'Hunter04'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Huntar of Balcarres, Hunter of Lunna, Huntar of Newton Rires, Huntar of Over Carnbee

                               
Robert Hunter of Lunna (d before 03.05.1695, Chamberlain of Zetland)
m. (1678) Margaret Leslie (dau of Thomas Leslie of Ustaness)
1. William Hunter of Lunna (b 1679, d unm 1702)
2. Thomas Hunter of Lunna (b 1680, d 1718)
m. (17.06.1707) Grizel Bruce (dau of Robert Bruce of Sumburgh, widow of John Bruce of Muness, m3. Simon Fraser)
  A. Robert Hunter of Lunna (b 1710, d 1777, 2nd son)
  m. (1731) Ursula Bruce (dau of Robert Bruce of Chalester)
i. Robert Hunter of Lunna & Uyea (b 07.05.1733, d 04.12.1794, 2nd son)
  m. (13.05.1760) Elizabeth Mouat (dau of William Mouat of Garth)
  a. Robert Hunter of Lunna (b 17.03.1768, d 26.09.1833) had issue
  m. (11.08.1824) Helen Johanna Bruce (dau of Robert Bruce of Symbister, m2. Thomas Richmond of Craigielea)
  b. Elizabeth Hunter (b 25.09.1774, d 25.03.1803)
  m. (07.06.1795) John Bruce of Sumburgh
  c.+ other issue - Robert (d young), William (d young), Thomas (d young), Margaret, Bruce
  ii. Laurence Hunter of Pinos (Jamaica) & Mountchwick (b 06.05.1734, d 1820)
  m1. Elizabeth Jackson (dau of Archibald Jackson)
  a. Thomas Hunter
  b. Ursula Hunter
  m. James Baird
  m2. (02.05.1791) Mary Payne (dau of William Payne)
  c. Laurence Hunter
d. Mary Hunter
  m. Robert Allen
  iii. Grizel Hunter (bpt 11.06.1740)
  m. (1762) William Bruce of Symbister
  iv. Helen Hunter (bpt 15.02.1742)
  m. (22.12.1765) John Bruce of Sumburgh
  v. Ursilla Catherine Hunter (bpt 30.07.1743, d 15.03.1842)
  m. (12.03.178) John Inches (b c1748, d 18.10.1826, minister of Walls then Nesting)
  vi.+ other issue - Thomas (d young), Patrick, John (d young), Thomas (bpt 12.05.1737), James, David (d young), William, Margaret, Barbara, Elizabeth, Janet
  B. Patrick Hunter (bailie of Nesting, 4th son) ancestor of Hunter of Ballistar
  C. Margaret Hunter
  m. Laurence Tarrel of Laxvoe
D. Grizel Hunter
  m. John Afears of Holland
  E.+ other issue - William, Thomas, James, John, Benjamin in Deptford, Isabel, Helen
3. Isabel Hunter
  m1. Bartholomew Bell of Burntisland (skipper)
  m2. Andrew Watt of Leith
4. Margaret Hunter
  m. William Umphray (d 12.1700, minister of Walls)
5. Elizabeth Hunter
  m. Andrew McLauchlan
6.+ other issue - Patrick, David, John, Christian, Katherine, Anna

 

 

David Huntar of Balcarres & Newton Rires, Fife (a 1509, 1541)
m. Margaret Wood
1. Robert Huntar of Balcarres (a 1549)
  m. Margaret Seton
  A. William Huntar of Balcarres, later of Newton Rires (d 1596)
  m. Grizelda Trail ## see here ##
  i. William Huntar of Newton Rires (d by 1612?)
  ii. Patrick Huntar of Newton Rires & Over Carnbee & Hill Tarvit (d before 1620) probably of this generation
  m1. Dorothy Forbes (dau of John Forbes of Rires)
  m2. (before 1613) Margaret Melville (d 1645?, "probably she belonged to the Melvilles of Carnbee")
  Not clear which wife was mother of ...
  a. David Huntar of Over Carnbee & Hill Tarvit
  B. Robert Huntar of Newton Rires (dsp?) possibly the Robert who married ...
  m. (1580?) Christina Forbes (dau/coheir of John Forbes of Rires)

Main source(s):
(1) For upper section (originally shown in HZmisc09 on 15.04.15) : 'The County Families of the Zetland Islands' by Francis Grant, 1893 ('Bruce of Lunna', p146+)
(2) For lower section : 'East Neuk of Fife' (Walter Wood, 1887, p128+)
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