HAMMOND, Ellen Clare

1862 - 1926

As Ellen Clare Scott, she was born at Arlesey, Bedfordshire in 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.