Robert Hamilton of Aikenhead

ROBERT HAMILTON OF AIKENHEAD

Burgess and Guild Brother of Glasgow

Robert Hamilton of Aikenhead is the eldest son of James Hamilton of Aikenhead and his wife Elizabeth Adam. Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum: Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, A.D. 1609-20, charter number 597 on page 224 His father is James Hamilton, merchant, burgess, and guild brother of Glasgow, sometime Provost of Glasgow. He was enrolled as a burgess and guild brother of Glasgow on 23 September 1634: He was admitted in right of his father. Glasgow Burgesses, 1573-1753, p. 89

The Ten Pound Lands of Meikle and Little Aikenhead

On 22 October 1611 Sir James Maxwell of Calderwood sold the ten pound lands of old extent of Meikle and Little Aikenheids to James Hamilton, merchant in Glasgow, and his wife Elizabeth Adam, in conjunct fee and liferent, and to Robert Hamilton their eldest lawful son and his heirs in fee, whom failing to the heirs and assignees of James Hamilton. For greater security James Hamilton obtained a charter of confirmation under the Great Seal of Scotland on 17 December 1611. Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum: Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, A.D. 1609-20, charter number 597 on page 224

Robert Hamilton of Aikenhead gave the ten pound lands of old extent of Meikle and Little Aikenhead to his eldest son and heir James, reserving his own liferent and that of his wife Marie Porterfield. James Hamilton of Aikenhead obtained a charter of confirmation under the Great Seal of Scotland on 11 May 1647. [John Maitland Thomson, LL.D. (editor), Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum: Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, VOL. 9, A.D. 1634-1651, charter number 1776 on page 664]

His Father's Heir

On 28 December 1633 Robert Hamilton of Aikenhead was returned as heir to his deceased father in the lands of Langsyde. Hamilton Memoirs

Genealogy

1. John Anderson, Surgeon, Historical and Genealogical Memoirs of the House of Hamilton with Genealogical Memoirs of the Several Branches of the Family (John Anderson, Jun., Edinburgh, MDCCCXXV), pp. 304-05
2. G. Harvey Johnson, The Heraldry of the Hamiltons etc.(Edinburgh, MCMIX), pp. 90-91