My second family of interest is the brother of the above Laura Rose Hampton.
JOSEPH LEWIS HAMPTON was born in Ceylon on 7th May 1855. He was a surveyor. He was employed by the civil service. From Twentieth Century Impressions of Ceylon, ed Wright 1907 p.129:
Mr J L Hampton was born May 7 1855 Kuruneg(?). He was Superintendent of Surveys, appointed District Surveyor in 1884, rose to Superintendent in 1897, and was Acting Assistant Surveyor General in 1901.
He died in Malta on 19 Nov 1931 aged 76 leaving a widow, Emily Hill Hampton.
He married Mrs Emily Hill at Christ Church Colombo on 30 Oct 1900, aged 45. From the Dundee Evening Post of 1st Nov 1900 there is this announcement: Hampton-Gardiner. At Christ Church, Colombo, on Oct 30, by Rev Arthur Dibben and Rev J Ireland Jones, Joseph Lewis Hampton, Survey Department, Government Service, Ceylon, and grandson of the late Colonel Hampton of the 50th Regiment, and of Bodior, Anglesea, N Wales, to Emily Hill, only daughter of the late Rev Thomas Gardiner, Free Church, Old Aberdeen, Scotland.
I am of the opinion that Joseph Lewis Hampton had also married previously, probably also in Ceylon. Would there be some way in which this could be researched please?
On 27th and 28th April 1884, twins Daisy Gwendoline Hampton and Dora Geraldine Hampton died in Meaford, Grey County, Ontario Canada, aged 4 years 6 months, born Ceylon, father Joseph Lewis Hampton. Hampton would have been 29. In October 1883, the ship "Toronto" left Liverpool for Quebec. Aboard were J.L. Hampton, Labr, Mrs Hampton, 2 Miss Hamptons aged 4 and Miss Hampton servant aged 17. I think that Miss Hampton was Joseph's sister Ellen Fanny Hampton born 1866 who in 1899 aged 33 married in Ceylon LOUIS RAOUL RUDD, tea planter, and had at least one daughter, Isobelle Hampton Rudd, born Ceylon 1903, died unmarried in England 1985.
7 years after the above deaths in Canada, in the 1891 England census, Joseph Lewis Hampton, 35, Ceylon Government Surveyor, and Norman A Hampton, 19, Engineering Crystal Palace, are boarders in a lodging house at Croydon, south of London. Norman must be Joseph's brother. In an undated Baptism record in the Kandy St Paul's Church Births/Baptisms 1845-75 there is this record: HAMPTON Norcott Thomas son of John Lewis Hampton and Charlotte Josephine. Is this Norman, or a brother of Norman. I can find no other mention of a Norcott Hampton.
Again, if anyone can help me with this information or fill in some gaps I would be very grateful.
Bill Webster
Australia
