Don't put your thread to bed just yet! Here's a little more info, regarding burials.
Sarah and William are both buried in Welford Rd cemetery, but in separate graves.
Sarah's shares her grave with 2 other people:
JONES CHARLES MARTIN 1851 OCT 22 age 36 5 YORK STREET SAINT GEORGE PAINTER
HUNT SARAH 1878 AUG 26 age 86 WIGGESTON HOSPITAL SAINT MARY
HUNT AMELIA 1879 FEB 22 age 54 RUDING STREET THE FRIARS
This is William's:
HUNT WILLIAM 1857 DEC 28 age 67 LEICESTER UNION HOUSE SAINT MARGARET
HUNT JOHN 1858 JUN 22 age 65 CAUSEWAY LANE ALL SAINTS
WRIGHT CHARLES HENRY 1884 SEP 16 age 2 WEST STREET SAINT MARY
WELLS JOHN ARTHUR 1900 MAR 31 age 16DAYS 6 CRAVEN PLACE LEICESTER
WELLS FRANCES ROSALIND 1900 APR 4 age 21DAYS 6 CRAVEN PLACE LEICESTER
WELLS DORIS ADELAIDE 1902 OCT 6 age 5MTHS SANVEY GATE LEICESTER
WELLS GEORGE EDWARD 1904 JUN 29 age 4MTHS 28 CRAVEN STREET LEICESTER
This should help you to rule them in/out.
Many thanks for this information. I had been hoping to visit the Welford Road Cemetery visitor centre when lockdown eventually lifts but you have saved me the trouble.
I think that Amelia Hunt, born about 1825, was the wife of William and Sarah Hunt’s son Thomas, who married Emily Roe in St Mary’s in 1843. She made a mark so the name discrepancy is easily explained. At the time Thomas’s address was Red Cross Street. In the 1851 Census Thomas and Amaelia Hunt were living in Shakespeare Court which would have been very close by (I think that the modern Shakespeare’s Head pub pretty much stands beside the site of Red Cross Street). Thomas was a hawker like his father William.
I think that the John Hunt buried in the same plot as William was almost certainly the brother of William who was baptised in 1792 in St Nicholas.
None of the other names seem to fit in with them. If William was a pauper, as seems likely given that he died in the workhouse, presumably he would have been buried in a pauper’s grave. (Cause of death was asthma and “disease of brain”, so presumably he would have been unable to work). Wyggeston Hospital, where Sarah later died, was an almshouse, so presumably she was poor too. What I do find a bit puzzling is how William and Sarah both seem to share their plots with one other person who seems to be a relative, as well as the probable strangers. If they were pauper burials, the strangers seem easier to explain than the relatives in these plots.
Dave
