HAMILTON, John of Newton, WS ^{1 2}

   Another name for John was HAMMILTON, John.²

   User ID: I35.

  General Notes:

"HAMMILTON
JOHN
WILLIAM HAMMILTON/MARY ARSKINE FR2622 (FR2622)
M
18/12/1680
685 / 1
90 / 57
Edinburgh"

from Births and Baptisms

John married Jean GARTSHORE, daughter of Alexander GARTSHORE younger, of that Ilk and Marjory CRAWFORD. (Jean GARTSHORE was born about 1696.)

  Marriage Notes:

"John Hamilton, son of William and Mary Hamilton, married Jean Gartshore, a daughter of Gartshore of Gartshore. They gave birth to: Helen, and Jacobina. John was known as 'of Newton.' John died on 25 January, 1757."

from Mother Bedford website

Note:

No baptism record has been found for Jacobina; only those of James (1717) and Helen(1723) as recorded here.




"2. John (Hamilton), Writer to the Signet, noticed in Carnwath's Memoirs, as the person dispatched by the Jacobites in Scotland, in 1708, to the Duke of Hamilton, then at Ashton in Lancashire, with the intelligence of the projected invasion of the French and the Pretender. He married a daughter of Garshore of that Ilk, and had two daughters, Helen, married, in 1741, to Sir Patrick Murray of Auchtertyre, Bart, and had issue, and died at Gorthy, 11th July 1773; and Jacobina, married to Sir George Dunbar of Mochrum, Bart., and had issue, and died at Edinburgh, 28th January 1792."

from Historical and Genealogical Memoirs



"HAMILTON, JOHN, of Newton. 3d March 1707. Apprentice to John Cuningham. - Son of William Hamilton of Wishaw. Died 25th January 1757, aged 78. Mar. Jean, daughter of --------- Gartshore of that Ilk."

from A history of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Siggnet ^{1 3 4}