Hamilton was married to Mary Dunbar, a daughter of David Dunbar the Younger of Baldoon and, his second wife Lady Eleanora Montgomerie (fourth daughter of
Hugh Montgomerie, 7th Earl of Eglinton). David's first wife was Janet Dalrymple (a daughter of
James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair), who is well known as "the heroine of
Sir Walter Scott's story of
The Bride of Lammermoor. Mary was the granddaughter and heiress of Sir David
Dunbar, 1st Baronet, of
Baldoon. Together, they were the parents of four children: • Catherine Hamilton (–1779), who married
Thomas Cochrane, 6th Earl of Dundonald • Eleanor Hamilton (–1783), who married
John Murray of Philiphaugh • William Hamilton (? – ), who died unmarried •
Basil Hamilton (1696–1742), who married Isabella Mackenzie, granddaughter of
Kenneth Mackenzie of Suddie After Lord Basil's death on 27 August 1701, he was succeeded in his estates by his eldest son William. As William died unmarried before November 1703, the Baldoon estate passed to his second son,
Basil, who was returned as
MP for
Kirkcudbright in 1741. Lady Mary Hamilton was one of the Jacobites required to forfeit estates in 1715. She died at
Edinburgh at age eighty-six in 1760 and was buried at
Holyrood on 22 May 1760.
Descendants Through his second son
Basil, he was posthumously a grandfather of
Dunbar Hamilton, who inherited the
earldom of Selkirk in 1744. ==References==