with lands in Scotland, a plan by William, now William I of England, to bring some control to what was a region which had never been subdued.
   The first "Hamill" on record is William de Hameville who witnessed a charter for a fishery in Torduf between 1194-121l. Torduf lies in Annandale, Dumfreisshire. Again we find him as William de Heneuile when he appears as witness in two Annandale charters by William Bruce between 1194-1214. In the reign of William the Lion, Walter de Hamule settled in Lothian where he obtained lands. He made a grant to the Abbey of Newbattle and Alan Homel owned lands in Rath c. 1206. Andreas or Andrew Homyl was sheriff of Roxborough in 1338.
   John Homyl acted as baillie (a person to whom goods are committed in trust and who has temporary possession and a qualified property in them for the purposes of the trust) for Sir John Montgomery in 1413. It was this association with the Montgomery family which would eventually bring the family to Ulster. Robert de Hommyl obtained the lands of Roughwood in Ayrshire, Scotland in 1452 regaining previous and much older grants made to his family.
I think it is a fair assumpion that Robert, was the son of John. These "Roughwood" Hamills continued to prosper under the Montgomery patronage.