'Hamilton03'
Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh, Hamilton of Dalzell, Hamilton of Haggs, Hamilton of Orbiston, Hamilton of Rosehall

John Hamilton, 1st of Orbiston
m. Jean Hamilton (dau of James Hamilton, 1st of Woodhall)
1. Gavin Hamilton, 2nd of Orbiston (a 1540)
  m. Helen Wallace (dau of ?? Wallace of Cairnhill)
  A. John Hamilton, 3rd of Orbiston
  m. Margaret Hamilton (dau of John Hamilton, 2nd of Haggs)
i. John Hamilton, 4th of Orbiston (d c1621)
  m. Christian Dalziel (dau of Robert Dalziel of that ilk)
  a. Sir John Hamilton, 5th of Orbiston
  m1. Rachel Bonar (dau of James Bonar of Rossie)
  (1) Christian Hamilton
m. John Robertoun of Ernock
  (2) Agnes Hamilton
  m2. Margaret (or Bethia) Henderson (dau of Sir John Henderson, 4th of Fordell)
  (3) Sir James Hamilton, 6th of Orbiston (d 1664)
  m. Jean Houston (dau of Ludovic Houston of that ilk)
  (A) William Hamilton, 7th of Orbiston, Sheriff of Dunbartonshire (dsp)
  m. Elizabeth Cunningham (dau of William Cunningham, 9th Earl of Glencairn)
(i) James Hamilton (dvpsp)
  m. Henrietta Makgill, 'Viscountess of Oxfuird' (dsp 11.10.1758)
  (ii)+ other issue (dvpsp)
  (B) James Hamilton (dsp, WS)
  (C) daughter
  m. Blair of Auchinvole
  (4) Margaret Hamilton
  m. Sir William Lockhart of Lee (b 1621, d 1675, Ambassador)
(5) Bethia Hamilton
  m. James Hamilton of Woodhall
  (6) Margaret Hamilton
  m. Sir John Henderson, 1st Bart of Fordell (d 1683)
  (7) daughter
  m. Hugh Crawford of Jordanhill
  b. James Hamilton of Boiges, 1st of Dalzell
  m. (c1643) Jean Henderson (d 07.1653, dau of Sir John Henderson, 4th of Fordell)
  (1) Alexander Hamilton, 2nd of Dalzell (d 1692)
  m. Bethia Henderson (dau of Sir John Henderson, 5th of Fordell)
  (A) James Hamilton, 3rd of Dalzell, 8th of Orbiston (d 1727)
  m. (1693) Margaret Hamilton (b c1671, d 22.03.1704, dau of Sir Archibald Hamilton, 1st Bart of Rosehall)
  (i) Archibald Hamilton, 9th of Orbiston, 4th of Dalzell, and of Rosehall (d 1774)
  m. (19.03.1732) Marion Dalrymple (dau of Hugh Dalrymple of Dromore)
  (a) James Hamilton, 10th of Orbiston, 5th of Dalzell (b 1733, d unm 06.12.1814)
(b) John Hamilton, 11th of Orbiston, 6th of Dalzell, and of Rosehall (b 1742, d 1834, General)
  m. Anne Mathews (d 11.1815, dau of R. Mathews)
  ((1)) Alexander James Hamilton, 12th of Orbiston (b 28.10.1793, d 11.01.1834)
  m1. Margaret Ramsay (dsp 24.08.1824) dau of William Ramsay)
  m2. Ellinor Hamilton (d 16.09.1856, dau of Daniel Hamilton of Gilkerscleugh)
  ((A)) John Glencairn Carter Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton of Dazell (b 16.11.1829, d 15.10.1900) had issue
  m. (28/9.03.1864) Emily Eleanor Leslie-Melville (b 05.1840, d 11.11.1882, dau of David, Earl of Leven and Melville)
  ((2)) Robert Hamilton (b 07.08.1796, d 1845)
((3)) Marion Hamilton (b 10.12.1791, d 01.05.1818)
  m. David Rattray (d 01.05.1818, Lt. Colonel)
  (c) Margaret Hamilton (d 21.02.1773)
  m. William Lawson of Cairnmarr
  (d)+ other issue (d unm) - Robert (b 1746, d 06.06.1790), Anne (b 1734, d 20.07.1793), Harriett (d 16.03.1775)
  (ii) James Hamilton of Muirhouse and Browcrofts (a 1777)
  (iii) Elizabeth Hamilton
  m. John Roberton of Earnoch
(iv) Jean Hamilton (b c1701, d 04.1784)
  m. (20.07.1727) James Robertoun of Bedlay
  (v)+ other issue (d unm) - Margaret (b 22.02.1700, d unm 07.04.1797), Anne (b 16.01.1703, d 15.04.1796), Violet
  (B) William Hamilton of Greenhead
  (C) Jean Hamilton
  m. (24.08.1700) Charles Stewart of Dunearn (d 1732)
  (D) Elizabeth Hamilton
  m. Alexander MacDougall of Corrochtree
  (2) Robert Hamilton, 1st of Monkland had issue
  (3) James Hamilton of Boggs had issue
  (4) Anne Hamilton (d 1713)
  m. (1665) David Boswell, 6th of Auchinleck (b 1640)
  c. Gavin Hamilton
  d. Marion Hamilton
m. James Hamilton of Bangour
  e. Margaret Hamilton
  m. John Walkinshaw of that ilk
  ii. Gavin Hamilton, Bishop of Galloway
  m. Alison Hamilton (a 1630, dau of James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh) below
  John Anderson's 'Memoirs' shows Alison as wife of Bishop Gavin. It is assumed that she was mother of ...
  a. Jean Hamilton
  m. Alexander Dunlop (of family of Dunlop)
b. Margaret Hamilton
  m1. John Campbell, Bishop of Argyll
  m2. James Dunlop of Dunlop (d 1634)
  iii. Isobel Hamilton
  m. Robert Hamilton of Dalserff
  iv. daughter
  m. Robert Hamilton of Barneluith
v. daughter
  m. Cleland of Knownoblehill
  vi. daughter
  m. Baillie of Jarviestoun
  vii. Marjory Hamilton
  m. (c1600) David Dundas of Duddingstoun
  viii. Margaret Hamilton
  m. John Robertoun
  B.+ 4 sons - Robert (Provost of St. Andrews), David, Arthur of Parkhead, James of Ruchbank (ancestor of Hamiltons of Kilbrachmont)
F. Elizabeth Hamilton
  m. James Dunlop of Dunlop (d 1596)
2.+ 3 sons - Archibald, John of Ferguslee, Patrick
5. David Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh
  m. Christian Schaw
  A. James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh (d before 1594)
  m. Isabella Sinclair (dau of John Sinclair of Woodhouselee)
  i. Alison Hamilton (a 1630)
  m. Gavin Hamilton, Bishop of Galloway above
  ii. Christian Hamilton
  m. David Fullerton of that ilk
  B. David Hamilton of Monktown Mains, later of Bothwellhaugh (d 1619)
  m. Alison Sinclair (dau of John Sinclair of Woodhouselee)
  i. David Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh (d before 1637)
  a. James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh
  (1) Anne Hamilton
  m. Lewis Cant (of Morton family)
  ii. Claud Hamilton of Barnhill
  C. Janet Hamilton
  m. James Muirhead of Lauchope
  D.+ other issue - John (Prior of Blantyre, Provost of Bothwell), Archibald (a 1570), Arthur
6. daughter
  m. the laird of Hawkhill
7. daughter
  m. Alexander Stewart of Race

