Archival material
I have a certain amount of archival material, some of which is accessible via this website, and others which would require an emailed request.
Job Hamer’s ancestors
Census transcriptions
1841 census showing Job living with his father John and mother Mary in Old Meadows, Bury
Other
Marriage register entry for John Hamer and Mary Higginbottom Nov 17th 1813
Job Hamer
Census transcriptions
- 1841 census showing Job living with his father John and mother Mary in Old Meadows, Bury
- 1841 census showing Mary Moseley living with her mother Elizabeth in Kelsall, Cheshire
- 1871 census showing Job and family resident at Sherfin House, Henheads,
- 1881 census showing Job and family resident in Kilmalcolm Scotland
Other
Marriage certificate of Job Hamer and Mary Moseley 1860
OS map extract of Henheads area 1844 and 1945
Mexican ‘Acta’ of the ‘Registro Civil’ dated Oct 7th 1905 recording Job’s death in Cuernavaca and giving permission for his body to be interred in the British Cemetery in Mexico City.
Thurston Hamer
Census transcriptions
- 1871 census transcription, Thurston staying with grandmother Elizabeth Sudlow (who had remarried) in Lower Carden, Cheshire
Other
Thurston Hamer birth certificate 1861
Thurston Hamer’s letter from Lima in 1881
Letter from Thurston Hamer II dated 18/8/1914 from Val Morin, Quebec
Letter from Geoffrey Hamer to Thurston dated 4/1/1915 from Mexico
Letter from Geoffrey Hamer to Thurston dated 15/1/1920 from Mexico
Letter from Geoffrey Hamer to Thurston dated 28/09/1920 from Mexico DF
La Linera
La Linera balance sheet 1901
Letter from G Hamer to Thurston announcing closure of linen mill due to lack of flax, Jan 1915
Letter from G Hamer to Thurston telling him of switch to cotton, Jan 1920
Scans of selected pages of De La Fosse’s “The First Hundred Years: British Industry and Commerce in Mexico: 1821 – 1921” published by the Instituto Anglo-Mexicano de Cultura