Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton

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HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS
CO. OF AYR.
CAMBUS-
KEITH.
I. Walter de Hamilton, the second
son of the first Sir David de Hamilton,
Dominus de Cadyow, is stated by all
genealogists and peerage writers to have
been the first of this family.
Robertson's He had a charter from King Robert
Index, p. I3S. ^ ^j^ ^^ jggg ^ UQ ^ q{ & tene _
ment of land in the city of Edinburgh.
He was succeeded by his son,
II. David Hamilton of Cambus-
keith, who obtained from his uncle, (pat-
ruus) Alan Hamilton of Lcthberd,* now
called Larbart, in Linlithgowshire, a
charter of the lands of Blairmead, which
was confirmed by the superior, Archi-
bald, Earl of Douglas, Lord of Gallo-
way and Annandale, at Peebles, 29th
January 1411. He was succeeded by,
Rob. Gen. of
Cun. i. 357.
Ibiil. i. 35S.
III. James Hamilton of Cambus-
keith, who was served heir to his father
in the lands of Cambuskeith in 1436.
He married Marjory, daughter of Sir
James Hamilton of Preston and Fingal-
ton, by whom he had issue,
IV. John Hamilton of Cambus-
keith, who married Marion, daughter
of Sir John Maxwell of Calderwood, by
whom he had a son,
V. Alexander Hamilton of Cam-
buskeith, who was served heir to his fa-
ther John, in 1489. He is mentioned
in the Acta Auditorum, of date 24th
January 1488.
He married Marion, daughter of Sir
Adam Cunninghame of Caprington, by
whom he had two sons :
1. John, his successor.
2. William Hamilton of Macknairs-
toun, afterwards of Sonic and Sauquar.
VI. John Hamilton of Cambus-
keith, who had a charter of the lands of M a? . Sig. Lib.
Cambuskeith, dated 10th October 1530; ™f- No - 24,
and another, to himself and Janet Stew-
art, his spouse, of the mill of Cambus-
keith, and the milnlands thereof, dated
21st September 1532. In 1542, he ap-
pears as one of the curators to young
James Hamilton of Evandale, whose Scots Acts of
father, Sir James of Fynnart, had been ™' ^ "igg
recently executed on an alleged charge
of high treason.
" The lands of Larbert were originally granted to his grandfather, Sir Walter Fitz-Gilbert de
Hamilton, by King Robert the Bruce, before the year 1323.