

A genealogist in Salt Lake City, Utah, being the most knowledgeable on researching early Germany, by the name of Trudy Schenk was hired by Dr. Jim Rose of California. During the interim, Dr. Rose had some telephone talks with her, more fully describing how the Phillip Hamman Family Assn. had long searched for the German location and ancestors of Phillip before he came to America in 1772. After many weeks of searching, Trudy Schenk provided us with all the following information to better connect her research with our Phillip Hamman. First, she found that Phillip Hamman and Peter Hamman had migrated to America from Kurnbach, Germany --- the same town that she herself had come from some years ago. The map location is Kurnbach, Bretten, Baden, Germany. German church records show that Phillip Hamman "disappeared from the church records of the parish in 1772", (which was trhe same year that he and his brother Peter arrived in America.). She also found that one of Phillip's brothers, Hans Peter Hamman, born 3 March 1748 came with Phillip on the boat SS Crawford, which landed in Philadelphia on October 16, 1772. But back in Germany, church records that our Johann Phillip Hammann had been married to Margaretha Bromm on January 23, 1770 and that they had one child (name unknown) and that the church record showed that the baby had a gold star by its name---this was the metoid used to show that the child had died. While there is no record of it, it is assued that Phillip's wife, Margaretha, died before he sailed to America. When he signed in at Morris & Willings Store in Philadephia, only the father's name or any group was signed, and neither wife nor children were listed. Trudy Schenk's researching also the names of Phillips parents and siblings.
From the Echo Hammonds Newspaper dated Spring of 2003, we now have some 8,500 proven descendants of our Phillip Hammann (as he spelled it upon arriving at Philadelphia Oct 16, 1772. Ralph Hammond of Arab, AL has a photo copy of tghe page where he signed allegiance to the Crown of England at Morris and Willings store where all foreigners were required to sign upon arrival at the port and the above spelling is the way he signed the document HAMMANN.
1715 |
March 29, 1715
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Kürnbach, Karlsruhe, BW, Germany
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1737 |
July 9, 1737
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Kurnbach, Bretten, Baden, Germany
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1738 |
September 27, 1738
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Kurnbach, Bretten, Baden, Germany
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1739 |
October 12, 1739
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Kurnbach, Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany
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1742 |
January 28, 1742
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Kurnbach, Bretten, Baden, Germany
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1744 |
May 10, 1744
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Kürnbach, Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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1746 |
February 23, 1746
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Kurnbach, Bretten, Baden, Germany
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1748 |
March 5, 1748
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Bretten, Karlsruhe, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
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1750 |
September 1750
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PA, United States
http://www.bellcountypubliclibraries.org/crm/hammons/germany.html Johannes Hodel, founder of the extensive Hottel-Huddle family in America
13-JOHANN JACOB HAMMANN (of Johann Georg #7) was born at Lachen, 18 Apr.
18-(1) JOHANN PETER HAMMANN, b. 19 Apr. 1733, 1787.
There is no record of Jacob's arrival in America, unless he is the Jacob
Jacob and his family were definitely settled in Lancaster County,
It is very likely that Anna Margaretha died in 1752 or 1753, after the
Jacob's oldest sons, Peter and Philip appear on the tax lists of Paradise
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