Mrs Sarah HUNT (c.1798–1868)
Her son Alfred Henry HUNT (c.1831–1860)
St Mary Magdalen section: Row 9, Grave D60
In
Memory of
ALFRED HENRY HUNT
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE
7TH OF JULY 1860,
AGED 28 YEARS
ALSO OF
SARAH HUNT,
MOTHER OF THE ABOVE,
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 28TH OF JUNE 1868
AGED 70 YEARS,
UPWARDS OF 40 YEARS
THE BELOVED WIFE OF
WILLIAM HUNT
OF THIS CITY
.
This gravestone is made of Welsh slate
Mrs Sarah Hunt and her son are very hard to trace. All that can be said with certainty is that Sarah (maiden name unknown) was born in c.1798, and must have married William Hunt in the 1820s, as she is described on the above grave marker as having been his wife for “upwards of 40 years” at the time of her death in 1868.
William Hunt her husband is described as being “of this city”, i.e. Oxford, on the above grave marker.
Their son Alfred Henry Hunt would have been born in 1831/2.
This family is hard to find in the 1841 and 1851 censuses.
Their son Alfred Henry Hunt died in Oxford in 1860:
† Alfred Henry Hunt died at Gloucester Green at the age of 28 on 7 July 1860 and was buried at St Sepulchre’s Cemetery on 13 July (burial recorded in the parish register of St Mary Magdalen Church).
Again Mrs Hunt is hard to find in the 1861 census.
In the 1860s Mrs Hunt appears to have moved to St Giles’s Road east (the south end of the Banbury Road), which was in St Giles’s parish. She died there in 1868:
† Mrs Sarah Hunt died at St Giles’s Road east at the age of 70 on 28 June 1868 and was buried at St Sepulchre’s Cemetery on 1 July (burial recorded in the parish register of St Mary Magdalen Church).
There remains the question of what happened to Sarah’s husband William Hunt, and why he is not buried with his wife and son.
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