Lord Anne Hamilton

[2] Lord Anne Hamilton reputedly married Mary Edwards, in or before 1731, in a clandestine marriage said to have been in the chapel of the Fleet Prison.

It was reported in The Gentleman's Magazine but the chapel records do not include details and Mary Edwards denied it and never changed her name.

The couple had one child, a son: Sometime after 1734, because she felt that Lord Anne was becoming spendthrift with her money, Mary Edwards left him and took the extraordinary step of repudiating her marriage.

She declared herself a single woman and took steps to create evidence that no marriage had ever taken place;[5] their child, Gerard Anne Edwards, was rendered illegitimate, and took his mother's surname.

They had two sons: Hamilton died in France at the age of 39, and was buried at St James's Church, Piccadilly on 7 July 1749.