BURN-CALLANDER, Mrs Roderick (Hilary Florence nee BRUNT) 1927-2022

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 9 April 2022: BURN-CALLANDER Hilary Florence (née Brunt), passed away on 19th March 2022, aged 94. Dearly loved widow of the late Roderick, much loved and devoted mother of Julian and the late Jeremy, and loving grandmother to Charlotte. Private funeral on 13th April, with a Celebration of her life to be held in the early summer. Her boundless love and humour will be deeply missed by all who knew her.

She was d of Bernard Francis BRUNT 1888-1949 of Hampstead and Florence Alexandra BUTCHER 1902-79. She m 1959 reg Q4 London as her 2nd h (her 1st was Mr Carter) Roderick William 1920-2001 s of Alfred BURN-CALLANDER 1880-1966 scion of that Scots gentry family of Prestonhall and Edith Eleanor 1900-73 d of Maj James Montagu BURN c1867-1912 of Bath by his 1907 m reg Q3 Somerset to Fanny Isabella ALECOCK 1877-1969. Are the two sons (b 1949 & 1954 respectively) Roderick's children from a prev. marriage?

[S R Eglesfield]

The 18th (Volume III, 1972) and 19th (Volume I - The Kingdom in Scotland, 2001) editions of Burke's Landed Gentry both purport to show Julian and the late Jeremy as the sons of Roderick by the late Mrs Hilary Burn-Callander (who, it appears, was Roderick's only wife). However, it would appear that they were Mrs Burn-Callander's sons by her first marriage (registered Q3 1946 - Hampstead) to Edward Dearden CARTER, and that they took their stepfather's name after his marriage to their mother in 1959.

The birth of Jeremy M D CARTER was registered in Marylebone in Q3 1949, and that of Julian T D CARTER was registered in Hammersmith in Q2 1954, the mother's maiden name in both instances being BRUNT. Per company records, Julian Thomas BURN-CALLANDER was born on 12 May 1954; his brother, Jeremy Mark Dearden BURN-CALLANDER, died aged 61 on 1 April 2011.