JOHN HAMILTON OF BROOMHILL

Research: Stirnet: Hamilton 04

John Hamilton, 1st of Broomhill (a 1473, d 08.1526) (hamilton01.php#link1)
There are disagreements between our sources on the early generations of this family. There was even major disagreement 'within' a source as Anderson's 1827 Supplement to his 'Memoirs of the House of Hamilton' made significant revisions to the account of the family he had given in the original 1825 Memoirs. The 2015 revision of this page was made before we had access to 'HamiltonHistory' (1933) but gave some precedence to Birnie's 1838 work which appeared reasonably reliable. That view was supported when the page was revised in June 2016 with the benefit of 'HamiltonHistory'. Not least because that book is the most recent of the major potentially-useful sources that we know about and may reasonably be viewed as now The Definitive Work on the Hamiltons, the following follows 'HamiltonHistory' but we have kept note of much of what the others sources show in order to explain why we may differ from what various other web sites show on these generations.

1. Heraldry (1909), which identifies its Authorities as 'Scots Peerage' (i.e. TSP, 1905) and 'House of Hamilton' (i.e. 'AndersonMemoirs', although Heraldry appears to be inconsistent between following the 1825 original and the 1827 Supplement), shows the first wife of John (and mother of David & John) as "Janet Hamilton, thought to be daughter of Robert Hamilton of Preston" and then shows him succeeded by first David (m. Margaret Sempill) and then his brother John, shown as father (by Elizabeth, dau/heir of Patrick Hamilton of Udston) of Sir James (m. Margaret, dau of William Hamilton of Udston) father of the 1st Lord Belhaven.
   
2. (TSP, which is a bit skimpy on the early generations, suggests that John d c1550 and identifies his successor John as son of Margaret Dalzell with him as father (apparently by Anne, dau of Hamilton of Kilbrachmont) of Sir James (m. Margaret Hamilton).
   
3. Birnie (1838) shows John (d 08.1526) as father (by Janet, dau of Sir Robert Hamilton of Preston & Fingleton) of David (m. Margaret Semple) who had 3 daughters (named & married as below) and was succeeded by his brother John (d 05.1594, m. Elspit/Elizabeth , dau/heir of John Hamilton of Udston & relict of John Hamilton of Neisland) father of Claud (m. Margaret, dau of Hamilton of Kilbrachmonths) father of Sir James, John & 4 daughters.
   
4. TCP (vol 2, 1912, p95) shows a pedigree/tree which starts with John father (by Elizabeth Hamilton) of Claud father of Sir James. However, TCP also identifies that Sir James as great-grandson of the John who was a bastard son of James, 1st Lord Hamilton, thereby implying that the first John shown in its tree was this one's son.
   

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-Marriage

• Hamilton Memoirs: 346

Genealogy

1. John Anderson, Historical and Genealogical Memoirs of the House of Hamilton with Genealogical Memoirs of the Several Branches (John Anderson, junior, Edinburgh MDCCCXXV), pp. 249-251 for an account of the Hamiltons of Broomhill but see pp. 425-31 for a corrected account of Hamilton of Broomhil in the Birnie Manuscript
2. Stirnet: Hamilton 04
3. The Heraldry of the Hamiltons: with notes on all the males of the family, descriptions of the arms, plates and pedigrees by G. Harvey Johnston, Published 1909, page 36, paragraph 107