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Janet Calderwood

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Birthplace: Calderwood, Lanark, Scotland (United Kingdom)
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Ex-partner of James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton
Mother of The Right Reverend David Hamilton, Bishop of Argyll and John Hamilton of Broomhill

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About Janet Calderwood

JANET CALDERWOOD (aka JONETA CALDERWOD)

Janet Calderwood is reported to have been the daughter of Calderwood of that Ilk. She is the mother of John Hamilton of Broomhill, the illegitimate son of James Hamilton, Lord Hamilton John Anderson, Historical and Genealogical Memoirs of the House of Hamilton with Genealogical Memoirs of the Several Branches (John Anderson, junior, Edinburgh MDCCCXXV), page 249

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

4 February 1473: Charter by which James, Lord Hamilton, confirms that he has given various lands to John Hamilton, his eldest illegitimate son by Joneta Calderwod. John Hamilton obtained a charter of confirmation under the Great Seal of Scotland on 10 May 1491. Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum. The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, A.D. 1424-1513. Edited by James Balfour Paul, Advocate, FSA. Scot. (H. M. General Register House, Edinburgh, 1882), charter number 2024

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