 

 

Gavin Hamilton, 1st of Haggs
m. Janet Pettigrew (dau of Thomas Pettiggrew of Haggs)
1. John Hamilton, 2nd of Haggs (a 1545)
  m. Janet Maxwell (dau of "the 'Laird of Calderwood", probably Sir Robert Maxwell of Calderwood)
  A. James Hamilton, 3rd of Haggs
  m. (1550) Isobel Elphinstone (b 13.05.1532, dau of Alexander Elphinstone, 2nd Lord)
  i. Alexander Hamilton, 4th of Haggs
  m. Agnes Hamilton
  a. John Hamilton, 5th of Haggs
m. Helen Dalmahoy
  (1) Alexander Hamilton, 6th of Haggs (d 10.1649)
  m. Jean Maxwell (dau of Patrick Maxwell of Newark)
  (A) Sir Alexander Hamilton, 6th of Haggs
  (B) Patrick Hamilton
  m. Janet (Newlands ?)
  (C) Anna Hamilton (d before 01.1735) possibly of this generation
  m. (26.01.1686) Archibald Stirling, 3rd of Garden (b 21.03.1651)
  (2) James Hamilton
  b. James Hamilton (of Luggyhill ?) (a 1596)
ii. John Hamilton
  iii. Jane Hamilton
  m. John Maxwell
  B. John Hamilton of Aldertoun
  C. Margaret Hamilton
  m. John Hamilton, 3rd of Orbiston
2. daughter
  m. Thomas Hamilton, 4th of Woodhall (a 1510)

Main sources: NB. Notes were taken from sources (1) and (2), some in pencil, whilst in a Library at a time when the editor was focusing mainly on his own ancestors. Particularly for people who were not his ancestors, the majority shown above, some of those notes are not clear.
(1) "Heraldry of the Hamiltons" by G. Harvey Johnston. Published by W&AK Johnston Ltd, Edinburgh, 1909.
(2) "The House of Hamilton" by Lt. Col. George Hamilton, Edinburgh 1933.
(3) 'Historical and genealogical memoirs of The House of Hamilton' by John Anderson (1825).
(4) For Hamilton of Dalzell - BP1934 (Hamilton of Dalzell).
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