FAMILY GROUP RECORD OF
JOHN AND JONE HUNT
 


John Hunt was born in the early part of the 16th century (approximately 1520). He is the son of Roberd and Alys Hunt. He married 1) Jone, then 2) Gillian. They lived on the Green in Cropredy, and John was a husbandman.

 

He and his first wife, Jone (and later his second wife, Gillian) lived on the Green, and farmed 3 1/2 yardlands. One yardland in Cropredy was about 32 to 34 acres divided into arable land, meadow, and greensward. Land in Cropredy was farmed in strips. The Hunt's house was built in Hornton stone, a local golden-colored stone. John in 1587 had a Hall, upper chamber, second chamber, and kitchen. The Hunt’s farm was prosperous: “Hunt’s farm was the third largest at that time and they could afford more than most.” The Town of Cropredy; Pamela Keegan   John died and was buried in Cropredy in 1587, leaving a will and inventory of his property. . “When John died in 1587, only half of the house was given in the inventory for Justinian and his wife Elizabeth, who was not a local girl, lived in the rest. After 1586 John’s second wife Gillian would exchange accommodations with her step-son, but she did not stay for long, apparently preferring to live elsewhere.” The Town of Cropredy; Pamela Keegan

 

John was buried 17 September 1587 in Cropredy, leaving a will and inventory. The inventory of John Hunt in 1587 shows considerable property:
 

John Hunt of Cropredy, Husbandman

Inventory taken 17 October 1587 by William Rose, William Almond, Thomas French, Robert Robyns and Richard Howse
 

 

In the Hall

a longe table and a ronde table

two frames tow chheres and two formes
and one stoole
two cubberdes and on ould table

 
 

In the Upper Chamber

A table two tressles two formes

and a beddestedd and a little forme

 
 

The Second Chamber

A gardener (corn stove) and two bedestedd

three pooltes a possenett a dobnett one paune Fyve kettles
a chavinge Dishe 8 litle skellettes Fyve candelstickes and a skymmer
two cobberdes and wee spytles two payre pf pot handles tow payres
of poott huckes and a payre of Bellowes a payre of tonges
A Frynge Pane and a cleyver and a Brand Iron
Seaven platters Fyve Pewter dishes foure saucsers six potingers
two saltes a dripping panne a dauson of sponns two dowsen and
halfe of Trenchers a dowsen dishes
two Barketts two tunnes a Bruyinge fatte and worte
Kyver and the steede and one oulde kyver, a boulting whytche and a
maillding stoocke
the Bryne (brewing) leade and a maullte myll

 
 

In the kytchinge

three stoulles and a hempe stooke and tow shelfes a lanterne

a saultynge trouffe and an other oulde trouff foure lammes (tubs)
a vergysse barrell achverne a yealinge Barrell and ould lamme a
chese presse a pouderying tubbe three chese Boardes two little
Kymells a sticke an oulde theyl two Mylke pans Foure chese
ffates three steynes Foure payles
two ould Fattes (vats)
two Boardes a truclle bede two oulde dry Barrels a Joyned
Bede a forme a lynen wheale a wollen wheale and seven yards
of hyer clothes and a Bed sted
Foure coffers and sixe guyssyons
two coverlettes three Blanketes two mattereshes and one
Bouldster three wyndyn shettes
Twelve payre of shettes Four bourdclothes thyrtyne table
nappkynes and Five tovells

 

Seaven horses and coultes

twelve beestes younge and oulde
Foure wenynge calves
Fyve scoure and sixtyne shepp yong and oulde
Fyve hogges and three stores

three Bottells

Fyve Sythes Fyve Forkes a donge forck a spade
an axe an hatchet
Seaven sackes three syffes two skettles and a malt silfe
a garner a musterd myle and two wedaches
three Iron Bordes cartes
Four harrowes two plowes furnyshed
Plowe geeres and carte geers
A tenant sawe
the tymber and the Bordes that is in the grasse Yarde
For Fyer woode about the yarde

For two hoffevells in the cowe pene with furces

halme and wood

an hovel in the Backyarde

Bordes sawde and a carte Bodye a payre of

Muckcart drawges plowe timber and carte timber a

scaffeld over the stalle and a hovell in the courte

Three ladderes and a ladder polle seven shipprackes a

score of new hurdells

the croppe of three yardlandes

the wole of five score shepe

a scaffold over the coultes howse and the

scaffold over the bullock house

Nyne hens and caces

For all his apperel Sum £114 - 11 - 10
 

 

John and Jone had the following children:
 
 

1. Justinyan, christened 10 April 1548 in Cropredy; married Elizabeth Garner 20 October 1585 in Wardington, Oxfordshire; buried 6 April 1609 in Cropredy.
 

2. William, christened 1 February 1550/1 in Cropredy.
 

3. Elsabeth, christened 8 July 1553 in Cropredy; married Robert Burbridge in 1583 in Cropredy.
 

4. Annes, christened 26 June 1555 in Cropredy.
 

5. Henry
 
 

SOURCES: Cropredy parish registers; “The Town of Cropredy”, Pamela Keegan, www.mewslade.freeserve.co.uk; Cropredy parish register on CD; Wardington parish register on CD.
 

 



If you have any additional information about this family, please contact me at alice@boydhouse.com.
 
 

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