The Hamers in Mexico: family history

This site aims to provide information and material on the family of Job Hamer and his descendants.

Job was originally from Manchester in England, where he took up the profession of ‘Manchester Warehouseman’. As such he was a wholesaler of dry goods, with a focus on textiles. Manchester was the centre of the English textile trade in the middle of the 19th century.

Job’s work took him to Mexico on several occasions. We have records of a journey undertaken in 1865/6 in which Job or his business partner visited Cuba and Mexico to develop their business. An account of this trip is to be found on this site. Job eventually moved to Mexico permanently, probably in the 1880s. He set up a linen mill there, which prospered until the supply of European flax dried up in 1914.

This site is intended to gather together information about Job and his descendants.

If you happen to find this website and are a Hamer or related to this family, and you have information to share or would like access to archival material, please send an email to mj@urbancoot.uk (this is not a live link to avoid spam).

The photograph in the header can be seen in full here. It is a photo of Thurston Hamer‘s family, taken in the garden of the house at Calle Genova in Mexico City, probably c1920. Thurston (the first) and Rosita are in the foreground. Thurston II is seated just behind them. To the right we see Bobby and an unidentified woman. The seated women are Dorothy and Mades. On far left is Wilfred, with Jimmy in front of him.

 

Michael Johnson

London, England