear in both Flesh Gordon films.
He portrayed the Klingon Huraga in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Way of the Warrior". Other television credits include: L.A. Law (1992, with Amy Benedict, Timothy Carhart, Corbin Bernsen, and Larry Drake), Wings (1994, with Steven Weber), Babylon 5 (1995, with Bill Mumy and Andreas Katsulas), Frasier (1998, with Kelsey Grammer), Seven Days (2000, with Norman Lloyd and Alan Scarfe), Alias (2003, with Ahmed Best, Christian Slater, Lindsey Ginter, Tracy Middendorf, and Terry O'Quinn) a recurring role as "Judge Edgar Byrnes" on NYPD Blue (2003, with Daniel Benzali and Don Stark).
His other film credits include Critters 3 (1991), Dr. Giggles (1992), Chaplin (1992), Lightning in a Bottle (1993), The Bacchae (2000), Dragonfly (2002), Evan Almighty (2007) and Life Inside Out (2014).
He died at 76 on June 14, 2020.
Source: William Dennis Hunt, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaWilliam Henry Hunt (diplomat)
William Henry Hunt (1869–1951) was an African-American diplomat, one of the few black people in the United States diplomatic corps (foreign service) during the 19th century.
Born in Tennessee, Hunt moved north where he was educated at Williams College. He was befriended by Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, who hired him as an aide for his 1897 consular posting in Madagascar. Hunt was appointed to succeed Gibbs there, and went on to serve at posts in France, Portugal, Guadeloupe and Liberia, retiring in 1932. He settled in Arkansas, where he became active in law and politics.
Source: William Henry Hunt (diplomat), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Hunt
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