HAMILTON, Robert (3) of Preston ^{1 2}

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Robert married Catharine TWEEDIE, daughter of James TWEEDIE of Drumelzier and Elizabeth HAY.¹ (Catharine TWEEDIE was born about 1512.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Robert III, the first representative of the family who was not a Knight, appears in 1508, (July,) and in 1516, as 'sone and air appearand to Robert Hamylton of Fingalton, Knycht,' having, at the latter date, been in possession of the lands of Kype, in the barony of Avendale, for more than sixteen years.

By his spouse, Catharine, daughter of James Tweedie of Drumelzier, he had two sons and two daughters"

from Memoirs of the House of Hamilton ¹