Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameRobert HURT Sr. 596,25, 18432
Birth Date1515
Birth PlaceAshbourne, Derbyshire, England
Death Date10 Mar 1584 Age: 69
Death PlaceAshbourne, Derbyshire, England
Burial Date11 Mar 1584
Burial PlaceAshbourne, Derbyshire, England
FatherRalph HURT , 36864 (~1485-<1539)
MotherAlice HARRIS , 36865 (1499-1539)
Spouses
Birth Date1517
Birth PlaceOsmaston, Derbyshire, England
Burial Date19 Oct 1580
Burial PlaceAshbourne, Derbyshire, England
Death PlaceAshbourne, Derbyshire, England, St Oswald Churchyard
Family ID3191
Marr Dateabt 1535
Marr PlaceOsmaston, Derbyshire, England
ChildrenEllen (1537-)
 Ralfe , 9216 (1537-1615)
 Thomas (1540-1615)
 Dorothea (1545-1567)
 Robert (1549-1603)
 Helena (~1552-1582)
 Isabel (1538->1615)
Notes for Robert HURT Sr.
HURT: English (chiefly Nottinghamshire): variant of Hart. German: topographic name from Middle High German hurt ‘hurdle’, ‘woven fence’. Dutch: nickname, presumably for a pugnacious or aggressive person, from Middle Dutch hort, hurt ‘strike’, ‘blow’, ‘attack’. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names Oxford University Press

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(1) Source-"Family History from Robert Hurt,d.1583 Ashbourne,Staffordshire,England Through Leon Jesse Hurt,d.1956" Compiled by Mary Lee Hurt 1985
(2) Ancestral File has submissions from Robert Gene Lamb, 1587 Edinboro Dr., Jonesboro, Georgia 30236.
(3) Information received from Jeffery Johnson in Mar 1997. b. date listed as abt 1550. b. place listed as Ashbourne, Staffordshire, England. d. place listed as Ashbourne, Staffordshire, England.
(4) Also direct line for Thomasine Elefant, 2890 Norcrest Dr., San Jose, California 95148. (1997) (5) information found on internet on 4 Aug 1998. www.familytreemaker.com/users/s/m/i/Karen-A-Smith/ODT1-0001.html Karen Adele Smith, 212 Woodlawn Road, Wilmington, Delaware 19803; e-mail: cfhs@voicenet.com Sources:
a) Hurt, Oscar H., THE EARLY HURT FAMILY OF VIRGINIA: a compilation, 1963 pg. 5, (unpublished typed document) FHL# 34425-13.
b) Nugent, Nell. CAROLIERS AND PIONEERS IN AMERICA: Abstracts of VA Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666. Vol 2 p. 203.
c) BRISTOL AND AMERICA, R. Syndney Glover Publishers, London.
d) Sitwell, Sir George Reresby, THE HURTS OF HALDWORTH AND THEIR DESC., Oxford, London: The University Press. 1930 p. 2 of Appendix I, also p. 466 of Appendix VI.
e) Cox, J. Charles, "Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire," Vol. II. "The Hundreds of the High Peak and Wirkeworth," 1877.
f) Jackson-Stops, Gervase, "Castern Hall, Staffordshire, COUNTRY LIFE, Feb. 1, 1979, p. 274.
g) "Pedigree of the Hurts of Bristol" copied from the authentic family tree in the possession of Michael Hurt of Castern Hall compiled by the Windsor Herald in 1819 from the records at the College of Arms, London.
h) Harlean Society Pub. XV; The Visitation of Bishopsgate Ward, London, 1634 information provided by William Hurt, mercer of London.
(6) Jul 2003: IGI

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Robert was the son of Ralph Hurt and Alice Harris. He married Ellen Hurd (daughter of Robert and Joana Hurd of Osmaston, Derbyshire, England). They had at least one son named Thomas.

Robert was buried on 11 Mar 1584 in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England. Ellen was born ca 1517 and was buried on 19 Oct 1580 in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England. (Ellen had an older brother named John, b. 1515)

Source: "The Hurts of Derbyshire" by Derek Wain

On Find A Grave.

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Notes for Ellen Helena (Spouse 1)
(1) b. date is only estimated
(2) Information received from Jeffery Johnson in May 1997 listed b. date as abt
1554 and b. place as Ashbourne, Staffordshire, England.
(3) Name found on internet on 4 Aug 1998 in biographical sketch of Raphe Hurt written by Varla Jane Owens Wright.
(4) information found on internet on 4 Aug 1998. www.familytreemaker.com/users/s/m/i/Karen-A-Smith/ODT1-0001.html Karen Adele Smith, 212 Woodlawn Road, Wilmington, Delaware 19803; e-mail: cfhs@voicenet.com
(5) Harlean Society Pub. XV; The Visitation of Bishopsgate Ward, London, 1634; information provided from family records by William Hurt, mercer of London.
(6) Bishop's Transcripts of Ashborne, Derby, England, FHL# 1041048-10-15 Between Oct 1580 and Mar 1581, several members of the family as well as family servants were buried. There are probably more children yet to be identified
(7) Aug 2003: IGI
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