Birth: April-May 1865 Ipswich, Suffolk, UK
Father: Walter Edmund Hammond c1835-1899
Mother: Ann Irving c1833-1910
Christening: 21 May 1865 Ipswich, Suffolk, UK
Marriage: January-March 1888 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK
Wife: Edith ? c1863-1894/1901
Death: February-March 1909 Newark on Trent, Nottinghamshire, UK
Buried: 5 March 1909 Nottinghamshire, UK
Leopold Irving Hammond 1894-1973
Birth of Walter Leopold Hammond in FreeBMD in April-June 1865 in Ipswich (4a 606).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Walter Leopold Hammond baptised on 21 May 1865 in Ipswich, Suffolk, parents Walter E and Ann Hammond.
His brother was born in Hackney in 1867.
In the 1871 census as Walter Leopold Hammond aged 5, born in Ipswich, Suffolk, and living with his parents (Walter Edmund and Ann), two brothers (Edmund Iving and William Edward Brook), sister (Edith Louisa), and a servant (Jane Lawrence aged 27, born in Ipswich, Suffolk and single) at Spring Villa, Water Lane, Ipswich St Helen, Suffolk.
In the 1881 census as Walter Lepold (sic - on the original) Hammond aged 15, born in London, Middlesex (sic), a merchant clerk, and living with his parents (Walter E and Ann), three brothers (Edmund T, Harry Douglas, and William E Burks), two sisters (Edith Laura and Kate Marian), aunt (Agnes Tiving Hammond), and a servant (Eliza Clay aged 16 and born in Collingham, Nottinghamshire) at 13 Beaumont Street, Newark Upon Trent, Nottinghamshire.
Marriage of Walter Leopold Hammond in FreeBMD in January-March 1888 in Nottingham (7b 366). There is no entry for his wife.
In the 1891 census as Walter L Hammond aged 26, born in Ipswich, Suffolk, a brewers clerk, and living with his wife (Edith) and a visitor (Fanny Bellamy aged 24, born in Newark, Nottinghamshire, married and no stated employment), at 1 Kelham Villas, Kelham, Nottinghamshire. The only information regarding his wife is that she was born in Newark, Nottinghamshire circa 1863.
His son was born in Retford in 1894.
In the 1901 census as Walter L Hammond aged 36, born in Ipswich, widowed, a foreman goods, and living with his son? (Walter L) who was boarding with Joseph Gripton (aged 65, born in Bloxwich, Staffordshire, and a milk dealer), his wife (Sarah aged 62 and born in Abbots Bromley, Staffordshire), and two sons (Charles aged 19 and Fred Wm aged 21, both born in Stafford, Staffordshire, single and plumbers) at 11 Rial Street, Hulme, South Manchester, Lancashire. I cannot find an entry for his wife's death.
Death of Walter Leopold Hammond in FreeBMD in January-March 1909 aged 44 in Newark (7b 330).
Entry in Ancestry All Web: UK, Burial and Cremation Index, 1576-2014 for Walter Leopold Hammond on 5 March 1909 in Nottinghamshire.
Four entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Walter Leopold Hammnod, born in Ipswich in 1865 or 1866, parents Walter Edmund Hammond and Ann Irving, and his death in Newark, Nottinghamshire in 1909, one adding his marriage to Edith.
Walter Leopold Hammond was the father of Leopold Irving Hammond, husband of Florence Annie Pope, my fourth cousin once removed.
Return to Hammond Gendex.
Return to Main Gendex.
Return to Croucher Home Page.