This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xFh.2ACEB/3216.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Robin,My Hamiltons started with a Andrew Claude and Kathleen Downs Hamilton who came out from Ireland to America in about 1876.His brother came to New Zealand about that time