Looking for Information on James Hamon - Huntingdonshire, Jersey

[Mabel Bagshawe]

Immigration into New York from Jersey in 1849 - Thomas, Caroline, James (2) and  Thomas (3, so possibly Charles Thomas?)

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939V-R99G-G3?i=492&cc=1849782&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3A27P3-RR7

[Hill]

There is a passenger list at Ellis Island dated 1849 with Thomas, Caroline, James (aged 2) and Thomas (aged 3 months) on the Typhis from Jersey. Thomas's occupation is given as a mariner.

Stewart

[lizajean]

Thank you ALL SOOO much for these answers!!  I am very much appreciative!  I will research these leads further and see what I find.  I do think the immigration in 1849 looks accurate, although.  Very excited to explore further!

Also, my father and grandfather were both Phillip Thomas Hamon and my great grandfather James Hamon was a sea captain in San Francisco, so having a mariner father makes sense!

[lizajean]

A tree on Ancestry shows his birthplace as follows - Jersey,  Islands Common, Huntingdonshire, England

It has him as James Alphus Hamon & his parents as Thomas & Caroline

Do you have him on a US census confirming his birthplace?

Right - Huntingdonshire is not correct as that's not on Jersey (!) but rather in England.  I don't have census information for my great grandfather, but my grandfather says his father came from Ireland on one census and France on another, so who knows!  Family "stories" are that James Snr. came from Jersey. 

[lizajean]

Working in the other direction, a Thomas Hamon and Caroline Cooper married in St Helier in 1838.  He was a sailor. I can find  her with family in 1841 and two children baptised: Thomas Alfred (1843) and Charles Thomas (1848).

Not found any of them after that until the baptism in 1867 of Thomas Henry b 1865 (parents Thomas H and Caroline Cooper) added: baptism in St Helier

Ooh - and on that baptism he's born in the states of New Jersey, USA, Franklin Township, Bergen county

Thomas snr is by now a master mariner

THIS is very interesting!  Exploring further.  My GGF was a mariner in San Francisco also.

[Ladyhawk]

For info. in case it relates

California, U.S., Voter Registers, 1866-1898
Residence Place:   Mendocino, California, USA
Thomas Hamon  age 55
Country of Nativity  Isle of Jersey
occ Mariner
Local Res. Little Lake Tp
Naturalised Nov 20, 1850 Place New York By what court Common Place
Date of registration Oct 27, 1870

Thomas Hamon Age:   38
Born   2 Dec 1815
Birth Place: The Isle of Jersey, England
Passport Issue Date:   20 Nov 1854
Has Photo:   No
Address 367 - 6th Avenue
U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925

Possible baptism

Thomas Hamon
Baptism10 Dec 1815 St Helier, Jersey
Father:   Thomas Hamon
Mother:   Susanne Rachel Ereaux

[lizajean]

Welcome from me too

The 1861 census shows a James Hamon b Jersey in lodgings in Middlesex but his birthyear is 1831

When did he emigrate?  Who did he marry & did he marry in the US?

He married a Delia Carr in San Francisco and he emigrated in 1849.

[lizajean]

Think I've found Thomas snr's certificate from 1854 which lists his service record. Born 2 December 1815. Went to sea as an apprentice in 1826.

In the vital period of the 1840s he's on ships plying their trade out of Newfoundland, central and south America

He gives an address at 19 Mercer Court, Red Cross Street, but where that is I'm not sure. He's asked for his certificate to be sent to Liverpool

This sounds possible.  But I think my GGF came to America in 1849 with his Mom and Dad, Thomas Hamon and Caroline Cooper.  At least, this makes the most sense at the moment as I can't find any other records of a James Hamon immigrating in those years. 

[Ladyhawk]

Is this the burial you have for your James Hamon?

James A Hamon
Death    5 Dec 1896
Cemetery:   Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place:   Colma, San Mateo County, California, United States of America
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105121013/james-a-hamon

Is this the same person?

James Alphas Hamon age 44 occ Watchman born England
Address 133 Chestnut
Naturalised S.F. Sup; Dec; 14, ’88
Date of registration July 17, 1896

James Alphus Hamon
State:   California
Locality, Court:   Northern District of California, District court

For info. - I think this maybe the son of Thomas & Caroline Cooper

his death

Thomas Henry Hamon
Birth 10 Feb 1865
Birth Place:   New Jersey
Death Date:   4 May 1946
Death Place:   Alameda
Mother's Maiden Name:   Cooper
Father's Surname:   Hamon
California, U.S., Death Index, 1940-1997
his burial
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/181049812/thomas-henry-hamon

Thomas H Hamon
Marriage Date:   4 May 1892
Marriage Place:   Alameda, California, USA
Spouse:   A Darlow
Record Type:   Index to Marriage Certificates

Thos H Hamon age 39
Ethnicity/ Nationality:   English
Departure Port:   Liverpool, England
Arrival Date:   24 Feb 1904
Arrival Port:   New York, New York, USA
Ship Name:   Etruria
With wife Alice & 3 children, Susie, Nettie & Alice