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Every male in this family has names a son Hamilton. With one exception
Hamilton Brown married Christina Johnston and their first son was Edward he remarried some 10yrs later to an Isabella Bee and their son was Fred.
Whilst the girls name their sons anything other than Hamilton, preferring to use all the other names in the family and also from their husbands family.
I tried adding them up and there are over 17 Hamiltons over the decades from mid 1700 to 1920
marcie
Scotlandorkney flett bell, strickland laird traillcalqahoun.
Lanark/Argyll/Renfrew/Ayr:Smith, Steele,Kirkwood,Hamilton,May,orO'mayscott and anderso, craig , forbes taggart Kirkwood, milloy and steel apart ftom others which are numerous, graham mcilroy. stewart.brown battonisle of sku rothsay etc.
searl rogers sutherland
Edinburgh/Aberdeen:portsea marsh,brownwhittcomb and others. to numerous to mentionweymouth frank. Laidlaw,Brown,Dean//Charles/Hall/Slight/Johnston belgium loquet