6.7.1806 Mrs Hunter at Joseph Johnson's
Perhaps the wife of Joseph Johnson's step-nephew Rowland Hunter, or possibly Hunter's mother Elizabeth née Gaskell who died in 1815. Rowland Hunter bach = St Gregory by St Pauls 3.7.1802 Ann Bellworth wid of St James Westminster. Hunter was her third husband and probably ten or more years her junior. John Bellworth wid = St Geo Han Sq 3.12.1799 Ann Kent wid by lic. She had three children by her first husband Thomas Kent, the eldest of whom, Mary Ann, married the poet and essayist Leigh Hunt (DNB 1784-1959). According to the Leigh Hunt biographies Ann Hunter had been a court milliner, and her first husband Kent was a linen draper. Her first child was born in Pershore, Worcestershire and her next two in Brighton. I haven't found a record of her first marriage, or of the deaths of her first two husbands (unless the second was the John Belworth buried 2.7.1800 at Heston, Middlesex, which I doubt). John Bellworth was landlord of the Feathers in Hart Street, Covent Garden, until at least 1796. After he married Ann Kent he seems to have lived in South Molton Street. They baptised one child, Sarah (the name of Belworth's first wife), born 12.9.1800 and buried at St James Westminster on 13.3.1803 aged 2 years 6 months (eight months after Ann's marriage to Hunter). The burial record gave her address as 28 Warwick Street, Golden Square. I couldn't place Ann Hunter's death, though it was sometime in the 1830s. Mary Ann Hunt also had a cousin called Virtue Kent but that didn't help my researches either. The Leigh Hunt biographies seem unaware of the Bellworth marriage. It is also worth noting that two of the witnesses at Hunter's wedding to Ann were William Robertson and Sophie Bellworth, who themselves got married at St Marylebone 20.8.1803, when two of the witnesses were Rowland and Ann Hunter. Sophie may have been one of Bellworth's daughters by his first marriage, though none of their children were baptised Sophie