Robert Hamilton, younger of Torrance

ROBERT HAMILTON OF TORRANCE primus

Robert Hamilton of Torrance, younger, is the only son of James Hamilton of Torrance and his first wife Anna Cunynghame. [Lieutenant-Colonel George Hamilton, The House of Hamilton (J. Skinner & Company, Edinburgh, 1933), see pages 850-58 for an account of the Hamiltons of Torrance] When his mother died in May 1627 his father gave up the inventory of her moveable estate in name and behalf of Robert Hamilton and his sister Ann Hamilton: "his lawfull bairnes procreat betwixt thame". He was alive when his mother's testament was confirmed on 30 May 1628 [National Records of Scotland, Commissary Records of Hamilton and Campsie, Testament Dative of Anna Cunynghame, reference CC10/5/5] but probably died soon after this. Hamilton Memoirs

Published Accounts of the Family

1. John Anderson, Surgeon, Licenciate of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh Historical and Genealogical Memoirs of the House of Hamilton; with Genealogical Memoirs of the Several Branches of the Family (John Anderson, Jun., Edinburgh, MDCCCXXV), pp. 386-88 for an account of the Hamiltons of Torrance
2. G. Harvey Johnston, FSA Scot., Heraldry of the Hamiltons with Notes on All the Males of the Family, Descriptions of the Arms, Plates and Pedigrees (W. & A. K. Johnston, Limited, Edinburgh and London, MCMIX), pp. 88-91 for an account of the Hamiltons of Torrance
3. Lieutenant-Colonel George Hamilton, A History of the House of Hamilton (J. Skinner & Company, Edinburgh 1933), 1167 pages.