Hamel
Four generations of Duhamels in 1912. Julia Mary Ann Duhamel, nee Woolstenhulme, her daughter Valina Larsen, granddaughter Viola Peterson, and baby Thelma
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Origin of Surname
This French surname was originally given to someone who lived in a hamlet. There was also a medieval personal name 'Hamel', derived from the germanic Hamilo, diminuitive of Hamo
Early records
The name was known in Jersey in the 17th century, but appears to have died out until some two centuries later, when Pierre Hamel brought his family from St Remy des Landes in Manche, Normandy, and settled in Jersey in the early 19th century. In 2014 there were nine Hamel households listed in the Jersey telephone directory.
Variants
- Duhamel
- Hamel
- du Hamel
Family records
Family trees
- Pierre Hamel: 18th-21st centuries
- Jean Duhamel: 18th-20th centuries
- Thomas Duhame: 18th-20th centuriesl
Church records
Hamel
- Hamel baptisms in Jersey
- Hamel marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Hamel marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Hamel burials in Jersey
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- Duhamel baptisms in Jersey
- Duhamel marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Duhamel marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Duhamel burials in Jersey
Great War service
- Louis Duhamel (St H), Private, Royal Irish Regiment
- Clarence Pierre Hamel (1897- ) (St B) son of Pierre and Mabel Florence, Private, RAOC
Family wills
These wills created by members of the Duhamel family are now held by Jersey Archive. By visiting the archive site and using the names, dates and reference numbers shown here, it is possible to view a copy of each will. You will have to subscribe to the Archive's online service to do this. To find out more about this collection, which covers the period from 1663 to 1948, and how to search for your family's wills there, visit our Jersey wills page
- Anne Duhamel of St Helier, widow - 28 October 1867, D/Y/A/33
- George Duhamel, 6 Charing Cross, St Helier - 4 April 1895, D/Y/A/54
- Marie Duhamel of St Helier, temporarily of Lewscombe, England, widow of George Hélier Horman - 9 January 1888, D/Y/A/47
- Susan Duhamel, St Saviour - 11 October 1946, D/Y/A/116
- Thomas Duhamel of St Helier 21 November 1839 - D/Y/A/24
- Thomas Duhamel of St Helier, bequeaths to the poor of St Helier, 10s 22 April 1845 - D/Y/A/26
- John Hamel, St Helier - 7 July 1927, D/Y/A/87
Burial records
Family homes
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In 1805 Jean Duhamel advertised for sale his house in front of Jean Valpy dit Janvrin’s
Family album
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Laura (Eleonore) nee Hamel, with her husband Thomas Woodward, said to be wearing Great War uniform. But why? He was in his 50s at the time of the war. Laura was born in St Saviour in 1854, the daughter of Francois Pierre Hamel (1816-1905) and Euphrasie Marie Josephine Le Petit dit Boucher (1826-1869). Thomas Woodward was born in Hull in 1859. -
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Laura Hamel -
Laura Hamel -
Laura Hamel -
Laura Hamel and grandson -
Woodward-Hamel marriage -
Laura Woodward, nee Hamel -
Mary Barret, nee Hamel -
Philip Hamel -
Frank Hamel -
Hamel and Woodward family -
Thomas and Laura Woodward -
Thomas and Laura woodword -
Thomas Woodward added to family portrait
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Mary Honorine Hamel -
Laura Woodward, nee Hamel -
Sisters Laura Woodward and Mary Barrett, nee Hamel -
Laura Woodward, nee Hamel, with grandson Gerald -
Philip and Mary Hamel -
Frank Hamel, photographed by T Price, of Jersey -
Philip Hamel in Biggar, Saskatchewan -
Frank Hamel -
Frank and Alice Hamel -
Francois Hamel and his second wife, Celestine -
Francois Hamel -
Hamel family in St Peter's Valley in 1922 -
Vernon Hamel -
Siblings Cristabel and Vernon Hamel (1920-1983) in Walter Lamy's motorcycle sidecar in the 1930s, probably near Pont Marquet House, the Hamel home -
Another picture of the Hamel siblings with Walter Lamy -
Olive and Christabel Hamel -
Felice Mazier, nee Hamel -
Postcard sent to George James Duhamel, of 4 Minden Place, in 1905
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Family businesses
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G J Duhamel took over Amy and Co's wallpaper business in Minden Place. This was not, as previously indicated, George James Duhamel, the son of George and Mary Ann Downey. The George James Duhamel who lived and was in business in Minden Place was born in 1860, the son of George Daniel Duhamel. Our family trees previously suggested that the George James Duhamels were the same person, but it has now been established that this was not the case, and that there were two men with the same names living at the same time. -
1887 advert from L'Almanach de la Gazette de Jersey -
T and P Duhamel were selling butter and coffee at their quayside shop in 1825 -
T and P Duhamel had rum for sale in 1808 at their house on the quay … -
… a further advert offered a range of groceries
Family gravestones
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