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811 Hamiltons were recorded as miners in the 1901 Census.
In the early 1900s Hamiltons were most likely to live in Lanarkshire.
Not all Hamiltons were law-abiding. We found 1017 in criminal records.
1882 Hamiltons served in the First World War.
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