JAMES HAMILTON OF AIKENHEAD

James Hamilton of Aikenhead is the son of James Hamilton of Aikenhead and his wife Mary Govan. Hamilton Memoirs: pp. 304-05

Evidence from the Records of the Burgh of Glasgow

5 October 1741: The magistrates and town council have suscrived a precept of clare constat for infefting of Margaretr, Grizell, Mary, Agnes and Janet Peadies, daughters and only children procreat betwixt the deceast James Peadie of Ruchill, late provost, and unquhill Margarett Govan, spouses, one of the two daughters of the deceast John Govan of Hoganfield for the one half, and James Hamilton, eldest lawful son to the deceast James Hamilton of Aikenhead and the deceast Mary Govan, his spouse, the other two daughters of the said deceast John Govan, their grandfather, on the mother's side, in the lands of Hoganfield, lying within the lordship of Provan, holding feu of the town, for the yearly payment of the feu farm and other duties used and wont, . . . . . for which they have payed to William Weir, collector of the feu duties of the Provan , the double of the said feu duty. Glasgow Records VI: p. 100

Printed Evidence

Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Glasgow etc. Vol. VI. A.D. 1739-59. Edited by Robert Renwick, Depute Town-Clerk (Scottish Burgh Records Society, Glasgow, MCMXI.), 635 pp. including index

Genealogy

1. Historical and Genealogical Memoirs of the House of Hamilton; with genealogical memoirs of the several branches of the family. By John Anderson, Surgeon (John Anderson, Jun., Edinburgh, MDCCCXXV.), 496 pp. including index plus corrections and additions
2. The Heraldry of the Hamiltons : with notes on all the males of the family, description of the arms, plates and pedigrees. By G. Harvey Johnston, FSA Scot. (W. & A. K. Johnston, Edinburgh, MCMIX), 153 pp. including index to paragraphs. See page 113 for the founder of the family