James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Abercorn

1603 - 1670  (~ 67 years)

• Name	James Hamilton  [1]
  Suffix	2nd Earl of Abercorn
  Birth	Abt. 1603	Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Title	2nd Earl of Abercorn  [1]
  Title	18 Oct 1616-11 Nov 1633  [1]
  	Lord Hamilton, Baron of Strabane
  Death	Abt. 1670  [1]
  Person ID	I17	Hamilton Genealogy
  Last Modified	28 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	Sir James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn,   b. Abt. 12 Aug 1575, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland d. 23 Mar 1618, Monkton, Ayrshire, Scotland (Age ~ 42 years)
  Mother	Marion Boyd,   b. Abt. 1576, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland d. 26 Aug 1632, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland (Age ~ 56 years)
  Marriage	1595	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
  Family ID	F2	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Catherine Clifton   d. Sep 1637
  Marriage	Abt. 1632
  Children	1. James Hamilton, Lord Paisley   2. Col. William Hamilton   d. Germany   3. George Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Abercorn   d. Padua, Padova, Veneto, Italy
  Family ID	F15	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Sep 2024

  
  

• Notes

  JAMES, SECOND EARL OF ABERCORN, born about 1603; died about 1670. On 18th October 1616 he was created a Peer of Ireland as LORD HAMILTON, BARON OF STRABANE, but he resigned this title in favour of his brother, Claud (No. 24), 11th November 1633. He married, about 1632, Catherine, daughter and heiress of Gervase, Lord Clifton of Leighton Bromeswold, and widow of Esme, Duke of Lennox. She died September 1637, having had issue:- (a) James, Lord Paisley, died v.p. He married 28th April 1653, Catherine, daughter of William Lenthall of Burford, and had a daughter. (b) Colonel William Hamilton, killed in Germany in his father's lifetime, s.p. (c) George source: Johnston, George Harvey. The Heraldry of the Hamiltons with Notes on All the Males of the Family, Descriptions of the Arms, Plates and Pedigrees. Edinburgh, UK: W. and A.K. Johnston, 1909.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1] George Harvey Johnston, The Heraldry of the Hamiltons with Notes on All the Males of the Family, Descriptions of the Arms, Plates and Pedigrees, Edinburgh, UK: W. and A.K. Johnston, 1909.