HAMMOND, Ellen Clare

1862 - 1926

As Ellen Clare Scott, she was born at Arlesey Rectory, Bedfordshire on 15 July 1861 and baptised on 11 August 1861, daughter of Revd Richard Folliott Scott (5 December 1835-10 May 1881) and his wife Emily Anne Hammond (1831-1880), third daughter of Charles Hammond (1783-1837) of Newmarket, who married at All Saints' Church, Newmarket on 26 April 1859. Ellen married at Arlesley Parish Church on 16 October 1889, her cousin Henry Lewis Hammond (1859-10 February 1923), banker, of Newmarket, who was the second son of Charles Eaton Hammond. As Mrs L. Hammond of Thurston, she exhibited a watercolour at the third Suffolk Art and Aid Association exhibition held at The Athenaeum, Bury St Edmund's on 23 October 1908. In 1911, a 49-year-old, living at Planch House, Thurston, Bury St Edmund's with her 52-year-old husband Henry Lewis, and they retained four servants. Ellen Clare Hammond died at Planch House, Thurston on 24 January 1926, aged 64, they had no issue.