Person:James Buntine (1)

James Buntine

• Paterson, James. History of the county of Ayr: with a genealogical account of the families of Ayrshire. (Ayr, Scotland: J. Dick, 1847-1852), Vol. 1, Pages 293 to 295.^S1 [Extract of Record]

IV. James Buntine, third son of the Laird of Airdoch. He was one of the trustees of the Earl of Eglinton, in 1672. He was styled citizen of Glasgow in 1701. Archibald, his brother, was a merchant in Glasgow. He himself may have perhaps been a burgess of that town. He married Agnes, eldest daughter of Robert Barr of Treehorn, in the parish of Beith, about 1680. They had issue –^S1

1. Marjorie Bunetine, who was married to Mr. Robert Braedine, or Brodie, of Calderhauch, in the parish of Lochwinnoch, in 1704…^S1

2. Mary Buntine, born at Treehorn, and married to Andro Walker of Briglands, West St Johnsbill, &c., in the parish of Lochwinnoch, in 1718. He died in 1721, leaving two children, who both died soon…^S1

3. Robert Buntine, younger of Treehorn, of whom afterwards.^S1

4. Nicol Buntine. His grandfather, Robert Barr of Treehorn, disponed, in 1701, to Nicol, the lands of Fullwoodhead and Bogsyde, and failing him, to his sisters, Marjorie and Agnes. He was long a merchant in Virginia, in America. He came home many years before his death. He died in 1740. The Castle Semple loch was frozen for thirteen Sundays in succession. The kirk folk walked over the ice for these Sundays. The poorer classes suffered great hardships. The wells and burns were dried up, and the running water was stopped. The ice was bent and bowed down to the bottom of the loch, and the curling ceased on account of the curve of the ice. At the funeral of Nicol, the attendants had the drops at their noses frozen into icicles. All events throughout the neighbouring parishes, for many years subsequent to that frost, were dated from Nicol Buntine’s burial.^S1

5. Agnes Buntine, born in 1708, at Treehorn. Her mother died in 1718, and she was sent to Ardoch, to the care of her cousin, Robert Buntine, the Laird of the same. She, after a sojourn of thirteen years in Dumbartonshire, left Airdoch, on the eve of the marriage of the Laird with the daughter of Sir Robert Dickson of Inveresk, about 1735. She came to her sister at Calderhauch. She was married to Dr. Caldwell, grandson of William Caldwell of Yardfute, in 1741. The purchased West St. Johnshill from her kinsfolk, in 1748. She died in 1800. The Doctor died in 1806. Issue:…^S1

1.   Paterson, James. History of the county of Ayr: with a genealogical account of the families of Ayrshire. (Ayr, Scotland: J. Dick, 1847-1852)
   Vol. 1, Pages 293 to 295.

   Buntine-Barrs of Trearne

2.   Dobson, David. Scottish Transatlantic Merchants, 1611-1785. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1 Jan 2007)
   Page 20.

   Buntine, Nicol, a merchant from Ayrshire who settled in Va., died 1740 in Ayrshire.