Lady Margaret Hamilton, Countess of Angus

LADY MARGARET HAMILTON

Margaret Hamilton is the daughter of John Hamilton of Clydesdale (aka John Hamilton of Samuelston) and his wife Janet Home. The Scots Peerage (Edinburgh 1907) IV, p. 363

First Marriage

Margaret Hamilton married John Johnstone of that Ilk. The Scots Peerage, I, p. 248

Second Marriage

Margaret Hamilton married David Douglas, son of Sir George Douglas of Pittendreigh. The marriage contract was signed at Linlithgow on 8 May 1552. Hamilton Memoirs, p. 472 The Douglas Book, II, p. 296

Third Marriage

Following the death of her second husband in June 1557, Margaret Hamilton married Sir Patrick Whitelaw of that Ilk. The Scots Peerage, I, p. 193

Children of the First Marriage

1. Sir John Johnstone, Marquis of Annandale
2. Jean Johnstone

Children of the Second Marriage

1. Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Angus
2. Lady Elizabeth Douglas
3. Lady Margaret Douglas

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

25 April 1567: A charter by which Sir Patrick Whitelaw of that Ilk, with the consent of his wife, Lady Margaret Hamilton, has sold certain lands at Oldhamstocks in Berwickshire to William Arnot in Cocksburnspath and his wife Margaret Wallace, and their son John Arnot, burgess of Edinburgh. The charter was confirmed under the Great Seal of Scotland on 12 July 1568. Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, A.D., 1546-1580, charter number 1823 on p. 462

Genealogy

1. John Anderson, Historical and Genealogical Memoirs of the House of Hamilton etc. (Edinburgh 1825), 476 pp. plus additions pp. 371-72 for Hamilton of Samuelstoun
2. Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms, The Scots Peerage (Edinburgh 1907), iv, p. 363 for John Hamilton of Clydesdale and his daughter Margaret
3. Darryl Lundy's Peerage: Margaret Hamilton