Brief Life History of William
When William Hammond was born in 1678, in Bermuda, his father, William Hammond, was 41 and his mother, Hannah Gardiner, was 42. He married Mary Maritje Joriszen Walgraaf before 1708, in New York County, New York Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He died in 1762, in Philipsburg Manor, Westchester, New York Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 84.
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- NYGenWeb Westchester: Old Dutch Church Marriage Index
- Willem Hemmen, "New York, Church Records, 1660-1954"
- dead link Dutch Reformed Church of Sleepy Hollow Baptism & Marriages, See Note
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1683
Historical Boundaries 1683: Westchester, Colony of New York, British Colonial America 1776: Westchester, New York, United States
1684
Bermuda becomes an English crown colony.
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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