| Administrative History | John Hamilton was born in 1860, Wick, Scotland and immigrated to the Falklands around 1880. He then moved on with his partner, Thomas Saunders, to Magallanes, Chile, in 1885 then in 1887 to a rented property at Pale Aike, Santa Cruz, Argentina. John Hamilton was a member of the famous 1886-8 1000 miles "arreo", sheep drive, with Henry Jamieson, Thomas Saunders and John Maclean. He married Oliva Heap in 1904 and they had two daughters, Oliva and Penelope. The family lived at Estancia Loyola until 1940. John Hamilton died in Buenos Aires in 1945. In their partnership, Hamilton and Saunders had estates at Otway Station, Morro Deslinde and La Portada, a total of 40,000 hectares |