Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton

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HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS
AIKEN HEAD, vide Holmhead.
AIRDRIE, vide Preston.
ARCHBISHOP OF ST. ANDREWS, vide Blair.
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CO. OF AYR.
ARDOCH.
Ibid.
I. Andrew Hamilton, the third
— son of Robert, the fourth of the house
Baillie's MS.
and Craw. Gen. of Torrance, appears to have been the
Lib. nrs t of this family. He had a charter
of the lands of Ardoch from the Abbot
of Kilwinning.
Andrew Hamilton of Ardoch, and
Catherine Park, his wife, had a charter
Re,;. Mag. Sig. " of half the lands of Bogtoun, the lands
Zlk&xa^- f Thorntoun, and the third part of the
lands of Kilbride, in the co. of Lanark,"
dated 3d June 1540. He afterwards
married Margaret Stewart ; they had a
charter, on the 20th January 1546, of
the lands of Cathkin and Netherurd.
The next of the name, most likely his
son, was
II. Gawin Hamilton of Ardoch,
who was witness to a charter of Walker
of Dalgarvan in 1566. He may have
been the father of
Reg. Mag. Sig. HI. JaMES HAMILTON of Al'doch,
■ Z '. b .^ v ' who had a charter "of the lands of
Rob. Gen. of
Cunninghame,
i. 376.
Ruchbank, Crummock, Ardoch, &c.
lying in the baillery of Cunninghame,
and co. of Ayr," dated 10th January
1583.
On the 8th March 1586, he appears Com. Hec. Glas.
as cautioner for Janet Hamilton in Pet-
terstoun, who had summoned James
Reid, her son, to whom she had subset
half of the 28 shilling-land of Petters-
toun, of which she was liferenter, for
28 merks yearly. He was succeeded by
his son,
IV. Gawin Hamilton of Ardoch,
termed ''Magister," probably on account
of his being a churchman.
He was retoured beir to his father, inq. Ret. Ajr.
James Hamilton of Ardoch, on the 13th
November 1633, in the lands of Ruch-
bank and Crummock near Beith, and
Ardoch and other lands, near Kilwin-
ning. He was succeeded by his son,
V. James Hamilton of Ardoch,
who, on the 4th August 1637, was re-