Hi,
To those who may be interested in Daniel Samuel Hunt and his family, I am posting a summary of the information made available by his descendants in Perth, Western Australia.
Daniel Samuel HUNT was the 3rd child of Stephen HUNT (1825-1880) and Matilda WOOTTEN (1829-1864). They married on 23 June 1849 at St Luke's Church in Charlton, Kent, England and later moved to Poplar. Their children were: Stephen William HUNT b. 18 Aug 1849 d. 23 Sept 1925; Matilda Emma Eldridge HUNT b.28 May 1851 d. after 1932; Daniel Samuel HUNT b.7 July 1853 d. 6 June 1924; Samuel Charles HUNT b. 11 June 1857 d. 24 March 1878; Charles Henry HUNT b. 26 Aug 1860 d. 16 Feb 1925; Mary Anne HUNT b. 6 Sept 1862 d. 28 Aug 1932.
Daniel Samuel HUNT married Sarah Jane BRANDON on 18 Aug 1875 in Caistor, Lincolnshire. They went on to have a large family:
1. Daniel Samuel HUNT b.14 Sept 1875 Caistor, Lincolnshire d. 25 May 1876 aged 1 year.
2. Mary Emmitt HUNT b.13 March 1878 Caistor, Lincolnshire m. (1) William Joseph Henry GERRARD 5 Dec 1897 (2) Oliver James SEARL 29 April 1923
3. Samuel Daniel HUNT b.21 Nov 1880 Caistor, Lincolnshire m. Georgina Patston in 1900
4. Sarah Jane HUNT b. 10 July 1882 Caistor, Lincolnshire m. James Stuart CRABB 26 Mar 1900
5. Robert Joseph HUNT b. 14 Feb 1884 Caistor, Lincolnshire m. Jane Elizabeth TERRY 17 May 1903
6. Cornelius HUNT b. 2 Dec 1885 Caistor, Lincolnshire m. Ethel Maud BRADY 25 Dec 1907 d. 13 May 1915 on H.M.S. Goiath at Dardanelles, Turkey
7. Daniel Samuel Jubilee HUNT b. 28 June 1887 Caistor, Lincolnshire d. Sept 1916 in Adana, Turkey
8. Alfred HUNT b.4 Dec 1890 d. 1 July 1917 in France
Daniel Samuel HUNT left his family in Lincolnshire and went missing sometime between 1890 and 1892, and was believed to be lost at sea. His wife Sarah, with seven children to support, and believing herself to be a widow, married Arthur Frederick SMITH on 17 Feb 1892 at All Saints in Walworth, Surry. They went on to have two sons, Arthur Frederick SMITH and George Charles Ronald SMITH.
Meanwhile, Daniel made his way to Western Australia around 1896, and remarried Janet MARR in Perth. Janet (b. 26 July 1873) was some 20 years his junior, and had emigrated to Perth in 1892 from Islay in Scotland. They married on 1 Nov 1900 at St John's Church in Pinjarra, Western Australia.
They had the following children:
1. Katie Maud HUNT b.8 March 1897 in Pinjarra, Western Australia d. 7 Aug 1974 in Claremont, W.A.
2. Elizabeth Debra HUNT b. 21 Feb 1899 in Pinjarra d. 3 Aug 1984
3. Daniel Samuel HUNT b. 9 Aug 1901 in Pinjarra d. 2 July 1984
4. Decima Amelia HUNT b. 17 Aug 1903 in West Murray W. A. d. 16 July 1998
5. Janet HUNT b. 7 Dec 1904 in West Murray d. 28 June 1966
6. Samuel Daniel HUNT b. 5 April 1906 in West Murray d. 1 July 1984
7. Victor HUNT b. 21 May 1908 d. 9 Dec 1996
Daniel Samuel HUNT died in Guildford W. A. on 6 June 1924. His wife Janet MARR had died some nine years earlier, on 11 Oct 1915 at the Wireless Hill Station in Applecross.
Janet MARR was the daughter of Robert McGregor MARR, a cooper from Glasgow, Scotland (1833-1907), and Janet HART (1837-1894), who was born in Essequibo, British Guiana, when her parents were there as part of a Scottish labouring force in 1837.
If anyone wishes to learn more details about any of the people mentioned here, please contact me and I'll be happy to help!