BIRTHRIGHTS A GENEALOGICAL RECORD OF CANADIAN BRANCHES OF HUNT, SCOTT, IVES & FARWELL FAMILIES, INCLUDING THE LINEAGE OF John & Robert Hunt of Fitzroy Tps. Carleton Co. Ont. Daniel Scott of Dunham Tps. Mississquoi Co. Que. Joseph & Joel Ha II Ives of Magog Tps. Stanstead Co. Que. Gladden Farwel I of Compton Tps. Stanstead. Co. Que. AND ALLIED FAMILIES Compiled by lvbjor W.H. Hunt, B.Sc., C.E., M.E.I.C., E.D. Printed and bound at Winnipeg lvbnitoba by McCu.llough 1s Multigraphing & T.W. Taylor & Co. Ltd. 1957 HUNT FAMILY Contents PAGE INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I Origin of family name of Hunt. 1 CHAPTER II Irish Huntso Miscellaneous notes relative to Hunt, Gillan, Mohill, Census of Ireland 1821, 1851, Irish wills, Letters relative to Hunts. Confirmation of Hunt Armorial Bearings. 3 CHAPTER III Hunts of County Leitrim and their descendants, Ancestry of William who married Mary Waters. Details of method used, in numbering generations, and arrangement of material. 16 CHAPTER IV Family of John Hunt and Latetia Gillan. 17 CHAPTER V Family of Robert Hunt and Mary Gillan. 44 CHAPTER VI Families of George Hunt and Fanny Harper, and her second husband Thomas Hunt< 50 CHAPTER VII Family of William Hunt and Eliza Shaw. 53 CHAPTER VIII Family of Joseph Hunt and Latetia Johnston. 54 CHAPTER IX Family of Thomas Hunt and Margaret Guinnis. 55 CHAPTER X Family of Alexander Hunt and Margaret Deacon. 57 CHAPTER XI Families of other Hunt families of Ireland and Canada. And miscellaneous data" 57 CHAPTER XII Hunts of County Limerick 0 63 BIRTHRIGHTS Introduction Ten years of earnest effort to collect and compile accurate information, relative to our antecedents. although partially successful, leaves much to be desired, particularly with regard to the Hunt side of the house. Should the author of this manuscript be prevented from completing the work com - menced in 1920, it is hoped that some other member of the family will be sufficiently interested to carry on the task to completion. For the Ives, Scott, and Farwell families may it be said that all connections shown in this memorandum are confirmed by documentary evidence. This fortunate condition is due to the care exercised by the early New England settlers in recording and preserving their family records. Considerable difficulty has been experienced in obtaining documentary evidence with which to confirm the obvious connection between the Currawn and Limerick Hunts, because Irish records have from time to time been destroyed, particularly during the rebellions of 1798 and 1920-22. The theory that this connection does exist, is supported only by tradition, as verified by members of the Hunt families, in Canada and in Ireland, by similarity of family names, religion, habits of life, likes and dislikes, weaknesses and virtues, and striking family resemblances. Should an opportunity be presented to some of the younger members of our family, to visit Ireland with time available for the task, may it be suggested that searches could be conducted in church and other records in localities undermentioned, for entries regarding Hunts, Gillans or any other family connected by marriage with ours County Leitrim - Townlands of Currawn, Killeemane, Ruskanamona, (now Conboy), Clooncagh. Town of Mohill, Eskercullia, Knockadrinan, Cloontumper, Milreagh, Cloonmorris, Drumard, Magerrawn, Diocese of Kilmore, Parish of Mohill. County Council Chamber Carrickon-Shannon. County Longford - Sandy Hill, for origin of the Gillans. Counties of Tipperary and Limerick - For Hunt wills or agreements of sale, or land leases. Registry of Deeds, Dublin - To ascertain location and nature of land leases or deeds for Currawn, County Carlow, Bellina vain, Castelridge. The idea of starting a task of this nature was conceived at Moose Jaw. Saskatchewan in 1913, when a Miss Williams, (ac&ide11 of Chief Justice E. K. Williams of Winnipeg, Manitoba) whose mother was a Hunt, and a descendant of Captain John Hunt of the Army of Charles I, noticed the close resemblance of the writer to her Uncle Robert Hunt. Enquiries addressed to Ulster King of Arms in 1920 resulted in the provision of sufficient evidence to make possible a confirmation of Arms, by Ulster King of Arms to the descendants of John Hunt who came to Canada in 1932. These armorial bearings do not differ greatly from those granted to Sir De Vere Hunt, 1st Bart of Curragh Chase. born about 1750, and to those of Major Samuel Bradshaw Hunt, born 1840. Since 1920 the facts set down in this memorandum have been gathered from various sources in England, Ireland and the United States of America; including: Public Records Office, London; Public Archives, Ottawa, Canada; New England Historical Genealogical Society, 9 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass.; Parish of Mohill Church' Records; Public Records