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Sir William Hamilton had originally married Catherine Barlow, an heiress to a Pembroke estate, in 1758. He was well connected but without money, whilst her estate was worth £8,000 a year.
The estate was Colby Lodge, now partly administered by the National Trust. It is a beautiful place. at it's best in the Spring when the rhododendrons and azaleas are in their prime.
I think there is also a connection with Thomas Foley, one of the Band of Brothers and Hero of the Nile, who married into the Perrot family based at Laugharne Castle, very near where Dylan Thomas mused across the estuary and imagined Milk Wood. Foley lived at Abermarlais Manor, near Llandeilo, and at one time was the Admiral of the Port of Dover, at the time when Cochrane fell into bother with the Stock Market scandal.
Bill.