The
Hopkins Family
The Hopkins family is the
family of my Grandmother. Based in Southwark, South London.
Ada E B Hopkins
Born: 1916
Died: unknown
Father: Henry (Harry)
Hopkins (b.1889)
Mother: Emily Randell
Lived in Valance Avenue,
Dagenham.
Ann Rose Hopkins
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Born: 11/2/1944
Father: George Hopkins
(1918-1997)
Mother:
Henrietta Dunwoodie (1913-1990)
Married:
Alan Michael West on 29/3/1975
No
Children
Christopher Hopkins
Born: 1899
Died: unknown
Father: George William
Hopkins (b.1861)
Mother: Elizabeth Walters
(b. 1861)
Married: Margaret Vines in
1924
Children: Margaret (Peggy)
(1925), Joan M (1929), and Pamela (1938)
See
photograph below
Christopher S Hopkins
Born: 1927
Died: unknown
Father: Henry (Harry)
Hopkins (b.1889)
Mother: Emily Randell
Married: Jean Wright in
1952 in Romford
Lived in Valance Avenue,
Dagenham.
Doris Catherine Hopkins
(known as Doll)
Born: 20/11/1931
Died: 10/4/1993
Father: William Hopkins
Mother: Sarah Ann Humphries
Married: John Baker
(8/10/1929) in 1954
No Children
Doris, George, Betty Hickman, Sis, Bert,
Allen & Ann
Doris (left) and her sister Hilda
Edward Hopkins
(known as ‘Blind Uncle Ted)
Born: 10/9/1859 at 15 Bland
Street, Newington (birth certificate)
Died: unknown
Father: Edward Soleman
Mother: Mary Ann Hopkins
(nee Pockson)
Ellen Hopkins
(Known as Nell)
Born: 1886
Died: unknown
Father: George William
Hopkins (b.1861)
Mother: Elizabeth Walters
(b. 1861)
Occupation: Book Folder in
1901
First Marriage: Lance Corporal
Herbert Bailey (born 18/5/1890) on the 11/8/1912 (birth & marriage
certificate)
Herbert was of the 1st
Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles , and died in First World War on Wednesday 23rd
October 1918 by a sniper. He is buried in Ingoyghem Military Cemetery, Anzegem,
Belgium. It is believed that my father Herbert Westray was named after him.
His mother was Louise
Bailey (barmaid) of 34 Smyrks Road, Walworth. There is no father registered.
At this time they lived at
76 Harris Street, Camberwell, London.
Second Marriage: Sidney
Spencer
Children: Sidney Spencer
(1925-1997) married Olive – no Children
Link to Commonwealth War Graves Commission Commemorative Information
George Hopkins
Baptised: 20/10/1811 St
Mary, Lambeth (IGI Record)
Died: unknown
Occupation: upholsterer
Father: William Hopkins
Mother: Sarah
Married: Jane Tickle
23/3/1835 Christ Church Southwark (IGI Record)
Children: George (1835),
and William
George Hopkins
Born: 5/7/1835
Baptised 11/10/1835 St Mary
Newington, Southwark (IGI Record)
Died: unknown
Father: George Hopkins
Mother: Jane Tickle
George William Hopkins
George and Till
Born: 1888
Died: unknown
Father: George William
Hopkins (b.1861)
Mother: Elizabeth Walters
(b. 1861)
Married: Matilda Bannister
(known as Till) in 1913
Children: George (1920) and
Lilly (1920)
See
photograph below
George William Hopkins
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Henrietta
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Born: 7/2/1918
Died: 28/10/1996
Father: William George
Hopkins
Mother: Sarah Anne
Humphries
Married: Henrietta
Dunwoodie (29/7/1913–13/1/1990) on 8/3/1943
Children: Anne (1944) and
William (1946)
George William Hopkins
Born: 19/2/1920
Father: George William
(1888)
Mother:
Matilda Bannister (1891)
Married:
Emily Elizabeth Asquith (1922) in St James, Hatcham, Deptford on 8/5/1943
(marriage certificate)
He
was in the Royal Navy, then a Docker; she was a Bakelite Moulder
Children:
Pauline Carol (1946) and John G (1950)
George William Hopkins
Born: 12/3/1861, Borough Road,
Southwark (birth certificate)
Died: unknown
Occupation: Roadside Labourer/ file grinder/Bricklayers labourer
Father: William Hopkins
Mother: Mary Ann Pockson
(1834-1891)
Married: Elizabeth Walters
(b. 1861) on 14/11/1881 in St Paul’s Church, Southwark (marriage certificate)
Marriage witnessed by Edward and Mary Ann Bayley.
