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Note: England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1900
Hammond, Charles Edward P
Year: 1885 Quarter: September
Record Type: Marriages Volume: 10a
District: Sunderland Page: 650
Potts, Elizabeth Grace
Year: 1885 Quarter: September
Record Type: Marriages Volume: 10a
District: Sunderland Page: 650
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Sunderland registration District
Created 1st July 1837.
Sub-districts : East Sunderland; Monk Wearmouth; North Bishop Wearmouth; South Bishop Wearmouth;
Ryhope; Southwick; Sunderland East; Sunderland North; Sunderland West; West Sunderland.
GRO volumes : XXIV (1837-51); 10a (1852-1930).
Bishopwearmouth, Bishopwearmouth Panns, Ford, Fulwell, Hylton, Monkwearmouth,
Monkwearmouth Shore, Ryhope, Southwick, Sunderland, Tunstall.
Registers now in Sunderland district.
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Marriage source data - St Peter's Monkwearmouth, Sunderland Parish registers microfilm Reel 164, page 104, Entry 207
married 22 September 1885
Bride : Elizabeth Grace Potts, spinster, age 23
of 9 St George's Terrace, Roker, Sunderland, Co Durham
Bride's father : Matthew Potts, a Boat Builder
Groom: Charles Edward Pearson Hammond, bachelor, age 28
a clerk, of 3 Havelock Street, Sunderland, Co Durham [this was the East End, across the river]
Groom's father: Charles Joseph Hammond, a Master Mariner
Witnesses at wedding : Annie Potts and Matthew Potts
[Annie and Matthew Potts were the bride's younger sister and brother.
[The groom's father had died at sea when he was young]
[thanks to Richard Bulmer for finding this data and sending to us in Sept 2007]
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Charles was born and raised in Sunderland County, England.
According to the family stories, his father was a master mariner who died at sea when Charles was a baby. His mother raised him and died young when Charles was around 15 years of age.
[note: there is some confusion over this story and the 1881 census shows that Charles's
mother was still alive when he was 23 and she was 54 so she didn't exactly die very young -
Charles would have been 25 when she died]
In those days boys (and girls) went to work at an early age. Charles started out as a telegrapher for the North East Railroad which was a railway that ran from Newcastle on the east coast to Carlisle and industrial centers on the west coast of England, where ships took off for Ireland or the Isle of Man. [ This occupation is confirmed by the 1881 census]
The story goes that Charles had no sisters but he did have a brother (unknown) who left for the states and never was heard from again.
[Note : this also seems to be contrary to the 1881 census which shows a sister Jane P. Hammond who was 14
so it would seem that C.E.P.'s father died the year she was born and his mother died in 1883 when she was about 56.]
Charles worked himself up to the post of Station Master Agent and was in charge of different stations along the line. As a result, their six children were born in different sections of Sunderland. Charles stayed with N.E.R.R. until he retired with 50 years service at age 65.
His son Matthew was the first one to come to the United States in 1908, Peggy in 1910, son Charlie in 1920 after the war (Charlie served in the British Army, Matthew in the US Army, both in France), and finally Charles and his wife Elizabeth Grace Potts came when he retired in 1922 along with Wilfred and Winifred. Connie came later in 1922.
They all ended up in the Marlboro, Massachusetts area except for Matthew who went to Lowell with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co, eventually residing in New Hampshire.
An interesting note from Uncle Charlie - he says that when Grace (his mother) came to USA she never could understand why the landlords didn't come around and take care of their property. It seems she had been spoiled in England, the railroad always came around every five years and refurbished the places because the agents and their families lived right in the station houses.
Charles sometimes wrote article for papers under the pseudonym CEPH
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I have not located CEP Hammond's birth in the GRO Registration Index for Sunderland District, but the index was only 20% complete the last time I checked
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1861 English Census, Monkwearmouth Shore, Sunderland, Durham County, England, page 7 of 102, PRO # R.G 9/3782
Charles J. Hammond, head, age 36, occ: seaman, born in Durham, Sunderland
Eliza., wife, age 34, born in Durham, Hetton
Charles E., son, age 4, born in Durham, Sunderland
Henry, son, age 9 mos., born in Durham, Sunderland
Jane Payne(?), sister-in-law, age 36, widow, born in Durham, Raiston
handwriting here is quite clear
The ages match well.
