tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27957121129748662432011-07-08T13:53:14.193+10:00The story of the Hamiltons who came to South Australia from Dover, Kent, England in 1837, and their descendants. Covers the origins of Hamiltons Ewell Vineyards. Also extensive details of Sir John Hamilton and his nephew Sir Luke Smithett of Dover. Related information can be found in the stories of the Cossticks and Matthews/Reeves. If your search engine brought you here then don't go away - what you're looking for is in the detail.Douglas Wnoreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795712112974866243.post-27633112155144377532009-05-16T19:47:00.017+10:002009-09-14T07:11:36.704+10:00

Some chapters or sections of chapters of the Hamiltons story have been removed from this web site. However the full details are included in the book - the 2nd Edition of "The Hamiltons 1762-1862" which can be purchased from the link at the right.If you have any enquiries about the content of these chapters please email me.James HamiltonA chapter about the origins of James Hamilton, father of

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Welcome to my History of the Hamilton Family.You have possibly arrived at this page because there was a link from another site or from a search engine.The contents of this history are listed in the sidebar to the right. Much of what you read here was originally published in 1997 in my book "The Hamiltons".There are only a few copies of that book still available, and although I could probably

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Richard Hamilton married Ann Holmes of Dover. For those interested in the Holms family here are a few details. This includes the first nine generations after Henry Holms had his first child in the mid 1600s. The full chart of thirteen generations when printed takes over 150 pages.First Generation1. Henry Holms.He married Anne Kingsland, married 05 Feb 1635/36 in St Pauls, Canterbury, Kent, d. 20

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Before following Richard and Ann Hamilton to South Australia, it is necessary to look briefly at the actual establishment of that new colony.The South Australian CompanyIn 1834, following fears that the French might have territorial ambitions in Australia, an Act was passed in the British Parliament to establish South Australia as a British Province. Under the Act a Board of Colonisation

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The Descendants of James HamiltonYou will find much more detailed charts for the Hamiltons on my Ancestry.com pages1. James Hamilton, b. __ ___ 1740, occupation Stay Maker 1773, d. __ Jul 1773 in Dover, Kent, England, buried 20 Jul 1773 in St Mary the Virgin, Dover, Kent, England. James Hamilton is listed as having married Jane Taylor on an early IGI transcript. However Film #1751627 of the

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Baily, Anthony, Standing in the Sun – A Life of J.M.W.Turner, Sinclair-Stevenson, London, 1997Barrow, John, Tour on the Continent by Rail and Road in the Summer of 1852, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London, 1853Bignell, Alan, Kent Villages, Hale, London, 1975Bishop, G.C., The Vineyards of Adelaide, Lynton Publications, Adelaide, 1977Blacket, Rev.John, History of South Australia: A Romantic

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[1] These items seen by the author were in the possession of Robert Hamilton in January 1998.[2] Letter from Margaret Morrison to Douglas Wilkie, December 1997[3] Letter from C.L.Henderson to R.H.Hamilton at Ewell Vineyards, August 1978. Copy supplied by Walter Hamilton of Glen Osmond January 1998.[4] Mabel Pollock to Les Henderson - Related by Les Henderson to R.H.Hamilton at Ewell Vineyards,

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Despite its optimistic beginnings only a decade earlier, by 1850 South Australia was in a state of depression. Drought had caused stock and crop losses. Speculation on copper mines to the north had resulted in failed investments. By then end of 1850 there were 7,000 unemployed in Adelaide alone[719]. Many were ready to take any opportunity to escape the misery into which they had fallen.That

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Elizabeth Catherine HamiltonElizabeth Catherine was born on 17 April 1814, six months after her parents married. She eventually learned the skills of mantua maker and milliner. It is possible that she worked at Alice Spice’s millinery shop a few doors down the street from the family home at 119 Snargate Street[611].In April 1838 she turned twenty-four and by that time had probably known Henry

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Richard Hamilton and Catherine Spice had a son, also named Richard - Richard the Second. He was born on 18 February 1792 and baptised on 7 March in the same year at the church of St Mary the Virgin in Dover[379]. A daughter, Mary, was baptised on 26 December 1793 and another son, John, on 20 September 1795[380].A True Blue EducationRichard Hamilton the Second may have been sent for his

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John Hamilton’s younger brother, Richard, was baptised on 7 June 1767[354] at the church of St Mary the Virgin, Dover.In March 1779, at the age of about 13, and having completed his schooling, Richard was indentured as an apprentice tailor with William Brewer of Dover. The indenture agreement reads:Richard Hamilton son in law of Robert Lowther of the Town and Port of Dover in the County of Kent

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The eldest son of James and Jane Hamilton was John Hamilton, baptised at the church of St Mary the Virgin at Dover on 17 March 1765.John Hamilton married seventeen year old Sarah Hedgecock at St Mary the Virgin, Dover, on 16 August 1788[60]. He was twenty-three. His younger brother, Richard, had married Martha Cornelious at the same church three months earlier[61]. To place events in

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IN MARCH 1745 the twenty five year old William, Duke of Cumberland, second son of King George the Second, became commander of the British Army. Two months later he led an allied army of 50,000 British, Austrian and Dutch troops against the French near the village of Fontenoy[11]. The French were in a superior position on rising ground, flanked by two strong forts. Cumberland’s plan was for the

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When I first decided to write something of the story of the Hamilton family I had gathered little more than two or three pages of the basic facts and figures relating to my own line of descent from Richard Hamilton of Dover, Kent. Those few pages were originally part of a much broader family history covering many other lines of my ancestry. But gradually those few pages grew into what is

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The Hamiltons 1762-1862By Douglas Wilkie B.A., B.Ed., M.Ed., M.A.C.E.1st Edition October 19971st Printing October 19972nd Printing November 1997 with minor corrections2nd Edition Web Published March 2007 with ongoing additions.“The Hamiltons 1762-1862”First published in October 1997 to coincide with the 160th anniversary of the arrival of Richard Hamilton in South Australia in October 1837, and

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