Hello Peter: Afraid I can’t tell you anything about your HUNTERs. However, as you ask about one of God’s Little Green Acres (In my humble opinion), I thought I’d take a moment to draw a few points of interest to your attention. If you go to SCOTGAZ, for the BORDERS: http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/scotland.imagemap?353,405 Then to St. Boswells http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/maps/I260.IMAGEMAP?246,198 You will see a little bit about the history of the area as it relates to the town nearest Clinthill At GENUKI http://www.vivdunstan.clara.net/genuki/BEW/Mertoun/index.html Viv Dunstan gives you more local stuff on or around Clintmains (and nearby Clinthill) Just over a mile to the north of Clinthill farm is one of my most favourite corners in the BORDERs -- Scott’s View of the Tweed , looking across to the three volcanic hills of the Eildons http://muses.calligrafix.co.uk/dryburgh/scotview.html My cousins live just to the east in the small hamlet of Smailholm, famous for its Tower http://www.aboutbritain.com/SmailholmTower.htm I realise that it is all a long way from OZ but if the above doesn’t whet your appetite for a visit to your ancestral seat, then I don’t know what will do it! Good hunting. Cheers Jim Arnott Victoria, BC. Canada Peter Hunter wrote: > > Hi everyone > > An extract from the OPR of Merton, Berwick in 1840, shows my GG Grandfather as a farmer at Clinthill. > > The only details I have been able to find on the net so far are those of a Clint Lodge at Clinthill, St. Boswells. > > Can anyone tell me any more about the area and its history. > Even better, can anyone shed any light on the Hunter family. > > George Hunter b.1800 Haddington > > His Wife Violet Pennie b. 1810 Merton Berwick > > Their Children Isabella b. 1838 Merton Berwick > James b. 1840 Merton Berwick > George b. 1842 Merton Berwick > Thomas b. 1843 Merton Berwick > > Regards > > Peter Hunter > Brisbane, Australia > > ==== BORDER Mailing List ==== > The Border Names Newsletter contact boglelodge@yahoo.com for details.