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I have traced many of the Munt family back to Thomas Mount de Cuddesdon, about 1500-1545. Thomas appears on the Muster rolls for Bullingden Hundred, Oxfordshire for 1539 and again in 1545, when the Muster was summoned and spent the summer in Portsmouth. Thomas returned to his home in Denton nr Cuddesdon in September 1545, where he died of fever in November 1545. His wife Margaret died and was buried in February 1546. He was survived by his two sons, Thomas and John. Most of the Munts in Cuddesdon, Wheatley, Littleworth, Waterperry and other surrounding villages can be traced back to this family.
For a long line of Yeoman, and Ag Labs, the Munts and all the related families have never achieved high office or notoriety, but appear in many local records and provide an interesting view of life over the last five hundred years in rural Oxfordshire.
My link to the Munt family is through my late Grandfather, Arthur Munt of Horspath. Arthur was born and bred in Horspath, and lived there for over seventy years, leaving only when war came, when he joined the RAF as an armourer. Active service took him to the Middle East where he was an armourer for Spitfires. When hostilities ceased he returned to Horspath to my Grandmother and their daughter to pick up life where he left off and settle back into village life in rural Oxfordshire.
I remember as a boy my Grandfather telling me he was "no relation to those Wheatley Munts". In fact his own Grandparents lived and worked in Wheatley owning and running The Old Red Lion public house. On the 1881 census for Wheatley his Grandfather Thomas Munt is recorded as "woodman and beer seller. The old Red Lion Public House, Blenheim, Wheatley".
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