Emanuel Hungerford (1785-1872)

This post is part of the series Ancestry of Emanuel Hungerford, where you will see this ancestor in context with all Emanuel’s ancestors.

Emanuel Hungerford was born about 1785 in county Cork, Ireland, the youngest son of John Hungerford and Ann Daunt. He was said to be 87 years at his death (NSW Death Certificate 4816/1872). His birth date was given as 1 February 1785 in Burke’s A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland (1912) p 331, however, this source is unreliable as it gives an incorrect date for his marriage.

Ancestry	Parents	Grandparents	Great-grandparents
Emanuel HUNGERFORD	John HUNGERFORD	Richard HUNGERFORD	Thomas HUNGERFORD
			Susanna BECHER
		Mary Cranfield BECHER	John BECHER
			Mary CRANFIELD
	Ann DAUNT	Achilles DAUNT	Thomas DAUNT
			Elizabeth SYNGE
		Ann DAUNT	Henry DAUNT
			Ann KNOLLES

Emanuel lived at Nohoval, Cork, an estate probably acquired through his mother’s family, the Daunts. In 1807 Emanuel was commissioned as a lieutenant of the 32nd Cork South Regiment in the Irish Militia (Ormerod, Regimental Records of the Third Battalion of the Royal Munster Fusiliers, 1906). On 3 August 1812 he was promoted to Captain (JW Stewart, Gentleman’s and Citizen’s Almanac, 1814, p 217).

Emanuel Hungerford and Catherine Loane were married by licence on 2 October 1813 at St Peter’s Ballymodan, Cork (Ffolliott’s Parish Register Transcripts). Their marriage settlement of 1 October 1813 reported that he held a fee simple estate in part of the townland of Nohoval (Registry of Deeds v 665 p 147 n 458591).

Emanuel and Catherine were third cousins once removed. Both Catherine and Emanuel’s father John were great-great-grandchildren of Emanuel Moore, Baronet, and Martha Hull.

In May 1827, after the birth of their eighth child Anne, Emanuel advertised Nohoval House and demesne for lease (Cork Constitution, 9 June 1827). This was in preparation for their emigration to New South Wales. The choice of destination was probably due to the presence of Catherine’s uncles Roland and Boyle Loane and her cousin Henry Connell in the Australian colonies.

Emanuel, Catherine and their eight children sailed from Cork on 14 December 1827 aboard the Alexander Henry. The Hungerford party on board included Emanuel’s cousins Jonas Morris Townsend and Morris Townsend Somerville and six servants: Elizabeth Asum, Richard Boyle, Patrick and Ellen Brian, John Calahan – and John Knight, Emanuel’s son by a previous relationship.

The family arrived in Sydney, New South Wales on 17 May 1828. They lived briefly in Pitt Street, Sydney, while Emanuel purchased Lochdon, an estate of 2,000 acres near Maitland in the Hunter Valley. They built a residence at Lochdon which was named Farley House.

They farmed at Farley House for several years, expanding their land holdings. This included properties at Baerami and Thungalier. Some of this property was gifted to the Hungerford sons upon their marriages. Notable among these were Font Hill, Owlpen and Windella, bestowed upon sons John, Robert Richard and William Moore as they married three of the Roses of the Hunter, daughters of Tom and Ellen Winder.

The Hungerfords became prominent members of the Hunter Valley settler community. On 29 February 1832 Emanuel was appointed a Justice of the Peace for New South Wales. He became a founding Counsellor of the Maitland district. The family attended St Mary’s Church, West Maitland, the elder daughter Anne marrying the parson, Reverend Robert Chapman.

In 1848 news reached the Hungerfords that Catherine’s only sister, Anne Payne, had died in Ireland, leaving Catherine as sole heir to their parents’ estate which included the Moore family properties at Dunmore, Cork. Septimus Hungerford was sent to Ireland to settle up the inheritance, said to be worth about £40,000. Upon his return in 1852, Septimus discovered his father had just been declared bankrupt, and was able to rectify the situation with the family’s new fortune. Catherine made a will in 1863, dividing the remainder of the inheritance between their children.

In 1855 Emanuel and Catherine left Farley House and retired to Farley Cottage in Bourke Street, Maitland, leaving their youngest son Percy farming at Lochdon. The old house was eventually pulled down in 1870 although a few stones remain on the site.

Catherine died 10 December 1867 at Bourke Street, West Maitland, New South Wales, aged 82, leaving about 70 descendants. Emanuel moved to live with his daughter Anne at St Mary’s Parsonage, West Maitland, where he died 8 August 1872 aged 87. They were buried at Campbell’s Hill Cemetery.

Children

Emanuel had a son John Knight by an unknown woman. Emanuel and Catherine had ten children and 74 grandchildren. Their descendants number well over 5,000 individuals and have been prominent in business, the church, law, medicine, primary industries, wine-making, the arts, education and many other areas.

