Tracing Family Branches

 Today's post involves my husband's Maternal Aunt, Maria Theresa Hunt, who is now deceased.  The article refers to her as Perri, which is either what she wanted her stage name to be or is a typo, as she was known by the name Terri to family and friends.  The article also has a lovely photograph of her and can be found here Transcription Singapore girl back from Britain: Stage-struck MISS PERRI HUNT (above) returned from Britain aboard the Canton yesterday and said she was stage-struck. Perri, a former pupil of Singapore's Good Shepherd Convent, wanted to know what her chances were of joining the Singapore Stage Club. She has been through a course of dramatics in Coventry, England, and has appeared in "quite a few amateur productions" with a fair amount of success. Miss Hunt, who has been away from Singapore for the last two years, was accompanied by her mother, Mrs. J.E. Hunt.  Her father is expected to join them in Singapore shortly.- Straits Times Picture. Sourc...

Today's death notice is for my husbands Pop Joseph (Jack) Hunt (technically his step grandfather), the original newspaper copies can be found  here and  here Transcript: THE MANY FRIENDS of Joseph Hunt (Jack of Jack's Place) will be sad to learn that he has passed away after a long illness on 24-1-1978 in Yorkshire England. Source: The Straits Times, 27 January 1978, page 23.  Retrieved from  http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19780127-1.2.92.3 JACK HUNT , age 56, dearly beloved husband of Nora Hunt, dearly beloved father of Rose, Ralph, Terri, passed away peacefully 24th January after a long illness, courageously born in England. Source: The Straits Times, 13 February 1978, page 20.  Retrieved from  http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19780213-1.2.81.1 Joseph Hunt aka Joe Jack and Nora Hunt 1947 Jack and Nora Hunt at St. Helens, England