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Sir George Hamilton, 1st Baronet
b.Abt 1607
d.1679
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Name[1] Sir George Hamilton, 1st Baronet
Gender Male
Birth[1] Abt 1607 4th son
Marriage Contract 2 Jun 1629 to Mary Butler
Title (nobility)[2] Bef 5 Jun 1634 George was created a Baronet “of Downelong” (co. Tyrone, Ireland). On his death, he was succeeded by his grandson James, the first son of George's first son, James, who had died several years before.
Death[1] 1679
Reference Number? Q3760518?


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Sir George Hamilton, 1st Baronet ( – 1679), born in Scotland, inherited land in Ireland and fought in the Irish Army for the royalists under his brother-in-law James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond during the Confederate Wars and the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. He was father of Antoine Hamilton, author of the Mémoires du Comte de Grammont, of Richard Hamilton, Jacobite general, and of Elizabeth, Countess de Gramont, "la belle Hamilton".

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References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 HAMILTON (cr. prob. abt. 1660) I., in Cokayne, George Edward. Complete baronetage, 1611-1800. (Exeter [England]: W. Pollard, 1900-1906)
    3: 305.

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  2. Great Britain. Public Record Office, and Robert Pentland Mahaffy (ed.). Calendar of the state papers relating to Ireland, of the reign of Charles I ... preserved in the Public Record Office. (London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1900-1910)
    1633-1647 [vol 2]: 53.

    “1634. 5 June. Westminster.
    The King to the Lord Deputy for Claude Hamilton and Sir George Hamilton, Kt. and Bt.

    “Ordering him to consider a petition of these gentlemen, and, if he finds it good, to grant to Claude Hamilton, Esq., the proportions of Strabane and Shean, and to Sir George Hamilton the great proportion of Downelong, in the Co. Tyrone, with all appurtenances, privileges, &c., granted in former grants of the same lands, and on the terms of the Ulster plantation. P. 2/3. S.P. Dom., Sig. Off. II. 362-3.”