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

Elizabeth

sons

Joseph Hamer esq b c 1752 (caucasian) died 1803 married Mary Budgen

Mary 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 Budgen. He owned at least 3 Plantations in Demerara called , Mon Repos, Triumph, DeEndragt.

Joseph Will proved in London 20.11.1805,

Henry Percy Hamer.  

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 Michael Greatheed Hamers 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 1788 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 b ? d before 1836 Captain of Demerara

Caroline Hamer  christened Gosport Hampshire 1887 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 (Ref: The London Gazette Sep 3 )married Mr Wardroper Solicitor of Hawlchurst Kent

Susannah Hamer m James Collins (Clerk) 1808

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

Samuel Blair Hamer, Catherine Hamer, Maria Hamer, Eliza Hamer mother was Marianne Deniant were named in Joseph's will. Josephs sons William & Michael Hamer were named as guardians of the above children along with a child that was not born yet. Probably Catherine. According to Joseph's will, Marianne is said also to be a free  Mestiza (mixed race) women. Other children of Joseph and Marianne Deniant, born Demerara, are: Eliza, Louisa, Marianne, Henry Percy, John,

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

The other 3 girls were spinsters.

Henry Percy Hamer 1821-1887 Son of Samuel Blair Hamer

Henry was the Master of the Tug boats mentioned below and was lost at sea. 

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.

Henry 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.

William Attwick Hamer married Anna Smithwick, William Died 1846 on board Ship from Demerara to England

Samuel Blair Hamer (my grgrgrgrandfather) died London c 1860 , married (1)Anna Scott. (2) married Caroline Catherine Annie Waldron in Berkshire, 1851 This is not certain to be the same Samuel, but on the marriage cert. he is down as Widower. and his father is down as Joseph, although Anna Scott is still living in Guernsey at the time . I have lost trace of him since this marriage. However 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. I have checked all the census records for UK and death records for Samuel Blair Hamer but no record found after 1851 Could have left the country again. Further to this, Caroline Waldron re-married to a Mr Henry Thomas Whitby in 1859 She is down as Widow.

children:

 Eleanor D'Arcy Hamer b c1815 married 1839 in Guernsey to Samuel Joseph of Lancashire,

Charles, Eliza, Marianne,Samuel,Henry Percy Hamer (my grgrgrandfather) who 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 Esq of Guernsey & London.

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

Henry Percy Hamer b 1821 Southampton

Children: Ella Anna Hamer b 1864,Calcutta,  Henry Samuel Bampton Hamer, Samuel Percy Hamer. 

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

Other names associated with the HAMERS are:

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

BROUGHTON,GUY,LEVY,DUNSFORD