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Captain Cook as a missionary but never returned. The official 
list of Freemen of Norwich shows that John Hunt, described 
as a “‘ stationer,”’ not as an apprentice, took up his freedom 
of the city on 24th February, 1801, and at this period a John 
Hunt, probably the subject of this article, was living at 12, 
Red Well Street, where he ran a circulating library.* It is 
interesting to note that this house, now known as 2, Redwell 
Street, was opposite to the Church of St. Michael at Plea, 
where Hunt’s first two children were baptized. 
The family Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. Kett, a 
great-granddaughter of John Hunt, gives the dates of birth 
of his children as follows: John, 6. 11th March, 1801 ; + 
Samuel Valentine, b. 14th February, 1803 ;{ Charlotte, b. 5th 
September, 1804; Eliza, b. lst December, 1806; George, b. 
18th June, 1809; Mary Anne, 6. 3rd April, 1811; Alfred, b. 
6th August, 1813; and Julia Eliza, b. 23rd October, 1815. 
About 1809 John Hunt, with his family, was living at Beccles, 
where he carried on a seminary for young ladies, but a bad 
type of ringworm making its appearance in the school, he 
gave it up and came to Norwich. 
From the title-page of his British Ornithology, dated 1815, 
it appears that John Hunt’s residence at this period was in 
Rose Lane. This is confirmed by Henry Stevenson,§ who . 
states that, on the authority of Hunt’s son, his father lived 
“in Rose Lane, and his garden occupied the present [1866] 
site of Lloyd’s stonemason’s yard.”’ || Stevenson, in his copy 
of the British Ornithology, which was afterwards bought by 
the late Lord Lilford, has added a note: ‘“ Hunt’s son, 
cashier at the Norwich Post Office, told me his father lived in 
Fisher’s Lane, close to the Ecclesiastical Stone-Mason’s yard 
(1872), opposite the corner piece of ground at thé Thorpe end 
of the Prince of Wales’ Road, and here in his garden he used to 
see the little Woodpeckers which had crossed the river near 
the Foundry Bridge from the then Thorpe Woods.” Steven- 
son’s reference to “ Fisher’s Lane ” must be an error for Saint 
Faith’s Lane, which, according to Fuller’s Map of Norwich, 
1871, crosses Rose Lane ; at the junction of these lanes was 
situate Foundry Bridge Tavern, near which, if not actually 
* Peck’s Norwich Directory, 1802. 
+ Baptized 8th January, 1804; registered at the Church of St. 
Michael at Plea, Norwich. 
} Baptized 8th January, 1804; registered at the Church of St. Michael 
at Plea, Norwich. 
§ Henry Stevenson, 6. 1833; d. 1888: Author of The Birds of 
Norfolk. 
|| The Birds of Norfolk, Vol. I, 1866, p. 294, 
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