From their roots in 17th Century Glasgow to the middle of the 20th century, the Hamiltons were soldiers, sailors, merchants and ministers of religion and their lives were spent in many corners of the world. Between 1879 and his death in 1929, my great grandfather, John Hamilton, researched the history of our family and the families they married into. During that time he built up a considerable collection of papers, family trees, pictures and documents, which are only now being examined and catalogued. Drawing heavily on John Hamilton’s papers and my own family research, and attempting to tell something of the lives of his children and grandchildren, "The Hamiltons of Provan" aims to tell the story of the Hamilton family, as I know it, from the seventeenth century to the second world war

My Family History

• Surname List


• Index of Individuals




• Sources

GEDCOM Trees(viewing trees requires 4.0 or later)

• Hamilton Family (97 KB)
  Hamilton Family
• Thorne and Nicholls families (5 KB)
  Thorne and Nicholls families of Hednesford

Family Photos

• Charles Hamilton, Father and Son (58 KB)
  Charles Eliott Hamilton and Charles Maitland Hamilton, the last time they met 1946
• Lt .Charles Eliott Hamilton (77 KB)
  CEH on leave in England c.1915
• Three Captains of the Buffs (97 KB)
  My grandfather, Charles, with his brothers George and John, c. 1916
• Major General Patrick Robertson-Ross (29 KB)
  Author of "Report of a Reconnaissance of the North-West Provinces and Indian Territories of the Dominion of Canada, and Narrative of Journey across the continent through Canadian Territory to British Columbia and Vancouver Island." 1872
• John Hamilton of Sunningdale (66 KB)
  1851-1929

Family Tree Maker Reports and Trees

• InterneTree: Ancestor Tree of Charles Eliott Hamilton


• Ancestor Tree of Charles Eliott Hamilton (PDF Format)


• Genealogy Report: Descendants of John Hamilton (View PDF)


• Genealogy Report: Descendants of Richard Hawley (View PDF)


• Genealogy Report: Descendants of John Crutchley (View PDF)

Related Files

• A History of the Hamilton Family (270 KB)
  by John Hamilton 1850-1929
• Biography of Major General Patrick Robertson-Ross (21 KB)
  Entry in Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
• Report on North Western Territories1872 (135 KB)
  Transcript of "Report of a Reconnaissance of the North-West Provinces and Indian Territories of the Dominion of Canada, and Narrative of Journey across the continent through Canadian Territory to British Columbia and Vancouver Island." Patrick Robertson-Ross 1872
• The Death of Captain Patrick Robertson-Ross (39 KB)
  Captain Patrick Robertson-Ross was the grandson of Major General Patrick Robertson-Ross. In 1914 he volunteered to serve in the British Army. Commissioned into the Royal west Kent regiment he was killed on his first day in action, at the battle of Loos, on the 26th september 1915. His mother then carried on a long correspondence with the War Office in her attemp to come to terms with what had happened

Related Links

• Following the Flag - The hamiltons of Provan blog