McHamiltons from The Shetlands

[MonicaL]

Mother Mary showing as Head of household and still married with the three children in Hammersmith London for 1891. This family looks to be a red herring from what we have so far unfortunately.

Monica

[Banks2233]

Thank you all for your help. It's not an easy surname to find information for. But what you have will be great to check further.
Jan.

[Skoosh]

Tony Gott's Shetland site has Hamilton's but no McHamilton's. Very strange name!

https://www.bayanne.info/

Skoosh.

[Banks2233]

And very frustrating to find anything that relates to them.

[whiteout7]

John Harold McHamilton Snr has a war gratuity file, shame we can't read it online:

Papers created in relation to the application for a War Gratuity by servicemen and women who had served Australia in the Naval Forces in World War 1. <---- did he serve Australia in the merchant marines as well?? I though he had british medal card?

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/DetailsReports/SeriesDetail.aspx?series_no=CP979/2&singleRecord=T

[whiteout7]

What does A89 as a place of birth mean?

Unfortuately Trove Au does not have this issue of the Propeller

[Skoosh]

Must be a parish number, just check Hamilton. Possibly McHamilton is just some clerk's error & it stuck.

Skoosh.

[whiteout7]

I'm not sure there is another group of unassisted McHamiltons that came to (Sydney?)  in Australia from Germany on the Oldenburgh in Victorian shipping records

Germany was a major trading partner with the Shetlands for salted fish.

I wonder if these people were relatives:

Age                                           Ship                          Name
18   305   JAN   -   2   F   OLDENBURG   1896    MCHAMILTON, ---- MISS
21   305   JAN   -   2   F   OLDENBURG   1896    MCHAMILTON, ---- MISS
24   305   JAN   -   2   F   OLDENBURG   1896    MCHAMILTON, H MR
54   305   JAN   -   2   F   OLDENBURG   1896    MCHAMILTON, A M

https://prov.vic.gov.au/search_journey/select?keywords=mchamilton

Then John Harold McHamilton married Rosa May Callander in 1909 in Victoria

[Banks2233]

I have had an answer back from the website "North Island Family History", he has done a thorough search on the McHamilton name, not a one found. So it's either what Skoosh suggests, or they are from Germany, or he was illegitimate and took a familiar version of the name. I'm now officially confused.
Jan.