Hamilton

The family was:

John Hamilton - born 1800 Dublin. Died 13th June 1884 St Andrews, Scotland. Married Mary Rose 1st May 1823 Calrossie, Scotland..

Mary Rose - born 1804 - Calrossie, Scotland. Died 1854 St Ernans House Co. Donegal.

Their children :

1 ) James Hamilton - born Brownhall Co. Donegal. Served in the military as Major James Hamilton. Married 1863 to Dorothea Elizabeth Stewart of Horn Head Co. Donegal. Inherited estate of Brownhall in 1884 on the death of his father John. Took guardianship of sister Mary’s four children on the death of her and her husband Frederick A. Courbarron in 1877. Major James Hamilton died 1915.

James and Dorothea had one son, John Stewart Hamilton 1864-1952. As Capt John Hamilton he served with the 5th Bn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. (Married Winifred Weston 1867-1950).

2) Mary - born 1825. Died 1877 Landulph England. Married 1862 Frederick Augustus Courbarron. Lived Jersey Channel islands. Four children - Augustus James (my GG Grandfather), Stanhope Frederick, Edward and Helen.

3 ) Isabella - born 1827 St Ernans House Co. Donegal. Died from ‘mysterious illness’ 1840 Karlsruhe, Germany. Buried there.

4) Arabella Rose - born 1829 at St Ernans. Married 1860 to Arthur Foster, a Judge. On the death of their father, John’s brother James inherited estate of Brownhall while Arabella inherited St Ernans house. She and and husband Arthur Foster were responsible for the sale of St Ernans House in 1904.

5) Helen - born 2nd March 1831 St Ernans House Co. Donegal. Married Abraham Gustav de Veer 20th August 1855 at Neuwied. They had one son, Gustav Hamilton de Veer born 18th August 1856, died 1872.

There were also two step-siblings. After the death of mother, Mary Rose, father John remarried in 1858 to Mary Simpson. Two children were born - John Pakenham Hamilton and Catherine.

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Mary was born in 1825 to John Hamilton (b 1800) and Mary Rose (b 1804); her mother was the daughter of Hugh Rose of Calrossie, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland. John and Mary married at Calrossie Scotland on 1st May 1823.

Mary was the second child of John and Mary, here is the list of children in order of their birth:

James - born 3rd June 1824 at Brownhall

Mary - born 1825 at Brownhall

Isabella - born 1827 at St Ernans (died at Karlsruhe Germany at age 13)

Arabella Rose - born 1829 at St Ernans

Helen - born 1831 at St Ernans

In 1857 the family lost their wife and mother, Mary, when she died at St Ernans. In 1858 John Hamilton married another Mary (Mary Simpson) and form this marriage two more children were born: John and Catherine.

Mary was born into a closeknit and very loving home. Her parents, John and Mary, were devoted to each other and to their children. At an early age Mary developed a love of writing and her talent resulted in a series of diaries that she began to keep from the age of ten.

In 1838 John Hamilton took the family on a series of travels that would take them away from Ireland, and across much of Europe, for just on five years. The family set out from Dublin and their first port of call was Londonderry in Northern Ireland. Here Mary recorded the family’s stay and how they walked around the famous old ramparts of the city. It was on this very long voyage that her writing and her series of journals took shape. She wrote vividly and with style recording in great detail every step of the family’s travels.

In 1839 whilst the family was in Dresden Mary sat for a studio portrait. This photograph of her aged 14 is said to be the first actual ‘portrait sitting’ in the new art of photography. Whereby the lithograph was the style of the time, Mary was the subject of the first studio portrait. This photograph still exists today, being lovingly kept by the present Hamilton family. The photograph was taken by Feich-Hanfstaengh Hofphotograph, Dresden.

In 1840, whilst in Karlsruhe, the family suffered a tragedy from which John and Mary never fully recovered. The family had rented a chalet-style home on the edge of the Black Forest and lived there for about a year. It was here that their 13 year old daughter, Isabella, became extremely ill. She developed a series of high fevers and despite being treated by a number of doctors the child died. It is thought that she was suffering from Brights Disease (a kidney condition) but to this day the exact condition that killed her remains a mystery. Isabella was buried in a nearby cemetery in a plot donated by a close family friend.

Mary Hamilton - aged 14 at Dresden, 1839.

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My GGG Grandmother Mary Hamilton was born at the family residence on her father’s estate of Brownhall, Co. Donegal, in 1825. Her parents were John Hamilton and Mary Rose.

The estate of Brownhall had been inherited by her father and had been in the family since the late 17th century. The family seat of Brownhall, a substantial house, is actually located a few km’s away outside the village of Ballintra and hidden amongst the hills and valleys; the house was built by John Hamilton in 1690 when he moved the family seat from Murvagh to Ballintra. No trace remains of the original house today and is thought to have been constructed in the early 1600’s.

Mary was born into one of the great landowning families of Ireland of the time. The Hamilton’s established themselves in Co Donegal in the late 16th century when John Hamilton, a grandson of the 1st Duke of Hamilton, was granted land by the King in gratitude for their loyal service. The Hamilton seat from which John came was in Lanarkshire Scotland and named ‘Broomhill’. The first residence was built at Murvagh near Ballintra until 1690 when his descendant, John Hamilton and his wife Jane Creighton (daughter of Col Abraham Creighton, ancestor of the Earls of Erne) built a new residence outside Ballintra. The location of Murvagh is a windswept region in contrast to the area of Ballintra where the land and terrain is far more arable and given to farming. Possibly this was the reason for the move.

Mary’s father, John, inherited the estate on the death of his father James Hamilton in 1805. Mary’s grandparents were James Hamilton and Helen Pakenham, daughter of the 2nd Baron/Ist Earl of Longford Edward Micheal Pakenham. Sadly James and Helen died at relatively young ages, James in 1805 and Helen in 1807, leaving three young children with Mary’s father, John, being the eldest at only seven years of age.

The three children, John (b-1800), Edward Micheal (b-1802) and Catherine (Kitty b-1804) were placed in the care and guardianship of their aunt and uncle Arthur and Catherine (Kitty) Wellesley; the Duke and Duchess of Wellington.

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