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- Despite the high profile role of Colonel Hammond, his wife?s father played an even higher profile role. Mary was the daughter of Elizabeth Simeon and John Hampden, an early and much-celebrated leader of the rebellions that would bring down the Stuart king. As a parliamentarian, he fought skillfully in organizing his fellows against illegal taxes and forced loans imposed by Charles upon his subjects. In 1637, when his daughter Mary was perhaps 7 years old, he personally rose up against the hated ship-money tax (a levy originally intended to preserve England from an invading fleet, but which had been misused that year to raise money for the king?s personal causes), and though in this test case he would lose against the Crown, his defiance in court was seen as a moral victory. By 1643, after Parliament had taken over London and set about contesting King Charles for the rest of the country, John Hampden sought to use his tactical skills on the battlefield. At Chalgrove, he met his fate, and as Officer Jackson had after his last act of service, died from a mortal wound six days later at the nearby village of Thame.
John Hampden and Oliver Cromwell. First cousins ? zero generations removed.
John Hampden was the first cousin of Oliver Cromwell. Hampden?s early bravery inspired his Cambridgeshire cousin to the great fetes later that would propel him to the role of Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland. John?s mother, Elizabeth, was the younger sister of Robert Cromwell of Huntingdon, who fathered Oliver. Both siblings were raised by Sir Henry Williams, better known by his alias of Cromwell, the family name of his grandmother. In his late 20s, he rose to greatness when he valiantly served King Henry VIII in suppressing the Pilgrimage of Grace, the pro-Catholic rebellion against the creation of a Protestant Church of England. The success of Henry and his father gave rise to the branch of the Cromwells that ultimately led to Oliver?s rise as Lord Protector.
http://benmangel.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/the-cromwell-ancestry-of-the-only-pasco-police-officer-to-die-in-the-line-of-duty/
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