Sources differ on whether certain sons were children of the first or second wife of James Hamilton. Paul leaves him out entirely.[1] Others assign him to Grizzel Semple.[2] That Grizzel could have had so many children is not tenable given her age and the duration of the marriage.
Sources
↑Paul, James Balfour. "The Scots Peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom", Edinburgh: David Douglas,1910, Vol. VII, Archive.org,
pp. 545-7
↑
Johnston, George Harvey, "The heraldry of the Stewarts, with notes on all the males of the family, descrptions of the arms, plates and pedigrees", Edinburgh: W. & A. K. Johnston, LTD, 1906, Archive.org,
p. 61
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