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1 TSP Belhaven.
2 BP1934 Hamilton of Silverton Hill.
3 'Heraldry of the Hamiltons' by G. Harvey Johnston published by W&AK Johnston Ltd, Edinburgh, 1909 and 'The House of Hamilton' by Lt. Col. George Hamilton Edinburgh 1933.
4 Stirnet.
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Grey-Buchanan gives cast-iron references for his sources, in the Registrum Magni Sigilli (RMS) and so forth.

The charter of 1599 conveying the lands of Provand in Glasgow to Francis is item no. 973 in the Registrum Magni Sigilli, VI, a volume  which can be consulted in Internet Archive;  it makes it absolutely clear that Francis was the older brother of Edward ("of Balgray"), and that they had five sisters, named Margaret, Mary, Elizabeth, Agnes and Jean.

Their parents were Sir Robert Hamilton of Goslington (d.1642) and Elizabeth Baillie, sole surviving child of William Baillie, Lord President of the Court of Session (1566-1593 - with a brief interruption in 1567). Their paternal grandfather was Sir Andrew Hamilton of Goslington, who died in 1592. Their maternal grandmother was Elizabeth Durham, a relative (cousin? aunt? sister?) of James Durham of Duntarvie,  the royal tailor (who with Sir Robert Hamilton's brother Andrew witnesses the 1599 charter).

The Registrum (RMS)VIII, item no.1532 of 20 February 1630 produces proof of a further sibling of Francis, Edward, Margaret, Mary, Elizabeth, Agnes and Jean, namely William, "filius legitimus dicti Roberti",  who held the prebend of Netherfield in the Collegiate Kirk of Bothwell.

RMS vii, items nos. 64 and 110,  dated 1609,  concern Sir Robert Hamilton of Goslington and the transfer of the lands of Craiglockhart in Edinburgh from James Kincaid of Kincaid, via Sir Robert Hamilton, to George Foullis -  James Kincaid is shown as married to a Margaret Hamilton, but while it is surmisable that she is Sir Robert's daughter of that name, there is no indication given in the printed volume.

RMS VIII, item no.817,  5 July 1625, is the only thing I have been able to find that states that John Somerville jr of Cambusnethan was married to a Mary Hamilton;  no further indication of her identity is provided, but I see that your genealogy has her down as the sole daughter of Sir Robert Hamilton and Elizabeth Baillie.

I have not come across the James Hamilton d.1655 that you have down as a son of Sir Robert and Elizabeth, and "ancestor of Hamilton of Newton".

But we do know what happened to their daughters Agnes and Jean, siblings of Francis and Edward.  They married ministers of the Kirk.

The Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae,  iii, Synod of Glasgow and Ayr (also available in Internet Archive) shows that Agnes married Robert Scott, minister of Glasgow (p.456), and Jean married Thomas Law (p.144), minister of Inchinnan.

Incidentally,  Fasti iii (p.133) shows that Andrew Hamilton, brother of Sir Robert of Goslington, sometime after 1617, married Isobel Greig, relict of William Wallace, minister of Eastwood.

In the next generation, I have no idea whom Francis Hamilton married, or when, nor what befell Francis's daughters Agnes and Christiane.  But Francis's brother Edward regained the lands of Provand in 1635, and after the death of Sir Robert in January 1642,  Edward took on the Silvertonhill title by March of that year, athough  Francis does not die until 1645. (In 1667, Sir Robert 1st baronet had to sell the lands of Provand to the Town Council of Glasgow.)

Edward's younger son James became a minister of the Kirk:  see Fasti iii, p.223. He would in later life be helped and protected by his brother Sir Robert, 1st baronet.

It would be very nice if your genealogy could be amended, thus saving lots of researchers from misprisions.

Yours sincerely

(Dr) Jamie Reid-Baxter