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1871 English Census, Monkwearmouth Shore, District 9, Sunderland, Durham County, England, page 41 of 141, PRO # R.G 10/5022.
Jane Payne, head, aged 46, widow, born in Durham, Rainton
Eliza Hammond, sister, age 43, widow, born in Durham, Hetton
Chas Hammond, son, age 13, born in Durham, Monkwearmouth
Jane P. Hammond, dau, age 4, born in Durham, Monkwearmouth
no occupations were listed for any of them.
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1881 English Census, Monkwearmouth Shore,Sunderland, Durham, England
Ecclesiatical Paris of St Cuthbert
address: Howick Street
Eliza Hammond, head, mother, age 54, widow, born in Hetton, Durham, England, occ: confectioner,
Charles E.P. Hammond, son, unmarried, age 23, born in Monkwearmouth, Durham, England, occ: telegraph clerk
Jane P. Hammond, daughter, unmarried, age 14, born in Monkwearmouth, Durham, England, occ: teacher board school
Source Information:
Dwelling Howick St (Note: The LDS transription gives house # 40 but there is no such indication on the original sheet)
Census Place Monkwearmouth Shore, Durham, England
Family History Library Film 1342205
Public Records Office Reference RG11
Piece / Folio 5006 / 115
Page Number 3
(ancestry.com image #3 of 105)
this census was our first clue about Jane P. Hammond.
Elizabeth's age corresponds to the date of birth we had, and the son's name, Charles E. P., and his occupation assures us that this was the correct family. I am guessing that the initial letter "P" in their names stood for Pearson the mother's maiden name
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also in the 1881, we find C.E.P Hammond , same age, same occupation, same place of birth, boarding with a family named Curbison in Mainsforth Village, Durham, (parish of Bishop Middlesham). Apparently he was counted twice (this seems to occur often in the English census)
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Free BMD English Marriage Index 1885 3rd quarter - Charles Edward P. Hammond, Sunderland, Durham, vol 10a page 650
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Note in Kelly's Directory (of Railway Stationmasters) for 1890 the stationmaster at Lamesley that year was William Patterson,
so Charles must have just taken up the post in 1891.
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1891 English Census, Village of Lamesley, Durham County, England, District #16, image #3 of 38, schedule #15 page #3 (stamped #60) - (no enumeration date given - the entire census was taken on a single day)
Civil Parish : St James' Lamesley, Ecclesiastical Parish : St James's Lamesley
address : Lamesley Railroad Station
Charles Hammond, age 33, occ: Railway Station Master, born in Durham Co. - Sunderland
Elizabeth G., wife, age 29, born in Durham Co. - Sunderland
Winifred, daughter, age 4, born in Durham Co. - Ferryhill
Matthew, son, age 3, born in Durham Co. - Sunderland
Marg. Eliza., daughter, age 2, born in Durham Co. - Sunderland
Rosamund Potts, wife's sister, age 14(?), born in Durham Co - Sunderland
It is difficult to read the ages, they have all been X'd out probably by the data tabulator
Rosamund was in fact 15 years younger than her sister, she was the baby of the family.
The handwriting was not too legible.
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1901 English Census, PRO ref RG/3704, Village of Lamesley, Durham County, England, District #18, Ancestry.com image 38 of 39
Civil Parish : Lamesley, Eccles. Parish St Andrews at Lamesley, Rural District : Chester le St, Parliamentary Division : Chester le St
schedule # 119, address : The Station, Lamesley.
Hammond, Charles E. P., head, age 43, m, occ: Railway Stationmaster, born in Durham Co., Sunderland
Elizabeth G., wife, age 39, f, born in Durham Co, Sunderland
Winifred, daughter, age 14, f, born in Durham Co, Ferryhill
Matthew, son, age 13, m, born in Durham Co, Sunderland
Margaret E., daughter, age 12, f, born in Durham Co, Sunderland
Charles, son, age 4, m, born in Durham Co, Lamesley
Wilfred, son, age 7 mos, m, born in Durham Co, Lamesley
(handwriting quite clear)
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Kelly's Directory for 1902: (Directory of Railway Stationmasters) Thanks to Richard Bulmer for this reference.
Living at the Railway Station at Lamesley was Charles Hammond, Station Master.
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