In researching my GG Grandfather Thomas Gover I have found him as a Wine Merchant living in Hamond Place, Chatham Kent in the 1840 Pigot's Directory. In the introduction to Chatham, Brompton and Gillingham in the Directory it states;
'...Some years since a number of dwellings were destroyed by a conflagration and their site (Hamond place), is now occupied by some elegant houses and shops.'
I have looked up Hamond Place on mapsgoogle and have been directed to a place over the river in what appears to be Upnor, near Upnor Castle, near the Tudor Rose Inn. I have also found a place called Hammond Hill in Chatham.
Would anyone out there be able to tell me if the Hammond Place (it is spelt with two 'm's' in mapsgoogle) could be the Hamond Place (one 'm') of my interest in the Pigot's Directory 1840? Does Hammond Hill have any relationship with Hamond Place? Or was Hamond Place Chatham in a different place to what I have been looking at and thinking a possibility?
Thank you for your interest.