Bef 1819 - 1824 (5 years)
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| Name |
Hamilton Boswell |
| Birth |
Bef 1819 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
1824 |
| Burial |
Auld Kirkyard, AYR  |
| Person ID |
I44247 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
19 Jan 2025 |
| 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.
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| Children |
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| Family ID |
F16358 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
22 Nov 2022 |
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| 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.
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