Children: Mary Amelia
(1883), Ellen (1886), George William (1888), Henry (1889), William (1891),
Melina Maud (1895), Christopher (1899), and Louise (1901)
Listed as Living at 74
Webber Row, Southwark, London in 1881 Census, 39 Ontario Street (Elephant &
Castle) in 1895, and in Harris Street (Camberwell) in photograph below. In 1901
census lived at 11 Farmers Road, Newington
George
William Hopkins (top left) with sons George (top right) & Christopher
(bottom left) and son-in-law William Harold Westray
George
William Hopkins with grandchildren William, Herbert and Lillian Westray
Henry (Harry) William Hopkins
Born: 1889
Died: unknown
Father: George William
Hopkins (b.1861)
Mother: Elizabeth Walters
(b. 1861)
Married: Emily Randell in
1915
Children: Ada E B (1916), Henry
William (1920) William G (1924), and Christopher S (1927)
Occupation: printer
Lived in Valance Avenue,
Dagenham.
Henry W Hopkins
Born: 1920
Died: unknown
Father: Henry Hopkins
(1889)
Mother: Emily Randell
Married: Beryl Elsie Hilder
(1925) on 24/5/1944 in Folkstone Kent (marriage certificate)
Henry Hopkins
Born: 1862
Died: unknown
Father: William
Mother: Mary Ann Pockson
Listed as Living at 74
Webber Row, Southwark, London in 1881 Census
Hilda Hopkins
Born: 1924
Father: William Hopkins
Mother: Sarah Ann Humphries
Married: Edward Pedder on
27/3/1948
Children: Linda R
(12/5/1950) and Julie I (1953)
Hilda (right) with daughter Julie (third
right), son-in-law Charles (left) and grandchildren Greg, Sarah and Adam
Edward Pedder
Joan M Hopkins
Born: 1929
Died: unknown
Father: Christopher (1899)
Mother:
Margaret Vines
John G Hopkins
Born: 1950
Father: George (1920)
Mother:
Emily Elizabeth Asquith
Lilly Hopkins
Born: 1920
Died: 2001
Father: George Hopkins
Mother: Matilda Bannister
(1891)
Married: Arthur Nind (1913)
Children: Christine (1948)
and Janice (1951)
Louise Hopkins
Born: 1901
Died: 1997
Father: George William
Hopkins (b.1861)
Mother: Elizabeth Walters
(b. 1861)
First Marriage: Charles
Brown
Children: Christopher
Second Marriage: Harry
Brinkman
Third Marriage: William
Harrison
Lou with Sis (above left), Harry Brinkman (right) and also see
picture with Mary below
Margaret (Peggy) Hopkins
Born: 1925
Died: unknown
Father: Christopher (1899)
Mother:
Margaret Vines
Mary Hopkins
Born: 19/6/1883 (birth certificate)
Died: unknown
Father: George William
Hopkins (b.1861)
Mother: Elizabeth Walters
(b. 1861)
Occupation: Printers Layer
On in 1901
Married: Earnest Hickman
(1882-1956) in 1907
Children: Ernest (1909),
Lillian (Sis) (1914), Louisa Ellen (Nell) (1920), Elizabeth (1925) and
Christopher (1922)
Born at 44 Webber
Row, Southwark
Mary
(left) with sisters Melina Maud (centre) and Louise (right)
Melina Maud Hopkins
(Known as Lill)
Born: 23/1/1895 (birth
certificate)
Died: 15/3/2001
Occupation: Seamstress
(made workman’s trousers) then handmade lampshades. Worked as a railway porter
at Oxford station during the Second World War.
