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Family Subtree Diagram : Descendants of Aegida Somerville (1463)

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Alias:<ALIA> Helen /Stuart/ 1475 - 1513 John II Stewart 38 38 REFN: 2882AN ~1490 - 1546 Janet Campbell 56 56 REFN: 4415AN
REFN: P2574 1570 - 1627 William Hamilton 57 57 REFN: 4575AN
REFN: P4576 1574 Jane Melville REFN: 4576AN
REFN: P4577 ~1610 James Hamilton REFN: 4577AN
REFN: P4578 ~1612 John Hamilton REFN: 4578AN
REFN: P4579 ~1616 William Hamilton REFN: 4579AN
REFN: P4580 ~1618 ? Hamilton REFN: 4580AN
REFN: P4581 ~1622 Katherine Hamilton REFN: 4581AN
REFN: P4582 ~1624 ? Hamilton REFN: 4582AN
REFN: P4583 ~1542 John Melville REFN: 5280AN 1495 - 1547 Henry Stewart 52 52 REFN: 5326AN 1504 Janet Stewart REFN: 5327AN 1543 - 1606 Dorothea Stuart 63 63 REFN: 5345AN 1541 - 1584 William Ruthven 43 43 REFN: 5346AN 1501 - 1529 Alexander Gordon Sutherland 28 28 REFN: 5349AN 1525 - 1567 John Gordon 42 42 REFN: 5350AN ~1502 - 1577 Helen Stewart 75 75 REFN: 5364AN ~1500 John Lindsay REFN: 5365AN 1507 - 1542 John Stewart 35 35 REFN: 5366AN 1511 - <1542 Grizel Rattray 31 31 REFN: 5367AN ~1510 Elizabeth Stewart REFN: 5370AN 1513 - 1568 Kenneth MacKenzie 55 55 REFN: 5371AN ~1501 Jean Stewart REFN: 5374AN ~1497 Seumas Arbuthnott REFN: 5375AN 1536 - 1608 Hans Hamilton 72 72 REFN: 5479AN
Alias:<ALIA> Johannes /Hamilton/ 1540 - 1628 Janet Denham 88 88 REFN: 5480AN 1559 James Hamilton REFN: 5482AN
James Hamilton - Minister’s Son, Academic and Agent.
Rev. Hans Hamilton (1536 - 1608) was the first Protestant minister in Dunl
op, Ayrshire. Dunlop is in the East Ayrshire council district, and if y
ou visit the historic Main Street today you can still see his church, h
is mausoleum and also the significantly-named Clandeboye School building
s, all of which date from the early 1600s. He and his wife Janet had six s
ons - James, Archibald, Gawin, John, William and Patrick - and one daughte
r, Jean.
Their eldest son, James Hamilton (1559 - 1644), was educated at St Andre
ws University when Andrew Melville was Principal there. St Andrews was al
so where the first martyr of the Scottish Reformation, Patrick Hamilton, h
ad been burned at the stake on February 29th 1528, aged only 24. (Patri
ck Hamilton was nephew of the Earl of Arran and also the Duke of Alban
y; he was related to King James V of Scotland, although we are not awa
re of Patrick having any connection with either Rev Hans or James Hamilton
).
Having built a reputation as “one of the greatest scholars and hopeful wi
ts in his time”, James became a teacher in Glasgow. Around 1587 he left Sc
otland by ship and due to storms unexpectedly arrived in Dublin. He decid
ed to stay there and established a school – “The Free School” - in Ship St
reet. Hamilton was its master and he employed fellow Scot and fellow pup
il of Meville’s, James Fullerton, as usher. One of their pupils was the ei
ght year old James Ussher, who went on to become the Archbishop of Armag
h, and who famously calculated that the first day of Biblical creation w
as Sunday 23 October 4004 BC. Ussher would later take the part of the Ulst
er-Scots in their nonconformist and Presbyterian stance. Fullerton and Uss
her are buried alongsiDe each other in St Paul’s Chapel of Westminster Abb
ey in London.
In 1591, Queen Elizabeth 1 established Trinity College in Dublin, and t
he first Provost noted that Hamilton had “...a noble spirit... and learn
ed head...” and persuaded the two Scots to become Fellows of the Colleg
e. Ussher, then aged 13, followed them to Trinity. Hamilton was made Burs
ar there in 1598.
Both men were agents for King James VI of Scotland, providing him with inf
ormation about Elizabeth 1’s activities in Ireland, and perhaps even tampe
ring with the mail to keep the King, and themselves, informed. They we
re so successful that they gave up their academic positions to take up app
ointments at the royal court.
Hamilton was appointed Scottish agent to the English court of Elizabeth 1s
t, was involved in the negotiations for James VI’s succession to the Engli
sh throne, and eventually brought official news of Elizabeth’s death to Sc
otland. Fullerton was knighted when King James VI of Scotland became Ki
ng James 1 of England - at the Union of the Crowns - in 1603.
