HUNTER, Edith
Edith Hunter was born at Bury St Edmund's, Suffolk in 1853, and baptised at Whiting Street Church, Bury St Edmund's, third daughter of John Hunter (7 April 1816-16 February 1884), a wine merchant, and his wife Jane née Wood (1820-1868), who married at Manchester in 1846. In 1851, Edith was an 8-year-old, living at 22 Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmund's with her parents, 45-year-old John, who was born at Bury St Edmund's and 41-year-old Jane, who was born at Liverpool, with siblings Elizabeth Anne 11, who was born at Manchester, Edmund Ernest 6, Flora Mabel 3 and newly born John William, all born at Bury St Edmund's. Her 48-year-old mother Jane was buried at Bury St Edmund's on 27 March 1868 and in 1871, her father John was still living at 22 Abbeygate Street, with Elizabeth Anne acting as his housekeeper with the addition of two more siblings Fanny Beatrice 7 and Margaret Kate 5. By 1881 Edith had taken her sister's position as housekeeper and after the death of her father in 1884, together with her sister Flora Mabel, they opened a small school and in 1891 was the principal of a grammar school at 10 Angel Hill, Bury St Edmund's with two boarding and six day pupils. In 1887, as Miss E. Hunter, she exhibited at the Bury St Edmunds Fine Art Society, a watercolour 'A Scene on Cromer Beach'. In 1901, she was living on own means at 2 Northgate Street, Bury St Edmund's with a servant. Edith Hunter was of 12a Barons Court Road, West Kensington, London when she died at Clifton, Bristol on 17 June 1918 and buried in the nearby Westbury Cemetery, leaving her estate to her now married sister Flora Mabel [Fox].