Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton

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HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS
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PARISH OF IRVINE, AYRSHIRE.
BOURTIIEE-
H1I.L.
I. Robert Hamilton of Bourtree-
= hill, designed also of Glengalt or Roselle,
Cunn. p. 405. purchased, prior to 1748, the lands of
Bourtreehill from John Montgomery,
merchant in Glasgow. He married
Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Archibald
Hamilton of Rosehall, by whom he had
issue :
1. Jean, his heiress.
2. Margaret, married at Roselle 24th
December 1764, to Sir John Cathcart
of Carleton. Sir John died without
issue in 1784.
3.
4. Eleanor, married to her cousin
Wood's Peer-
age, i. 336.
Ibid. i. 510.
Rob. Gen. of
Cunn.
Hugh, twelfth Earl of Eglintoun, and
had issue: 1. Lord Montgomery, who,
after having served his country as a
soldier until he attained the rank of
Major-General, died on his way home
from Alicant in Spain on the 4th Janu-
ary 1814, and was interred at Gibraltar.
His only surviving son, Archibald
William, by Lady Mary Montgomery,
eldest daughter of Archibald the eleventh
Earl of Eglintoun, and born on the 29th
September 1812, at Palermo in Sicily,
became, on the death of his grandfather
in 1819, the thirteenth Earl of Eglin-
Wood, i. 510. toun. 2. Hon. Boger, a Lieutenant in
the Navy, who died when on the public
service, in January 1799, at Port Royal
in Jamaica. 1. Daughter, Lady Jean.
2. Lady Lilias, married first to Robert
Dundas Macqueen of Braxfield, who
died on the 5th August 1816. Secondly,
on the 21st August 1817, to Richard
Alexander Oswald, younger of Auchen-
cruive.
Robert Hamilton of Bourtreehill died
on the 4th June 1773.
II. Jean Hamilton of Bourtreehill, Rob. Cunn.
married George, third Viscount Gar-f 6 ^^ dWood '
nock, nineteenth Earl of Crawford, and
fifth Earl of Lindsay, to whom she had
issue :
1. George, twentieth Earl of Craw-
ford, who died unmarried in 1808.
2. Hon. Robert Lindsay Hamilton of
Bourtreehill, who had a company in the
92d and afterwards in the 21st foot in
1780, and died unmarried at Buxton in
1801. He chiefly resided at, and greatly Stat. Ace.
improved his property of Bourtreehill.
3. Hon. Bute Lindsay, who had also
a company in the 92d foot, and also died
unmarried.
1. Lady Jean, married in 1772 to
Archibald Earl of Eglintoun, but died
in 1778, in her 21st year, without issue:
2. Lady Mary Lindsay Crawford,