HAMMEL, Sarah

   Another name for Sarah was CAMPBELL, Sarah.²

  General Notes:

A possible document for Sarah's death is this one, based only on the circumstantial evidence of it being about the right time, for we know Sarah's husband was a widower in 1861, and it being in Creena, a townland closely associated with the Rourkes, the family into which Sarah's daughter Margaret married:

"Church Burial Record

Name:Sarah Campbell
Date of Death:20/02/1853
Age:
Parish / District:DUNGANNON
Address:Creena
County:TYRONE
Status:
Denomination:
Registration District
Occupation:
Sex: Unknown
Graveyard:
Informant Relationship: Unknown
Parish:
Name:
County:
Address

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from www.rootsireland.ie

In the 1861 UK census for Shotts parish, Lanarkshire, Sarah's husband Patrick was described as a 'widower'. ^{1 2}

  Research Notes:

CREENA

"Then below the Yard coal is the Creena, of which there is 14 inches of very good cannel, giving a large quantity of oil; the total thickness of this seam is about 4 feet 6."

"There was also gas coal raised some years ago at a place called Creenagh, near Coal Island, by some Scotchmen, but they were not strong enough to keep the works going. The water was very hard to keep down, and they gave it up. The coal was used for making gas in this neighbourhood"

from Report from the Select committee on industries (Ireland) 1885 referring to types of coal in and around Coalisland

Creenagh: a townland of 465 acres, in Dungannon Middle barony, in the civil parish of Tullyniskan, Dungannon poor law union, County Tyrone Ireland

"Hamill

This popular Ulster name is most common in counties Antrim and Armagh and can be of Irish, Scottish or English origin, In England the name, originally Hamel, derives from the Old English word hamel, meaning ''scarred' or 'mutilated'.
In Scotland the name is of Norman territorial origin. The first of the name on record there was William de Hameville in thirteenth-century Annandale in Dumfriesshire. The name is well recorded in Lothian but was most common in Ayrshire and indeed, Hugh Hammill of Roughwood in Ayrshire was one of those who accompanied Montgomery of the Ards to Ulster.

However, already in Ulster at that time, the O'Hamills, Gaelic Ó hAghmaill, were one of the leading septs of the Cenél Binnigh, a brianch of the Cenél Eoghain. As such the O'Hamills claim descent from Binneach, son of Eoghan, son of the fifth-century Niall of the Nine Hostages, founder of the Uí Néill dynasty. The O'Hamills ruled a territory in south Tyrone and Armagh and from the twelfth century were poets and ollovs (learned men) to the powerful O'Hanlons. By the seventeenth century the name was most numerous in Armagh and Monaghan and by 1900 was also common in Louth. The prefix O' is now used only in Co. Derry, and there rarely. The name has also been made Hamilton in that Country and elsewhere."

from Ulster Ancestry ^{3 4 5}

Sarah married Patrick CAMPBELL, son of Daniel CAMPBELL and Mary McGOLDREN. (Patrick CAMPBELL was born about 1777 in Ireland ^{1 6} and died 29 April 1862 at 9.00am in Omoa Iron Works, Shotts Parish, Lanarksire, Scotland ^{1 7}.). The cause of his death was old age.