HAMILTON, LILIAN [SSNE 5443]

Surname

HAMILTON, MACLEAN, MACKLIER

First name

LILIAN

Nationality

SCOT or IRISH

Region

GOTHENBURG

Text source

Lilian Hamilton was the daughter of Archbishop Malcolm Hamilton of Cashel in Ireland and his wife Mary Wilkie. On 30 December 1655 she married John Maclean, 1st Baronet Duart [SSNE 1631] in his second marriage. She died a few years later and was buried on 4 April 1658 in Gothenburg. 

Governor Johan Rosenhane, whose diary from the 1652-61 period is published, travelled with the king and council to Gothenburg in late March 1658. His entry for 4 April 1658 simply states: "Begroffs Macklers Fru mäst alla aff Rådhett och adeelen fölghde lijkett upp" (Maclean's wife was buried, attended by most of the council and the nobility).

Sources: Lt. Colonel George Hamilton, 'A History of the House of Hamilton' (Edinburgh, 1933), p.1083; J.N.M. Maclean, The Macleans of Sweden (Edinburgh, 1971), p.26; W. Berg, Samlingar till Goteborgs Historia, vol. 1, (Gothenburg, 1890), p. 11 and p.458; Johan Rosenhanes Dagbok 1652-1661 , ed Arne Jansson (Stockholm, 1995), p.229. Female. 

Service record

SWEDEN, GOTHENBURG

Arrived 1655-12-30

Departed 1658-04-04

Purpose MISC