Tarbolton

Montgomerie Street

Eleonora Hamilton, the youngest daughter of Robert Hamilton of Bourtreehill and Rozelle (see Rozelle under property) married Hugh Montgomerie of Coilsfield near Tarbolton, who was a third cousin of Archibald Montgomerie, 11^th Earl of Eglinton. When Archibald died without an heir in 1796, Hugh as the nearest relative became 12^th Earl of Eglinton. In 1817 Eleonora inherited the Bourtreehill and Rozelle estates in Ayrshire and a half share of the Pemberton Valley plantation in Jamaica, which thus passed into the possession of the earls of Eglinton.