NameCatherine C. Hundley
Deathabt 1825/1826
ResidenceEssex County, Virginia
Documentation
1810 U.S. Census, Essex County, Virginia:
Hundley, Ambrose
2 males under 10 [one of these would be Ambrose III]
1 male 26-45 [this would be Ambrose]
3 females under 10
2 females 10-16 [one of these would be Ann; one would be Mary]
1 female 26-45 [this would be Elizabeth]
17 slaves
In about 1818, orator and oratrice Peter Campbell and Mary R. his wife complained to the Chancery Court. That Ambrose Hunley died in ____ intestate leaving a widow Elizabeth Hunley and your oratrix and Susanna D. Hunley, Anne H. Hunley, Caty C. Hunley, Ambrose Hunley, John Hunley, Richard T. Hunley and Sarah M. Hunley his only children. These papers also contain several maps. [Essex County, Virginia, Box Chancery No. 42, item 42-I-14.]
On 19 June 1826, guardian accounts from 1823 to 1825 for Catharine C. Hunley, Ambrose Hunley, John H. Hunley, Richard Thomas Hunley and Sarah M. Hunley in account with Elizabeth Hunley their guardian were recorded. [Essex County, Virginia, Guardian Book 5, pages 114–117.]
Catharine must have died about 1826; she is not mentioned as an heir of her granduncle Richard Ryland in the 1826 settlement of his estate. [Essex County, Virginia, Box Chancery No. 35, Folder J, many items.]