CHAPTER VIII
PATRICK HAMILTON OF KILLETER, CO.
TYRONE, AND HIS DESCENDANTS.
Patrick Hamilton, whose name appears among the sons of
William Hamilton the second of Ballyfatton, (Chap V) was admitted a member of
the Hon. Society of the King's Inns, Dublin, 20 Nov 1671, and became in due
course an attorney-at-law. He is
mentioned in the will of his mother-in-law, Ann Newburgh, proved 28 May 1712,
and in numerous Chancery and Equity Exchequer Bills and other legal proceedings
from 1680 to 1715. He married Jane, one
of three daughters and co-heirs of Arthur Newburgh, High Sheriff of Tyrone in
1667 (will proved 13 May 1675; seal to will: Or, three bends azure within a
border engrailed gules). Arthur
Newburgh was the 2nd son of Lieut-Col Thos Newburgh (will proved 28
June 1660), who owned estates in England, also in the Counties of Donegal,
Tyrone and Fermanagh, and was one of the Comrs. of Customs in Ulster 1683, and
member for Derry, Donegal and Tyrone in the Parliament of the Protectorate
1654-6. From Capt. Thos. Newburgh, the
eldest son of Lieut-Col Thomas Newburgh were descended the Newburghs of
Ballyhaise in Cavan. Arthur Newburgh
married Ann, one of the daughters and co-heirs of James Downham, Dean of Armagh
(will proved 13 July 1681), who was a son of George Downham, Bishop of Derry
and Ann his wife, daughter of William Harrison, Prebend of Windsor. The Bishop was the son of Wm. Downham,
Bishop of Chester; he died 7 April 1634, and was buried in Derry
Cathedral. The arms of Downham, Bishop of Chester, are given
in Bedford's "Blazon of Episcopacy" thus: Azure, on a chevron between
two doves argent, beaked and legged gules, in chief, and a wolf's head erased
of second in base a rose gules between two clasped books of the third,
garnished or. Jane, another da. of
Dean Downham m. Walter Cope of Drummilly, Co. Armagh (see Burke's L.G.). Lettice, the second daughter of Arthur
Newburgh, m. George Hamilton of Milburn Co. Derry, brother of Lieut-Gen
Frederick Hamilton of Milburn, Lanark, and Walworth, Derry, M.P. for Coleraine,
the original of Morton in "Old Mortality". His third da. married George Cary.
The children of Patrick Hamilton of
Killeter were:-
(1)
William, born in Dublin; baptized 19 Sept 1684, St. Michan's, Dublin; educated
at Dungan, Co. Donegal; entered Trinity College, Dublin, 30 April 1700, aged
17; Tutor, John Elwood (see Matriculation entry T.C.D.); M.A.; in Holy
Orders; Curate in Londonderry 1715; Rector of Termonamongan, dio. of Derry 8
Aug 1716; a faculty granted 6th May 1734, to enable him to hold also
the Rectory of Camus-Juxta-Mourne in same dio.; died 26 May 1765; will proved
by his son, Sir Patrick Hamilton, Knt, 17 Jul 1768. For his descendants, see
below;
(2)
Gustavus, of whom see Chap IX
(3)
Newburgh, of whom see Chap X;
(4)
Charles, of whom see Chap XI;
(5)
George; (6) Ann, m.
Godfrey; (7) Isabella, m.
Jones; (8) Lettice; b. 1727;
will proved 3 Oct 1766.
Rev William Hamilton, the eldest son of
Patrick Hamilton of Killeter, Married Angel
. and had the following
children:
(1)
John Hamilton, b. 1725; his eldest son in Holy Orders; had two sons (will of Lettice
Hamilton proved 8 July 1763) and settled in America (will of Sir Patrick
Hamilton, his brother, see later).
(2)
Thomas Hamilton, formerly of Strabane, then of Annesbrook, Co. Meath, Dorset
Street and Leeson Street, Dublin; will proved 24 Oct 1792; m. Ann Rouse,
otherwise Slicer, da. of Thomas Payne of Oberstown, Co. Meath; settl. 25 Nov
1752. She was a party to a deed of
mutual agreement date 13 Dec 1792, with her son W.S. Hamilton
relating, among other things to the lands of Barley Park, Co. Tyrone, which had
been subject of litigation in which Patrick of Killeter was concerned, and
Termonamongan, Co. Tyrone, which are mentioned in the will of Anne
Newburgh. The children of Thomas
Hamilton were William Slicer Hamilton, Annesbrook, Co. Meath; in Holy Orders;
m. first Sarah Crowe ; secondly, in 1813, the Hon. Sophia Hamilton, da. of the
4th Visct. Boyne. (She was
m. three times first to William Low of Lowville, 1796; secondly to the Rev
W.S.Hamilton 1813; and thirdly, to the
Rev. Bigoe Henzell) and Angel, baptized 1 April 1761, St. Anne's, Dublin. These
children are mentioned in the will of their grand-uncle, Charles Hamilton (Chap
XI);
(3)
Patrick Hamilton, Knt., Alderman and Lord Mayor of Dublin 1760; m. Elizabeth,
da. of Richard Merydyth of Greenhills, Co. Kildare. He died at Twickenham; will
pr. 18 Oct 1780;
(4)
Jane, m. Adam Harvey, in Holy Orders, Rector of Termonamongan, and afterwards,
on 28 Jul 1769, appointed to Camus-Juxta-Mourne, and died 30 Oct 1793;
(5)
Lettice, m. William Young of Coolkeiragh House, Co. Derry, and had four
daughters (a) Ann, m 1 Nov 1770, James Lendrum of Magheracross, Co. Fremanagh
(see Burke's L.G.); (b) Lettice; (c)
Catherine; and (d) Jane.
(6)
Ann, m. George Maighee, in Holy Orders, Rector of Camus-Juxta-Mourne 1768, who
died July 1769.
The
name of Patrick's eldest son was William and he had a daughter Isabella names
no doubt to be found in the other Hamilton families at the time but which
were nevertheless the names of his presumed father and mother. In a Chancery
Bill, dated 22nd May 1687, Patrick of Killeter is plaintiff with
Thomas Knox who was a trustee for him, and in the will of Thomas Knox, dated 25th
Sept 1717, the latter left a legacy to his uncle Patrick Hamilton, and another
legacy to Patrick's son George, and mentions also his cousin William Hamilton
"of Killeter" and his cousin James Hamilton "of Lough
McNab." Patrick of Killeter had a
son named William, who was Rector of Termonamongan in 1717, in which parish
Killeter is situate. He also appears to
have had a son named George. James
Hamilton of Lough NcNab, who was alive in 1717, was the son of William Hamilton
the third of Ballyfatton who was the son of the second of that name. Thomas Knox might have been a nephew of
Patrick of Killeter by being the son of one of the daughters of William
Hamilton the second of Ballyfatton.
Patrick of Killeter would therefore have been his mother's brother and a
son of William of Ballyfatton. Thomas
Knox's mother being a daughter of William Hamilton would also account for James
of Lough McNab being his cousin. One
point is, however, certain namely that Isabel the wife of William Hamilton the
second of Ballyfatton was either Patrick's mother or his aunt; the above facts
go to show that there is a strong presumption in favour of her having been his
mother. No other parents have been
found for Patrick of Killeter among the many persons named Hamilton residing in
the county of Tyrone whose names have come down to us; and no fact has been
discovered in any of the numerous documents in the Record Office, Dublin,
relating to the family which is consistent with this theory of his parentage.