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Note: N4942 He could not be son of Gavin Hamilton of Mauchline (1751-1805) as the elder man was only 10 years older.
(The connection was suggested by a note on the back of his portrait held by Nicol Cameron)
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Was surgeon at Waterloo and in Crimea.
Became a Licentiate of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow on 1 August 1785.
Founder of St Andrew Strathaven Masonic Lodge. (founded 1806).
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His will was registered at Glasgow Sheriff Court Settlements 7/9/1847 describing him as Surgeon, residing at Spring-bank near Strathaven and his inventory was registered at Glasgow Sheriff Court Inventories 7/9/1847 describing him as Surgeon, Half Pay 46th Regiment of Foot, residing at Strathaven.
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Will:
Springbank Cottage, Lethan Rd
Trustees:
Thomas Ferguson, Surveyor of Taxes in Glasgow;
James Paterson, MD Surgeon of 13th Regiment of Foot;
William Paterson, of Old Hill, Strathaven;
Archibald Aitcheson, Surveyor of Taxes in Glasgow;
Witnesses:
Andrew Scott, (brother-in-law of his wife, Agnes Paterson);
John Hamilton, Notary Public and Writer (=Solicitor) of Strathaven.
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Will 14 Nov 1826:
I Gavin Hamilton late surgeon of His Majesty's 72nd Regiment of Foot.....................and residing at Spring-bank near Strathaven..........with the special advice and consent of my wife Agnes Paterson ...............trustees.....James Paterson, MD Surgeon of His Majesty's 13th Regiment of Foot; William Paterson of Oldhill residing in Strathaven............in favor of Jean Ferguson Hamilton and Mary Aitcheson Hamilton my daughters................."
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Surgeon, Royal Glasgow Regiment of Foot, 28th August, 1794. Half pay on the disbandment of the regiment, 1795.
Surgeon full pay, 72nd Regiment of Foot, 30th August, 1799.
Surgeon, half pay, 46th Regiment of Foot, 21st April, 1803. He never actually served with the 46th. He exchanged with a half-pay officer of the 46th in order to go on half-pay himself.
(webmaster@hargreave-mawson.demon.co.uk 46th historian)
“Possibly” also the Gavin Hamilton who was Surgeon 2nd Dragoon Guards 24 Dec 1782. [No, that seems to have been a Manchester man.]
Retd 25 May 1791.
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William Forrest’s 1816 map of Lanarkshire shows Netherfield House with “Dr Hamilton” underneath, and Springbank with “Mr Young” underneath. Gavin Hamilton’s mother in law was a Young.
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Gavin Hamilton, during the siege of Gibralter in 1782 was wounded twice but continued doing his surgery on a British soldier. He was commended and mentioned in dispatches.
Gavin's wife was born a Marshall. She was related (how?) to the Youngs of Netherfield, a property located NW of Strathaven. Their daughter Anne Stuart Hamilton was allegedly related to the royal Stuart Clan, and was named for her cousin, Lady Ann Stuart, wife of Sir John Stuart of Castle Stuart in Lanarkshire. Ann married John Craig of "College Hill" in Lanarkshire. Their daughter Grace Hamilton Craig was born in 1826. In 1849, Grace married James Hunter, born 1818, son of James Hunter (supposedly the second son of Laird of Huntersholm in Polmuid) and Elizabeth Wallace (of Wallace Hall between Thornhill and Closeburn). James and Grace had nine children between 1850 and 1868, all born in Scotland. Their home was called "Bothwell" in Lanark. In 1874 the family moved to Vienna, Va.in Fairfax Co.
(Lynne Gantt.)
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His “father was patron of Robert Burns.”
This does NOT seem to be the case, as the Gavin Hamilton of Burns fame was born in 1751, just 13 years before this Gavin.
