James HUNT ( - )
Hunt and Sons advert
| RiD No.: | 1677 |
Personal Details
| Census | 1841 | |
| Ber Street, Norwich This is a possible transcript of the 1841 census return for James and Sarah. The original has not been examined. James Hunt / Male / 25 / Norfolk Sarah Hunt / Female / 20 / Norfolk In this census, ages were rounded to the nearest 5 years so this does not provide an accurate(ish) birth date. |
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| Occupation | 1865 | Confectioner |
| On son James marriage certificate, James (snr) occupation is given as "Confectioner" | ||
Marriage and Family Details
| Spouse | Sarah UNKNOWN ( - ) | |
| Children | James HUNT (1842-1891) | |
Note on Marriage to Sarah UNKNOWN
I do not have a definitive marriage date for James and Sarah, but one possible record
might be found in the Parish Records of St Martin at Palace in Norwich, where a James Hunt married a Sarah
Cooke on the 2nd April 1837 (six months before the introduction of compusory registration).
Witnesses to the marriage were Charles and Sarah Thurlow.
Two seperate sources, indicate that James formed Hunt and Co, a mineral water manufacturer and supplier,
in 1840, but the 1841 census, shortly after James and Sarah are married, shows James' occupation as a "Cutler"
i.e. knife sharpener and seller, so it is unlikely that he had formed Hunt and Co by that date.
As yet I have been unable to find James and Sarah in the 1851 or 1861 censuses, which would confirm
his occupation, however, at the time of son James' marriage to Emma in 1865, James snr is shown as
a "confectioner".
The archives of the multinational company Unilever, suggest that Hunt and Sons was founded in 1840
(although this doesnt really tie in with the 1841 census so perhaps they mean 1840's?).
Unilever's original parent company, Lever Brothers, purchased the business and re-incorperated it on
the 13 July 1920 "To acquire and take over as a going concern and carry on....the business of Mineral
Water Manufacturers and Manufacturing Confectioners, now carried on by Hunt and Son Limited, at Great
Yarmouth, in the County of Norfolk..........."