Mary Wright Hunt
October 1789 – 8 November 1855 · Hunt line
Names
- Given
- Mary Wright
- Surname
- Hunt
The formal baptismal name and the name a person was actually called are both kept, and neither is derived from the other. Spelling drift between records is evidence, not noise.
Immediate family
- Father
- Richard Hunt
- Mother
- Elizabeth
- Married
- Nicolaus Hitge 14 May 1820, W.G.H. WRIGHT
- Children
A life in the record
- October 1789 born Born
- 14 May 1820 married Married Nicolaus Hitge
- 1846 witness Witnessed a baptism · Aletta Catharina Maria Helena Hitge
- 8 November 1855 died Died
Who stood with them
Who signed at a baptism, a will or a survey is not incidental. It is the clearest surviving record of which families stood close to which.
- they stood for
Aletta Catharina Maria Helena Hitge baptism · 1846
on Wit Plaats (Vrolikheid No. 177 Ptn 1)
Stories
- mentioned Vrolykheid No. 177: a farm history
What we don't know
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Sources
- Baptism of Aletta Katharina Mary Helena Hitges, b. 11 June 1846Dutch Reformed Church register (congregation not identified on the image)Baptism register, pages 910-911, entry for Aletta Katharina Mary Helena Hitges, 1846Supplied as a screenshot. The ark and film/image numbers were never captured, so the original cannot be ordered from this entry alone.
Research notes
[TREE] Added 29 Jul 2026 under the people-related-to-the-land rule: father/mother Charles Frederick HitgeL (PER-000327); father/mother Hester Carolina Adriana HitgeH (PER-000178). Thin record; dates as in the tree.
These are working notes, not finished prose: they carry the reasoning, the corrections and the things still marked to verify. They are kept here so the page itself can read as what is known.
Elders
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