Robert Hamilton of Allanshaw

ROBERT HAMILTON OF ALLANSHAW

The existence of Robert Hamilton of Allanshaw, here treated, has not been satisfactorily established. Certainly, no evidence of his existence has been found. According to John Anderson, he was the son of John Hamilton of Broomhill and a second wife named Margaret Dalziel. Robert Hamilton was, Anderson said: "the founder of a family of that name, which subsisted for some time at Allanshaw in the parish of Hamilton." Genealogical Memoirs of the House of Hamilton, p. 250 William K. Dickson, writing in his account of the family of Hamilton, Lord Belhaven, noticed Anderson's proposition. The Scots Peerage II: 38 The late Colonel George Hamilton also noticed Anderson's claim, although he could not find any evidence to support it. [A History of the House of Hamilton: 187]

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. The Scots Peerage II: 38
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
4. Stirnet: Hamilton 04
5. A History House of Hamilton. By Lieutenant-Colonel George Hamilton (J. Skinner and Company, Edinburgh, 1933),1167 pp.