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Note: Baptism source - St Andrew's, Lamesley, Co Durham.
DRO Reel M42/655, Page 29, Entry 277.
Child's name: Charles Hammond.
Parents - Charles Edward Pearson & Elizabeth Grace Hammond,
of Lamesley Railway Station, Lamesley, Co Durham.
Mother's maiden name Potts. Father a Station Master.
Baptism 14 February 1896.
Vicar who performed ceremony Rev R W Snape.
Note - No birth date is stated on the baptismal entry.
[thanks go to Richard Bulmer for finding this record !]
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SS# 011-07-9834
emigrated to USA in 1920
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was interviewed Jan 20 1989 by Matthew Hammond McConeghy and his parents in Hudson MA. He was then 92 years old. Main topic was Hammond family history.
He served in the British Army in WW-I. He was in the 4th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, the 149th Brigade, the 50th Division, V Corps, Second Army. (Infantry).He was 17 at the time. He had been in the Territorial Army and was mobilized when the war broke out Aug 4th 1914 at 6PM, they shipped out at 5AM next day.
He was first stationed at a Submarine base in Blyth about 50 miles north of Newcastle on the British coast on guard duty. The subs used to go off to Dogger Bank.
He went to France in April 1915, the 2nd battle of Ypres, when the Germans used gas, the first gas attack, about the 19th of April
His brother, Matthew Hammond, who was serving as a Signal Corps Cavalry Officer in the US Army, visited him on the lines at least twice in WW-I, once he arrived on horseback, once on a motorcycle.
[Note: we have Matthew Hammond's letters that he wrote home to his wife in the USA from France and he mentions visiting Charlie]
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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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