Although my research showed that my line of the Hunter/Gilchrist family (Mary/James) immigrated to Upper Canada around 1853, I tried to find out what happened to the rest of their family who had stayed in Scotland. Part of that was because it was the first family line that I'd gotten anywhere with. Besides, the Hunter part of the family didn't stray far from Glenegedale or Kildalton so they were easy to track down.
Of course, I mean by that the male Hunters were easy to find; the females, not so much. Land, including tenancies followed males. In this case, Mary Hunter's younger brothers, Hugh and Ronald. Both of these brothers had offspring but for each of them it was later in life. Extremely late for Hugh. He never married but named his daughter in his will. By my calculations he would have been about 65 when she was born.
Ronald also became a father later in life as he was 46 when he married. His bride, Mary Campbell, was 25. Quite an age difference. One thing I didn't notice until I looked at their marriage entry closely a few days ago was that both Ronald's mother Flora and Mary's mother Margaret had the same maiden surname, Gilchrist. Was there a possible family connection between the two mothers? Something worth looking into further.
Sources:
ScotlandsPeople 1879 marriage entry for Ronald Hunter and
Mary Campbell
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