HAMER'S FAMILY TREE

John H Hamer b c 1730 wife unknown

Daughters:

Mary Hamer  ,

Coloured Natural daughters. of John H. received land in Stabroeke, Demerara, & dwellings,buildings from half brother Joseph

Henrietta

(It is not clear which Henrietta Hamer this is)  

THE LONDON GAZETTE 1841

"BRITISH GUIANA.

Counties 'of Demerary and Essequebo.

PURSUANT to authority granted by his Honour Jeffrey

Hart Bent, Chief Justice of British Guiana, bearing

date the 28th day of July 1841 ;

I, the undersigned, Acting Provost Marshal of British

Guiana, in the name and behalf of William Roberts, sole

acting deliberating executor to the last will and testament

of Henrietta Hamer, an inhabitant of the county of

Demerary, do hereby, by edict, cite all known and

unknown creditors in Europe of Henrietta Hamer aforesaid,

deceased, to appear in person, or by their attorneys,

at the Roll Court for the counties of Demerary and

Essequebo, in the colony of British Guiana aforesaid, to be

holden at the Court-house, in the Guiana Public-buildings,

in George-town, in the month of February 1842, in order

then and there to render their respective claims, properly

substantiated and in due form, against the said Henrietta

Hamer, deceased.

Whereas in default of which the non-appearers will be

proceeded against according to law.

Marshal's-office, George-town, Demerary and Essequebo,

this 21st day of August 1841.

GEO. WIGHT, Acting Provost Marshal."

Elizabeth

sons

Joseph Hamer 

Henry Percy Hamer.possibly Capt. cited here https://www.dloc.com/UF00075409/00007/100x?search=hamer

Joseph Hamer  esq b c 1745 (caucasian) died 1803

married Mary ?

MaryHamer  remarried to Mark Dyer 1802 after Josephs Death

Joseph (above) b Montserrat, occ. Barrister called to bar 26th Nov. 1773.married in Gosport Hampshire to Mary ?. He owned at least 3 Plantations in Demerara called , Mon Repos, Triumph, DeEndragt.

Joseph Will proved in London 20.11.1805,  (ref: copy of will)

Sons of Joseph:

Michael Greatheed Hamer Christened 1787 Hampshire

In the census of 7 April 1861 in 4 Richmond Terrace Lambeth London England  he was listed as the son of Joseph Hamer. Michael is listed as living in lieu of half army pay,with his sons Joseph Greatheed a warehouseman and Joseph Alfred unemployed.

Sun Alliance Insurance for:

Contents:

Insured: Michael Greatheed Hamer, 87 Blackman Street Borough, Esq
Other property or occupiers: tobacconist

Children:

Joseph Greatheed Hamer b c 1822 in Deal Kent

Joseph Alfred Hamer b c 1824

 

William Attwick Hamer b Gloucestershire c 1766 HM 5th Reg.of Foot

From the London Gazette Sept. 1 180?

Commissions signed by Lord Lieutenant of Hants:

to be deputy Lieutenant William Attwick Hamer Esq

Henry Percy Hamer c1787 d before 1836 Captain of Demerara

                             Children  : Henry Percy Hamer

                                            Harriet Budgen eldest daughter.

Harriet Budgen Hamer married 1836 Andre Racine Braud of Paris (French Protestant Pastour) residing Fontainebleau

children:

 Arthur m Edith Dalton

Mary m. Albert Pagan., 

Matilda m Henry Harrison,

 Thomas

Andre Charles Recine,

 John,

Maria,

Anna.

Caroline Hamer  christened Gosport Hampshire 1787 died 1821

 (Londone Gazette Tues July 10 1821 )on the 8th inst. in eth 34th year of her age, at his house, Cireus, Greenwich Caroline wife of William Ellis, Esq and youngest daughter of the late Joseph Hamer of Demerara, Esq.

m William Ellis, of Cumberland House (Ref: The London Gazette Feb Mar 3. 1806 Issue 334)

Harriet Hamer

married Mr Wardroper Solicitor of Hawlchurst Kent (Ref: The London Gazette Sep 3 )

Susannah Hamer m James Collins (Clerk) 1808

Recipients of Josephs will, Belinda a Negro slave, her son William, Margaret a Mullato women & her Daughter.

