FAMILY GROUP RECORD OF
JOHN HUNT
AND ELIZABETH GIBBINS


John Hunt was christened 21 November 1585 in Cropredy, the son of Justinyan and Elizabeth Hunt. He is listed as a scholar and a husbandman. John married Elizabeth Gibbins 9 May 1610 in Cropredy.

 

John appears in the list of Easter Offerings for the village:
 

1613  Jno. Hunt (wife)

Thomas Feyell
Thomas Tayler
Elizabeth Walter
Edwarde Haddocke
 

1614   Jno. Hunt

His man
His myd
His shepherd

 

1615    Jno. Hunt

His man
His mayde
His shepherd
?Paid beast

 

1616   Jno. Hunt

His man
His myde
 

1617   Jno. Hunt

His man
His mayde
His shepherd

 

1618   Jhon Hunt

Tho. Tayler
Jno. Copbroke
Mary Wesbury
Eliz Wells

 

1619   Jhon Hunt

Thomas Taler
Christopher Hastings
Tho. Fox

 
 

1624    John Hunt et uxor

Widdowe Gibbins
John Times
Alice Gardner and John Gosbroke

 
 

John and Elizabeth had nine children. Elizabeth’s mother, widow Gibbons, came to live with the Hunts and provide help to the household. John died in 1641, leaving a will:
 

John Hunt the elder of Cropredy in the countie of Oxon yeoman deceased Did in the time of his sickness whereof he dyed and the daie and yere above said gave and bequeathe unto Elizabeth his wife all his goods and cattells. And desired her to be good to his children all which words the said John Hunt spake in the presence and hearing of John Hunt.
 

Anne Toms

her mark

 

Probate: July   Elizabeth Hunt Relict of John Snr.
 

 

John died, and left a will in the Perogative Court of Canterbury in 1641. John and Elizabeth had the following children:
 
 

1. Thomas, christened 5 December 1612 in Cropredy; married Elizabeth Freestone 26 October 1640 in Cropredy; listed in the Hearth Tax; buried 1 September 1670 in Cropredy.
 

2. John, christened 28 June 1616 in Cropredy.
 

3. Margaret, christened 17 February 1718/9 in Cropredy.
 

4. Anne, christened 11 August 1621 in Cropredy.
 

5. Justinian, christened 23 January 1623/4 in Cropredy; lived in the Bakehouse in Church Lane; married Ffrancis; died 3 May 1650 in Cropredy.
 

6. Richard, christened 30 March 1628 in Cropredy.
 

7. Catherine, christened 6 August 1630 in Cropredy.
 

8. Elizabeth, christened 23 January 1632/3 in Cropredy.
 

9. Antonie, christened 8 November 1635 in Cropredy.
 

9. Foulke, christened 31 July 1638 in Cropredy.
 
 

SOURCES: Cropredy parish register; Cropredy Bishop's Transcripts; “The Town of Cropredy”, Pamela Keegan.
 
 






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