HAMILTON, John of Samuelston, jure uxoris, Sir ¹

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John married Janet HOME, daughter of Alexander HOME 3rd Lord Home, Great Chamberlain of Scotland and Agnes STEWART Countess of Bothwell, After 24 August 1531(renunciation).¹ (Janet HOME was born about 1506.)

  Marriage Notes:

John Hamilton, styled variously of Samuelston and of Clydesdale, was also an illegitimate son of the first Earl of Arran. The date of his birth is not certain, but he married shortly after 24 August 1531 Janet Home, only daughter and heiress of Alexander, third Lord Home, who brought with her the estate of Samuelston, in East Lothian." (page 363 from 'Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton')

"Janet, married to Sir John Hamilton, natural son of James Hamilton, first Earl of Arran. Her uncle, George, fourth Lord Home, bestowed on her the lands of Samuelston in East Lothian, she renouncing all rights she had through her grandfather, the late Alexander, Lord Home, or Nichola Ker, her grandmother, 24 August 1531." (page 456 from 'Home, Earl of Home')

from Scots Peerage (vol 4) ¹