Bernard Senior/Husey-Hunt

  Notes:

Born Senior. Took the name Husey-Hunt in ~1843 following the death of his father and his consequent inheritance of the estate at Compton Pauncefoot.
Died without issue and his younger brother the Rev.James inherited the estate.

NB. Census records show born Plymouth, Aitkens records show born Tewkesbury, Glos.

At time of 1891 Census (age 79) was a Solicitor living in Compton Paucefoot with his wife, a nurse and 3 servants. He wife appears to be 87, ie. 8 years older than him.

Have image of an invite thus;
Mr & Mrs Husey-Hunt request the pleasure of Mr & Mrs Gibson-Watts company at dinner on Monday the 28th April 1890 to celebrate their Golden Wedding. 52 The Drive, West Brighton, Dinner at 7:30pm.

This perhaps tie in with information that Compton Castle was let out and they lived in Brighton. In 1901 James Husey-Hunt was living at 68 The Drive, Hove.


Extra info from Jeremy Archer;
Also of Lewes, Sussex. A childhood friend of Edward Lear, the well-known artist, with whom he travelled in Switzerland and Italy in 1854.
Died without issue.
See memorial window in C-P Parish Church.

Bernard married Jane Blackmore, daughter of William Bennett Blackmore and Elizabeth Coster, on 28 Apr 1840 in St Edmund, Salisbury. (Jane Blackmore was born in 1804 in Salisbury, Wiltshire and died on 11 Dec 1895 in Compton Pauncefoot, Castle Cary, Somerset.)