The journey starts, initially, with three relatives John Bainbridge, Robert Bainbridge, and Edward Hunt.
We'll talk about John and Robert Bainbridge in another post but first let's talk about Edward Hunt.
Firstly, Robert Hunt...he married my fourth great grandmother Elizabeth Tiplady in 1805 in Whitby, North Yorkshire. They would go on to have four children but sadly three died in infancy. The deaths of the three children may have been the reason why they broke up and both remarried. Elizabeth Tiplady would go on to marry John Spencelayh who is my fourth great grandfather. So I guess this makes Robert Hunt my fourth great step grandfather.
Robert Hunt's great grandson Edward Hunt was born in 1863 in Stockton on Tees, Durham. He would later move to Chicago and died in 1903 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA. The 1881 Census shows Edward was a Boilermaker’s Apprentice. He married Mary Ellen Gale in 1884 in Darlington, Durham, England. They had five children; two born in England and three born in Illinois.
The family traveled from Liverpool in Lancashire England to New York in the United States of America on board the Cunard ship Etruria. Etruria and her sister ship Umbria were the last two Cunarders that were fitted with auxiliary sails. Both ships were among the fastest and largest liners then in service according to Wikipedia.
Sadly Edward died in 1903 and this piece taken from WikiTree shows his death was due to an accident:Chicago County Coroner Inquest# 25947, Record# 188 - Edward Hunt - inquest on 18th and 22nd of April 1903. His death upon the 18th day of April, 1903, from shock & injuries received caused by being run over by a freight car while attempting to get on the foot board of the engine to the New York, Chicago & St Louis R.R. Co. in their switch yard at 93rd St, while engine was hauling said car.
Edward's son, also called Edward (1892 to 1957), would go on to marry three times. Firstly to Edna Earle Woodworth (1895 to 1959) in 1913 in Mason, Washington, USA, secondly to Elma Lee Hussey in 1921 and lastly to Freddie Lee Hulvas in 1933 in Pacific County, Washington, USA.
It would be his wife Edna Woodworth who would lead to many of my discoveries of family, both famous and infamous, in America and Great Britain.
But more of those later. I have to keep you in suspense so that you will keep tuning into my Blog in case you miss something. Let's just say Dame Maggie Smith and Sir Patrick Stewart.....
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