Family
At Quebec, George Hamilton married (Lucy) Susannah Christina Craigie, daughter of The Hon. John Craigie and Susannah Coffin, daughter of John Coffin (1729-1808) of Quebec and a first cousin of Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, 1st Baronet. Mrs Hamilton was a niece of Lady Sheaffe and a half-sister of Mrs Benjamin Joseph Frobisher. Hamilton died of a severe cold at Hawkesbury in 1839, but was survived by at least six children,
- Robert Hamilton (1822-1898), continued in the family's timber trade. He married Isabella, daughter of John Thomson of Quebec. They were the parents of John Hamilton.
- George Hamilton (1824-1856)
- Senator John Hamilton, President of Sir Hugh Allan's Merchants Bank of Canada, Montreal.
- Henrietta Hamilton (1830-1857), married Andrew Thomson (1829-1907), President of the Union Bank of Canada and the Quebec Railway, Light, Heat & Power Company. Their only son, George Hamilton Thomson, married Hylda Graves Meredith, daughter of Chief Justice Sir William Collis Meredith.
- Rt. Rev. Charles Hamilton, 1st Bishop of Ottawa.
- Francis Hamilton (b.1838).
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