HAMILTON, William 7th of Orbiston, Sheriff of Dunbartonshire 1 2
- Born: About 1642
- Marriage (1): CUNNINGHAM, Elizabeth 1
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William married Elizabeth CUNNINGHAM, daughter of William CUNNINGHAM 9th Earl of Glencairn and Anne OGILVY.1 (Elizabeth CUNNINGHAM was born about 1645.)
Marriage Notes:
"He (William Hamilton) married Lady Elizabeth Cunninghame, * daughter of William, ninth Earl of Glencairn, Lord High-Chancellor of Scotland, by whom he had issue:
1. James, his apparent heir, who married Henrietta MacGill, Viscountess of Oxfurd; but he died before his father, without issue.
William of Orbistoun had several other children, who all died before their father, and he himself dying without surviving issue, in him ended the whole male issue of Sir John, Lord Justice Clerk [....]
* She survived her husband, and was matrimonially contracted to William Fullarton of that Ilk in Ayrshire ; but, before the marriage could be solemnized, she was taken suddenly ill and died. - Rob. Gen. of Cunninghame, ii. 114."
frrom Historical and Genealogical Memoirs 2
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