Hunter was the second son of one Hunter of Chirnside who in 1799 moved the family from Chirnside, a village in Berwickshire, to take employment as a gardener at an Ayrshire estate owned by Colonel William Kelso.
Hunter was the second son of one Hunter of Chirnside. This second son of one Hunter of Chirnside in 1799 moved the family from Chirnside in Berwickshire. This was to take employment as a gardener at an Ayrshire estate owned by Colonel William Kelso. Chirnside was a village.