if the immigrant couldn’t write their name, the officer just went by phonetics

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Everyone in Europe has a family crest lol

Or at least in Ireland and the UK

Not sure about the rest of Europe if I'm to be totally honest

But half of them are fakes anyway that are just used to sell merch to Americans

In France only names with "de" are nobility

De Bourbon
De Valois

Etc, that's how their titles work

In Ireland and Scotland we have clan names so somebody with any name was once a noble

So there was once a McCarthy Mór who was top dog of a given sept of that clan

While there were also plenty of McCarthy's who were manual labourers

In England so far as I'm aware the rules regarding heraldry are still quite strict but most all native names will have some at this point

Even dirt common names like Smith, Mason and Baker do

Well yeah they're real but far from rare lol

Of course it depends which Hammond's and how far back you're talking as well

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A lot of names in Ireland and the UK have a few origins

Like Robinson's from Scotland descend from clan Gunni, who were Vikings, or from a random lad called Robin, or even from a Jewish origin from "Rabin"

Hammond is not Anglo Saxon anyway anything ending in "mond" is Norman French origin so far as I can remember

True

Every family has its chads and it's disappointments

I'd focus on my families American history if I were you tbh, you're unlikely to find your English ancestors to any degree of accuracy

They could've lied about their name coming off the boat, plenty of Irish people just gave fake English names and claimed they were Protestants to fit in better

This is about as specific an answer as you'll ever find

Well as I said it isn't an uncommon name

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How closely related to them are you though

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Lmao

was just looking at mine

and most of the notable events are people of the same surname dying in shipwrecks

or having their ships sunk