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Isaac Hammond and the Steyning Riot of 1835, by Kevin Hammond, published March 1997 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 5, article, pp.193-195) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508812] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Isaac Hammond was born in 1787 and married Tabitha Connock at Preston Plucknett in Somerset. Under Poor Law Relief he and his family were removed to Steyning in 1812. Description of events leading to the Steyning riot in 1835 and Isaac's roll in it are described for which he was imprisoned at Petworth for three months.

A Letter from Sussex to the USA, by Marlene Ricci, published September 1997 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 7, article, p.267) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508814] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Letter from Harriet Hammond to her Uncle James Lester Hammond in 1879

The Hamond or Hammond of Battle, by The Reverend Richard Miller, published March 1998 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 13 no. 1, article, pp.25-27) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14880] & The Keep [LIB/508816] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The Hammond family is prominent in Battle for eight generations from Hamo in 1252 to Richard in 1488.  After a hundred years another six generations are traced in Battle from John in 1636 to Charles in 1890.

And it still goes on?, by T.V. (Thea Valentine?), published December 1998 in Midhurst Magazine (Volume 11 Number 2, article, pp.37-38, Winter 1998) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15969]

Annoucement in the 1797 Sussex Weekly Advertiser of two forthcoming cock fights.

Hammond Family Connection with Sussex Mills, by Robin Jones, published 2004 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 34, article, pp.19-25, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506532]   Download PDF

This article is the result correspondence from Mrs. Josephine Potten and her son Ray of Hove, and from Miss E. Mary Selina Hammond of St Albans who are members of the Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society, and are also related to Charles Edwin Hammond who on 7 May 1873 took out a patent for a centrifugal governing mechanism to control the speed of the sweeps of a windmill, one example being incorporated in the mill at Windmill Hill. As this information was too comprehensive for the Newsletter, I have put together the following article from the correspondence received and associated documentation.