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BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 2^9 II. Sydney Vereker, d. young. n. Claude William, m. July, 1885, Beatrice Bird. IV. Harry James Eustace. V. Vereker Thomas Sydney. I. Georgina Jane Vereker; m. November, 1880, Alfred Nevett Fletcher, jun., Esq. of Rosehaugh, N.B., who was h. 14th May, 1853, and d. 1st October, 1884. II. Julia Annie. III. Blanche Muriel Eugenie. IV. Adela Marguerite Violet. V. Eva Mabel Ziliah; m. December, 1887, William Maitland Stewart, Esq. (who was h. March, 1850), youngest son of the late Stair Hathorn Stewart, Esq. of Physgill, Whithorn, co. Wigton, Scotland, J. P. and D.L., by his third wife, Jane Rothes, daughter of John Maitland, Esq. of Freugh, by Jane, his wife, daughter of Sir William Maxwell, fourth bart. of Monreith. VI. Constance Augusta. Htncagc. William Hamiltojt, second son of Alex- ANDEE Hamilton, first of Silvertonliill, was the first of Westport. His eldest son, Thomas, d. s.p., and was s. by his brother, John, whose grandson m. Janet Drummond, and d. 1625. John, who succeeded, left a son, James, m. Anna, daughter of Sir Patrick Hamilton, of Little Preston. Their only son was killed in battle ; and their eldest davigli- ter m. Walter Sandilands, eldest son of William Sandilands, of Hilderston, second son of the fourth Lord Torpichen, by Eliza- beth, his wife, daughter of John Cunning- hame, Esq. of Cunninghame Head. The title of Cunninghame Head having, with that of Ruthven, become extinct in the male line, in the person of Sir William, third bart., of Cunninghame Head, who d. in 1724, SiE James Sandilands Hamilton, the eldest son of the above marriage, assumed the baronetcy. He d. s.p. 1733, and was s. by his brother, SiE Waltee Sandilands Hamilton, a captain in the army, who served thirteen campaigns under Marlborough. He m. his cousin, Helen, daughter of Thomas Hamilton, of Olivestob, colonel of the Edinburgh Regi- ment, and governor of the city, and had two sons, James and Thomas, both military offi- cers, who d. s.p., and daughters, of whom the eldest, Geizel Hamilton, the heiress of West- port, m. John Feeeiee, Esq. of Kirkton, CO. Renfrew, and had issue, I. William, his heir II. Walter, of Grlenfuir, co. Stirling, m. 1784, Lillias, daughter and heir of William Wallace, Esq. of Cairnhill, CO. Ayr, by Jean, his wife, daughter of Archibald Campbell, of Succoth, and had issue, 1. John, of Cairnhill and West- port. 2. Archibald, major, 92nd Regi- ment, d. unm. 3. William, in the army, d. unm. 1. Jane, m. Thomas Riddell, Esq. of Camiestoun. 2. Margaret. III. James, one of the principal clerks of session, m. Miss Coutts, and had issue. lY. Islay, major-general in the army, and governor of Dumbarton Castle, m. first, Jane, only child of John Macqueen, second brother of Lord Braxfield, and had issue ; secondly, Agnes, only child of Roger Cutlar, Esq. of Orroland, and widow of Wd- liam Lawrie, Esq. of Redcastle, and has issue. The eldest son, William Feeeiee Hamilton, Esq. of Westport, lieutenant R.N., commanded the party of sailors who dragged the cannon up the heights of Abraham, previous to the cap- ture of Quebec. He m. Miss Johnstone, of Straiton, co. Linlithgow, and dj'ing s.p., 1814, was s. by his nephew, Colonel John Feeeiee Hamilton, 3rd Dragoon Guards, of Cairnhill, co. Ayr ; and Westport, CO. Linlithgow, N.B., J. P. and D.L., b. 6th September, 1786, m. 2nd August, 1817, Georgina, third daughter of Charles, second Viscount Gort (see Burke's Peerage). She d. 1847. He had issue, I. Walter Ferrier, of Cairnhill and Westport, b. 31st May, 1818, captain in the army, formerly A.D.C. to the lord-lieutenant of Ireland, M.P. for CO. Linlithgow from 1859 to 1866 ; m. Barbara Agnes, daughter of James