Annabella Hamilton

ANNABELLA HAMILTON

Spurious Pedigrees

The anestry of Annabella Hamilton, here treated, is uncertain. The Holmberg/Borene Family Tree identifies her as the daughter of Robert Hamilton, born at Aitkenhead in 1600, and Lady Isobel, born at Paisley in 1598. She is said to have married Andrew Campbell in Londonderry in 1609 and to have had a son named Duncan Campbell, born in 1645, at Drumboden, Kilmachrenan, Donegalabama (sic), Ireland. rootsweb: Holmberg/Borene Tree

Another pedigree published on the internet, evidently under the umbrella of Wikipedia, identifies her as Lady Isobel Hamilton, ,daughter of James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, and his wife Margaret Boyd. James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn

An alternative genealogy is proposed by Stirnet, in their accounrt of the family of Hamilton of Torrance, where Annabella Hamilton, here treated, is identified as the sixth child of Robert Hamilton of Torrance and his wife Beatrix Hamilton. More accurately Stirnet suggests that "Annabell Hamilton possibly fits here". Stirnet: Hamilton 24 Stirnet's seeming reluctance to make a positive identification seems justified by their account of the family of Dugald Campbell, Minister of Letterkenny in County Donegal, Ireland, which identifies her as the daughter of Robert Hamilton of Barncleugh & Torrens. Stirnet: Campbell 11 Clan MacFarlane follows Stirnet's account of the Campbell family but goes on to manufacture a date and place of birth for Annabella Hamilton. Inexplicably, Clan MacFarlame moves Barnecluith, and Torrens, from Lanarkshire to Ayrshire. Clan MacFarlane and associated clans genealogy

Marriage

Annabella Hamilton is said to have married the Reverend Dugald Campbell. Stirnet: Campbell 11

Family

Rev. Duncan Campbell, b. Abt 1562 of Cowal, Argyll, Scotland married Marista MacAlister

The eldest son,

REV. DUGALD CAMPBELL, went to Ireland in 1611 with Andrew Knox, Bishop of Raphoe, and was incumbent of Letterkenny, co. Donegal. He m. Annabella, dau. of Robert Hamilton, of Barncleugh and Torrens, Ayrshire, and had with other issue,

1. JOHN, of whom presently.
2. Alexander of Donegal, who had a son, Patrick, mentioned in his will in 1664.
3. George, capt. in the army, m. Ann Melvill, and d.s.p.
4. Duncan, of Inverary, went to Ireland in 1612, and settled in Ulster, m. Mary McCoy, and had issue a son, Patrick, of Moyris and Magherahubber, who d. 1661, aged 48, leaving issue. His youngest son, John, settled in Virginia 1726, and had issue.
5. William, m. 1st, the dau. of Lamont, and 2ndly, Mary, widow of Archibald Campbell, of Ormsary, and had issue four daus.

source: Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, The Privy Council, Knightage and Campanionage, Seventy-Third Edition. London, UK: Harrison and Sons, 1911

Genealogy

1. Stirnet: Hamilton 24
2. Stirnet: Campbell 11
3. Darryl Lundy's Peerage: Annabella Hamilton
4. Clan MacFarlane and associated clans genealogy: Annabella Hamilton
5. rootsweb: Holmberg/Borene Tree: Annabel Hamilton
6. CampbellGenealogy