Father: George William
Hopkins (b.1861)
Mother: Elizabeth Walters
(b. 1861)
Married: William Harold
Westray (1895-1962) on 27th November 1915 in the Parish Church of St
George, Camberwell. He was listed as a lithographic printer, she as a silk
lampshade maker. The wedding was witnessed by George William Hopkins and Mabel
Lilian Jenkins. He was living at 152 New Church Road, she at 76 Harris Street
(marriage certificate).
Melina
Maud with children William and Herbert
Children: William Harold
(1916-1993), Herbert Claude (b 1919), Lillian Ellen (1924-1997), Joan Margaret
(b 1927), John Richard (b. 1931)
Lived in 39 Ontario Street
(Elephant & Castle) at birth, Wells Way & Addington Square
(Camberwell), Berryfield Road (Walworth) and Crystal Palace Road (East
Dulwich), South London
Melina
Maud taken on her 101st birthday
… and
below a few years earlier
Link to Grandma's birthday telegrams
Minnie Mary Ann Hopkins
(known as Polly)
Born: 22/4/1858 in
Boilingbroke Road, Walworth (birth certificate)
Died: unknown
Father: William
Mother: Mary Ann Pockson
Married: Francis Graham (b.
1857) on 8/2/1876 St Steven’s Camberwell. (marriage certificate)
Married: James C Walters
(b.1857)
Children: Marion Walters
1879
Listed as Living at 74
Webber Row, Southwark, London in 1881 Census
Pamela Hopkins
Born: 1938
Died: unknown
Father: Christopher (1899)
Mother:
Margaret Vines
Pauline Carol Hopkins
Born: 1946
Father: George William
(1920)
Mother:
Emily Elizabeth Asquith
Married:
Michael Henry Joseph Purss (1942) on 4/6/1966 (marriage certificate)
Children:
Clare Emma (1974) and Loraine Joanne (1976)
He
was a Stockbrokers Clerk, she a copy typist
Rosina Alice Hopkins
Born: 1920
Father: William Hopkins
Mother: Sarah Ann Humphries
Married: Thomas Henry Welch
in 1941
Children: Joan May
(31/12/1946) and Kay (3/10/1953)
William Hopkins
Born: unknown
Died: unknown
Father: unknown
Mother: unknown
Married: Sarah
Children: George Hopkins
(1811)
William Hopkins
Born: unknown
Died: unknown
Occupation: Tailor, Oilman
Father: George Hopkins
Mother: Jane Tickle
Married: Mary Ann Pockson
(sometimes stated as Marianne) 2/8/1858 St John’s Southwark (marriage
certificate)
Children: Minnie Mary Ann
(Polly), George William, and Henry
Lived at 1858 in
Boilingbroke Road, Walworth and 22 Cornwell Road in 1858. 25 Francis Place,
Southwark in 1861
William Hopkins
Born: 13/11/1948
Father: George Hopkins
(1918-1997)
Mother:
Henrietta Dunwoodie (1913-1990)
William George Hopkins
Born: 1891
Died: unknown
Father: George William
Hopkins (b.1861)
Mother: Elizabeth Walters
(b. 1861)
Married: Sarah Ann
Humphries in 1914
Children: George
(1918-1996), Rose (1920), Hilda (1924) and Doris (1931)
Second Marriage: Emily
Third Marriage: Elsie
Emily, Bill and Mary Hopkins
William G Hopkins
Born: 1924
Died: unknown
Father: Henry (Harry)
Hopkins (b.1889)
Mother: Emily Randell
Lived in Valance Avenue,
Dagenham.
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