Not the same as Major William Hamilton

Suggested Father John Hamilton (Hamilton of Woodhall), 1st Lord Bargany(c.1615-1658) or William Hamilton (1594- unknown), Son of Sir John Hamilton, Kt. and Jean Hamilton (Campbell)

William Hamilton Sr. passage to America was paid for by Walter FitzGilbert and fulfilled by Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Lord of Baltimore. After landing in Maryland, he remained under the care of Lord Baltimore and served him as an servant for seven years in the tobacco industry- so says American academia. Although they, Modern American 'academia', still claim Paul Revere made that ride...

A Chesapeake Family and Their Slaves: A Study in Historical Archaeology By Anne Elizabeth Yentsch, Julie Hunter

A Hamilton History:Highlights of the Lowlanders A Synopsis by Maurice E. Hamilton

The Heraldry of the Hamiltons

Note: Pg. 15 Ch. 11 'The Hamiltons of Bargany' Ref. Sir John Hamilton of Lettrick

Note: The Coat of Arms used in the Profile is Hereditary

1) Pedigree

2) Heraldry

3) Scots Peerage

4) A Hamilton History:Highlights of the Lowlanders A Synopsis by Maurice E. Hamilton

Quick Genealogy

Hamilton family

Stirnet.com Hamilton Genealogy

Misc Data

William Hambleton of St Micheal's Talbot county, Maryland in 1659 purchased land from Lord Baltimore in 1659.

Reference Sources

1) Genealogy at Pitard.Net

2) Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage By Sir Bernard Burke

3) Hamilton of Cadzow (later of Hamilton)

DNA - GENETIC INFO

Group A or I1-1 Hamiltons- having direct descent from the Royal Scottish bloodline of Hamilton / Hambletons

Participant Code Number: H-091

Analysis Lab or FTDNA Kit #: 34691

William T Hambleton, b abt 1765, d 1833 Roane Co, TN, m Susannah, b 1790 VA. Son Harvey Nelson Hamilton, b 1821 Roane Co, TN, d 1863, m Nancy D Leake.

Hamilton: Earliest Known Ancestors

As can be seen from an examination of the data in the Group A table, this group has more members (about 35% of all the participants) than any of the other groups. As indicated at the end of the table there is a group of people with the surname Robertson whose DNA matches the Hamilton Group A profile (more later). In organizing the table attempts were made to keep clusters of similar results together but it should be emphasized that all those in this group are quite closely related with a common ancestor for all of them probably living within the past 500 to 1000 years.

Although some members of this group (see Ancestors) were known to be related, most did not know of any relationship prior to their DNA analysis. Thus, the large number in Group A indicates that this is a widespread group of Hamiltons. Much of the variation in the marker values for Group A occurs at marker sites 570 and CDYa,b. These marker sites are known to mutate quite rapidly so the variation observed is not unusual. One noteworthy difference in the marker values for two participants known to be closely related involves H-054 and H-014. It was initially quite surprising that they differ at 3 marker sites because they are first cousins twice removed; H-054 is the grandson of a first cousin of H-014. However, these three marker sites are known to be on a palindromic or hairpin section of the Y-DNA and the three changes can be explained by only one mutation, a so-called 'Recombinational Loss of Heterozygosity' or RecLOH event. By its nature this RecLOH event had to have occurred in the line of H-014 in the generations from the most recent common ancestor (the grandfather of H-014) of the two participants. Thus, the RecLOH event can be localized to one of only two possible transmission events. The fact that the DNA profile for H-054 is identical to that for a suspected relative (H-232) is further evidence that the mutation has occurred in the line of H-014. Another instance where a RecLOH event seems to have recently occurred in a Group A Hamiton line is in the line to H-123; his known close relatives, H-046 and H-082, do not have this mutation.

One characteristic of the Group A DNA profile is that it is quite unique; very few people other than Hamiltons match this profile even at the 12 marker level. The reason for this is that some of the marker values found for Group A are unusual. This is evident from an early analysis of the dispersion in values for those in haplogroup I1 (referred to as haplogroup I1a in earlier years). Among the first 12 markers for those in haplogroup I1, a value of 13 at DYS385b occurs only 7% of the time, a value of 27 at DYS389-2 occurs only 2.7% of the time, and a value of 12 at DYS439 occurs only 18% of the time. Therefore, it is perhaps not too surprising that the Group A 12 marker signature is limited almost exclusively to those with the Hamilton surname. The corollary, of course, is that if someone with a different surname matches this 12 marker signature he would need to seriously consider the possibility that he is closely related to the Group A Hamiltons in the all male line. This is the situation for several participants whose surname is actually Robertson rather than Hamilton; their results are given at the end of the Group A table. The probability that these Robertsons have a common ancestor with the Hamiltons of Group A is accentuated by the finding that they match so well when many more marker values are compared; the modal values for this group of Robertsons differs from the modal values for the Group A Hamiltons at only 4 markers out of 111. Recent further research has indicated that some Robertson families in Scotland were closely associated with some Hamiltons there, so possibly when surnames came into use two closely related families took different surnames. Several other participants listed in the Group A tables who do not have a known Hamilton ancestor and do not have a Hamilton surname are A-197 (kit 71481), A-350 (kit N28693), B-276 (kit 70799), B-421 (kit 209318), C-491 (kit 282393), D-314 (150528), F-220 (kit 81909), H-285 (kit 124406), M-161 (kit 39275), M-429 (kit 196476), S-159 (kit 52774), S-451 (kit 231420), T-092 (kit 19479), T-479 (kit 264148) and T-490 (kit 282371); their surnames are Adams, Armstrong, Bolton, Bryant, Crawford, Douglass, Frost, Harrison, McLain, Marrs, Smith, Stewart, Thomas and Thompson. The observation that they match so closely this unique Group A DNA profile again strongly implies that these participants share with the Group A Hamiltons or Robertsons a common ancestor along all male lines in the not too distant past.