Emanuel HUNGERFORD (1785 – 8 Aug 1872) and an unknown woman
1	John KNIGHT	Birth	10 Apr 1812	Kilbrittain, Cork
		Death	27 Jan 1912	Wee Waa, New South Wales
		Marriage	27 Feb 1843	West Maitland, New South Wales
		Spouse	Elizabeth DESMOND (1818-1907)
		Children	KNIGHT (8): John, Anna Maria, Elizabeth, Eleanor, Agnes, Thomas, Andrew, John Joseph
Emanuel HUNGERFORD (1785 – 8 Aug 1872) m 2 Oct 1813 Catherine LOANE (1788 – 10 Dec 1867)
2	John Becher [E.1]	Birth	1814	Cork
		Death	25 Jun 1877	Maitland, New South Wales
		Marriage	7 Jun 1839	West Maitland, New South Wales
		Spouse	Anne WINDER (1822-1853)
		Children	HUNGERFORD (5): Emanuel Becher, Fanny, John Moore, Arthur Henry, Percy
3	Robert Richard [E.2]	Birth	24 May 1816	Nohoval, Cork
		Death	24 Mar 1897	Farley, New South Wales
		Marriage	4 Feb 1839	West Maitland, New South Wales
		Spouse	Ellen WINDER (1821-1892)
		Children	HUNGERFORD (11): Kate Agnes, William Augustus, Emma, Susan, Amelia Ellen, Robert George, Anne Loane, Helena Augusta, Marion Louisa, Edward Arthur, Hussey Hastings
4	Emanuel  [E.3]	Birth	4 May 1818	Nohoval, Cork
		Death	10 Jun 1860	West Maitland, New South Wales
		Marriage	4 Feb 1851	West Maitland, New South Wales
		Spouse	Jane BOSTON (1814-1852)
		Marriage	29 Mar 1853	West Maitland, New South Wales
		Spouse	Elizabeth Evanson BOSTON (1822-1920)
		Children	HUNGERFORD (4): John Boston, Elizabeth, Maria, Catherine Evanson
5	William Moore [E.4]	Birth	20 May 1820	Nohoval, Cork
		Death	13 Aug 1883	St Leonards, New South Wales
		Marriage	5 Nov 1845	West Maitland, New South Wales
		Spouse	Agnes WINDER (1825-1862)
		Children	HUNGERFORD (9): Jessie, Walter Henry, Emily, Jane, Melville Winder, Eva, Lovick Tyrrell, Richard Moore, Louisa Agnes
6	Henry [E.5]	Birth	1822	Cork
		Death	14 Nov 1874	Lochinvar, New South Wales
7	Thomas [E.6]	Birth	6 Sep 1823	Nohoval, Cork
		Death	4 May 1904	Ashfield, New South Wales
		Marriage	19 Jun 1852	West Maitland, New South Wales
		Spouse	Emma Hollingsworth WOOD (1829-1872)
		Children	HUNGERFORD (11): Edmund Alexander, Cecil Payne, Catherine Rachel, Herbert Bloomfield, Emma Elizabeth, Frederick Richard, Florence Loane, Kenneth Stuart, Rose, Thomas, Septimus Moore
		Marriage	7 Aug 1872	Waterloo, New South Wales
		Spouse	Catherine Mary MALLON (1845-1927)
		Children	HUNGERFORD (6): Mary Kate, Ethel May, Becher Sealy, Ada Mabel, Roland George Dunmore, Orpen Moore
8	Septimus [E.7]	Birth	12 Aug 1825	Nohoval, Cork
		Death	5 Jul 1927	Mosman, New South Wales
		Marriage	1 Feb 1854	West Maitland, New South Wales
		Spouse	Eliza Sophia PILCHER (1827-1909)
		Children	HUNGERFORD (6): Marcus Orpen, Minna Catherine Eliza, Annette Jemima, Miriam Eliza, Hedley Heber, Beatrice Theodora
9	Anne Loane [E.8]	Birth	4 May 1827	Cork
		Death	30 Apr 1920	Strathfield, New South Wales
		Marriage	7 May 1850	West Maitland, New South Wales
		Spouse	Robert George CHAPMAN (1814-1879)
		Children	CHAPMAN (7): Robert Edward, Grant Broughton, Archibald Wellesley, Annie Katherine, Ernest Wykeham, Tempe Florence, Florence Edith
10	Percy Payne [E.9]	Birth	24 May 1830	West Maitland, New South Wales
		Death	20 Jul 1912	Stanmore, New South Wales
		Marriage	3 Oct 1868	Newcastle, New South Wales
		Spouse	Emily Angelina SMITH (1852-1924)
		Children	HUNGERFORD (11): Percy Emanuel, Percy Samuel, Henry Walter, Alfred Ernest, Eva Lillian, Roland Loane, Claude Nohoval, Septimus Clive Moore, Laura Loane, Leslie Gordon, Becher Tennyson
11	Catherine [E.10]	Birth	14 Jan 1834	West Maitland, New South Wales
		Death	11 Jun 1909	Paddington, New South Wales
		Marriage	15 Jan 1857	West Maitland, New South Wales
		Spouse	Edward SWIRE (1831-1910)
		Children	SWIRE (4): John Edward, Herbert, Percy, Ernest

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