Dear Daphne -I have only just found this site and Google brought me to this page: I am trying to find info on the Hunts (they were the 2nd main landowners in Naunton Beauchamp, Worcs-I'm sure where you were searching for, the name historically also could even have been 'Norton'..) ..my grandfather George Whitaker was born George Hunt (1889, I think) and inherited Caldewell estate at Drakes Broughton right near there -he was a cousin of Whitaker, and had to change his name to Whitaker (actually Whitaker-Wilson ,but he lopped the -Wilson off ,according to my late Ma).
What I'd like to find out, though, is, from your Q, who his parents/ancestors were, so wonder if you are also related to Francis Hunt, to whom I and my father's family are - and who the in-between generations were , i.e. between Francis Hunt and my great-grandfather, who was, I am pretty sure named Charles Hunt (we have a painting of him commissioned by my grandfather in the family, done by a portraitist who has a number of works in the NPG in London).
I've only recently received some things from my cousin's wife/widow Ivona Whitaker which have led to me trying to trace that line back, so I'd be delighted if you have any info that would help! Kind rgds, Max Whitaker.