Notes:

The estate of Burnside and Dod belonged to the Hunter family from the mid 16th century until the late 19th century.

He is a descendant of of David, 1st Laird of Burnside, 1532-1615


David, 7th Laird of Burnside, was a Jacobite who fought with Prince Charles Edward at Culloden. He died in Paris having fled to escape capture. His wife Barbara Gordon had the estate to run in his absence.

(Research):The first Hunter of Bumside, or " the lands and barony of the Dod," Forfarshire, David Hunter, is noted as having, when a member of the Scots Estates, protested against the delivering up of Charles I. to the English parliament in January 1647. A descendant of his, the Mr. Hunter of Burnside of that day, was "out" in the rebellion of 1745, and afterwards escaped to France. He is mentioned in ' Roderick Random.' He was killed by a Frenchman in a brawl. His grandson, General David Hunter of Burnside, manned a daughter of William Douglas, Esq. of Brigton, Forfarshire, a descendant of Archibald fifth earl of Angus, called ' Bell-the- Cat,' and eat-granddaughter of Robert Douglas, bishop of Dunblane, who was deprived of his see at the Revolution. She died in 1846. Her son, Major William Hunter, younger of Burnside, was military secretary at Sidney, when Sir Richard Bourke was governor of New South Wales. He afterwards went to
India, as aide-de-camp to his uncle, General George Hunter, in Scinde, and died there in 1845, before his father, General David Hunter of Burnside. His eldest son, David Hunter, succeeded to the estate, and died at Prospect-hill, Douglas, Isle of Man, October 1st, 1847, aged 26 years, leaving a son, William George Hunter, born at Prospect-hill, Isle of Man, on the 5th May preceding.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Ann Hunter was born before 1781; and died.
2. Charles Hunter was born before 1758; and died.
3. Charles (8th Laird of Burnside) Hunter died in 1809.