Hie Hatton (Lamon) Bible

1 Hie Hatton (Lamon) Bible GSP Bible Records Collection One of an Occasional Series Kay Haviland Freilich, CG* Family Record [Page 677] Marriages [Nothing is recorded on this page.] [Page 678, first column] Births Eliza Lamon was bom in Ballygan County Antrim Ireland August 7th 1799. Robert Lamon was bom in Ballygan C° Antrim Ireland May 7 1803. Thomas L. Hatton was born Phil* April 6th 1831. Hugh Hatton was born in Phila December 6th 1832. Catherine Ann Hatton was born November 25th 1836. i Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments; Apocrypha: Together with the translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by the special command of His Majesty King fames I of England. With marginal notes and references to which are added an index; an alphabetical table of all the names in the Old and New Testaments, with their significations, tables of scripture weights, measures, and coins. Embellished with maps and historical engravings. (Philadelphia: John Grigg, No. 9 North Fourth Street, 1829). The family pages were donated by Miss Elsie M. Smith, 4101 Spruce Street, Philadelphia 4, Pa., in May 1962. *Editor,s Note: Kay Haviland Freilich, CG, is Book Review Editor of the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, a director of the Federation of Genealogical Societies, and former secretary of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. 368 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 369 Albert Augustus Hatton was born August 30th 1854. Hugh L. Hatton was bom July 13th 1857. John A. Hatton was bom September 8th 1859. Thomas Elsworth Hatton was born October 2 1861. [second handwriting] Mary Catharine Hatton was bom September 4, 1865. [second handwriting, different pen] [Following two entries are crossed out] Andrew Hazlet Hatton was bom August the 7th 1873. George Washington Hatton was born October 10th Centennial Year 1876. [Page 678, second column] Andrew Hazlet Hatton was bom [September 7, 1874] [date crossed out and August 7 1873 written below]. George Washington Hatton was bom October 10lh 1876. Centen¬ nial Year 1876. Eliza May Hatton was born May 2nd 1879. Mary Emma Hatton was born February 29, 1879. [in third handwriting] C. Elmer Smith born Jan 2nd 1883. Elsie M. Smith born April 20th 1885. [Page 679] Births and Deaths [Nothing is recorded on this page.] [Page 680, first column] Deaths [in first handwriting] Eliza Hatton died 27th day of March 1854 [4 crossed out, 3 written after.] Thomas L. Hatton was wounded in the Battle at Malvern Hill Va and died of his wound July 4th 1862. Albert Augustus Hatton was killed on the North Pa RailRoad Janu¬ ary 14th 1863. [in second handwriting] Elmira Dickson died Feb 7th 1874 aged 38. Albert A. Arick died Dec. 26th 1877 aged 48. a- ■ -I S70 The Hatton (Lamon) Bible Mary Emma Hatton died August 13th 1879 aged 6 months and 15 days. [in second handwriting, different ink] George W. Hatton died Dec. 11th 1880 aged 4 yrs and 2 months [Page 680, second column] Catharine A. Hatton died March 19th 1887. John Arick died Dec. 24/Jan. 14th 1892. [in third handwriting] James Wood Smith Feb 19, 1926. Mary Katherine Hatton died Jan. 12, 1933. The remaining pages appear to be from a different Bible.The border on the pages differs from that of the previous pages. First page Deaths [Nothing recorded.] Memorandums [written in second hand] Eliza Lamon was bom in Ballygan County Antrim Ireland August 7th 1799. Robert Lamon was born in Ballygan County Antrim Ireland May [illegible] Second page Marriages [Nothing recorded.] Births Thomas L. Hatton was bom in Philadelphia April 6th Eighteen hundred and Thirty-one. Hugh Hatton was born in Philadelphia December 6th 1832. Research in various Philadelphia records confirm that several of the individuals mentioned in the Hatton (Lamon) Bible were Philadelphia residents. Living in Kensington when the 1850 census was taken were Robert Lemmen (sir), age 46, a watchman born in Ireland, and Elizabeth Lem- The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 371 men, age 49, also born in Ireland. Completing the household was Thomas, age 19, who drove a wagon and was bom in Pennsylvania.2 Eliza Hatton was buried at Odd Fellows Cemetery in Philadelphia on 29 March 1854, At the time of her death she was in her 55th year. Rela¬ tives and friends from Hope Union No. 43, Wreath of Friendship En¬ campment and Miriam Grove No. 1 were invited to attend the funeral from her late residence on Wistar above George.