Anne Hamer m Durell Stables

                  children: John Durell-Durell b181

Durell Stables changed his name to Durell Durell.Whitehall, May 31, 1823.The King has been pleased to grant unto Durell Stables, Esq. Comptroller of the Customs at Sydney,Cape Bi;eton, in North America, His royal licenceand authority, that he and his issue may henceforthtake and use the surname, and bear the armsof Durell only; such arms being first duly exemplifiedaccording to the laws of arms, anil recorded in the Heralds' College, otherwise the said royal licence.and permission to be void and of none effect: And also to command, that the said royal concession and declaration be registered via His Majesty's College of. Aims.

                 Anne Durell Stables

                 Frederick

I believe these Children are of Josheph & Marianne Deniant:

Josephs (ligitimate )sons William & Michael Hamer were named as guardians of the above children along with a child that was not born yet. Catherine or Samuel Blair Hamer. According to Joseph's will, Marianne is said also to be a free Mestiza (mixed race) women.

Catherine, Louisa, Eliza, Marianne all lived at 52 Cadogan Place London , as per 1841/51/61 Census.

Children: Eliza Rose Lawrence b 1836 d 1878

 m William Anthony   COLLINS

child: Henry Anthony Collins

         William Forman Collins

          M J Rose Collins

         Lewis EG Collins

         Victor Evelyn Collins 

A book by V E Collins

http://www.borders.com.au/ebook/a-text-book-of-medicine/10932739

 

               Maria Louise Victoria Lawrence

 

William Attwick Hamer

married Anna Smithwick (nee Lloyd), William Died 1846 on board Ship from Demerara to England

Samuel Blair Hamer (my grgrgrgrandfather) Born c1800 died London  1852 , no birth record found yet, Going by aged sited on Census as 51 yrs old and Death Cert. 56 yrs. 

occupation: House Agent,  married (1)Anna Scott. I have found an application for a Marriage Licence dated 1828, showing Anna Scott as the intended. This was  lodged at St George Bloomsbury.This is odd as Samuel's son Henry Percy was born 1821.  Anna Scott is still living in Guernsey at the time of his second marriage.  (2) Caroline Catherine Annie Waldron in Berkshire, 26th June1851, on the marriage cert. he is down as Widower. and his father is down as Joseph. However  I have checked all the census records for UK and death records for Samuel Blair Hamer but no record found under his full name.  According to the 1851 March census he is living at Union Row Newington. ref: citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.Further to this, Caroline Waldron re-married to a Mr Henry Thomas Whitby in 1859 She is down as Widow. Note: Samuel Blair  Hamer Copy of Death Entry is named as Blair Hamer.  An obvious error. Ref:DYC 627099 GRO 1D 14

children:

 Eleanor D'Arcy Hamer b c1815 (adopted)?

 married 1839 in Guernsey to Samuel Joseph of Lancashire,

Charles, b 11 June 1824 Dinan, Côtes-du-Nord, Bretagne, France Paris

 , attended Elizabeth College in Guernsey, he joined the merchant navy and died c 1841 

Eliza,

Marianne,

Samuel,

Henry Percy Hamer b 1821 Southampton

 

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      Henry Percy Hamer b 1821Southampton,

                         d 1887  at  sea, Bay of Bengal 

              (my grgrgrandfather)

Master of the Tug Retriever, died in 1887 lost at sea, in a cyclone in the bay of Bengal where he was the pilot of the Tug boat Retriever. His headstone mentions his Father Samuel Blair Hamer Esq of Guernsey & London.

1866 Master of the "Pilot' 6 Eambaugh 2nd Lane

1867 & 1871Commander of  Steamer 'Rattler", 10 ST James Square, Merwara.

