Janetta Hopkins - Location Tankerhoops? (General)

by jhopkins , Wednesday, June 22, 2011, 23:53 (4906 days ago)

Hello everyone

I have just discovered that my great grandfather's older sister Janetta came out to NZ in 1860 on the same voyage (the Matoaka) as my great grandparents, William and Sarah Hopkins. She was married to John Worgan in 1855, and they had a daughter Julia Janetta Worgan (baptised in the Forest) who died on the voyage aged 13 months.

On checking Janetta's baptism, I found a rather fractured record. I know from other records that she was born c1827, and the only feasible baptism record is for a Janette Hopking, baptised 28 January 1827, parents Thomas and Sarah (correct names for 'our' Janetta's parents). She is called Janetta in every other record I know, including her burial record in NZ.

Year: 1827
Month: Jan
Day: 28
Parents_Surname: HOPKING
Child_Forenames: Janette
Fathers_Forenames: Thomas
Mothers_Forenames: Sarah
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: Tankerhoops [?]
Occupation: Labourer
Officiating_Minister: J Formby Curate
Event: Baptism
Memoranda: Daugh[te]r of
Notes:
Register_Reference: PFC 209 IN 1/3
Page_Number: 90
Parish_Chapel: Lydney

Her baptism record gives the residence thus: Tankerhoops [?] I presume the ? means the transcriber had problems reading the written record.

My great great grandparents (Janetta's parents) lived in Aylburton. Could someone please have a stab at interpreting Tankerhoops for me? Is it the name of a farm for instance?

Thanks for any help you can give.
John