Brief Life History of John
When John Hammond was born on 3 July 1714, in Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Joseph Hammond Col, was 36 and his mother, Hannah Storer, was 34. He married Hannah Littlefield on 14 December 1738, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Kittery, York, Maine, United States in 1714. He died on 18 January 1759, in Eliot, York, Maine, United States, at the age of 44.
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Family Time Line
Sources (12)
- John Hammond in entry for Elizabeth Hammond, "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
- Hammond in entry for Joseph Hammond and Mary Fernald, "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907"
- John Hammond, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
Spouse and Children
1714–1759 Male
1714–1780 Female
Children (6)
1739– Male
1740– Male
1743– Female
1746–1797 Female
1750–1840 Male
+1 More Child
Parents and Siblings
1678–1753 Male
1680–1765 Female
Siblings (9)
1701–1779 Male
1702–1702 Female
1703–1753 Male
1706–1757 Female
1707–1760 Female
+4 More Children
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English, Old French personal name Ha(i)mon, the oblique case form of the ancient Germanic Ha(i)mo, a short form of various compound names beginning with haim ‘home’. It frequently developed excrescent -d, giving Hamond, Haimund, and Hawmond. Alternatively, the name could derive from the Middle English personal name Hamund (Old Norse Hámundr, composed of the elements hár ‘high’ + mund ‘protection’), which may have been used in Normandy and in 12th-century eastern England, but the former explanation is more likely. The surname was sometimes confused with Almond and Ammon .
English: in the Bradford area of Yorkshire, the name is a shortened form of Ormondroyd, formerly Hamondesrode, from a lost place in Birstall (Yorkshire), named with the Middle English (Old French) personal name Hamon (1 above) + Middle English roid, a southern Yorkshire pronunciation of Old English rod ‘clearing’.
Irish: generally an importation from England, but occasionally an adopted name for Mac Ámoinn, see McCammon .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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