The Hurt Family (8 Generations)

Our story of the Hurt family (my mother's paternal grandmother's line) goes back 303 years.

This interesting surname is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and derives from the Olde English pre 7th Century "heorot", Middle English "hert", stag, male deer, and would have been given to a swift mover. The surname is first recorded in the mid 11th Century and can also be found as Harte, Heart, Hart and Hurt. [1]

There are no less than twenty Coats of Arms granted to this illustrious family, one of them being a shield divided per chevron blue and red, in chief a fountain and in base two gold hearts counter-trippant. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Aelfric Hort, which was dated circa 1060, in the "Olde English Byname Register", Hampshire, during the reign of King Edward, known as "The Confessor", 1040 - 1066. [2]

Daniel Hurt

b. abt 1713 d. July 15th, 1758

married for thirteen years on June 17th, 1745

Hannah Westley

b. 1713 d. unknown

(8th great grandparents)

Places lived: Woodhouse Eaves, Leicestershire, England

Joseph Hurt

b. 1750 d. May 27th, 1798

married for twenty-two years on July 7th, 1776

Ann Wainwright

b. August 6th, 1749 d. unknown

(7th great grandparents)

Places lived: Newton Linford, Leicestershire, England. Woodhouse Eves, Leicestershire, England. Markfield, Leicestershire, England.

Thomas Hurt

b. June 20th, 1779 d. 1850

married for forty-four years on February 18th, 1806

Mary Smart

b. 1783 d. 1855

(6th great grandparents)

Places lived: Newton Linford, Leicestershire, England. Woodhouse Eves, Leicestershire, England.

Ansty, Leicestershire, England.

1851 Census a year after her husband passed.

William Hurt

b. 1820 d. 1887

married for twenty-one years on November 14th, 1836

Elizabeth Lockwood

b. 1819 d. April 22nd, 1858

(5th great grandparents)

Places lived: Woodhouse Eves, Leicestershire, England. Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. Shepshed, Leicestershire, England.

All Saints Parish in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England.

 1861 Census

 1871 Census

1881 Census

England Death Index Q2 - April, May, June 1858

Thomas Hurt

b. October, 1837 d. January 1897

married for nineteen years on November 14th, 1856

Elizabeth Bexon

b. July 1838 d. January 1876

(4th great grandparents)

Places lived: Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. Shepshed, Leicestershire, England.

 1771 Census

 1781 Census

1791 Census

William Hurt

b. January 18th, 1857 d. April 5th, 1903

married for twenty-six years on July 16th, 1876

Mary Ann Couthers

b. January 25th, 1856 d. October 1909

(3rd great grandparents)

Places lived: Shepshed, Leicestershire, England. Aberdare, Glamorgan, Wales.

 1891 Census

1901 Census

Frank Bexon Hurt

b. May 25th, 1885 d. May 10th, 1921

married for eleven years in January 1910 to

Daisy May Atkins

b. 1888 d. After 1911

(2nd great grandparents)

Places lived: Seacombe, Cheshire, England. Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales. Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, Wales.

Daisy May Atkins

Frank was a fisherman on the Welsh coast.

1891 Census

1901 Census

1911 Census

Handwritten Family Records

James Albert Bird

b. November 21st, 1910 d. 1969 (still confirming death date)

married on February 17th, 1934

Betty May Hurt

b. December 21st, 1910 d. 1994

(great grandparents)

Places lived: Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales. Aberavon, Glamorgan, Wales. Loughborough, Leicestershire. Ashby De La Zouch, Leicestershire.

Great-Grandma Betty May Hurt

Great-Grandma Betty May Hurt

My memory of great-grandma Betty is from the summer of 1994 when our family moved from South Africa back home to England. She was a teeny-tiny, frail woman, and she had incurred a leg injury which disallowed her to bend one of her legs. My granddad took us to see her in her assisted living care home, and afterwards took us on a tour of all the places he grew up. I was only eight, so I have snippets of memories. After great-grandma Betty's funeral we were given many of her household belongings (as we'd just moved there). We also got this photo from my Nana's personal photograph collection when she passed.

Happy 303 years to the Hurt Family.

-Kiki Nakita-

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