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At time of 1841 census he was living at Springbank, age 77, with:
Agnes H age 45
Jane H age 17 (Jane Mary b 27 Feb 1824)
Mary H age 15 (Mary Aitchison b 11 Jun 1825)
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This is him (see “A History of the Rencounter at Drumclog, and Battle at Bothwell Bridge, in ..., By William Aiton, 1821)
“Against this specific national background. the symbols of the Covenanters and Wallace came forward to dominate the foreground of Scottish working-class politics. In 1815 Gavin Hamilton, a retired army officer in Strathaven, organised a meeting of the tailors, masons and weavers' trade union benefit societies. The hopes and national aspirations of thousands of the 'democratic' working people were, in William Aiton's words, 'then much elevated by the return of Bonaparte' from Elba to France; and under Hamilton's leadership, it was decided to organise a mass demonstration to 'celebrate the victory gained by the Covenanters over the King's troops at Drumclog, on 13 June 1679'. So on 13 June 1815, over 10,000 of the 'democratic people' -men, women and children -marched 'to the place where the Covenanters defeated Claverhouse, and from thence to a cairn of stones or tumulus, on the farm of Allantown, Ayrshire, about two miles from the field of Drumclog, and where they imagined Sir William Wallace had fought his first battle with the English'.”
(1792 - 1820: Lord Braxfield's "Enlightenment" Edinburgh and the French Revolution, by James D. Young.)
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The preses [Gavin Hamilton] in 'his account of the commemoration, says, the peo'ple the peo'ple assembled amounted to 10,000—but the elevation of his spirits, from the honour conferred on him—the din of the music'-display of flags—and view of so many people under his direction, seem to have magnified his powers of vision; for the whole company assembled, of every age and description, did not exceed one third part of the number he imagines he saw.
A History of the Rencounter at Drumclog, and Battle at Bothwell ...William Aiton. 1821.)
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NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN'S SEATS, VILLAGES - Page 53 published in 1857 says that Drumclog was owned by Gavin Hamilton of Strathaven?
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Due to the names mentioned in Gavin's will, I suspect he had relatives Ferguson & Aitcheson or they were married to his sisters or aunts etc. Also he named his daughter born in 1825, Mary Aitchison Hamilton.
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The Medical Times, 1847:
OBITUARY.—Nov. 22, at Springbank-cottage, Strathaven, G. Hamilton, Esq., M.D., late surgeon in her Majesty's 72nd Regiment.
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He was at “Springbank, by Strathaven”on 18 April 1818, when he (and John Vallence, Surgeon, Strathaven) wrote "These are to certify, that we have been personally acquainted with William Dykes, Esq. of Lambhill, upwards of ten years; he is seventy-four years of age, and from the effects of a severe...”
Signed Gan Hamilton, late surgeon 72nd Reg of Foot, on HP of the Forces.
(Parliamentary Papers 1818:v.3. Page 3)
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It is stated that that "Gavin Hamilton, of Kype, and Abigail, his spouse, are mentioned in the sheriff records at Hamilton, anno 1611. Dr Gawin Hamilton, Surgeon HP 72nd Regiment of Foot, traces his descent from the old Hamiltons of Kype, in Evandale, as does likewise John Hamilton, factor to his Grace the Duke of Portland. The latter gentleman is, I understand, the male representative of the family.
(Notes and queries. 1880. p325.)
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John Hamilton (1780-1862) factor to the Earl of Moria and then the Duke of Portland, was son of Gavin Hamilton of Mauchline and Helen Kennedy. He married as his first wife Henrietta Paterson.
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“The Hamiltons of Kype mentioned in the sheriff records of Strathaven are possibly cadets of the Preston family. The late Dr Gavin Hamilton of the 72nd foot traced his descent from that source; also the late John Hamilton, Esq, factor to His Grace the Duke of Portland and the Hamiltons of Craighall.”
[See Stirling-Hamilton of Preston, Bts in BP?]
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A Gavin Hamilton was baptised 4 January 1764 at Hallmoss, Lanarkshire, son of Andrew Hamilton.
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