James HOPKINS St Arvans circa 1775/80 (General)

by mrsbruso , Monday, March 05, 2012, 01:15 (4642 days ago) @ slowhands

Thanks, S.

That's a possibility . . . although his birthyear stays remarkably constant across three census collections ('41, 51, 61) at 1775/76. Nothing to say that the 1780 is an infant baptism though,, so I can't rule it out.

The Trelleck connection is solid, Llandenny less so. Although, the Llandenny Hopkins family has two "Temperance Hopkins" girls, and James and Margaret (nee Pritchard) name one of their daughters Temperance as well (c. 5 March 1809 at Trelleck). Was Temperance a popular name at the time? I also discovered the Charlotte living with them in 1840 is their base born grandchild, daughter of their eldest daughter Esther (22 April 1804). Some of the baptisms in Trellck weren't in the register transcriptions but only in the BTs.

They also have two nephews living with them, William James, aged 10 in 1840, and James Jones, aged 10, born Trelleck Grange in 1851. The nephew, William James might support the Anne James as Mum theory, but the 1841 census doesn't list place of birth more specifically than county, and it's Monmouthshire no matter how you look at it. I haven't been able to untangle that yet. Tantalizing clues, no immediate, clear conclusion.

I was surprised to see Llandenny crop up, only because the other side of my family (the Vinings) also had connections to Llandenny, as apparently do the Cadogans. Three sides of a family which don't intersect for another fifty years, and in another place. Small world.