Origins of surname
This is an English West Country name with Norman French orgins. It is derived from the Norman personal name Hamon (also now a surname).
Early records
The name has been present in Jersey since 1814, but there is confusion between the St Helier marriage and baptism records. George Hamling and Elizabeth Hayter were married in the parish in 1814, but the baptism register shows eight children of 'George and Edith' from 1815 onwards.
The 1841 census, never the most accurate of sources, shows the couple as George and Eliza.
At the same time (between 1815 and 1831) John Hamling and his wife Margaret had eleven children baptised in St Helier. As the tree below shows, we have now satisfied ourselves that John and George Hamling were brothers.
Variants
- Hamlin
- Hamling
- Hamelin, from France, not England, with a different derivation, and treated as a separate family
Family records
Family trees
Church records
- Hamling baptisms in Jersey
- Hamling marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Hamling marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Hamling burials in Jersey
Great War service
- Arthur George Spencer Hamling (1895- ) (St H) son of John and Jane, Sapper, Canadian Engineers
Family wills
These wills created by members of the Hamling family are now held by Jersey Archive. By visiting the archive site and using the names, dates and reference numbers shown here, it is possible to view a copy of each will. You will have to subscribe to the Archive's online service to do this. To find out more about this collection, which covers the period from 1663 to 1980, and how to search for your family's wills there, visit our Jersey wills page
- George Hamling of Wellawatta, First Tower - 14 March 1928, D/Y/A/88
- John Hamling, 2 Les Vaux Villas, Town Mills 14 September 1917 - 21 November 1925, D/Y/A/85
Burial records
Tips
The church record links above will open in a new tab in your browser and generate the most up-to-date list of each set of records from our database. These lists replace earlier Family page baptism lists, which were not regularly updated. They have the added advantage that they produce a chronological listing for the family name in all parishes, so you do not have to search through A-Z indexes, parish by parish.
We have included some important spelling variants on some family pages, but it may be worth searching for records for a different spelling variant. Think of searching for variants with or without a prefix, such as Le or De. To search for further variants, or for any other family name, just click on the appropriate link below for the first letter of the family name, and a new tab will open, giving you the option to choose baptism, marriage or burial records. You will then see a list of available names for that type of record and you can select any name from that list. That will display all records of the chosen type for that family name, and you can narrow the search by adding a given name, selecting a parish or setting start and end dates in the form you will see above. You can also change the family name, or search for a partial name if you are not certain of the spelling
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New records
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