Person:Grace Hammond (1)

Grace Hammond was baptised on 13th July 1795 at South Bersted in Sussex, daughter of Sarah Hammond, formerly Stocker, and her husband George Hammond, a blacksmith. Grace was the youngest of their eight children.

Grace’s mother died in 1827 and her father died in 1836.

By 1841 Grace was living with her sister Elizabeth and her husband in the town of Littlehampton, about seven miles along the coast from South Bersted.

On 9th August 1846, aged 51, Grace married a tailor called John Wright at Littlehampton. He was a widower, with one adult son from his first marriage.

The 1851 census finds Grace and John living in the parish of Lyminster (often spelled Leominster at the time) just north of Littlehampton, with John described as a licensed victualler. They were listed in the census immediately before the household of a station clerk, and later records describe John as being the publican of the Locomotive Inn, which had been built next to the Arundel and Littlehampton railway station which had opened in 1846 on the line from Brighton to Chichester.

Grace died in 1857, aged about 62. She was buried at Lyminster on 2nd July 1857. John survived her by nearly nine years.

1. ↑ Church of England. Parish Church of South Bersted (Sussex). Parish registers of South Bersted, 1564-1904. (Chichester: West Sussex County Council).

   Baptisms / 1795 / July 13th / Grace; Daughter of George & Sarah Hammond

2. ↑ England. 1841 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class HO107; Piece 1093; Book 6; Folio 23; Page 3, 6 Jun 1841.

   Address: River Road, Littlehampton, Sussex
   Cha[rle]s Willshear, male, 50 [1786-91], Baker, born in county
   Eliza Willshear, female, 50 [1786-91], born in county
   Grace Hammond, female, 40 [1796-1801], born in county
   William Butt, male, 8 [1832/3], born in county
   George Badger, male, 25 [1811-16], J[?], born in county
   Will[ia]m Randal, 13 [1827/8], Shop B[oy], born in county

3. ↑ England. 1851 Census Returns for England and Wales. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class HO107; Piece 1651; Folio 408; Page 18, 30 Mar 1851.

   Address: Leominster, Sussex
   John Wright, head, married, male, 50 [1800/1], Licensed Victualler, b. Rottingdean, Sussex
   Grace Wright, wife, married, female, 53 [1797/8], b. Southbersted, Sussex
   Henry Hazell, unmarried, male, 40 [1810/11], Pot Boy, b. Ealing, Middlesex

4.   Deaths index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   d. Grace WRIGHT, June Quarter 1857, Worthing Registration District, Volume 2b, page 163, aged 62 [1795/6]

5. ↑ Burials register, in Church of England. Parish Church of Lyminster (Sussex). Parish registers of Lyminster, 1566-1901. (Chichester: West Sussex County Council).

   BURIALS in the Parish of Leominster in the County of Sussex in the Year 1857
   No	Name	Abode	When buried	Age	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   608	Grace Wright	Leominster	1857 July 2d	62 [1794/5]	M. Ewaght