® Robert Lamon died of cholera in Philadelphia on 1 July 1855 at the age of 52 and was buried in the Franklin CBC Cemetery.* Thomas Hatton and Catherine [ ? ] were married about 1853 and in 1860 were living in Philadelphia with their three young sons: Albert, age 6; Hugh, age 5; and John, age 10 months. Thomas, age 29, was a salesman and no occupation was listed for Catherine, age 24.® Unmar¬ ried in 1860, Hugh Hatton was working as a blacksmith and living in the same neighborhood as his brother Robert.® On 23 July 1861 Thomas was mustered into Company D of Pennsyl¬ vania’s 82nd Regiment, enlisting at Philadelphia for three years. The unit arrived at the James River in Virginia on 30 June 1862 and spent the next morning behind a rail fence under severe shelling. That after¬ noon the unit was ordered to advance across a field, again under heavy artillery fire. When the enemy fire finally slackened late in the evening, the unit joined the retreat to Harrison’s Landing. Regimental losses at what was called the Battle of Malvern Hill were severe. Thomas, by then a sergeant, died on 5 July 1862 of wound received 1 July/ —— Lemmen household, 1850 census, population schedule, Philadelphia County, Pa., Kensington, 2nd Ward, page 111, dwelling 821, family 949, taken 10 August 1850; National Archives micropublication M432, roll 806. 3 Public Ledger , Philadelphia, Pa., Wednesday, 29 March 1854, page 2, column 3. 4WPA Index to Cemetery Returns, City of Philadelphia. Microfilm XR499 at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania Library. Thomas Hatton household, 1 860 census, population schedule, Philadelphia County, Pa., Ward 17 (eastern part), dwelling 1605, family 1717, page 731, dated 27 June 1860; NARAM653, roll 1167. ratrick Welsh household, 1860 census, Philadelphia County, Pa., population schedule, Ward 17 (eastern part), dwelling 1612, family 1724, page 732, dated 28 June 1860; NARA M653, roll 1167. 'Samuel P. Bates, History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, J 861-5: Prepared in Compliance with Acts of the Legislature (1869; reprint Wilmington, N.C.: Broadfoot Publishing Co., 1993), 4:1221 for Hatton information, 4;1204-5 for battle description. 372 The Hatton (Lamon) Bible By 1870, Hugh Hatton was living with wife Kate and four children in Philadelphia. Two children five-year-old Kate and nine-year-old Tho¬ mas were born in the last decade. Also in the household were Hugh, age 13, and John, age 11,8 By 1880 these children were still members of the Hugh-Catherine household. They had been joined by H. Andrew, age 7; W, George, age 4; and M. Eliza, age 1. All were identified as sons or daughters of Hugh and Catherine.9 — Comments Sometimes our research seems to raise more questions than it an¬ swers. Such is the case with the study thus far of the individuals named in the Hatton (Lamon) Bible. Eliza Hatton, who was buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery, is of the correct age to be Eliza Lamon of the Bible. But what happened to Robert Lamon who was born in 1803? Was he the same person who was buried in Franklin Cemetery in 1855? Again the ages agree. When did Eliza’s surname become Hatton rather than Lamon? Records for the younger generation are also puzzling. Both Thomas and Hugh Hatton appear to have married women named Catherine or Kate or perhaps Hugh married his brother’s widow. She may be the Catherine Ann Hatton identified in the Bible. The older children in Hugh’s 1870 household 13-year-old Hugh and 11-year-old John ap¬ pear to be the same children found in Thomas’s 1860 family. They are still with Hugh and Catherine in 1880. — — — With a city as rich in records as Philadelphia is, the answers to these questions and any other raised by the Bible record, are probably avail¬ able for the price of some time and research. If a descendant solves more puzzles of the Hatton/ Lamon past, we hope the answers will be shared with GSP. ®Hugh Hatton household, 1870 census, population schedule, first enumeration, Phila¬ delphia County, Pa., Ward 17, 57th district, dwelling 7751, family 981, page 61, dated 29 June 1870, NARA M593, roll 1402. nugh Hatton soundex entry for 1880 census, code H350, Pennsylvania; NARAT769, roll 6$. (Reference: Vol. 73, ED 478, sheet 16, line 47, Philadelphia County, 30 Church.)