Margaret Hamilton of Broomhill

MARGARET HAMILTON

According to Stirnet, Margaret Hamilton, here treated, is the daughter of John Hamilton of Broomhill. NRS: GD3/1/1/83/1 According to Stirnet, she is the daughter of John Hamilton, first of Broomhill, and his wife Janet Hamilton. Stirnet: Hamilton 04 John Anderson had a different opinion. He said that she was the daughter of John Hamilton, first of Broomhill, and his wife Elizabeth Hamilton. However, it seems that he confused the first Laird with the second Laird. Hamilton Memoirs, pp. 249-50

Marriage

Margaret Hamilton married Gavin Hamilton of Raploch, Commendator of Kilwinning. Hamilton Memoirs, p. 250

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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27 September 1557: Charter granted by Gavin, perpetual commendator and the convent of the monastery of Kilwinning of the Order of St Benedict in the diocese of Glasgow in favour of Margaret Hamilton, daughter of deceased John Hamilton of Brounehill, in liferent for all the days of her life and of Gavin Hamilton, her son his heirs and assignees in fee of an annualrent of 16 bolls of oatmeal and 4 bolls of beir, good and sufficient stuff to be yearly uplifted from of the 3lib land of old extent of Auchintiber Over lying in the parish and regality of Kilwinning, bailliary of Cunningham and sheriffdom of Ayr: to hold of them and their successors in fee for payment yearly of £5 6s 8d as the old feu duty used and wont to be paid together with 16 pennies in augmentation of the rental extending in whole to 5lib 8s Scots at two yearly terms Whitsunday and Martinmas by equal portions Dated at Kilwinning. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Montgomerie Family, Earls of Eglinton, reference GD3/1/1/83/1

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26 June 1559: Charter granted by commendator and convent of Kilwinning in favour of Margaret Hamilton in liferent and Gavin Hamilton in fee of an annualrent of 188 stones of good and sufficient cheese together with 16 sufficient stirks yearly to be uplifted furth of the said lands: to hold of them and their successors in fee for payment yearly of £16 4s as the old feu duty used and wont to be paid together with the sum of 6s 4d in augmentation of the rental extending in whole to the sum of 16lib 6s 8d Scots at the two accustomed yearly terms Whitsunday and Martinmas in winter by equal portions. Dated at Kilwinning. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Montgomerie Family, Earls of Eglinton, reference GD3/1/1/83/3

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29 July 1578: Instrument of transumpt before Mr Archibald Betoune, precentor of the cathedral church of Aberdeen and judge of the commissariot of Glasgow at the instance of Gavin Hamilton of Raploch of a charter and sasine granted by Gavin, commendator of the monastery of Kilwinning in favour of Margaret Hamilton, daughter of deceased John Hamilton of Broomhill in liferent and her son, Gavin Hamilton in fee of a tenement with houses etc near the Cross in the burgh of Irvine on the north side of the High Street, then inhabited by James Bennis Done in the metropolitan church of Glasgow within the chapter thereof. Robert Robertson, notary. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Montgomerie Family, Earls of Eglinton, reference GD3/1/1/91/1

Genealogy

1. Historical and Genealogical Memoirs of the House of Hamilton etc. By John Anderson, Surgeon (John Anderson, Jun., Edinburgh, MDCCCXXV), pp. 249-51 for Hamilton of Broomhill
2. Stirnet: Hamilton 04
3. Darryl Lundy's Peerage
4. George Hamilton, Historical and Genealogical Memoirs of the Branches of the House of Hamilton (J. Skinner & Company, Limited, 1933), p. 250