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Note: Monkwearmouth is near Sunderland in Durham County. There is a GENUKI web page for it with info on the current location of various local historical records.
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Birth & baptism source - St Peter's, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, Co Durham.
DRO Reel M42/212, Page 398, Entry 3180.
Child's name: Matthew Hammond.
Parents - Charles Edward Pearson & Elizabeth Grace Hammond, of 54 Dock Street East, Monkwearmouth Shore, Sunderland, Co Durham.
Mother's maiden name Potts. Father a Railway Clerk.
Vicar who conducted the ceremony C G Hodgkinson.
Birth 16 Dec 1887; baptism 27 Jan 1888.
[thanks go to Richard Bulmer for locating this record]
[Note difference in address on Dock Street between the baptismal record and the address given by Matthew himself in later years.
Possible explanations 1) Matt states that he was born at 77 Dock Street East, the home of his parents family (i.e. not his parent's home)
or 2) they may have moved house between the time he was born and the time he was baptised.
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Here is Matt's own account of his early years as written to his daughter Winifred:
"I was born at 77 Dock Street East, Monkwearmouth, County Durham, the home of my parents family. My Grandfather, Matthew Potts, and his son (also Matthew) were boat builders and built all of the lifeboats for the ships which were built there, and in later years I spent many happy days at that shop.
My father was Station Master at a railway station named Lamesley, about 5 miles south of Newcastle-on-Tyne, in County Northumberland (the river Tyne separates the counties of Durham and Northumberland). Lamesley was a small village consisting of an Episcopal Church (Rev. Mr Sharp), a school with one master, Mr Clark, and about 20 children. Mr Clark also played the church organ and as I got a little older I pumped the bellows and later sang in the choir.
Easterly from the railway station, in which we lived, was the Ravensworth Colliery. West from the station was Kibblesworth Colliery. Through the village ran a little river (the Team River) crossed by a bridge carrying the road to Kibblesworth and to a public house, where the miners got drunk every Saturday, and to the Rev. Sharp's rectory.
Ravensworth Castle was about two miles from the station. The Earl of Ravensworth and his guests often did their rabbit hunting in the woods just east of our house and always sent father a couple of rabbits on their way home. At Christmas he always sent his coachman and vehicle to gather the kids of the village (about 20) to their Tree Ceremony at the castle and each child found a present with his or her name on it on the tree. When Ma and I were there in 1950 or 1951, the castle seemed to be half broken down and only a caretaker was occupying the place. Strange to report, when I told him, he turned out to be one of my fellow schoolmates. (I've forgotten his name now.)
I left the Lamesley School when I was about 12 and went to what was known as the Higher Grade School in the Town of Gateshead about five miles north of Lamesley. Being a child of the railway, we were allowed passes and travelled to and fro free. I cannot say my days at that school were altogether happy. Our master always had a stick in the hand and every time he wallopped me, I'd stay away the next day and spend my time wandering about the ships docked on the river (Tyne). each time I did this my father would have a letter from the school by the time I reached home. Dad would welcome me with "Well, son, how did you get along in school today?" I'd reply, "Oh, fine." He probably would reply, "That's good. Take this letter back to your teacher tomorrow and see what he says." Back to school next day I'd get another licking. (Dad had told the teacher to take care of me.)
When I was about 15, a friend of Dad's got me a job as a clerk in the office of the Superintendant of Rolling Stock in the Newcastle Tramway. I was stuck alone in the office practically all day with maybe three letters to type, while the Superintendant and his assistant would be out on the road. (What they did I never did know.) I decided that was no job for me, so Dad got me a job in the telegraph Office at Newcastle Central Station. Dad had taught me to telegraph when I was very young and I had plenty of exercise spending my nights in the Signal Tower at home, and within a month I was made Assistant Operator (6 AM to 4, 4 to 12, 12 to 6 AM). There were 52 instruments in that office at that time and I loved the job. When Ma and I visited the place, I could not find any telegraph Office at all, nor did I find anyone who had known of it. I did find the Police Superintendant's Office in the Station, made myself known, and got a very fine reception and was allowed to look over some of the old records, some of which I had worked on. My old Superintendant and his Assistant, Inspector Rodgers, were dead. The two other Police Clerks with whom I worked were retired. I visited them later.
