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GARTSHORE, Alexander of that Ilk, Merchant
(About 1639-)
BRAND, Sarah
(1643-)
HAMILTON, William 3rd of Wishaw
(About 1630-About 1726)
ERSKINE, Mary of Alva
(About 1650-)
GARTSHORE, Alexander of that Ilk
(1667-1749)
HAMILTON, Janet
(About 1679-)
GARTSHORE, Jean
(About 1695-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. HAMILTON, John of Newton, WS

GARTSHORE, Jean 1

  • Born: About 1695
  • Marriage (1): HAMILTON, John of Newton, WS

   Other names for Jean were GARSHOAR, Jean 2 and GARTHSHOR, Helen.3

   User ID: I34.

  Research Notes:

WHICH JEAN?

It is unlikely, if not impossible, that the Jean Gartshore, daughter of the Laird of That Ilk, baptised in 1671, who married into the Hamilton family, was the daughter of Alexander Gartshore and Sarah Brand. Since her children began to be recorded in the registers from 1717, it seems likely she was their granddaughter.


Jean married John HAMILTON of Newton, WS, son of William HAMILTON 3rd of Wishaw and Mary ERSKINE of Alva. (John HAMILTON of Newton, WS was born on 30 November 1680 1, baptised on 18 December 1680 in Edinburgh parish, Edinburgh, Scotland 4 and died on 25 January 1757 5.)


  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 5 6

Sources


1 Internet Site, http://www.motherbedford.com/Muirhead109.htm.

2 Old Parish Registers of the Church of Scotland, Edinburgh Midlothian Baptisms 1717 685/1 160 223.

3 Old Parish Registers of the Church of Scotland, Edinburgh Midlothian Baptisms 1723 685/1 170 140.

4 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.

5 e-books, A history of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet with a list of the members of the society from 1594 to 1890 by Society of Writers to H.M. Signet (Great Britain 1890).

6 Internet Site, https://electricscotland.com/history/kirkintilloch/chapter08.htm Kirkintilloch Town and Parish Gartshore.

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