Welcome to the history of the Hamer family in Mexico
Welcome to this site. I’m hoping to develop it as a site containing family history of the Hamers in Mexico. I’m hoping that posts will be made by other family members.
Who am I in relation to Job Hamer, the Hamer ancestor who took the family to Mexico? My name is Michael Johnson, and I am Job Hamer’s great-great grandson. My grandmother was born Dorothy Hamer, and her father was Thurston Hamer I, Job’s eldest son.
hi this is looking good.
Mmm. Great stuff! Hamers around the world…log in, chip in!
Who are the persons in the photo posted at the top of the website?
As stated on the home page: “The photograph in the header can be seen in full here[live link]. 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.”
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Material from this website has been used in an unattributed, unauthorised and selective way on a website called Sindoni Productions. The administrator of this website wishes to make it clear that it does not share, support or agree with the views expressed or the conclusions reached on that website. It would be interesting to know whether the Hamer family living in Stockton Ca. is related to the Mexico branch of the Hamer family, and any members of that family are welcome to contact us through this site.
My husband is Andrew Norman Hamer. His father was Norman Charles Hamer and grandfather was Norman Hamer. Norman Hamer was the youngest son of Job Hamer.
Thanks Holly. Interesting to know. I would be very interested in any family stories which your husband’s family may have handed down. Do you know anything about Norman Hamer I’s life? I presume he lived in Mexico at least for a while. The family dispersed during the Mexican Revolution. Some stayed in Mexico, but others went to Canada or the USA. Europe was not an attractive destination from 1914 onwards! Where did the Norman Hamers end up?
Hi Michael – I have an interesting story about Norman Hamer’s wife, Katharine Hayward Greenland, who was my great grandmother – my mother’s mother’s mother. Katharine died at age 91 in 1970, when I was 11. According to my grandmother, Margaret “Peggy” Hubbard, Katharine was ahead of her time as an accomplished and independent woman. She was an illustrator of children’s books with some sucess. Although she dated many boys and was very sociable and ‘fun’, she didn’t settle down until she was in her late 20’s or early 30’s, and even then it might have been partly that she was finally feeling some of society’s pressures. She had various men interested in marrying her but somehow settled on a gentleman who had a business in Mexico. I don’t know how well she knew him, I believe they met in the area of Syracuse New York where she was living, then he headed down to Mexico with the plan that she would meet him there. So she got on a boat in New York City accompanied by her younger brother, who was going to work for the new husband in Mexico. However, while on the journey, Katharine met Norman Hamer, who was coming from England also bound for Mexico and they fell in love. By the time the boat arrived, they had decided to get married, and she made her brother break the unexpected news to her fiance (the brother did still get to keep the job).
Katharine and Norman lived in Mexico City near the Zolcalo, and Norman worked at the Hacienda in Cuernavaca. While in Mexico, Katharine gave birth to my grandmother, and within two years a 2nd daughter, Anne. However, Katharine didn’t like living in Mexico and missed the Northeast. Being the independent person she was, she decided to take the girls and go back to the US essentially getting a divorce.
She ended out moving to Pittsfield MA where I understand she had grown up, where she ended out marrying a Louis Froelick, who adopted my grandmother and her sister, and they also had a boy together. She lived her last years in my grandmother’s house.
Unfortunately, I have never known anything about Norman himself, but I would like to. Coincidentally, for various reasons I have ended out visiting Mexico a good 20 times in my life between the ages of 13 and 55, often in and near Mexico City. I meant to look up Hamers when I was there, but never did it. The one thing I did do, about 15 years ago, is find the hacienda, on one of the two kitty corner town squares in Cuernavaca, identifying it only from a photograph my grandmother had taken many years earlier. It was not so grand at that point, chopped into many little stores.
HOLA FAMILIA !
Yo soy Nancy Linda Hamer, hija de Reginald Stuart Hamer Noad, nieta de Walter Hamer Turnbull, bisnieta de Geofrrey Holt Hamer, uno de los hijos menores de Job Hamer Higginbottom , mi tatarabuelo
Vivo en Acapulco y mi hijo es Francisco Vela Hamer.
Tengo una media-hermana, Jennifer Victoria Hamer Bello.
nancy_hamer@yahoo.com.mx
Hola Nancy!
Bienvenida al website del los Hamers en Mexico. Agradeceremos tus recuerdos y fotos de tus padres, abuelos, etc. El sitio nos pertenece a todos los descendientes de Job Hamer. Yo soy Michael Johnson, nieto de Dorothy Hamer Golding y bisnieto de Thurston Hamer Moseley. Vivo en Londres, Inglaterra.
Hi Michael,
I knew Nancy Hamer in Mexico City in the Sixties…
Is this the same family?
Best regards
Paul KENNEDY
Hello Paul. I asked Nancy Hamer about your query, and she confirms that she is indeed the same person.
I remember Walter Emmanuel Turnbull visiting our family in Dorchester UK and telling us colourful stories over the lunch table. He was a cousin of my grandmother, Eveline J.A. Parke (nee Lees) 1871-1961,whose mother was Bernarda Maria Elisa Lees (nee Turnbull). He did mention to my mother the possibility of working my passage in my late ‘teens’ as a deck hand on one of the United Fruit Cos’ banana boats as he had been a director but presumably retired by then. More fool me that I didn’t take up the offer as I was studying for A level exams (mediocre results!). My 2 x gt.grandmother (Bernarda Turnbull’s mother) was Bernarda Mejia whose brother, Gen.Ignacio Mejia (1814-1906) was Minister of War and Marine under President Juarez.