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From: "ian hunter" <sayadian(a)hotmail.com>
To: <BlaenauGwent-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 11:19 AM
Subject: {not a subscriber} Hunter family,Tredegar 19th century
I am looking for any mention of the HUNTER family who were in
Tredegar during the first half of the 19th century.
GEORGE FALCONER HUNTER was born there in 1801, he was a static
engine driver and probably went to France to work with Rhys Davies who
had contracts in France and America to build and man ironworks.
George's son, SAMUEL, an engine fitter, was born in France in 1828 but
is later mentioned in the 1851 census as a visitor to David James a
loco haulier of 71, Church street.
George's brother CHARLES was poor law union vice chairman and
interestingly named his son CHARLES LAFAYETTE, perhaps proof that
George worked on the Tredegar ironworks in Virginia, USA. This
Charles went to Cardifff to become engineer for the Bute docks.
The name DUVAL is also used as a middle name for one of his sisters
Emily who like her sisters Fanny Lafayette and Lucy were
governesses(this probably meant an ability to speak French.The family
were also landowners near Abergavenny and grocers in Tredegar.
I would be grateful if anybody has information, particularly on
George, who disappeared off the face of the earth. Did he stay in
America? I only know that my great grandfather came her to Swansea to
open a bootmakers shop.
There seem to be no trace of the family after 1880 in Tredegar.
Thank you very much
Ian Hunter