So James Hamilton had great influence with the new King James 1 - influen
ce which he would soon use to gain lands in Ulster.
MISC:
- Of his character, The Hamilton Manuscripts say  “…he was very learned, w
ise, laborious, noble (especially to strangers and scholars), so the
re is great ground to judge he was truly pious, as he was certainly well p
rincipled… his younger education seasoned him well; He was observedly a gr
eat studier of the Scripture and an enemy to profaneness… he was very char
itable to distress'd people that came in great numbers from the upper coun
trys. He was of a robust, healthfull body, and managed to the best advanta
ge ; died without sickness unexpectedly ere he finished his will…”
- James Hamilton and his wife worshipped regularly at Bangor Abbey, und
er the renowned Rev Robert Blair. Hamilton had brought Blair from Scotla
nd in 1622, and he seems to have been sympathetic towards the “non-conform
ist” stance of Blair, the majority of the Presbyterian clergy in Ulster a
nd their Ulster-Scots congregations. Hamilton famously offered to Blair  1564 Archibald Hamilton REFN: 5483AN 1568 John Hamilton REFN: 5484AN ~1586 Jean Hamilton REFN: 5485AN ~1580 - 1655 Patrick Hamilton 75 75 REFN: 5486AN ~1504 Archibald Hamilton REFN: 5487AN ~1510 UNKNOWN Mistress REFN: 5488AN 1533 Archibald Hamilton REFN: 5489AN ~1475 - 1531 James Hamilton 56 56 REFN: 5490AN ~1470 Isabel Weir REFN: 5491AN ~1500 James Hamilton REFN: 5492AN ~1502 Thomas Hamilton REFN: 5493AN ~1530 - 1571 Gavin Hamilton 41 41 REFN: 5494AN ~1535 Margaret Hamilton REFN: 5495AN ~1515 John Hamilton REFN: 5496AN ~1483 - 1550 James Weir 67 67 REFN: 5503AN ~1501 Euphemia Hamilton REFN: 5507AN ~1460 - ~1531 Thomas Weir 71 71 REFN: 5512AN ~1463 Aegida Somerville REFN: 5513AN 1464 Janet Douglas REFN: 5705AN ~1568 Margaret Leslie REFN: 5712AN ~1545 Jean Ruthven REFN: 5713AN ~1552 Grissell Hamilton REFN: 5714AN 1453 William Somerville REFN: 5719AN ~1488 Mary Somerville REFN: 5720AN ~1484 John Somerville REFN: 5721AN ~1486 Hugh Somerville REFN: 5722AN ~1509 Margaret Hamilton REFN: 5839AN ~1525 - 1584 Mark Kerr 59 59 REFN: 5885AN ~1553 Margaret Maxwell REFN: 5893AN ~1485 Agnes Colquhoun REFN: 5897AN ~1500 - 1588 George Leslie 88 88 REFN: 5903AN ~1510 Agnes Somerville REFN: 5904AN <1558 Mark Kerr REFN: 5905AN ~1559 Andrew Kerr REFN: 5906AN ~1561 George Kerr REFN: 5907AN ~1562 William Kerr REFN: 5908AN ~1572 Jean Johnstone REFN: 5909AN ~1535 Andrew Leslie REFN: 5925AN ~1537 James Leslie REFN: 5926AN ~1540 Helen Leslie REFN: 5927AN ~1562 Grissell Hamilton REFN: 6724AN 1547 Christian Bethune REFN: 7142AN 1560 Matilda Melville REFN: 7143AN ~1568 John Melville REFN: 7144AN 1525 - 1575 John Bethune 50 50 REFN: 7150AN 1526 - 1591 Agnes Anstruther 65 65 REFN: 7151AN 1546 John Bethune REFN: 7152AN 1545 Robert Bethune REFN: 7153AN 1546 Margaret Bethune REFN: 7154AN 1548 James Bethune REFN: 7155AN 1549 George Bethune REFN: 7156AN 1550 Agnes Bethune REFN: 7157AN 1493 John Bethune REFN: 7158AN ~1503 Christina Stewart REFN: 7159AN 1551 Catherine Bethune REFN: 7162AN 1529 Janet Bethune REFN: 7169AN 1530 Andrew Bethune REFN: 7170AN 1541 Catherine Bethune REFN: 7171AN ~1534 Elizabeth Gordon REFN: 7889AN ~1532 - 1579 John Stewart 47 47 REFN: 7890AN ~1562 Penelope Cooke REFN: 10190AN ~1563 Ursula Brabazon REFN: 10191AN Jane Philips REFN: 10192AN James Hamilton REFN: 10193AN 1620 - 1655 Hans Hamilton 35 35 REFN: 4573AN
REFN: P4574 ~1515 - 1552 Robert Maxwell 37 37 REFN: 5699AN ~1555 Catherine Kerr REFN: 5884AN 1542 - 1627 Margaret Stewart 85 85 REFN: 5323AN Generated by GenoPro®. Click here for details.