Henry Hamilton (1760 - abt. 1844)

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Wetherall) Hamilton — married 1785 in Dublin, Ireland

Descendants

Died about Nov 1844 at about age 84 in Ballymacoll, County Meath, Ireland

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Biography

He lived at Ballymacoll, County Meath, Ireland.

Henry married Mary Wetherall, daughter of John Wetherall, of Dublin, in 1785.

Children

1. James John, b. 1788, married (1) Margaret Carter, daughter of Thomas Carter, of Castle Martin, co. Kildare, (2) Hon. Anne Geraldine de Courcy, daughter of John de Courcy, 26th Baron Kingsale, in 1821.
2. Henry (Rev.) b. 1795 married Frances Margaret Peters, daughter of Ralph Peters, of Platbridge, Lancashire, in 1840.
3. John, of Grove, co. Meath, married Catherine Elizabeth Smyth, daughter of William Smyth, of Barbavilla, co. Westmeath
4. Hans Henry, Q.C., married Augusta Wetherall, daughter of Gen. Sir Frederick Augustus Wetherall, G.C.H., in 1833.
5. Robert died unmarried
6. Mary married Rear-Adm. Frederick Wetherall, R.N.
7. Isabella, married Rev. Charles Taylor Wade on 6 June 1818.
8. Harriet married Rev. Sir Erasmus Dixon Borrowes, 8th bart., in March, 1825.
9. Sophia, died unmarried
10. Charlotte, died unmarried

DNA: Y-Chromosome Haplogroup

I-L338

All male line descendants of this person will be the same haplogroup. For an explanation of Y chromosome testing for genealogy purposes see Wikipedia at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogical_DNA_test#Y_chromosome_.28Y-DNA.29_testing

Note STR patterns can be used to predict a haplogroup wheresas specific SNP testing accurately defines a haplogroup. The current approved haplotree can be found at

http://www.isogg.org/tree/index.html

and the current haplogroup designations against specific SNPs can be found at

http://www.isogg.org/tree/ISOGG_YDNA_SNP_IndexSource.html

The Hamilton Surname genetic genealogy project site:

1. http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/g/a/gah4/HamDNA/GrpA.html

Sources

• http://thepeerage.com/p17459.htm#i174589
• A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland by BSir Bernard Burke and Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Publication date 1912, Family: Hamilton of Ballymacoll

Acknowledgments

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