HUNTER

HUNTER. Obviously derived from the chase, in old times a necessary art, as well as a favourite di■ersiou. The Normans were great preservers and mighty huuters ofgame, and though the name is A-Sax. (hunta) it is generally considered that the families bearing it are chiefly of Norman origin. Under the Norman and early Scottish kings the office of king's hunter ( Venator Regis) was one of considerable dignity. " The huuters of Polmood in Tweedsmuir pretend to have had a charter of their lands from Graeme, who broke through the Wall of Antoninus in the V. cent ! Folks of Shields.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.