Colman Mark Hammond (1821 - 1883)

Born 10 Apr 1821 in Queenstown, Cork, County Cork, Ireland

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Sergeant) Hammond — married about 1857 in County Cork, Ireland

Descendants

Died 25 Mar 1883 at age 61 in Killenagh, County Cork, Ireland

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Biography

Birth and Origins

Colman Mark Hammond was born 10 Apr 1821, Queenstown, Cork,^[1] from an old Anglo-Irish Cork family, was the son of James Chatterton Hammond and Mary Coleman.

Marriage and Family

First Marriage

Colman first married probably in the late 1840s. She died in 1855, while they were in Sierra Leone. ^[2]

Second Marriage

He married for a second time, Elizabeth Sergeant (or Sarjeant) 1858 at Stoke Damerel, Devon, England^[3]

They had children:

• James Henry Hammond b. c 1861
• Mary Anne Alice Hammond b. & d. 1872
• Emma Margaret Hammond,
• Colman Mark Hammond, b. 1872, d. 1872
• Margaret Hannah Hammond m. William James McCartie
• Thomas Chatterton Hammond (known as Tommy or T.C.) b.1877

Career

He got his Mate Certificate (British Merchant Service, Foreign Trade, Issue Port County Cork, Certificate Number 61.543) 9 Oct 1852^[4]

Sierra Leone

Colman Hammond, was an Evangelical layman. For a few years in the early 1850s he had served with the Church Missionary Society in Sierra Leone, where his first wife died. ^[5]

He arrived in Sierra Leone in Sept1853, being stationed at Kissy, and left in 1855. ^[6]

He had trained a t Highbury Training College, London, and taught in the West Indies before coming to Sierra Leone . Once he arrived in Sierra Leone in 1853, he was to give industrial advice (as an industrial agent) on the production and selling of cotton (a project he thought nonviable) and also to build and manage a training school for African boys as it's first principal. African huts were put up for the boys, who then helped with the construction of the other buildings. ^[7]

"in April 1854, the school was opened, with an incomplete building , but over a hundred scholars and three masters, one for carpentry , one for tailoring and one to teach writing . Only a small number, twenty-eight , were allowed to start on the practical subjects , as most o f them could presumably neither read nor write. A few boys came from the Grammar School , but the majority were newly Liberated Africans (form slave ships)"^[8]

At first, he lived off site but eventually lived in the top floor. He was 'sent home' in 1855.^[9] Farrow doesn't mention his wife, but her death in 1855 it may have been the reason he returned to Ireland.

In the Navy

He became a Master in the Royal Navy.

In 16 May 1856, he entered RN as Master and Navigating Lieutenant^[10]

However, he had to take early retirement. ^[11] His retirement may relate to the running aground of the HMS Virago. In February 1865, both Charles Frederick Palmer, commander, and Colman Mark Hammond, master, were court-marshalled. Palmer was discharged and Hammond lost two years seniority and give a severe reprimand. ^[12]

Even so, he remained in the Navy for at two or three years following this incident.

In 1867, he is listed in Navy Directory/Section of Thom's Directory, listing Naval officers, "Hammond, Colman M. Master. 63^[13]

In 1868, he was on Bexley, Kent, England (Voting) Register for East Kent, but apparently living in Cork:

"6499, Hammond, Coleman Mark, Cottage Queenstown, Cork"^[14]

Farmer

He took up farming some distance from Cork. ^[15]

In 1875 he owned 74 acres Ballyvisteale, Rivertown, County Cork^[16]

Death

On 25 March 1883, Colman Mark Hammond died at Killeenagh, County Cork at age of 62 years, farmer & former officer [of Royal Navy]. ^[17] Tommy was just six years old.

Letters of administration were granted to the widow, Elizabeth [Sergant] Hammond of Boreenmanagh Road, Cork, in 1892, for Colman Mark Hammond, Gentleman, late of Killeena, County Cork (d 25 Mar 1883) (effects L120). ^[18]

Sources

1. ↑ Date and place of death on the Mate's Certificate
2. ↑ JA McIntosh - ‎1953, http://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/fapi/datastream/unsworks:12009/SOURCE02
3. ↑ 1858, Stoke Damerel, Volume: 5b, Page: 593, FreeBMD. England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
4. ↑ UK and Ireland, Masters and Mates Certificates, 1850-1927 for Cotman Mark Hammond 61400 - 61699, Ancestry.com. UK and Ireland, Masters and Mates Certificates, 1850-1927 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Master's Certificates. Greenwich, London, UK: National Maritime Museum.
5. ↑ JA McIntosh - ‎1953, http://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/fapi/datastream/unsworks:12009/SOURCE02
6. ↑ E G Ingham, Sierra Leone After a Hundred Years, 1894, p205, http://www.sierra-leone.org/Books/Sierra_Leone_After_a_Hundred_Years.pdf
7. ↑ Jill Farrow,(1974) Native agency in British West Africa: the development of an idea 1835-65, with special reference to Sierra Leone, Durham theses, Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/9852/1/9852_6646.PDF?UkUDh:CyT , pp 68-69, 75, acc 11 May 2020
8. ↑ Jill Farrow, ibid, pp 75-76, acc 11 May 2020
9. ↑ Farrow, ibid, pp 76- 77
10. ↑ Date: 16 May 1856, Held by: The National Archives, Kew, Volume 1, Public Record(s), http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7591188
11. ↑ McIntosh, ibid
12. ↑ The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle... a Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs, Simpkin, Marshall & Company, 1865, p 165, https://books.google.com.au/books?id=wvzZrgyGmFkC&pg=PA165&lpg=PA165
13. ↑ Thom´s Official Directory of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, p 538, Ancestry.com. Ireland, City and Regional Directories, 1836-1947 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2017. Original data: Original publications: PM Egan; Pettigrew and Oulton; Post Office; Slater´s; Thom´s; George Henry Bassett.
14. ↑ Bexley, Kent, England, Electoral Registers, 1734-1965 for Coleman Mark Hammond East Kent, 1868, Bexley Local Studies & Archive Centre; Bexleyheath, Kent, England; Bexley Electoral Registers; Reference Number: 161511, & Ancestry.com. UK, Poll Books and Electoral Registers, 1538-1893 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data:London, England, UK and London Poll Books. London, England: London Metropolitan Archives and Guildhall Library.
15. ↑ McIntosh, ibid
16. ↑ Owners of land of one acre and upwards : Ireland: return, Local Government Board for Ireland,1871, https://archive.org/details/op1250438-1001/page/n131 , acc 3 Oct 2019
17. ↑ Death record, Civil Records, 177, [1]
18. ↑ Will Calendars 1892, Irish National Archives, http://www.willcalendars.nationalarchives.ie/reels/cwa/005014906/005014906_00189.pdf