Thomas Hamilton - 1848

[deigo1]

Hello,

I hope I've landed in the right spot.  I was looking for help trying to locate the baptism record of a great grandparent...Thomas Hamilton.  He is the son of Charles Hamilton and Susan Johnston(e) born ~ 1848 in Bo'ness, Linlithgowshire.  His parents were both born in Ireland, but as I can tell they moved to the area in the early 1840's after the birth of their daughter.  There are other children born in the same area, but the only ones I've been able to find on the Scotland site are the ones born after 1855.  He is present on the 1851 census and his two older brothers William ~1844 and Charles ~1846, both show born in the same town.

[Forfarian]

If you have looked at the index to baptisms in the three sections of the church records at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk and not found it, then it is quite likely that no record of the baptism (if one ever existed) has survived.

Do you know what religious denomination they belonged to?

[deigo1]

I have not found him or the other older children in the church archives on that site.  Most of the children came to the US, in his sister Sarah's obituary it reads that she was christened in a Presbyterian church in England as a little girl (she was about 10 years younger).

[Alan of Kaslo]

In 1851 the Hamilton household in Bo'ness looked like this:

Charles Hamilton 30
Susana  31
Mary  9
William  7
Charles  5
Diana  0