Lady Margaret Hamilton, Countess of Crawford Lindsay

LADY MARGARET HAMILTON Countess of Crawford Lindsay

Lady Margaret Hamilton, Countess of Crawford Lindsay, is not the same person as Dame Margaret Hamilton, Lady Belhaven who was her bastard sister

Lady Margaret Hamilton is the daughter of James, Marquess of Hamilton, and his wife Lady Anne Cunningham. Hamilton Memoirs, p. 134 The Scots Peerage IV: 375

Death

Lady Margaret Hamilton, Countess of Crawford Lindsay, is reported to have died in 1678. Stirnet: Hamilton 09

Marriage

Lady Margaret Hamilton married John, Earl of Crawfurd Lindsay, and they had issue. The Scots Peerage, III, p. 36

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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May 30. Dated at Strother: Margaret Hamilton, wife of John, 17th earl of Crawford, to Anne, lady Findlater, her niece.The duchess [of Rothes, writer's daughter,] is safely brought to bed of a daughter; writer's daughter [Helen, wife of Sir Robert Sinclair of] Stevenston of a boy, and writer's daughter [in law, wife of Patrick Lindsay of] Kilbirnie, of a daughter. National Records of Scotland, Seafield Papers, reference GD248/567/89

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Oct. 8. Dated at Strother: Margaret Hamilton to Mary, lady Findlater, her niece.Thankful to learn that recipient has survived childbirth; suggests a plaster; Lady Newark says she has cured many by this means; further rather illegible details. National Records of Scotland, Seafield Papers, reference GD248/567/84

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3 November 1647: Margaret Hamilton, Lady Craufurd, Holyrudhouse, to John Campbell, fiar of Glenurchie, her cousin.Thanks for a roebuck; matters in England are in such a state that recipient cannot expect the money due to him; promises to write to her brother there on this topic. National Records of Scotland, Breadalbane Muniments, reference GD112/39/92/6