Family Romance; Or Episodes in the Domestic Annals of The Aristocracy. Bernard Burke 1853.

Ralph Dundas died November 1797, and was buried at All Saints, Edmonton, Middlesex, leaving issue:

The Annual Register 1858:- "At Edinburgh, Major-Gen. William B Dundas C.B., of the Royal Artillery.The deceased General had been fifty five years in the service: served at the siege of Flushing in 1809 and assisted at Ciudad Rodrog, and at Badajos in 1812. At the former he was wounded in the right ankle and was most severely and dangerously wounded at Badajos, being compelled to have his left arm amputated and had his left thigh dislocated and hip bone shattered. He received the sliver war medal and two clasps".
 

Leland Dundas is also shown on the 1906 census for Manitoba. He is shown as being married although no trace of a wife with him. He is shown as immigrating to Canada in 1904.

 Served with the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force in World War 1. Electrical Engineer.

Married 25/5/1917, Janet Gibson and had issue:  (see A below). Janet Dundas sued for divorce in 1926, claiming Mordaunt Dundas was now living in Ontario, Canada and that he had committed adultery with Margaret Muriel Denham and that a female child had been born as a result in November 1919.- see B below

Mordaunt Dundas married 2ndly, Blanche Gregoire

Mrs. M. Nicolson, 19 Comely Bank road, Edinburgh, Scotland, wants to locate Mordaunt Dundas, who left Edinburgh for Winnipeg in 1924. Mr. Dundas, who resided in Winnipeg before the war and served overseas with the Royal Fusiliers, had a mother living in Vancouver. He had two sisters, Violet and Mrs. James Field. Mrs. Nicholson believes he may have gone from Winnipeg to Vancouver.

The Lethbridge Herald, Alberta, Canada, 2712/1932

Pluckily hiking from Winnipeg to Vancouver, while drawing a sleigh on which was perched their smiling 14-month-old baby. Mr and Mrs Mordaunt Dundas, formerly of Winnipeg, have arrived at Edmonton on their way to Vancouver.

Mr Priestley said that the parties were married on 23rd April 1885, at St Peter's Church, Brighton and there were four children of the marriage. The respondent was a medical man practising in Norfolk and the petitioner lived happily with him until in 1895 he made the acquaintance of a young lady who lived in the county with her parents. From that time the respondent's manner towards his wife  entirely changed. He threw up his practise in the country and started one in Norwich  and eventually he came to London and for a time lived in Bayswater. In April 1898, he took the young lady to Scotland and on his return to London, promise his wife that he would break of the liaison. He then took a practice at Ealing, but on June 28, he left home suddenly, having sent his wife out to do some shopping for him. It subsequently transpired that he had gone to Australia with the young lady, although he wrote frequently home to his wife protesting that he was in Sydney alone. The petitioner offered to forgive him if he had really broken off the liaison and in September 1900, the respondent returned to England from Sydney in the steamship Australian of the Aberdeen line. The respondent came home as the ship's doctor and he and the young lady (who was with him) passed as Dr and Mrs Dundas. The lady however left the ship at Gravesend, while the respondent proceeded up the river and was met at the docks by his brother who was a clergyman. After the respondent had been served with the citation and petition, he went down to Bedford and endeavoured to persuade his wife to become reconciled to him, and it became necessary for her to obtain police protection.

The President granted a judicial separation with costs and gave the petitioner custody of the children.

N.B  It would appear that a child was born to Mordaunt George Dundas in 1900 in Australia as there is a burial record for a Philip Mordaunt Dundas in Penrith, Australia. The child is shown as being 0 years of age and the father shown as Mordaunt Dundas and the mother as Marjory