Gavin Hamilton of Orbiston

GAVIN HAMILTON OF ORBISTON (aka GAVIN HAMMILTOUNE OF ORBISTOUN)

Gavin Hamilton of Orbiston (Orvestoun) and his heirs are named in the entail executed by James, Earl of Arran, a confirmation for which was granted under the Grat Seal of Scotland on 17 January 1512-13. Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, AD. 1424-1513, charter number 3803 on p. 827

Gavin Hamilton of Orbiston in noticed in the witness list of a charter dated 6 April 1541, by which Sir Thomas Erskin of Brechin confirmed that he has exchanged certain land in the lordship of Mar for other land in the Lanarkshire parish of Monkland. Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, AD. 1513-1546, charter number 2328 on p. 533

Gavin Hamilton of Orbiston was a member of an Assize which met on 4 November 1550. Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, AD. 1546-1580, charter number 588, p. 133

Death

Gavin Hamilton of Orbiston died before 31 March 1550, the date upon which his daughter Elizabeth Hamilton was given certain lands in liferent by John Dunlop of that Ilk Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, AD. 1546-1580, charter number 505 on p. 116

Notes

1. Gavin, who was named one of the heirs of entail in a settlement of the Hamilton estates by the Duke of Chatelherault in 1512. Gavin's nephew, David, who lived at Bothwelhaugh, a farm on the Orbiston estate near the Clyde, fired the shot which killed the Regent Murray at Linlithgow in 1569. The gun which he used was given by General Hamilton of Dalzell to the Duke of Hamilton when Bothwelhaugh was sold to him at the beginning of this century[1800's], and is now at Hamilton Palace. Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry
2. While pursuing some Hamilton research, I came across a Marion Wallace, styled "of Cairnhill", who married Gavin Hamilton, 2d of Orbieston (d.1558). Same problem as before...no Wallace of Cairnhill pedigree, only isolated references to Marion's presumed father, Hugh Wallace of Cairnhill.rootsweb: Wallace -L Archives

Genealogy

1. John Anderson, Historical and Genealogical Memoirs of the House of Hamilton with Genealogical Memoirs of the Several Branches (John Anderson, junior, Edinburgh MDCCCXXV), pp.270-76
2. Stirnet: Hamilton 03