Brief Life History of Ebenezer
When Ebenezer Hammond was born on 7 August 1744, in Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Ebenezer Hammond, was 29 and his mother, Esther Stone, was 23. He died on 12 November 1759, at the age of 15.
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Sources (2)
- Ebenezer Hammon, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Ebenezer Hammon, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
Parents and Siblings
1714–1783 Male
1721–1762 Female
Siblings (8)
1744–1759 Male
1746–1754 Male
1748–1754 Male
1751–1759 Female
1753–1754 Male
+3 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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