Gawin Hamilton, of Ballygawly

1584 - 1609  (~ 39 years)

• Name	Gawin Hamilton
  Relationship	with Marion Murdoch Johnson
  Gender	Male
  Birth	Between 1560 and 1584
  Occupation	Coleraine, Londonderry, Ireland   [1]
  	Merchant
  Cause Of Death	Drowning
  Death	Between 1599 and 1609
  Siblings	1 brother
  > 1. Gawin Hamilton, of Ballygawly           b. Between 1560 and 1584             d. Between 1599 and 1609  (Age ~ 39 years) ▻ Helen Dunlop > 2. Rev. Patrick Hamilton           b. Abt 1580             d. 29 Feb 1640  (Age ~ 60 years) ▻ Elizabeth Glen,  m. Abt Sep 1608
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2021

  
  

  Father	Hans Hamilton           b. 1536             d. 30 May 1608, Dunlop, Ayrshire, Scotland (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Janet Denholme           b. Abt 1540             d. 30 Jan 1628 (Age ~ 88 years)

  
  

  Wife	Helen Dunlop           b. Between 1540 and 1584
  Children	1. Rev. James Hamilton, of Ballywalter           b. 1600             d. 10 Mar 1666, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland (Age 66 years)
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Early Life Gawin Hamilton was probably born between 1560 (so no more than 20 years older than his brother Patrick) and 1584 (so not younger than 16 when his son James was born), with a most-likely date of 1573. Career From the Hamilton Manuscripts, page 111: The third son, Gawin, after due improvements in humanity at home, is bred a merchant in Glasgow; becomes a great and successful proficient therein; purchases, possesses and manages some lands in Scotland, at the food of the Clide, in ____, and some lands in Ireland, at Hollywood, near Belfast; obtains a lease of the great Bann, near Colrain, and provides himself with three merchant ships, and carries the product of the aforesaid lands and fishings and other commodities of this country abroad, and brings home to Scotland, especially to Glasgow, and ___, viz, the Northern sea-ports and Dublin, wines and other effects from teh places to which he had carried his other effects, and so becomes very wealthy and great in his station and way of living. From the Hamilton Manuscripts, page 43: The third brother, Gawin, was bred unto and followed merchandise with great industry and success. He married Helen Dunlop, of a family then and now in good account in the same parish, whereof Hans was ___ and had by her two sons, Archibald, and James, and two daughters, Jane and Helen - of whom afterwards. He died by water near Colrain, using some means in a cog boat for guiding out his three ships over the Bar of Colrain. There were two shipmen with him, whereof one died with him in the overturning of the boat, and the other was saved by swimming. He died under thirty years of age, and was creditably buried in the curch of Colrain, with great lamentation, partly on account of the accident, and partly that he was a very obliging and thriving gentleman, and likely to have been very beneficial to all that place. Family Life Married Helen Dunlop. Death Drowned, aged under 30 (ibid, page 161). Footnotes [1] The Hamilton Manuscripts, Sir James Hamilton, Belfast

  
  

• Event Map

  Occupation - Merchant - - Coleraine, Londonderry, Ireland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S0421] Sir James Hamilton, Hamilton Manuscripts, The, (Belfast, 1867), Gawin Hamilton pedigree, page 161.