 1754 - 1821 (~ 66 years)
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| Name |
Hopkins, Richard |
| Christened |
26 Apr 1754 |
East Hendred, Berkshire, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Buried |
1821 |
London, England |
| Died |
9 Jan 1821 |
Phillimore Place, Kensington, England |
| Person ID |
I06670 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
26 May 2015 |
| Father |
Hopkins, Thomas, c. 11 Jun 1721, Steventon, Berkshire, England , bur. 28 Jan 1770, Chilton Foliat, Wiltshire, England (Age ~ 48 years) |
| Mother |
Skinner, Mary, b. Abt 1718, England , d. Abt 1786, Wiltshire, England (Age ~ 68 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1746 |
| Family ID |
F01828 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Cooper, Elizabeth, b. Of St Bartholomew's By the Exchange, London, England , d. Abt 1848, London, England |
| Children |
| | 1. Hopkins, Mary, b. Abt 1810, England , d. Abt 1845, France? (Age ~ 35 years) |
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| Family ID |
F02463 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Ironmonger.
Apprenticeship[ Indexes:
1771 Hopkins Richard, son of Thomas, Chilton, Wiltshire, farmer (deceased), to Walter Hattam, 17 Jun 1771, Musicians' Company
Dean and Chapter of Rochester : Treasurer's bills and vouchers 1552-1867 (DRc/FTv 1-231)
Includes bill from Richard Hopkins, Three Keys, 3 Gracechurch Street, London, ironmonger (successor to Mr. Richard Townsend) for 198' of wire work to the cathedral windows, passed through Mr. Eason (Easton) Harrison, Rochester, cathedral carpenter, settled 10 October 1780 (DRc/FTv 139 Pt. I/9)
A Richard Hopkins of West Hendred married a Sarah Hopkins at West Hendred 1779 by licence??
Any conncetion?
p47 Chilton [7m SE of Wantage], All Saints Church monuments to HEAD family ... on the arcade is a marble tablet to El. wife of Head PLOTT bur x, .. & Anne wife of Richard HOPKINS d 20.3.1807
Mentioned in will of uncle John Skinner Surrey St, Middlesex as nephew Mr Richard Hopkins of Phillimore place, Kensington.
The Gentleman's Magazine, 1822
In Phillimore-place, Kensington, in his 67th year, Richard Hopkins, esq.
National Archives:[no title] MS 11936/467/913834 15 January 1816 Contents: Insured: Richard Hopkins, 17 Upper Phillimore Place Kensington, Esq
Other property or occupiers: Greyhound Lane Streatham Surrey (John Woolmore); Chilton Wiltshire (Binwell); 10 Great Charlotte Street St Georges Road; 24 Eaton Street Pimlico (Hutchinson); Stockwell Green (Ellington, Hibbs); 77 Fetter Lane (Fitch green grocer)
[no title] MS 11936/526/1119755 2 February 1831 Contents:
Insured: William Jones 125 Thames Street oilman, Richard Lever and Robert Cooper, executors of Richard Hopkins deceased
Other property or occupiers: 17 Upper Phillimore Place Kensington; Greyhound Lane Streatham Surrey (Woolmore); Chiltern in Wilts (Benell); 10 Great Charlotte Street Blackfriars Road Stockwell Green
Will of Richard Hopkins of Kensington , Middlesex 01 February 1822 PROB 11/1653
Mentions messuage at Cholsey, Berkshire, sister Fettiplace Hopkins living there, daughter Mary Hopkins, his wife Elizabeth, children of two sister Martha Edmunds and Margaret Hewitt except christopher Edmonds, estate at Leverton, Wiltshire, two nieces Anne Hewett and Catherine Martin,(daughter of my sister margaret Hewitt) and to my niece Mary Davis,
At the death of his grandmother Margaret Skinner?? Probably not unless first wife if Ann and second wife Elizabeth. Could account for young daughter Mary.
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The chantry lands were leased toRobert Thomas in 1571 (Pat. 13 Eliz.pt. x, m. 30) and thirteen years later toWilliam Blacknall sen., William Blacknalljun., and John son of the younger William,for their lives (ibid. 26 Eliz. pt. ii, m. 21).John Blacknall and John Hercy were inpossession in 1623 (Exch. Dep. East. 21Jas. I, no. 6) and the Hercy family seemsto have had a grant in fee. John Hercysettled the estate on himself and his sons in1625 (Feet of F. Berks. Mich. 1 Chas. I).It belonged in 1719 to a Mr. Yorke(Ashmole, op. cit. ii, 311). In 1777 it had come into the possession of RichardHopkins (Feet of F. Berks. Mich. 17.Geo. III), who was still in possession in1801 (Loc. and Personal Act, 41 Geo. III,cap. 48). Afterwards it passed to thefamily of Robinson (Clarke, op. cit. 131).
From: 'Parishes: East Hendred ', A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 4 (1924), pp. 294-302. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=62717 Date accessed: 19 July 2011.
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