I left there to come to America in 1909. My Dad had a friend of his youth who had come to America and was then the Parole Officer of the Boston area. He lived in Lowell and I stayed with him for about 3 or 4 weeks until I persuaded the Station Master in Lowell to give me a job as clerk and stenographer in the freight house in Lowell. Mr Ramsay with whom I was staying was a Scotsman and friendly with the Taylor family and persuaded Mrs Taylor to take me in to board. That's how Mother and I met and I feel I've been as lucky as anyone can hope to be. I cannot recall that Mother and I ever had a cross word nor had we any trouble with any of our daughters.
I went with the Telephone Company in 1910, digging postholes for 12 dollars a week of 6 days, worked hard, kept my mouth shut and everyone was very good to me.
I could write a book on my experiences since then, but I'm afraid you've had enough."
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As a young man in England, Matt also worked as a telegrapher for the Northeast Railroad at Coanwood Station. He briefly served in the British Home Guard. In 1908, at the age of 21, he wanted to go to the Orient, but his father thought it would be better if he went to the USA. His father knew J. P. Ramsey in Lowell Massachusetts, and this is where Matt ended up when he came to this country. George Patterson, Ramsey's nephew, and Matt went to visit the Taylor family in Lowell, and there Matt and Jessie Taylor, also a recent immigrant from Scotland, met and later married.
Matt worked for the New England Telephone Co. for over 40 years. He started out by climbing and tarring poles in the Lowell and Littleton area and worked his way up the line. Upon retirement in 1950, he was construction supervisor for the the state of N.H.
He was also a veteran of two world wars, serving in France with the 302nd Field Signal Battalion of the 77th division during World War I.
[The letters he wrote home to his young wife from training camp and from France are in the possession of his grandson Robert K McConeghy III in Tucson, Arizona.]
As an officer, he stayed in the Reserves as Captain and was recalled to active duty in 1941 when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. He was Post Signal Officer at Camp Edwards, served in the chief signal office at the Pentagon in Washington, and at the headquarters of the Fourth Service Command at Camp McPherson in Georgia. Following a tour of duty in Japan after the end of the war, he returned to N.H. in 1946. He retired after 30 years of military service with the rank of Colonel.
At the time of WW-II and until his death, he maintained a home on Lake Winnisquam, near Laconia NH
and in later years divided his time between there and Ocean Breeze Park, a trailer park in Jensen Beach, FL.
In his final years he resided with his daughter, Jessie Joerg, and her family in Durham, NC.
Buried in Edson Cemetery, Lowell MA.
Matt was first of all a gentleman, a good husband and father and he was a true veteran, one who loved his new country, and was proud of its flag.
