Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton

OF THE BRANCHES OF THE HOUSE OF HAMILTON. 233
eldest daughter and heiress of William
Hamilton of Brownmuir in Ayrshire,
and had four sons :
1. William of Wishaw.
2. Robert, minister of Hamilton, mar-
ried to Cecil, daughter of Mr Francis
Borland, minister of Glassford, and had
issue.
3. John, died unmarried.
4. James of Stevenston.
5. William Hamilton of Wishaw suc-
Wood, i. 208. oeeded his grandfather ; and was killed
by a fall from his horse betwixt Hamil-
ton and Wishaw, 16th April 1756. He
married Bethia, eldest daughter of his
uncle Charles of Wetherbyin Fife; and
by her, who was born 31st January
1702, and died at Luthrie, 2d October
1785, had issue :
1. Charles, of Wishaw.
2. William, an officer in the army,
died unmarried before Charles.
3. Robert, who succeeded his brother
Charles.
4. James, married to Anne, daughter
of James Bowie of Holehouse, and had
issue, and died at Falkirk, 14th August
1787.
5. John, of Bellfield, merchant in
Edinburgh, married first, 15th June
1762, Isabella, daughter of Sir Henry
Stirling of Ardoch, Bart.; secondly,
Miss Grahame, by whom he had a son,
Alexander.
6. Archibald, died unmarried.
1. Euphemia, married to Colonel
Alexander Baillie of Parbroath and
Luthrie, assistant barrack-master-gene-
ral for Scotland.
6. Charles Hamdton of Wishaw, who, lord
, . ." BELHAVEN.
dying unmarried on the 15th May 1763,:
was succeeded by his brother,
VI. Robert Hamilton of Wishaw,
who, on the death of James, fifth Lord
Belhaven, in 1777, became entitled,
in the legal course of succession, to his
honours ; but did not assume the Peer-
age, which was usurped by a person
having no title thereto, as already men-
tioned.
This Robert Hamilton, who was of
right sixth Lord Belhaven, died at Wi-
shaw, 27th March 1784.
He married at Edinburgh, 1st Feb-
ruary 1764, Susan, second daughter of
Sir Michael Balfour of Denmiln in Fife,
Bart, and by her, who died at Edin-
burgh, 9th January 1789, had three
sons and five daughters; (the younger
children taking the style of Honourable,
as their father was legally entitled to
the Peerage of Belhaven.)
1. William, seventh Lord Belhaven.
2. Hon. Robert Hamilton.
3. Hon. Peter Douglas Hamilton.
1. Hon. Mary Erskine Hamilton,
died unmarried, at Edinburgh, 4th June
1793.
2. Hon. Jean Hamilton, married, 24th
February 1791, to George Ramsay of
Barnton, and has issue.
3. Hon. Bethia Hamilton, married,
9th December 1791, to William Ram-
say, Esq. banker in Edinburgh, and
died in Charlotte Square, there, 30th
August 1809, leaving issue.
4. Hon. Susan Hamilton.
Wood, i. S08.
Ibid.