When Eric D. B. Hammersley was born in May 1930, in Croydon, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, his father, Archibald Ernest Hammersley, was 33 and his mother, Edith Dorothy Locke Andrews, was 33. He died in May 1957, in Bromley, Kent, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 27.
English (Staffordshire): probably a habitational name from Ombersley (Worcestershire), which is recorded as Ambresley in the 12th century. Alternatively, perhaps a nickname from a Middle English descendant of Old English hamor-slege ‘hammer blow’; compare sweord-slege ‘sword stroke’.
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