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Hello - Just seeing this post!  My great grandfather was James Alpheus Hamon - BD 1849. He came from the Channel Islands and immigrated to San Francisco, California in the mid 1800s. I've been at a brick wall with him for over 5 years.  I have DNA matches (through Ancestry) on Jersey and Guernsey Islands. I do know through DNA that I have matched with Le Feuvre distant cousins.  If anyone on this thread is part of a DNA Ancestry project, please let me know and I can see if we are a match!  Thank you, Elizabeth Hamon

Hi Elizabeth,

I briefly looked through your previous thread.  Perhaps the following was mentioned, but I didn’t notice the items.

Have you tried contacting the Holy Names Cemetery office to see if there are any helpful details recorded in James’ burial records?  If not, possibly his exact birthplace was recorded and with luck there may be additional details.  I contacted the office several times when researching my husband’s relatives; the staff was always very polite and tried their best to help.

1849 was mentioned for his immigration date.  I have yet to find most of my ancestors sailing to North America.  You stated
“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.”
Perhaps I’ve just been unlucky with my ancestors but I think it’s more likely that his sailing would not be found rather than actually finding him on a passenger list.  Perhaps you checked Canadian passenger lists as well?

1896 James A Hamon, 133 Chestnut Street. Source: FindAGrave
California Voter Registration
1896 James Alphus Hamon, 133 Chestnut Street. Born England. Watchman. Naturalized: SF, Dec 14 1888
1890 James Nalphus Hamon, 2128 Stockton. Born Ireland. Reporter. Naturalized: SF, Dec 14 1888

1889 SF, California Directory
James Hamon. Location 2 - 133 Chestnut
Business Name - Merchauts' Exchange, Meigg's Wharf.  [Merchants’ rather than Merchauts’?]
Occupation - marine reporter

1887 San Francisco Directory
James A Hamon. 133 Chestnut.  Occupation - Master Mariner
Michael R. Carr.  133 Chestnut.  Occupation - Bartender
Philip Carr.  133 Chestnut.  Occupation - Weaver
Jacob Hamon.  1818 Steiner.  Occupation - Clerk

I just briefly searched, but I didn’t see any other results for Jacob Hamon, so possibly he was not related to James.

Added:  again, perhaps this was previously mentioned but could this be Delia’s father:
1887 San Francisco Directory
Thomas Carr, liquor saloon, r. 357 1/2 Clementina
   Perhaps Michael was his son, who worked in the saloon?

Good Morning Lisa,
Thank you for all your work here!
That's interesting about immigration - the 1 record I found is very inconclusive as it seems like some of the other potential sibling names/ages were incorrect as well.  This is the only information I have connecting him to Thomas/Caroline. 

The other information you have about James in San Francisco is all correct to my knowledge.  He was a sea captain, but then became a "marine reporter".  Thomas Carr died in 1871 so this would be a different Thomas Carr. 

I've had my DNA tested and Ancestry says that I have "very strong" DNA connection to the Channel Islands, so I am still certain that at least one of his parents came from that area.

I just looked on the Holy Cross Cemetary website. They will research your ancestors information for $35 so I am most likely going to try that to see if there is anything there!  I have looked for the marriage records between James and Delia in San Francisco, but have not found anything.  Any suggestions on where I might find these?  I think many were lost in the fire.  I do know that they were catholic.

Thank you for all your work - very much appreciated!

Elizabeth

Hello All,

I am still on a brick wall researching my great grandfather - James Alphus Hamon (1853-1896).  Through the research I've done and my Ancestory DNA, it seems he was born on Jersey Island abt. 1853.  He lived and died in San Francisco (where I am from) in 1896.  I have searched on Ancestry, My Heritage, Family Search, Jerripedia, Jersey Archives, and Find My Past and still, no luck.  My Grandfather's Name is Philip Thomas Hamon, so I think those names might be significant. I am also starting to think that he could have changed his name.  The name James Alpheus is very unique and rare and actually has history in the bible.  Who knows, maybe he was the creative type!  For many years I thought his father was Thomas Hamon (1815-?) and Caroline Cooper, but there is no confirmed evidence to support this. 

James was a mariner, I do know that. 

Any ideas/thoughts or suggestions of places to look would be appreciated.


Also, many records in San Francisco were lost in the fire of 1906, and this would have included birth and marriage records of my grandfather and great uncles and aunts, which makes this more challenging.

Thank you all!

Elizabeth Hamon

Here is the link to an earlier thread on this topic:

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=858524.0

There are a couple of family trees on geneanet for Suzanne Rachel Ereaut/Ereaux/Eraut/Erault but with a birth date/baptism date of 13 September, 1793 - St Helier, Jersey. Both trees show a marriage to Elias (Elie) Jean Coutanche 1789-1855 on 9 March, 1820, St Helier.

One gives parents as:
    
Clément EREAUX (ERAUT EREAULT EREAUT) †1829
 &   
Suzanne SOHIER 1767-1813

See here:

https://www.rootschat.com/links/01suo/

You can contact the tree owners via geneanet.

Their sources are listed.

Thank you for this. I have found a marriage certificate for Thomas and Suzanne - 1815 in St. Helier (I'm not sure if you will be able to see this)

https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61219/images/45219_1831109388_0434-00137?pId=900112561

I'll reach out to the family tree owners on Geneanet.  Thank you.

 

I did find the marriage record for Robert Cooper and Marguerite:

http://search.jerripediabmd.net/BMD_User/Marriage

It seems that she was the widow of Philippe Touzel.  I will check to see if she had any children with Philippe.