 1721 - 1770 (~ 48 years)
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| Name |
Hopkins, Thomas |
| Christened |
11 Jun 1721 |
Steventon, Berkshire, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Buried |
28 Jan 1770 |
Chilton Foliat, Wiltshire, England |
| Person ID |
I06312 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
26 May 2015 |
| Father |
Hopkins, Richard, c. 21 Nov 1686, Steventon, Berkshire, England , bur. 5 Jul 1749, Cholsey, Berkshire, England (Age ~ 62 years) |
| Mother |
Selwood, Martha, c. 21 Oct 1681, Peasemore, Berkshire, England , bur. 13 Oct 1735, Steventon, Berkshire, England (Age ~ 53 years) |
| Married |
14 Oct 1709 |
Brimpton, Berkshire, England |
| Family ID |
F01967 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Skinner, Mary, b. Abt 1718, England , d. Abt 1786, Wiltshire, England (Age ~ 68 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1746 |
| Children |
| | 1. Hopkins, Mary, c. 24 Sept 1748, East Hendred, Berkshire, England , d. Abt 1786, England (Age ~ 37 years) |
| + | 2. Hopkins, Martha, c. 10 Jul 1750, East Hendred, Berkshire, England , bur. 5 Sep 1830, Bishopstone(Nth), Wiltshire, England (Age ~ 80 years) |
| + | 3. Hopkins, Margaret, c. 29 Jun 1752, East Hendred, Berkshire, England , bur. 10 Feb 1832, St Giles, Camberwell, Surrey, England (Age ~ 79 years) |
| + | 4. Hopkins, Richard, c. 26 Apr 1754, East Hendred, Berkshire, England , d. 9 Jan 1821, Phillimore Place, Kensington, England (Age ~ 66 years) |
| | 5. Hopkins, Fettiplace, c. 17 Jun 1756, East Hendred, Berkshire, England , bur. 29 May 1830, Cholsey, Berkshire, England (Age ~ 73 years) |
| | 6. Hopkins, Joseph, c. 8 Jan 1763, Chilton Foliat, Wiltshire, England , bur. 26 Feb 1770, Chilton Foliat, Wiltshire, England (Age ~ 7 years) |
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| Family ID |
F01828 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Will of Thomas Hopkins, Yeoman of Chilton Foliat , Berkshire 11 April 1770 PROB 11/956
Wiltshire Memorial Inscriptions:
Day: 28 Month: Jan Year: 1770 Age: 49 Forenames: Thomas Surname: HOPKINS Place: Chilton Foliat County: Wiltshire Country: England Reference: 128532 Notes: of Haywood Farm husb of Mary
This parish history by John Chandler is taken from his books ‘Marlborough and Eastern Wiltshire’ (Hobnob Press, 2001, £20.00, ISBN 0 946418 07 1) and ‘Devizes and Central Wiltshire’ (Hobnob Press, 2003, £20.00, ISBN 0 946418 16 0).
...Also in the street is the Wheatsheaf Inn, a Methodist chapel of 1796, rebuilt in 1932 and now closed, an eighteenth-century mill, with miller’s house, malthouse and nearby tanyard, and on the corner Bridge House. This is a remarkable building, which cannot be appreciated from the road. Its south front, overlooking the river and hidden by trees from public gaze, was built in 1766, according to the date on rainwater heads, and appears to have been an unsuccessful or short-lived attempt by a certain Thomas and Mary Hopkins to operate an assembly room, perhaps by converting an earlier inn.
[no title] 3202/41 [1770]-1849 Contents:
Papers relating to a house and stable in Chilton Foliat belonging to the Hopkins family, described in an abstract of a deed of 1770 as being used then as an inn. Abstract of title of Rev. Robert Agassiz, 1849. Possibly relating to sale by James to Honeywood in 1849
May have had a son Jospeh as a Joseph son of Thomas Hopkins is buried Chilton Foliott 26.02.1770.
Reference Number: GB 007 FR BER 36
Held at: University of Reading, Museum of English Rural Life
Dates of Creation: 1552-1965
Physical Extent: 693 documents
Name of Creator: Chilton Estate, Hungerford, Berkshire
Language of Material: English.
The Chilton Estate lies in the parishes of Great Shefford, Berkshire, Hungerford, Berkshire and Chilton Foliat, Wiltshire. For many years, it was held by the Whitelocke family, one of whom, Bulstrode Whitelocke (1605-1675), played an active part in politics during the period of the Civil War and Commonwealth. He died at Chilton Lodge in 1675 (see Dictionary of national biography, v. 61, p. 110 ff). In the 18th century, the estate was sold to John Zephaniah Holwell (1711-1798) one of the survivors of the Black Hole of Calcutta, who subsequently became Governor of Bengal, (see Dictionary of national biography, v. 27, p. 212 ff). Early in the 19th century, it became the property of John Pearse, who demolished the old mansion and built the present one from designs by Pilkington. The mansion was enlarged and almost completely reconstructed between 1890 and 1892 by Sir William George Pearce, who bought the estate in 1890. Since 1908 it has been held by members of the Ward family.
In 1908 the estate comprised about 2,332 acres, and included eight farms: Old Hayward Farm (432 acres), New Hayward Farm (380 acres), Little Hidden Farm (171 acres), North Hidden Farm (364 acres), Chilton Park Farm (182 acres), Folly Farm (184 acres), Upper Eddington Farm (66 acres) and Eddington Farm. Of these, Little Hidden Farm, New Hayward Farm and Old Hayward Farm were cultivated in 1908 by the owner; the remainder were leased. Soil: chiefly loam with chalk subsoil
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