Hunter, Archibald
ceramik, malarz wyrobów fajansowych / potter, pottery artist painter
b: abt. 1793 Newcastle, England, UK
He was 33 on arrival to Poland in 1826.
d: 03/12/1856 Iłża, POLAND
oo 1826 Iłża, POLAND Hunter née Chylińska, Agnieszka
Archibald Hunter came to Iłża's Fabryka Fajansu Sunderlanda (Sunderland's fine pottery factory) opened by Jewish English gentelman called Levi Seliga (Lewi Sunderland) in 1823. Levi was pottery trader and lived already in Warsaw for a while but came from Sunderland in England. When Stanisław Staszic wanted to open pottery factory in Iłża where there were natural supplies of clay, Levi took on the offer. He brought from England tools and eight speciallists to start the factory. One of those speciallists was Archibald Hunter. Archibald arrived in 1926 and never returned to England, got married soon after and started a family in Iłża. Archibald was Presbyterian, he converted to Catholicism before getting married to Agnieszka. Alternative name spelling from the documents: Racibel, Race Unter. Marriage witnesses: Mathias Potter and James Porter (worked at the same factory).
Source: (1) Copy of a marriage record #54, Iłża 1826 (2) Births index / geneteka.genealodzy.pl (3) Marriages inxed / geneteka.genealodzy.pl (4) "Iłża Wczoraj i Dziś" by Adam Bednarczyk (5) Bio / pl.wikipedia.org (6) Manufaktura fajansu - Witrualny Sztetl / sztetl.org.pl (7) Muzeum Regionalne w Iłży - Sunderland w Iłży / polskaniezwykla.pl (8) Ceramika szlachetna regionu świętokrzyskiego : stan wiedzy i perspektywy badawcze - Magdalena Śniegulska-Gomuła / bazhum.muzhp.pl (9) Rodzina Niewiarowiczów / zbigkurzawa.eu (10) Factory inspector Jan Strauss' report dated 27/07/1826 (11) Yola's notes, photo: (1) Iłża's castle ruins by Robert Celuch - robertceluch / pixabay.com, edit 416 Studios
Father: Archibald Hunter Mother: Izabella Hunter née Rowlands Children: Teofil Hunter Aleksander Hunter Florian Hunter Jan Hunter Apolonia Moń née Hunter Rozalia Hunter
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