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England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index: 1837-1983
Name: Matthew Hammond
Year of Registration: 1888
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
DISTRICT: Sunderland
County: Durham, Tyne and Wear
Volume: 10a
Page: 615
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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 may have been 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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Boston Passenger Lists, 1820-1943
Name: Matthew Hammond
Arrival Date: 24 Jun 1909
Age: 21 years
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1888
Gender: Male
Ethnic Background: English
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England
Ship Name: Ivernia
Port of Arrival: Boston, Massachusetts
Friend's Name: James P Ramsey
Last Residence: England
Microfilm Roll Number: 135
occupation : clerk
last residence: Sunderland, England
nearest relative and address in England: father, Charles Hammond - Coanwood, Carlisle
destination : Lowell, Massachusetts
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1910 US Census, Lowell , Ward 8, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, ED # 874 , dwelling # 281, family # 329, enumerated April 23, 1910, sheet # 13-A, genealogy.com image # 87 of 208, Roll 601, Book 1
address: 459 Chelmsford Street
Andrew Taylor, head, age 52, married for 31 years, born in Scotland, parents born in Scotland, language: English, immigrated 1906, alien, occ: tinsmith - machine shop, rented his house
Mary, wife, age 52, married for 31 years, had 5 children, 5 living, born in Scotland, parents born in Scotland, language: English, immigrated 1906, occ: none
Mary, daughter, age 30, born in Scotland, parents born in Scotland, language: English, immigrated 1904, occ: dressmaker - at home
Margaret, daughter, age 28, born in Scotland, parents born in Scotland, language: English, immigrated 1906, occ: dressmaker - at home,
John, son, age 25, born in Scotland, parents born in Scotland, language: English, immigrated 1906, alien, pattern maker, pattern shop
Jessie, daughter, age 20, born in Scotland, parents born in Scotland, language: English, immigrated 1906, inspector - hosiery
Winnifred (sic), daughter, age 13, born in Scotland, parents born in Scotland, language: English, immigrated 1906, occ: none, attended school
Matthew Hammond, lodger, age 22, born in England, parents born in England, language English, immigrated 1909, alien, occ: lineman - telephone Co.
Phillip P. Connors(?), lodger, age 48, born in MA, parents born in Ireland, occ: contractor - excavating, employer
all could read and write
(note: Jessie married Matthew Hammond in 1912)
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1917, June 5 - World war I Draft Registration Card
Concord Mass
was working as a Wire Chief for the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co
had previously served in the British Army as a Signaller in the Artillery
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1920 US Census, Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, ED #112, dwelling # 284, family # 307, enumerated Jan 16, 1920, sheet 14-B, ancestry.com image # 28 of 42
address: 7 Stone(??) Street
Mathew(sic) Hammond, head, age 32, immigrated 1908(?), naturalized 1917, born in England, parents born in England,
occ: wire chief - Telephone Co. Jessie W., wife, age 30, immigrated 1905, naturalized 1917, born in Scotland, parents born in Scotland,
Winifred T., daughter, age 4-5/12, born in MA
(Note: the family is incorrectly indexed as "Hansmond"
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1930 US Census, Ward 6, Salem City, Essex County, Massachusetts, ED # 267, dwelling #127, family # 156,
sheet # 7-A, stamped page # 199, enumerated April 8/9, 1930
address : 32 Orne Street
Mathew(sic) Hammond, head, age 42, rented his house - rent $54/mo, owned a radio set, age at first marriage - 25,
born in England, parents born in England, immigrated in 1909, naturalized citizen,
occ: construction supervisor - telephone Co, veteran of WW-I
Jessie W. Hammond, wife, age 40, age at first marriage - 23, born in Scotland, parents born in Scotland,
immigrated in 1906, naturalized citizen, occ: none
Winafred(sic) S.(sic) Hammond, daughter, age 14, born in MA, attended school,
Jessie W. Hammond, daughter, age 9, born in MA, attended school.
Mildred L. Hammond, daughter, age 3, born in MA
[Note: several errors - Matthew is misspelled (indexed incorrectly too), Winifred is misspelled and indexed incorrectly also her middle initial is incorrect, Mildred's middle initial is correctly written as "L" but it was incorrectly indexed as "S"]
all ages are correct.
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Database: North Carolina Deaths, 1979-82
Name: HAMMOND, MATTHEW
Date of Birth: December 16, 1887
Death Date: February 20, 1979
Sex: Male
Race: White
Age: 91 Years
Place of Occurance: Durham (P), Durham, North Carolina
Place of Residence: . Durham, North Carolina
Autopsy: No
Hospital: Nursing and Rest Homes
Marital Status: Widowed
Attendant: Physician
Mode of Burial: Cremation in state
State of Birth: Remainder of World
SSN: 001035493
Fathers Surname: HAMMOND
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Social Security Death Index
Name: Matthew Hammond
SSN: 001-03-5493
Last Residence: 27705 Durham, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Born: 16 Dec 1887
Died: Feb 1979
State (Year) SSN issued: New Hampshire (Before 1951 )
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