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Record #4665

Name :: : Tom HAMMOND (1861 - )
Father: :
Mother: :

BMD and other details

Date of Birth: : 1861 (approx.)
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: :

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland

Abode (2) : Place of Death / Burial

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: :
Country: : Canada
Ship: : - Unknown -
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Unknown

NotesWithout him Fegan's Homes may never have existed.

It was while out one evening preaching that Mr James William Condell Fegan noticed a group of dirty, scantily dressed and barefooted boys sitting on a kerb near to where he was standing. As the boys got up to leave, Fegan felt compelled to follow them, until they turned down a narrow alley and entered a shabby building. It had the name The Ragged School. He himself entered that building and was greeted by array of faces, all asking him to teach them. So James Fegan had his first contact with the first of a great many poor boys whom he would spend his life helping. He taught the boys and even spent Sunday evenings working with them. But soon his health started to suffer; coping with the hustle and bustle of commercial life and then devoting most evenings working with the boys, his health deteriorated and went to the seaside resort of Bognor Regis to re-couperate.

When in September 1871, Mr. Fegan was at the Bognor seaside resort, his health was completely restored. While he was taking an afternoon stroll on the beach, a gust of wind blew a lady's hat off into the sea. As she sobbed out her loss to the small group that had formed around her, a small boy worked his way to the middle to find out what was wrong. Then before anyone could stop him, he walked out into the sea to retrieve the hat. When he had collected his reward off he went.

Mr Fegan followed this small boy till he was able to talk to him. Poor Tom had no father or mother, there was no one to look after him. He was trying to make ends meet on what he could get from the holiday visitors.

Tom was invited to join Mr Fegan at his lodgings the next morning for breakfast. Tom consented to accompany Mr Fegan to London. Later that day some kind ladies purchased him some clothes.
The following afternoon at the appointed time for their return to London, Tom appeared with a large flat fish basket, with a rolled up old print apron in it . It was put to Tom that he should leave the basket behind. He was told that he would never need these things again.

A tear sparked in his eyes and his voice faltered with emotion. He replied "No sir, I'll stay behind , but I won't leave them! They're all I have got left of my poor mother's. This is the basket she sold her water cresses in at Portsmouth, and that's her apron." The landlady had sold all of the other things they had, to pay off what was due on the rent. It was agreed that Tom could keep his basket with him.

Mr Fegan and Tom walked to the train station to get the London train. As the train sped on its way to London, Tom got quite carried away with it all. At one time he rushed across the compartment to where Mr Fegan was sitting; then dragging him over to the window, pointed out some thing of interest to him. Tom was far too excited to sit still for long and this provoked some angry words. At last Tom crawled under a seat and went to sleep till they arrived at London.

James Fegan looked after Tom until he could organize a place in an institution. Here the boy spent eighteen months before being sent to Canada to start a new life.

This was the start of Tom Hammond's new life and the start of what was called, in Stony Stratford, Fegan's Orphanage. (copyright WATLING WAY MIDDLE SCHOOL CLUTCH CLUB
at the Watling Way Middle School, Stony Stratford, MK, UK., {website}clutch.open.ac.uk/schools/watlingway99/home.html)

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Surnames starting with: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 30 Entries

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ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links
3052	ABBOTT, Alfred	1893	ENG,	Mar 1911 : Grampian	CAN	Unknown
3053	ABBOTT, Arthur	1866	ENG,	Jun 1884 : Sarmatian	CAN	Unknown
3029	ABBOTT, Edward	1863	ENG, LIN, Bourne	Jun 1882 : Dominion	CAN	Unknown
3031	ABBOTT, Ernest	1865	ENG,	Nov 1882 : Parisian	CAN	Unknown
3044	ABBOTT, John	1855	ENG,	Apr 1871 : Peruvian	CAN	Unknown
8435	ABBOTT, Sidney	1888	ENG,	Sep 1903 : Bavarian	CAN	Unknown
3008	ABBOTT, Thomas	1865	IRL,	Sep 1876 : Waldensian	CAN	Unknown
3062	ABEL, Abraham	1892	WAL, , Newport	Apr 1908 : Kensington	CAN	Unknown
3072	ABELL, John J.	1866	ENG,	Feb 1883 : Circassian	CAN	Unknown
3073	ABELL, William	1867	ENG,	Feb 1883 : Circassian	CAN	Unknown
3076	ABERCROMBIE, William	1855	SCT, LKS, Glasgow	Aug 1872 : St. Andrew	CAN	Unknown
3096	ABRAHAMS, Nathan	1895	ENG,	Aug 1912 : Victorian	CAN	Unknown
3101	ABRAMS, Ada	1894	ENG, ESS, West Ham	May 1912 : Tunisian	CAN	Unknown
3106	ABSALOM, Richard	1874	ENG, SRY, Cobham	Apr 1890 : Sardinian	CAN	Unknown
18027	ADAMS, Albert	1894	ENG,	May 1911 : Corinthian	CAN	Unknown
22545	ADAMS, Henry William	1898	ENG,	Mar 1912 : Dominion	CAN	Unknown
9983	ADDYMAN, William Ernest Henry	1890	ENG, KEN, Plumstead	Jul 1901 : Cambroman	CAN	Unknown
6417	ALEXANDER, Charles	1894	SCT,	Oct 1910 : Cassandra	CAN	Unknown
22544	ALLAN, Alexander D	1912	ENG,	May 1927 : Metagama	CAN	Unknown
22784	ALLAN, Betsy	1873	ENG,	Aug 1879 : Canadian	CAN	Unknown
14909	ALSOP, Reginald A	1891	ENG, ESS, Epping	Nov 1896 : Laurentian	CAN	Unknown
22107	ALTRIDGE, George	1917	IRL,	Apr 1932 : Duchess of Richmond	CAN	Unknown
9593	ARUNDALE, Jessie	1873	ENG,	Oct 1882 : Sarmatian	CAN	Unknown
18400	ATKINSON, Charles	1911	ENG,	Mar 1929 : Duchess of Richmond	CAN	Unknown
4065	BAILEY, Ernest G.	1895	ENG,	May 1912 : Virginian	CAN	Unknown
22722	BAIN, Gertrude	1922	SCT, , Aberdeen	Apr 1946 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
15592	BAKER, Eva L		ENG,	- Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
15767	BAKER, Horace	1876	ENG,	1889 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
22015	BAMSEY, Joseph Frank	1892	ENG, , Devon	- Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
18463	BARNES, A M	1880	ENG,	May 1896 : Scotsman	CAN	Unknown
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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