The HUNT family came out on the ship 'MARTHA RIDGWAY': left London 05 JUL 1840, arr. Wellington, 20 NOV 1840 (NZ Company records 34/1 p. 146 in National Archives)
Thomas HUNT was an Agricultural labourer, aged 48, Eliz aged 47. Caroline 19, Emma 17, and Naomi 15. plus unnamed boys 14, 12, 3, and girl of 10.
Thomas HUNT was bricklayer at Pitt Island in the Chathams.

Marriage: Elizabeth BROWN
b: 1793 in Helpringham, Lincolnshire, England
d: 24 JUN 1867 in Pitt Island, Chatham Islands, NZ
Married: 14 MAR 1813 in Helpringham, Lincolnshire, England

Children:
Frederick Alfred HUNT
b: 1818 in Sleaford, South Rauceby, Lincolnshire, England
d: 02 OCT 1891 in Pitt Island, Chatham Islands, NZ
Marriage: Mary Ann PRESSWOOD in 1840

Nathan HUNT
b: 1820 in South Rauceby, Lincolnshire, England
d: 1909 in New Zealand

Caroline HUNT
b: MAY 1822 in South Rauceby, Lincolnshire, England
d: 1 MAR 1904 in Lower Hutt, Wellington, NZ
Marriage2: Daniel WEST
b: 1823 in Surrey, England
d: 9 JUL 1899 in Lower Hutt, Wellington, NZ
Married: 1842 -in St James Church, Lower Hutt, NZ

Emma HUNT
b: 1823 in South Rauceby, Lincolnshire, England
d: 1910 in Westport, NZ
Marriage1: Dennis McCARTHY
Occupation: Whaler, later, a butcher in Queen Street, Auckland.
d: 1851
Children: 5 children, of whom only 3 survived.
Marriage2: Thomas WILLIAMS
Married: 18 May 1856 in Auckland, NZ
Thomas Williams died in 1864.
Marriage3: William PETERSON
Married: 8 Aug 1865

Naomi HUNT
b: 1825 in South Rauceby, Lincolnshire, England
d: 16 MAR 1914 in Wellington, New Zealand
Marriage: Thomas Kemmis WARBURTON
b: 1817 in Portarlington, County Laois, Ireland
d: 8 SEP 1907 in Wellington, New Zealand

Lot HUNT
b: 1827 in South Rauceby, Lincolnshire, England

George Lot HUNT
b: 1829 in South Rauceby, Lincolnshire, England
d: 07 DEC 1858 in New River Heads, Foveaux Strait, NZ -(drowned)
Occupations: sawyer, butcher and boatman
Marriage: Jane Scobie McKAY
b: 1834 in Sutherland, Scotland
(dau. of Roderick McKAY and Barbara GUNN)
d: 01 JUN 1918 in Gladstone, Invercargill, NZ
Married: 19 MAY 1852 in Lyttelton Barracks, by Rev B W Dudley, (Church of England)

Lavinia Louisa HUNT
b: 1831 in South Rauceby, Lincolnshire, England
d: 10 FEB 1922 im Auckland, NZ
Marriage: George Joseph SELLWOOD
b: 1831
d: 2 JAN 1911 in Auckland, New Zealand

Brown HUNT
b: 1833 in South Rauceby, Lincolnshire, England
d: 1909 in Masterton, Wellington, New Zealand
Marriage1: Sarah Ann CHAMBERLAIN
b: 1834 in Daventry, Daventry District, Northamptonshire, England
d: 26 FEB 1873 in Masterton, Wellington, New Zealand
Married: 1854
Marriage2: Annie Hellier STAINS
b: 1841 in England
d: 19 OCT 1889 in Masterton, New Zealand
Married: 1877