Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton

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HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS
ardoch. MacDowall, widow of the deceased Wil-
Reg. Mag. Sig. liam Hamilton of Ladyland, of the Ma-
JiliiXCJXL- nor-place and Mains of Craighlaw, of
-V - I2j. date 27th July of that year. Leaving
no issue, he was succeeded by his only
brother,
IX. Chables Hamilton of Craigh-
law. He resided in Irvine, where he
Rob. Gen. of was collector of the customs, and pro-
Cunn. 1.371. vogt of ^ town for twe i ve different
years, two years and two years alter-
nately, from 1758 until 1782, inclusive.
He married Sarah MacDowall, ano-
ther of the ladies of Logan, by whom
he had several children. Of these, a
daughter, Anne, married John Peebles,
Esq. in Irvine, a major in the army,
(who is most honourably made mention
of, in the late excellent account of the
Highland Regiments, by Col. David
Stewart of Garth,) to whom she had an
only child, Sarah Peebles, married to
Col. John Cunningham of Caddell and
Thorntoun. Mr Hamilton died in 1783,
and was succeeded by his eldest son,
X. William Hamilton, Esq. of
Craighlaw, M. D., who resided in Kil- jbid. i. 371.
marnock House, and died there in 1798.
He married the only child of Edward
Cairns, Esq. of Girstonwood, in the co.
of Kirkcudbright, by whom he had two
sons and ten daughters.*
He was succeeded in Craighlaw in
Wigtonshire, in Garvoch in Renfrew-
shire, and in some valuable lands in the
vicinity of Irvine, by his only surviving
son,
XL William Hamilton, Esq. of ibid. i. 371.
Craighlaw, and an officer in the 10th
Hussars.
Arms. — Gules, a mullet betwixt three
cinquefoils, ermine, all within a bor-
dure waved, argent.
Motto. — " Honestus pro Patria."
One of the daughters, Catherine Hamilton, married, on the 5th September 181.5, William
Cochrane, Esq. of Ladyland, the ancient property of the family, and has issue.
AVENDALE, vide Fynnart.