Hamilton Boswell

Bef 1819 - 1824  (5 years)

• Name	Hamilton Boswell
  Birth	Bef 1819
  Gender	Male
  Death	1824
  Burial	Auld Kirkyard, AYR
  Person ID	I44247	First tree
  Last Modified	19 Jan 2025

  
  

  Father	John (of Knockroon) Boswell,   b. Abt 1741   d. 1805 (Age 64 years)
  Mother	Christina Hamilton
  Family ID	F45135	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jane Douglas,   b. Bef 1819   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	A condition of the antenuptial marriage contract was that the heirs must take and bear the name and arms of the 'Douglas of Garrallan'. The heritable lands were also recorded in the contract as follows — forty shilling land of Garrallan, the merkland of the two merkland of Boigcurroch called the overboig and the twenty shilling land of old extent Meikle Schang, lying respectively within the Barony of Tarringian, Regality and the New parish of Cumnock, parish of King's Kyle, Sheriffdom of Ayr.
  Children	1. John (of Garrallan) Douglas-Boswell   d. 1863, Garrallan House, Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland   2. Patrick Charles Douglas-Boswell,   b. Abt 1800   d. Sep 1892, Garrallan House, Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland (Age 92 years)   3. Jessie Boswell-Douglas   4. Christian Boswell-Douglas   5. John Douglas Boswell-Douglas,   b. 1867, Garrallan House, Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland d. Yes, date unknown   6. Katherine Boswell-Douglas   7. Patrick Charles Boswell-Douglas   8. Jane Boswell-Douglas   9. Margaret Boswell-Douglas   10. Janet Boswell-Douglas
  Family ID	F58138	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2022

  
  

• Notes

  An only son Changed his name to Douglas-Boswell Collector of taxes for Ayrshire Hamilton Boswell followed in has father's footsteps as a Writer in Ayr and a Clerk to the Commissioners of Supply as well as fulfilling the role of Collector of Taxes, his signature (Ham Boswell) can be found in the land tax rolls of 1803. The family lived at 51 Sandgate in Ayr the corner of Boswell Park, the house long and a post office now fills its place. Within Boswell's will and testament in the list of creditors and debtors the names of the late John Logan of Knockshinnoch ( a notable acquaintance of Robert Burns) and William Hyslop appears. The latter is most likely to be William Hyslop of Blackcraig & Bank who was married to Logan's daughter Margaret and clearly a good friend of Boswell for the couple had two sons, the first of whom died in infancy, named in his honour – Hamilton Douglas Boswell Hyslop. 30 years correspondence from Charles to Patrick, 1784-1813, and Charles' will from 1815 is in the Boswell Collection at the Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven CT USA. It is there because of the work of Frederick Pottle, a professor at Yale in the mid-20th century whose life work was to write about James Boswell. He also arranged the purchase of as much Boswell material as he could, including the Douglas correspondence. Jane Douglas Boswell was Patrick's daughter and Charles' heir. \lang1033