Alexander (Hamilton) Hamilton VIth of Grange (1682 - 1732)

Born 1682 in Grange, Ayrshire, Scotland

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Pollock) Hamilton — married 15 Jun 1711 in Stevenston, Ayrshire, Scotland

Descendants

Died Apr 1732 at about age 50 in Stevenston, Ayrshire, Scotland

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Biography

Alexander (Hamilton) Hamilton VIth of Grange is a member of Clan Hamilton.

Alexander was the son of John Hamilton of Grange, and his wife, Rebecca Cunninghame. He was served heir to his father on 9 February 1708.^[1][2][3][4]

Alexander Hamilton was the laird of Grange in Stevenston Parish in Ayrshire, Scotland, southwest of Glasgow. In 1711, Alexander Hamilton, the fourteenth laird in the so-called Cambuskeith line of Hamiltons, married Elizabeth Pollock, the daughter of a baronet. As Alexander must have heard ad nauseam in his boyhood, the Cambuskeith Hamiltons possessed a coat of arms and for centuries had owned a castle near Kilmarnock named the Grange. Indeed, that lineage can be traced back to the fourteenth century in impeccable genealogical tables, and he boasted in later years that he was the scion of a blue-ribbon Scottish family: "The truth is that, on the question who my parents were, I have better pretensions than most of those who in this country plume themselves on ancestry." ^[5]

He married Elizabeth Pollock, on 15 Jun 1711.^[6] They had issue:^[1]

1. John, c. 19 Aug 1712,^[7] Laird of Grange
2. Robert, b. 3 Feb 1715, c. 9 Feb 1715,^[8] Laird of Grange
3. Alexander, b. 6 Feb 1717, c. 12 Feb 1717,^[9] m. Rachel, daughter of James Cunninghame of Collelan
   1. Alexander, his heir
   2. Elizabeth, m. Robert Cunninghame of Auchinarvie
   3. Margaret, m/ Rev. Thomas Pollock, minister of Kilwinning
   4. Frances, m. Edward McCormick, Esq.
   5. Jane, d. unm.
4. James, b. circa 1721, proprietor in the West Indies,
   1. Alexander Hamlton, aide-de-camp to George Washington
5. William, c. 4 Oct 1722, d. young
6. Walter, b. circa 1723, d. unm
7. William, b. circa 1726, m. Jean, daughter of Robert Donald, Esq.
8. Elizabeth, c. 7 Aug 1727,^[10] m. Alexander Blair
9. George, b. circa 1729, d. unm
10. Joseph, b. circa 1719 or 1731
11. unnamed daughter,b. circa 1719 or 1731, d. young

Research Notes

The 1730 marriage as states in several sources is unsourced and inaccurate. The marriage record and birth records of several children make this clear.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Hamilton, John Church, Life of Alexander Hamilton. A History of the Republic of the United States of America, as Traced in His Writings and in Those of His Contemporaries., Cambridge,: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879, Volume VII, Hathitrust, p. 841
2. ↑ Johnston, George Harvey, "The heraldry of the Hamiltons : with notes on all the males of the family, description of the arms, plates and pedigrees", Edinburgh: W. & A. K. Johnston, LTD, 1909, Archive.org, p. 121
3. ↑ Anderson, John, Historical and Genealogical Memoirs of the House of Hamilton, Edinburgh: John Anderson, 1825, Archive.org, p. 257
4. ↑ Robertson, George, "Topographical Description of Ayrshire; more particularly of Cunninghame: together with a genealogical account of the principal families in that Bailiwick", Irvine: Cunningham Press, 1820, Archive.org, p. 170
5. ↑ Chernow, Ron, Alexander Hamilton, 2004 -Publius 21:40, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
6. ↑ "Scotland Marriages, 1561-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XT2K-8YM : 11 February 2020), Alexander Hamiltone, 1711.
7. ↑ "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XYZV-1VM : 11 February 2020), Alexander Hamiltone in entry for John Hamiltone, 1712.
8. ↑ "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XYZK-443 : 11 February 2020), Alexander Hamiltone in entry for Robert Hamiltone, 1715.
9. ↑ "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XYZK-HLV : 11 February 2020), Alexander Hamilton in entry for Alexander Hamilton, 1717.
10. ↑ "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XYCM-W5X : 11 February 2020), Alexander Hamilton in entry for Elizabeth Hamilton, 1732.
    N.B. the original record has the last three digits of the year obliterated. The transcription assume the date follows the one for the prior entry, which has 1732 but the following entry has Apr 1728 and one could as easily assume it was before that date.

See also:

• Clan MacFarlane: Alexander Hamilton

• The Peerage: Alexander Hamilton of Grange

• "FamilyCentral.net: 'Alexander HAMILTON'"

• "Wikipedia: 'Alexander Hamilton'", John's grandson

• Discovering Hamilton