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Old 04-06-10, 09:15
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Default Mrs Hamilton (Week 4 - OH's MFM)

Name - "official" name and what they were known as
Possibly Mrs Hamilton. She was the mother of John Claude Hamilton b April 1895 in Cork City, Ireland. Unfortunately, JC Hamilton may be an assumed name, in which case his mother would be Mrs something-else!!

Date and place of birth
Unknown

Names of parents
Uknown

Date and place of baptism - if applicable
Unknown

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any
Possibly married Mr Hamilton, a Scot.

Occupation(s) - if any
Unknown

Military service - if any
Probably none!

Addresses where they lived - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on.
Cork City in 1917

Date, place and cause of death
died after 1917

Date and place of burial / cremation.
Unknown

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
Unknown

Memorial inscription - if any
Unknown
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Old 04-06-10, 09:41
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Merry - I'll just see if I can find my crystal ball !!!!
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Old 04-06-10, 10:02
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Merry - I'll just see if I can find my crystal ball !!!!
Merry owns the only crystal ball on here. If she can't see them then what chance do the rest of us have.
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Old 04-06-10, 12:23
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LOL *puts on gipsy fortune teller outfit*


We have a three inch thick pile of letters written by JC Hamilton circa 1916-18 to his girlfriend who he later married. As far as I know there is only one letter mentioning his parents (where he slags them off, says he will never have contact with them in any shape or form ever again etc etc), but as it's probably 10 years since I've looked at the letters, I think they might be worth another look!
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Old 04-06-10, 21:28
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Er, Merry, have you looked at the familysearch pilot site recently?

Name: John Claud Cole Hamilton
Gender: Male
Baptism/Christening Date:
Baptism/Christening Place:
Birth Date: 24 Mar 1879
Birthplace: Meath, Ireland
Death Date:
Name Note:
Race:
Father's Name: Arthur Henry Cole Hamilton
Father's Birthplace:
Father's Age:
Mother's Name: Harriet Elizabeth Tisdall Cole Hamilton
Mother's Birthplace:
Mother's Age:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C02391-7
System Origin: Ireland-EASy
Source Film Number: 256028
Reference Number: v 2-2 p 900
Collection: null

It's not Cork, but the name's an unusual one.
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Old 04-06-10, 21:39
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Oh, probably not the same family - those Cole-Hamiltons are on the Peerage site, and the son was Commander John Claud Cole-Hamilton (b. 24 March 1879, d. 23 May 1951), who married Evelyn Wolston.

I guess you'd already found that and the details don't match, which is why you think it's an assumed name?
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Old 04-06-10, 21:42
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I suppose you've checked out this one too?

John Hamilton
Male

Event(s):
Birth: 29 JUN 1879 Cork, Cork, Ireland

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Parents:
Father: James Hamilton
Mother: Catherine Sullivan Hamilton
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Old 04-06-10, 22:24
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I had seen that first one, Mary - not sure about the second. I don't think he would have passed for 24 (when he married) if he was actually 41 or so, unfortunately.

He actually never used the Claud bit of his name - that only appears in the places other people were giving his details - his daughter's birth cert and his death cert. When he married he just said 'John'. However, his wife was definitely not the type to go about making things up or getting above herself or whatever, so if she registered an event and gave his name as John Claud then that was because she believed that was his name. I always imagined his father was going to turn out to be Claud Hamilton and that was why John dropped that bit of his name (as they seem to have disowned each other).

I only read two of his letters this afternoon. The next one is 18 pages! They are all a bit depressing. He seems to have a very 'glass is half empty' sort of character - and very difficult to read handwriting, even if it looks very need from a distance!
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Oh, sorry - for some reason I'd put down 1879 as his birthdate instead of 1895 (* slaps self *).
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