1886 of 3 Telkul Ghat Rd, Howrah

Tug RETRIEVER, owned by Turner of Calcutta, sailed Calcutta on 23 May towing

the ship GODIVA, expecting to arrive off Saugor [now usually Sagar Island]

on the 25th.  There was a massive cyclone on 25th in which a number of

vessels were lost and lightships lost their moorings - the local steamer SIR

JOHN LAWRENCE, with about 750 Hindoo pilgrims going to a festival at

Juggernaith seems to have been lost.  GODIVA (owned G R Sandbach) and her

crew actually survived, going aground on the Western Channel.  But RETRIEVER

was lost, as were all her crew except one lascar, picked up 28-29 May by the

inward-bound P&O steamer NEPAUL. 

 

married Georgiana Charlotte Bampton of India, child: Ella Anna Hamer (My grgrandmother). This Bampton was the daughter of William and grand daughter of William W. Bampton Master Mariner of The Endeavour.

 

Children: Ella Anna Hamer b 1864,Calcutta, 

             Henry Samuel Bampton Hamer,

             b 13/12/1854 d 26/7/1872

             40 Somerleyton Rd. Brixton of  Pulminary Hemorrage age 16 

             Samuel Percy Hamer. 

Ella Anna Hamer married Henry Arthur Wellesley Mathew (MY  paternal grgrandparents)

            Children: Cyril Owen Hamer-Mathew b Calcutta

                                    (my grandfather)

Cyril married Kathleen Lillian Clarke

    Children: Lancelot Jude Mathew b Calcutta      1920

 Names associated with the HAMERS are:

MERRY,BLAIR,WILSON,MACKENZIE,BUDGEN,BRAUD,STOTT,DALTON,PAGAN,

BROUGHTON,GUY,LEVY,DUNSFORD, DURELL, STABLES, SMITHWICK,LLOYD,MATHEW,JOSEPH,COLLINS

Click on this link to read comment in book regarding the Hamer family

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JCQ9AAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA195&ots=TnEl0ro6sf&dq=%2BHamer%20Demerara&pg=PA195#v=onepage&q=+Hamer%20Demerara&f=false

^th Feb 1772 The London Lodge

" The U.W.Master proposed the following Gentlemen 

to be made Masons, viz., Joseph Hamer, Esq., Mark Dyer, Esq., William Ryan, Esq., and John Greathead, Esq." 

http://www.archive.org/details/thomasdunckerley00sadliala

 https://wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?286297

Ref: confirming Death of Henry Percy Hamer Captain of Retriever. 

 Below is an exact transcript of documents I have copied from the Originals. The address 114 New Kent Road was the address given at time of Letter sent . I doubt that Henry lived there, as his family lived in Calcutta to the best of my knowledge. The Book 'On the Hooghly' confirms that Henry was the commander of the Rattler and Retriever.

Born Dec 25 1821 Southampton

Present Residence 114 New Kent Road London

CC678 Trinity 10/3/1848

Henry Percy Hamer Master Mariner NO.73.866

 (all text below is written below and in the margin of the document)

On Twelve months leave of a ……..& From last named Steamer

From Original Certificate in my possession copy sent underneath.

Most of these dates from copy of certificate in my possession. The original at the Trinity Board London

Letter of support sent    16/10/1871 Reads

Sir,    As deemed by you I beg to forward by post my application a certificate of service. I hold a Trinity Board Certificate of Competence which states on the back of it that I was in the command of the ‘Sea Bird’ of London in 1848 I have the Honor to be sir your obed Servant Henry Hamer  

For more details of the Names mentioned above email Rhonda Peggy Mathew: rhondamathew70@gmail.com

" THAMES-Mr Henry Hamer, the master and Mr Launcelot Wilson, the chief mate of the schooner Seabird, were brought before Mr Yardley, charged with assaulting John Hughes, a seaman, and wounding him with a cutlass.

Mr Yardley said the seaman had received several wounds, and the evidence of the surgeon would be necessary befor the case could be completed.  He should therefore remand the prisoners until Monday"

You can read more about our Henry Percy Hamer in this Book.

'On the Hooghly' Book by Beattie

Loss of the "Retriever " is at pages 153-155

and page 118 relates another altercation between Henry and W Kendal.

Below:

The Tuesday's London Gazette,

Admiralty Office Sept 1.