LADY MARGARET HAMILTON Countess of Panmure

Lady Margaret Hamilton. here treated, is the daughter of William Douglas-Hamilton, 1st Earl of Selkirk and his wife Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton. The Scots Peerage IV: 383

Death

Lady Margaret Hamilton, here treated died childless on 6 December 1731, at Edinburgh in Midlothian, Scotland. The Scots Peerage VII: 26

Marriage

Lady Margaret Hamilton, here treated, married James Maule, Earl of Panmure. They were contracted to marry on 5 February 1687. NRS: GD45/17/641

MAULE
JAMES EARL OF P
MARGARET HAMILTON/FR3787 (FR3787)
05/02/1687
685 / 3
130 / 246
Canongate

Evidence from Canongate Marriage Register

                   1

5 February 1687: Maul. James, Earle of Panmoor, and Lady Margaret Hamiltoun, daughter to Duke of Hamiltoun. Canongate Marriages: 359

                   2

5 February 1687: Hamiltoun. Lady Margaret, daughter to my L. Duke of Hamiltoun, and James Maul, Earle of Panmoor m. Canongate Marriages: 222

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

                   1

17 November 1686: Propositions for a Contract of Marriage between the Earl of Panmure and Lady Margaret Hamilton, daughter of the Duke of Hamilton. National Records of Scotland, Papers of Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, reference GD103/2/4/33

                   2

5 February 1687: Marriage contract between James, Earl of Panmure, and Lady Margaret Hamilton, youngest daughter of William, Duke of Hamilton, with consent of her father and mother. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Ramsay Family, Earls of Dalhousie, reference GD45/17/641

                   3

14 January 1708: Draft disposition by James, Earl of Panmure, to James Maule, eldest son of Mr. Harry Maule of Kelly, brother of the said Earl, of the title of Earl of Panmure and all his lands and other heritages reserving to himself the life-rent thereof and to Margaret, Countess of Panmure, certain liferents, under condition of redemption to a son or daughter of the said Earl, should he have any. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Maule Family, Earls of Dalhousie, reference GD45/16/34

Printed Evidence

Parish of Holyroodhouse or Canongate. Register of Marriages, 1564-1800. Edited by Francis J. Grant, Rothesay Herald. (Scottish Record Society, Edinburgh, 1915), 686 pp.

Genealogy

1. The Scots Peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom. Edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms. Volume IV. (David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1907), 597 pp.
2. The Scots Peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom. Edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms. Volume VII. (David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1910), 592 pp.