Ancestry of
Clare Eames

Silent Movie Actress

William Thomas Hamilton

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• • Grandfather of Clare Eames — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • Henry Hamilton 
  • Mother:
  • Anna Mary Magdalena Hess   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Sep 1820 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boonsboro, Washington, Maryland 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 26 Oct 1888 
  • Death Location:
  • Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Clara Holmes Jenness
  • Marriage Date:
  • 8 Sep 1859 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire 
  • Children:
  
  

  Richard Jenness Hamilton

  Julia H. Hamilton

  Clare Hamilton (Ahnentafel No:3 )

  Josephine Hamilton

  William T. Hamilton

  Leonore Hamilton

  • Notes: 

  • 38th Governor of Maryland

• Sources for William Thomas Hamilton

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/05/2024).
  • ² Membership Application to the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, Massachusetts and Salt Lake City, Utah (2019), General No. 087615.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1929, Vol. 83, pp. 181-182, Marriage of William T Hamilton and Clara H Jenness.
  • ⁴ New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1654-1969, Brides I-J-K to 1901, p. 4342, Marriage of William T Hamiton and Clara H Jenness.
  • ⁵ The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, Maryland), 25 NOV 1938, p. 5, Obituary for son-in-law Hayden Eames.
  • ⁶ Browning, Charles H., Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to . . ., 7th Ed., Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company (2000 reprint of 1911 edition), 528.
  • ⁷ Radoff, Morris Leon, The Old Line State, A History of Maryland: A Source Edition Recording the Early and Contemporary History of . . ., n. p.: Historical Record Association (1956), 439.
  • ⁸ Warfield, Joshua Dorsey, The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland: A Genealogical and Biographical Review . . ., Baltimore, Maryland: Kohn and Pollock (1905), 292-293.
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "William T. Hamilton", (accessed 03/13/2023).