TWELFTH GENERATION
Andrew /Andro or James HAMPTON.
There is much discussion on John Hampton's parentage. Some opt for
Andrew Hampton, others for James Hampton.
The surviving possible
baptisms are :-
- Kineff - 1 Oct 1643 Jhone s. Andre Hamptone & Ketterine
Sherrreff.
- Arbuthnott - 17 Jan 1658 Johne Hampton s. of James in Barnyards
of Allards.
The major problem with James Hampton being the father
and John being born in 1658 is the age of John's documented daughter
Janet. She is reported as having been born circa 1668.
- The third possibility is a baptism in Dunnottar Parish where an
Andrew Hampton was a servitor of Earl Marishcal of Dunnottar Castle
in 1640. This may or may not be the same Andrew in Kineff from 1643
to 1654. Dunnottar's parish records do not survive for baptisms
before 1672, nor marriages before 1755, so any baptisms & marriages
recorded there before those dates are now lost. Also the Scots did
not generally record burials in parish registers so it cannot be
ascertained which children either died or survived in those times of
high infant mortality, so a baptism doesn't necessarily mean a
surviving child who grew to adulthood.
We know that the son John Hampton had an association with Dunnottar
Parish & the Barclays of Urie being mentioned in the 'Record Book of
Friends of the Monethly Meeting att Urie'.
Records of Andrew HAMPTON in Kincardineshire.
- 1640 - Thursday the 23d of July the laird of Elsick and
Andrew Hampton servitor to Marischal [Earl of Dunnottar
Castle], with lieutenant Crowner Middleton, were by Marischal
directed to go to the lands and baronies of Drum and Pitfoddels, and
there fence and hold courts upon their tenants, and decern them to
pay their bygone duties to Marischal, and take new tacks of him as
dominus fundi, and withal to prepare men for the Bowlroad. Thir poor
tenants wanting their masters, Drum being lying in the tolbooth of
Edinburgh, and pitfodeels fled out of the country as an
anti-covenanter, know not what to do, nor whom to obey, yet forced
to obey Marischal.
1640 - Upon Wednesday the 19th of
September, Andrew Hampton fervitor to the earle
Marischall [of Dunnottar Castle], and at his command, violently
spulzied [plundered] William Scott's house in New Aberdein,
(himselfe being fled frae the good cause out of Scotland,) of
daills, gefts, and other fyne timber, salt, tobacco, and the like
commodities, wherof there was plenty, and by sea transported the
same to Dunnotter, to the wrack of the honest man.
[Source -
'History of the troubles and memorable Transactions in Scotland and
England from 1624 to 1645' Vol. 1
by John Spalding (From the
original manuscript of John Spalding, Commissary Clerk of Aberdeen.)
- printed 1792]
- 1743 to 1754, children baptised at Arbuthnott to Andrew, firstly
with Ketterine Scherreff, secondly with Kettrine Sirris.
- Register of Sasines in Kincardine - HAMPTONE, Andrew in Glaslow
(Dunnottar) - 5 Aug
1656 - V.6 Fol.9
- Will - St. Andrews Commissary Court - 1 Jul 1674 - HAMPTON,
Andro, in Glaslaw, Parish of Dunnottar - Testament Dative & Inv. ref CC20/4/13
See Transcript
- Notes - if this is the same Andrew as in Arbuthnott then between
the dates of the records above, i.e. from 1643 to 1654 he was living
in Arbuthnott before returning to Dunnottar parish in 1656, which is
possible if he purchased the property in Glaslaw as above in 1656.
Otherwise they are two different Andrews, one in Dunnottar, one in
Arbuthnott, and with the loss of the Dunnottar parish registers it
is not possible to ascertain if another Andrew was having children
there during this period at the same time as the Andrew in
Arbuthnott. Either way the above points to an Andrew being John's
father, not James.
Children -
 i.
John HAMPTON.
Map of Kincardineshire, Scotland showing the aforementioned
locations.
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