[1] The couple's first son was Major Walter Ferrier Hamilton, who inherited his father's properties and was the member for the Linlithgowshire constituency in the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1859 to 1865.

In May 1840, they purchased the late Henry Howey's station near Mount Macedon, with the pair's ownership of what they named Cairn Hill (after a family property in Scotland, Cairnhill) lasting until 1861.

[6] The couple had eleven children, including Blanche Muriel Eugénie (later Ross-Watt), a charity worker and, like her father, a president of the Shire of Gisborne, possibly the first woman to head a local government body in Victoria.

[11] A right-handed all-rounder, Hamilton came in third (behind Duncan Cooper and Victoria's captain, William Philpott) in the first innings of the match, before being bowled by another Scottish immigrant, Robert McDowall, for 10 runs.

In Victoria's second innings, he opened the batting with a fellow Scotsman, James Brodie, and scored 35 out of the team's 57 runs, the only batsman to pass double figures.

[13] Hamilton returned to England for a short period in 1853, and arranged to have enough cricket equipment "to last for the next two ensuing seasons" sent back to Melbourne.

[19] Now aged 40, he did appear one final time for a Victorian XXII against an English XI, and was one of only four players to pass double figures in the team's first innings.

[22] Following the death of William Pettett in late 1871, Hamilton successfully contested a by-election for the Southern Province constituency in the Legislative Council, the colony's upper house.

Hamilton received an endorsement from the Melbourne-based Telegraph, who noted that, although he was "untried" in public life, he may "turn out to be a legislative gem of the purest water", unlike Sullivan, who was a "pretentious hollow sham".