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    1. [HUNT-L] HUNT of SHELBURNE CO., NOVA SCOTIA
    2. This is all the information I have on my HUNT side of the family. If anyone has anything to add, please do! Someone in Nova Scotia offered to do these lookups for me - I've kept all of the information he to me sent in his e-mail, including notes: l88l Census for Shelburne Co. Nova Scotia HUNT Robert age 44 Fisherman Martha age 42 Hugh age 11 FREE BAPTIST PLACE OF RESIDENCE CAPE SABLE ISLAND. SHELBURNE CO., N.S. 1891 Census for Shelburne Co. Nova Scotia HUNT Robert age 57 Fisherman Martha age 52 Hugh age 2l (SON) Martha age 30 (This age is wrong..she is the First Wife of Hugh Hunt) John age 1 (I believe he is the son of Hugh Hunt and Martha Hunt) FREE BAPTIST RESIDENCE CAPE SABLE ISLAND SHELBURNE CO., N.S Here is the first marriage for HUGH HUNT: Vital Statistics : Nova Scotia - Shelburne Co. MARRIAGES Marriage Register Shelburne Co. Nova Scotia Reel #l6542 year 1888 Page #181 entry #91 Married: Nov. 17th, 1888 Cape Sable Island By License ...Free Baptist Groom: HUGH HUNT Age: 24 Bachelor Occupation: Mariner Residence at time of Marriage: Cape Sable Island Place of Birth: Cape Sable Island Parents: Robert and Martha Hunt Father's Occupation: Mariner Bride: MARTHA NICKERSON Age: 2l Spinster Residence at time of Marraige: Cape Sable Island Born: Cape Sable Island Parents; Thomas and Abigail Nickerson Father's Profession: Mariner Witnesses: Joseph Hunt Eldora Hunt (Could be an uncle and aunt of Hugh's ) Free Baptist I think I have a tentative date of death for Martha Hunt, Hugh's first wife ... died Oct. 25th, l894 HUGH HUNT'S second marriage: Vital Statistics Nova Scotia Shelburne Co. Marriages: Marriage Register Shelburne Co. N.S. Year l895 Page #232 Enry #60 Date of Marriage: Sept. 25th, 1895 Stoney Island...Shelburne Co. N.S. by License Free Baptist Groom: HUGH HUNT Age: 35 ( I believe this should read 25 but shown as 35 in register so copied as was ) WIDOWER Profession: Fisherman Residence at time of marriage: Stoney Island, Shelburne Co. N.S. (I think they are referring to Cape Sable Island but copied as shown) Born: Stoney Island (I think they are still referring to Cape Sable Island but again copied as shown) Parents: Robert and Martha Hunt Father's Profession: Fisherman Bride: MAGGIE CHASE Age l8 Spinster Residence at time of marriage Stoney Island, Shelburne Co. N.S. Where Born: Stoney Island, Shelburne Co. N.S. Parents: William and Ada Atwood Witnesses: Orland Atwood and Ida Chase NOTE: MARRIAGE WAS AT BRIDE'S PARENTS' RESIDENCE. ROBERT HUNT, Hugh's father - date of death March 29th, l907. HUGH HUNT had four children: JOHN, MINNIE, GRACE AND MABEL (my grandmother). HUGH and his daughters came to Boston (1910?). MINNIE HUNT married CARL WHITNEY - lived in Vassalboro, Maine. GRACE HUNT married GUS O'CONNOR - lived in New York. MABEL HUNT married PETER POWERS - lived in Boston. On the 1920 census HUGH was living with his daughter MABEL and family in Boston. According to a family member he also lived at Sailor's Snug Harbor Home in the Germantown section of Quincy, MA (probably after 1920). Believed he returned to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Cannot find a death record in MA. Linda Boston, MA

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