Robert Hamlyn

   Cause of his death was Ascension of the left femoral artery.

  General Notes:

Robert Hamlin was an Organ Builder in the latter years of his life and had a company that made these at 8 Brook Street, Euston Rd, London. The names used by the company were:

Hamlin & Son 1853-1862 Hamlin & Sons 1863 Robert Hamlin 1865

He did a significant amount of work in Devon in 1861, and worked at St. Michael, Kingsteignton in the county:

1861 Hamlin & Sons alterations and additions involving cleaning, regulating, more pipes and new hand blowing, £17;

Robert Hamlin was a former employee of Hill & Son. The only instrument by the Hamlins known to survive in Great Britain is at Holy Trinity, Torbryan, Devon. The firm sent out two organs to Victoria in the 1860s, one a single manual instrument initially placed in the Baptist Church, Collins Street, Melbourne, and the second, now at Clunes, for a private residence. When it was installed at the Wesleyan (Methodist) Church, Daylesford in March 1881, it was stated that "it was manufactured at the express order and under the personal supervision of a Melbourne gentleman who intended it for his son.

Robert Hamlin and Sons also built organs in Turuo Cornwall, Bovey Tracy Devon Devon, Newton Abbot Devon and Teignmouth, Devon.

On the 1861 census a Mary Hamlin born in 1799 in Devon is shown as a vsitor to Robert Hamlin's house.

  Research Notes:

Link to an organ built by Robert Hamlin & Sons:

http://www.ohta.org.au/organs/organs/ClunesAng.html

Record at the National Pipe Organ Register, Directory of British Organ Builders:

http://npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ESearch.cgi?Fn=Esearch&firm=967

  Noted events in his life were:

• Marriage: to Hannah Murren, 5 August 1825, St Marylebone's Church, London.

• Residence: Molton Street, 1828, London, Middlesex.

• Residence: Carpenter, 1828, London, Middlesex.

• Residence: 45 Bell Street, 1831, London, Middlesex.

• Residence: St Pancras, 1841, London.

• Occupation: Carpenter, 1841, St Pancras, London.

• Residence: 8 Brook Street, 1851, St. Pancras, London.

• Occupation: Organ Builder @ 8 Brook St, Euston Rd, London (Own business), 1851, London.

• Residence: Regents Park, 1861, London.

• Residence: Lodger at 6 St John's Terrace, 1871, Hammersmith, London.

• Occupation: Organ Builder at Hill and Son, Unknown, London.

Robert married Hannah Murren, daughter of William Murren and Martha Davis, on 1 August 1825 in St Marylebone's Church, London. (Hannah Murren was born in 1803 in Ilminster, Somerset, christened on 4 April 1803 in Ilminster, Somerset, died on 1 March 1859 in 8 Brook Street, London and was buried on 8 March 1859 in All Souls Cemetery, Kensal Green, London.) The cause of her death was Bronchitis.