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Lt Col Lord Spencer Douglas-Hamilton, son of James the 5th Duke of Hamilton and Anne Spencer of Rendlesham
Looking for any information about Lord Spencer Hamilton.
According to information sources such as Burkes Peerage, Spencer Hamilton is said to have died unmarried.
Genealogy sites such as WikiTree don't like to except Burkes Peerage, thepeerage.com, and similar resources as providing dependable source material for evidence.
I have read some information about him being a sports lover person, horse racing I believe, dying in France and a story about him being asked to supply men to help contain a riot, he was a Lt Col in the Tower's Guards.
According to my family's history he did marry, to a Charlotte Spencer, and had two children.
One offspring was a son, named after him, also called Spencer Hamilton, who died young, and the other was named Anne Elizabeth Hamilton.
Anne married a Philip Wynter, whose granddaughter, Fanny Maria Wynter was born in Australia and is my great grandmother.
I would very much like to be able to confirm his place in the family tree and would also like to place his alleged wife, Charlotte Spencer, in her family tree.
Charlotte could relate to the Spencer Family of Rendlesham family or Sir John Spencer family, but I haven't found any evidence to support her position.
Both WikiTree and the Familysearch.org tree have them both in, so next to find BDM records to provide evidence.
Lord Spencer Hamilton (1742–1791) • Person • Family Tree • FamilySe...
William Douglas
This tree shows similar information:
https://gw.geneanet.org/belfast8?lang=en&p=charlotte&n=spencer
I suspect some circular referencing is at work here.
The Spencer Family of Rendlesham link looks tenuous. The line died out with Edward who died in 1728 leaving two daughters, one of whom, Anne, married the 8th Duke of Hamilton, who Lt Col Lord Spencer's father.
I now find that Sir William Barker, 5th Baronet married as his second wife Anne Spencer, widow of Edward Spencer, of Rendlesham, Suffolk, at St Marylebone Church, London, on 9 February 1731. A few months later, he died on 23 July 1731 at his house in East Street, near Red Lion Square. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Sir John Barker, 6th Baronet, his only child by his first wife. He also left £500 in his will to provide for the upbringing and apprenticeship of Charles King, offspring of Mary King, who may have been his illegitimate son.
But that has not helped in the search for Charlotte.
Feb 8, 2024
Don
Some have Charlotte as a third daughter of Edward Spencer. That would make Lord Spencer Hamilton married to his Aunt and Charlotte having a miraculous inception 16 years after the death of the father.
Maybe she was a cousin to more famous Spencers or just a Spencer or even Spencer is not her maiden name.
However, to marry a Lord Spencer Hamilton she must have had some social position of substance.
Need to find some marriage records to nail it down.
Feb 9, 2024
Don
I notice that a lot of family trees refer to these 'Hamilton' as Douglas-Hamilton.
William Douglas the 1st Earl of Selkirk, married the Anne Hamilton, the 3rd Duchess of Hamilton.
Subsequent to marrying Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton, he was created Duke of Hamilton in the Peerage of Scotland, which also allowed him to use his wife's subsidiary titles during his lifetime and to take the name Hamilton for their descendants.
I believe that the 4th Duke of Hamilton, was known as James Hamilton, as also his son the 5th Duke of Hamilton, known as James Hamilton.
A son of James Hamilton, the 5th Duke of Hamilton, is known as Lord Spencer Hamilton.
However, it seems that latter generations of this family of 'Hamiltons' chose to be known as Douglas-Hamilton.
From the DNA aspect, these Hamilton family members would have inherited Douglas Y-DNA and only have Autosomal DNA and mtDNA from Anne Hamilton, the 3rd Duchess of Hamilton.
Mar 12