The Hamilton Baronetcy (1683)

JOHN HAMILTON (1576-1639), of Corraneary, County Cavan, and Hamiltonsbawn, County Armagh, next brother of JAMES HAMILTON (created Viscount Claneboye, 1622), married Sarah, daughter of Sir Anthony Brabazon, Governor of Connaught, and had issue,

HANS, his heir;
James;
Francis, of Tullybrick;
Mary; Eleanor.

The eldest son,

THE RT HON SIR HANS HAMILTON, Knight, of Hamiltonsbawn, MP for County Armagh, 1661-66, High Sheriff of County Armagh, 1669, married Magdalene, daughter of Sir Edward Trevor, Knight.

Sir Hans was created a baronet in 1662, designated of Monilla, County Armagh.

He had an only daughter, SARAH, married to Sir Robert Hamilton, Knight, of Mount Hamilton, County Armagh.

Sir Hans died suddenly in 1682, when the baronetcy expired, and the estates devolved upon Sir Hans's son-in-law,

SIR ROBERT HAMILTON, Knight, of Mount Hamilton, who was appointed Sir Hans's successor as custos rotulorum of the county.

Sir Robert was created a baronet in 1683, designated of Mount Hamilton, County Armagh.

Sir Robert, Privy Counsellor, 1685, died in 1703, and was succeeded by his son,

SIR HANS HAMILTON, 2nd Baronet (1673-1731), MP for Armagh County, 1703-13, Carlingford, 1713-14, who married Jane, eldest daughter of Clotworthy, 2nd Viscount Massereene, and had an only daughter and heiress,

ANNE HAMILTON, who married John Campbell, of London, banker, goldsmith, and founder of the great house of Coutts and Co, of the Strand, who assumed the surname of HAMILTON to possess her estate and was well known in the family as "Campbell Hamilton".

Sir Hans died at Utrecht, when the baronetcy expired.

First published in February, 2011.