Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Burial: 28 November 1621.
Place of Burial: Stottesdon, Shropshire.
The burial of “John Hammond the elder” is recorded in the parish register.
Relationships
Father: unknown.
In the 1583 will of Richard Cocke of Stotesdon, these people are mentioned as owing him money: Richard Hammond of Stottesdon; Margery the wife of Richard; John the son of Richard; and Joan the daughter Richard.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Frances Hinton. Married 17 May 1568 in Stottesdon.
The marriage and burial are recorded in the parish register.
Children:
(John’s children are named in his will. The baptisms below are given tentatively. They are recorded in the Stottesdon parish register. There are many Hammond baptisms there. Those given below seem the most likely, given the implied birth order in John Hammond’s will. The dates seem consistent with the fact that John describes himself as “very aged” in his 1621 will, and that his youngest daughter had children at the time of his death. The father of the first four children below, and that of the first baptism for Humfrey, are not recorded in the baptism records. The second baptism for Humfrey and the baptism for Joan have the father recorded as John.)
John Hammond (possibly baptized 18 April 1569; died about 1650) married Margery Bruckhouse in 1611.
Margaret Hammond (possibly baptized 19 November 1570, as “Margerie”).
Robert Hammond (possibly baptized 30 November 1572).
Thomas Hammond (possibly baptized 17 October 1573 or 20 January 1575).
Humfrey Hammond (possibly baptized 12 March 1578 or 13 August 1581).
Joan Hammond (probably baptized 19 September 1585).
Evidence
from the Stottesdon parish register:
1568
John Hamonde and Fraunces Hinton were married the xvij the daie of Maye.
Apparently from around 1613:
Stottesdon A true copye out of the late vicar John Hamond his booke wherby yt appeareth what every one in the sayd p[ar]ish by Custome are to paye for their Teyth heye as followeth./ vizt
Stottesdon
John Hamond thelder vj d
John Hamond the yonger vj d
Johan Hinton widow vj d
1621
John Hamond the elder was buried the xxviijth day of November.
Fraunces Hamond his wife was buried the Third day of December.
The will of John Hammond:
In name of God Amen the xiiijth day of July 1620 I John Hamond thelder of Stotesden in the county of Sallop and Diocesse of Herefford [three or four words illegible] very aged and weake of bodie but of good and [three or four words illegible] praysed be God doe ordayne and [three or four words illegible] will and testament in writeing revoke [three or four words illegible] wills whatsoever in maner and forme following [two or three words illegible] principally I bequeath and com[m]end myselfe unto the mercy of almightie God my Soule with the mercyfull hands of almightie God my maker and of Jesus Christ my most righteous Redeemer by whose merritts and p[re]cious bloud sheeding I trust and have assur[...] to be saved and made p[ar]taker of everlasing life and my body to be buried in Christian buriall. Item I give and bequeath unto Humfrey Hamond my youngest sonne all my right tytle and interrest unto a Cottage and Acre of ground thereunto belonging be it more or leesse called the motthouse being scituate lyeing and being in Stotesden afforesayd w[i]th all deeds writeings scripts miniments evidences of and concerning the same and [...] absutely and freely give the sayd motthouse w[i]th all the grounds there unto belonging unto the sayd Humfrey Hamond my youngest sonne and to his heires and assignes for ever. Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Jones [...] children ten shillings apeece to every of them. Item I give and bequeath unto my three sonnes Robert Thomas and Humfrey Hamond and unto my eldest daughter Margarett Hamond the rest of all my goods debts cattells chattells and houshold stuffe moveable and unmoveable whatsoever and whensoever (my debts Legacies & funerall expences being full payed) To be equally devided and p[ar]ted betweene them And I doe constitute ordayne Appoynte and make Thomas Hamond one of my foure sayd sonnes my whole and sole Executor of this my last will & testament, And I doe desire and my minde and request is that Mr Barber vicar of Stotes[den] and my cozen John Hamonds will take the paynes to be overseers of this my last will to see the same p[er]formed in all respectes accordingly.
These being wittnesses. The marke of John Hamond testator
John Barker cler. [a cross with two horizontal strokes]
John Hamond
Roger Bennetts(?) marke [an ‘O’]
John Hamond his eldest sonne w[i]th others
[Proved 18 December 1621]
References
Stottesden and Farlow Parish Register transcripts, FHL microfilm 510679.
Will of John Hamond, proved 18 December 1621, Diocese of Hereford Episcopal Consistory Court, FHL microfilm 91651.
Will of Richard Hammond. Dated 1583. Hereford Consistory Court. Digital images on FamilySearch.org accessed 13 March 2018.
Will of William Watmore of Stotesdon hubandman, proved 1599. Hereford Consistory Court. Digital images of FamilySearch.org accessed 14 March 2018.