Office, Dublin, Ireland and Public Library, New York. Many Canadian relatives have cooperated in providing information relative to later generations, among whom may be mentioned: Mrs. Len. Washer of Toronto (nee Ruth Ellis) of Ottawa, Canada. Mrs. Edward Hawman of Powassan, Ont. (nee Mary Hunt) Mrs. James Dempsey of Hurdman's Bridge, Ottawa. {nee Claire Gillan) Mr. and Mrs. John Lewis Hunt of Galetta, Ontario. Mrs. Minnie Daly of Mather, Man. (nee Minnie Hunt) Mrs. T. Mason Talbot, B. A., of Winnipeg. (nee Lovisa Hunt) Miss Mary Talbot, M.A., of Winnipeg, Man. American cousins who have contributed are: Mrs. Crossman Calvert of Binghamton, New York. (nee. Edith Hall) Mr .. Charles Wesley Hunt of Randolph, Mass. Mr. James E. Scott of Calistoga, California. It is hoped that the facts here recorded may be a source of satisfaction and pride to those of this generation as well as to later ones. Records pertaining to the four families bear no evidence of any member having been convicted of crime. It seems remarkable that the forebears of all four families - Hunt, Scott, Ives and Farwell apparently sprang from the same source. All four families seem to have res­ ponded in a similar manner to conditions imposed upon them by their rulers from the time of the Battle of Hastings (when they first appear in records) to the present time. Their movements and migrations in every case appear to have been initiated by a determination to enjoy freedom of thought and action. May our children's children, exercise the same good judgment in the choice of life partners as that shown by our predecessors. William Harold Hunt, 336 Maplewood Ave .. Winnipeg, Manitoba, February 1st, 1930. MRS. CROSSMAN CAL VERT 5, B. A. MISS MARY T ALBOr5, M, A. NEE EDITH BASFORD HALL MRS. M. L. J. WASHER NEE RUTH ELLIS, B,A. THREE OUT ST A:-mrNG CONTRIBUTORS TO THE CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK. Chapter I HUNT The family name Hunt, like Hunter, Huntsman, John le Venner, or Richard Fenner, originated as a name given to professional followers of the chase. In the Knight's Tale, "the hunte and home and hounds beside him" are mentioned, and "The Hunte ystrangled with the Wilde heres". Forms like Walter Hunte or Nicholas le Hunte are very common in old English records. A compound of this family name "Borehunte" carries back to the days when wild boars ranged the forests of Merrie England. "Walter le Wolfe hunte" is another name mentioned in annals during the period of the Inquisition. A family of this name held lands in Derby- shire by the service of keeping the forest free from wolves. In the forty-third year of the reign of Edward III. a Thomas Eugene Pitchley held land in the county of Northampton by the service of finding, at his own cost, certain dogs for the destruction of wolves and foxes in this country, and in Rutland, Oxford, Essex, and Buckingham counties. As late as the eleventh year of the reign of Henry VI, Sir Henry Plimpton held a borate of land in Nottinghamshire by service of winding a horn to chase and frighten away the wolves in Sherwood Forest. In parts of Ireland the name Hunt is the anglicized form of Feighry (O'Fiachra). In the districts surrounding Birr, Sligo town and Tubbercurry. In Sligo county, in Fermanagh and southern parts of Donegal, it is the anglicized form of Feighney (O'Fiachna), and of Feghany (0' Fiachna) in North Sligo; of o• Foy (O' Fiaich) in Limerick, Mayo and Galway; and of Mac­ Confiaich in County Mayo. The word fiach means a "hunt·• or a "chase". We are told that the progenitor of the Hunt family was an officer in the Army of William the Conqueror. After the Battle of Hastings and the conquest of Erigland, for services rendered, he was granted lands in the north of Erigland. On these lands he settled down to peaceful pursuits, married a British maiden arid laid a foundation for the Hunt family. About 1540 a member of the Hunt family travelled over England "working for the interests of common people". Tradition tells us that the Hunts served with Cromwell and took sides with the Puritans during the period in which the commons and the Lords were settlirig their differences. The name Hunt first appears in New England history in the reign of James I and then in connection with the colonization of Virginia. During James I's reign many of the soldiers and sailors who in Queen Elizabeth's reign had been engaged in fighting her battles found themselves without employment. They had the choice of either engaging in the quarrels of other nations or incurring the hazards of the :-.Jew World, towards which all eyes were then turned by the return of Sir Walter Raleigh. Gosnold, a brave seaman whose ship we are told was the first one to sail directly across the Atlantic, interested three men, Edward Maria Wing­ field, a west of England merchant, Robert Hunt, a clergyman, and Capt.