HAMILTON, John of Newton, WS ¹

   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 of that Ilk and Janet HAMILTON. (Jean GARTSHORE was born about 1695.)

  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.




"John Hamilton, Writer to the Signet, was despatched by the Jacobites in Scotland in 1708 to the Duke of Hamilton, then at Ashton in England, with the intelligence of the projected invasion by the Pretender. He married a daughter of Gartshore of Gartshore and had two daughters, of whom the eldest, Helen, was married to Sir Patrick Murray, fourth Baronet of Ochtertyre."

from Electric Scotland




"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}