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Thomas HAMMETT
1650 - 1723 (~ 72 years)
Has 5 ancestors and 22 descendants in this family tree.
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Name Thomas HAMMETT Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Baptised 19 Dec 1650 St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England 
- From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 13 Jul 2021)
"Thomas thedaughterson of Andrew Cleave i9th Decembr"
Gender Male Also known as Thomas CLEAVE Also known as Thomas HAMMETT Buried 15 Feb 1722/23 St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England - Two burials close in time, the other 2 Apr 1721 but the overseers accounts for 1722 suggest he was still living when the rate was collected that year so it must have been the later death.
Siblings3 brothers and 2 sisters Patriarch & Matriarch 
Andrew HAMETE, bur. 30 Apr 1618, St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England (Great Grandfather) 
Tamsin LONGWORTHY, b. Est 1620, bur. 7 Feb 1692/93, St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England (Age ~ 73 years) (Mother) Person ID I33098 All Last Modified 25 Jul 2021
Father Andrew HAMMETT, b. Est 1616, bur. 27 Sep 1691, St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England (Age ~ 75 years) Mother Tamsin LONGWORTHY, b. Est 1620, bur. 7 Feb 1692/93, St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England (Age ~ 73 years) Married 30 Sep 1646 St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England Family ID F2207 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family 1 Mary TOR, b. 8 Jun 1654, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England Married 23 Jun 1677 St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 13 Jul 2021)
"Thomas Hammett son of Andrew Hammett and M[rest of name hidden in centre fold of register] Tor daughter ^ of Antony Tor weare married the xx3th of June"
Thomas's family is not clear. It seems to me highly probable that Joseph was his son, despite the lack of a baptism record (see Joseph's birth notes for my thinking).
Thomasin is almost certainly his daughter or that of his brother Andrew.
Mary is unambiguously his.
But then there is Richard. a 14 year gap would be unusal but not impossible, and Mary Tor would have been towards the end of her child bearing years but at 46 it would not have been exceptional.
But could she have died and Thomas remarried? If his name had been mis-recorded as Emet rather than Hammett then there is a marriage in 1694 which could well be his. (there were Emets in the parish, and their name was not normally confused with that of the Hammett family, but there was obviously the potential to do so). However, I have not found a burial that could be that of his wife Mary née Tor. Since the 1694 marraige was also to a Mary the burial of a Mary who was probably his wife in 1627 could have been that of either.
(Richard bap 1699/1700 was clearly a Hammett alias Cleave, and not an Emet - the true Emet family do not seem to have used the alias - so his baptism can't be considered to be a mis-recording of an Emet as a Hammett)
There is a gap in the burial register between 20 Aug 1693 and 8 Apr 1697. I think it probable that Mary née Tor died in 1693 or 4. It was common then for remarriages to take place within a few months of a death.
Children3 children Last Modified 13 Jul 2021 Family ID F2200 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family 2 Mary ELFORD, bur. 6 Jul 1727, St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England Married 17 Sep 1694 St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 13 Jul 2021)
"6 Thomas Emet and Mary Elford ware married the 17th day of Septemb"
This couple seem likely to be the parents or Richard Cleave.
I have started, but not finished, looking at the Emmotts in Widecombe. The thought Hammett and Emmott (and variants beginnign H and E) might be all variants of the same name, but generally the names beginning E an those beginning H seem quite seperate, and no Emmot was ever described as alias Cleave.
However, I think Hammett and Emet may have been muddled on this occasion.
There is no sign of a marriage of a Thomas Hammett (or any variant sp beginning H) or of a Thomas Cleave (or variant sp), other than Thomas's first marriage and it seems unlikely that they would have had an eleven year gap between children.
There were several children of a Thomas Emmot baptised in Ashburton from 1695 on, but there was also a Thomas Emmet married in Buckfastleigh in 1694, with no children baptised there, so they were probably the parents of the Ashburton children.
There was, though, a Thoams Emott baptised in 1660, and the marriage could have been his.
Children + 1. Richard CLEAVE, [Mother?], bap. 18 Feb 1699/00, St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England , bur. 21 Aug 1767, St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England (Age ~ 67 years)▻ Mary TOLSHARD m. 17 Dec 1722Last Modified 13 Jul 2021 Family ID F2198 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 13 Jul 2021)
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Baptised - 19 Dec 1650 - St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England 
Married - 23 Jun 1677 - St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England Child - Mary HAMET - 15 Mar 1684/85 - St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England Married - 17 Sep 1694 - St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England Child - Richard CLEAVE, [Mother?] - 18 Feb 1699/00 - St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England Buried - 15 Feb 1722/23 - St. Pancras’ Church, Widecombe in the Moor, Devon, England = Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install) Pin Legend 
