Lewis Goodin Senior/Husey-Hunt

  Notes:

Raised by great-aunt Letitia Laird (nee Cunningham) following parents early death.
Born Senior, but changed name to Husey-Hunt;
Note of Agnes Letitia Estlin (~1890): Lewis Goodin Senior took the name Husey-Hunt when the Estate of Compton Pauncefoot was left to his wife [Elisabeth Husey] by John Hunt, her cousin. They had 11 children.
According to http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=18759 John Hunt died in 1830.
More on the estate here;
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=18740
There are Senior papers in the Somerset Records;
http://www.nra.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/fedocs.asp?FER=F9830

Extra info from Jeremy Archer;
Educ. Charterhouse.
Of Compton Castle (main house of CP Estate).

I think he was a solicitor as Bernard Senior is listed as articled to Lewis Goodin Senior in the Legal Observer 1837.

1841 Census (age 53) living at Compton Pauncefoot with daughter and numerous servants. Presumably this is at Compton Castle?

Oct 2006; Compton Castle for sale for £22m

The History of Tewkesbury by James Bennett lists Bailiffs of Tewkesbury thus;
1827; Joseph Longmore esq, and Lewis Goodin Senior, esq.
1829; Lewis Goodin Senior esq and George Edmunds Williams, esq.
Also says "....a house and garden in the High Street (then called the Fox, and which now forms part of the premises of Lewis Goodin Senior esq)."
He was also elected a member of the corporation (councillor) in 1825, resigned 1840.
And is listed as a subscriber (to the publication) with address of Compton Castle.

Also "The Tewkesbury yearly register and magazine [ed. by J. Bennett]." contains "The king was pleased to give and grant unto Lewis Goodin Senior, of Compton Pauncefoot, in the County of Somerset, esq, his royal licence and authority that he may, in compliance with an injuction contained in the last will and testament of John Hulbert Hunt, late of Compton Castle, in the said county, esq, deceased, take and henceforth use the surnames of Husey Hunt, in lieu of the surname Senior; and bear the arms of Husey and Hunt (Hunt in the first quarter) in lieu of those of Senior; and that surname and arms may be taken, used and borne by his sons respectively succeeding to the possession of the estates devised by the said will".

Lewis married Elizabeth Husey, daughter of George Husey and Jenny Coster, on 9 Jan 1809 in St Augustine the Less, Bristol. (Elizabeth Husey was born in 1785 in Compton Pauncefoot, Castle Cary, Somerset, died on 6 Oct 1832 in Compton Pauncefoot, Castle Cary, Somerset and was buried in Compton Pauncefoot, Castle Cary, Somerset.)