The first Hunt to appear in the Cropredy records was Roberd, a weaver. Roberd Hunt was born in the end of the 15th century (approximately 1495). He married Alys before 1520.
 

They lived on the Green by the Cross in Cropredy by 1552. He is found in the land records taking over William Walker’s yardland. Roberd left a will proven in June of 1565, naming his wife Alys as executor, and listing children John, Annes, Thomas, Richard, Margerie, Edward, and Anthony.
 

Roberd died and was buried 11 January 1557/8 in Cropredy. Roberd and Alys had the following children:
 

1. John, born in about 1520 of Cropredy; married (1) Jone, (2) Gillian; buried 17 September 1587 in Cropredy.
 

2. Annes
 

3. Thomas, buried 9 May 1588 in Cropedy.
 

4. Richard, buried 16 August 1616 in Cropredy.
 

5. Margerie
 

6. Edward, married Margaret Howse 9 November 1553 in Cropredy.
 

7. Anthony, christened 16 November 1540 in Cropredy; married Elizabeth Wallis 29 September 1573 in Cropredy; buried 28 November 1618 in Cropredy. “Anthony Hunt was a weaver and lived in a cottage which had land on part of a lay impropriator’s rectorial tithes estate. Anthony Hunt was born is 1540, died aged seventy-eight after a life of farming and weaving. He had been able to take a part in the town affairs for he leased a parcel of land. He married Elizabeth Wallis who could be a member of the blacksmith family of Great Bourton.”  The Town of Cropredy
 
 
 

SOURCES: Cropredy parish register; Cropedy Bishop's Transcripts; “The Town of Cropredy”, Pamela Keegan, www.mewslade.freeserve.co.uk; will of Roberd Hunt, 1565.