Janetta Hopkins - Location Tankerhoops? (General)

by jhopkins , Thursday, June 23, 2011, 11:44 (4906 days ago) @ ijriddell

Thank you both very much for your prompt replies. I haven't asked any questions recently but am thrilled to see the value of service in this Forum is as strong as ever.

I will follow up both of your posts with interest.

Two matters:
1. mpgriffiths - I am not sure who the people are in the 1841 Census, because some of the children's names do not fit with my known genealogy. The problem is the usual one - too many Thomas's and Sarah's amongst the Hopkins family on both sides of the Wye - to this day in NZ the first boy in each generation gets labelled Thomas (me and my son included). And the Hopkins family I descend from all lived within a small area between St Briavels, Aylburton, Hewelsfield, Brockweir, and Hudnalls. The Emma you have located is a problem child. Mike Johns has her listed as a daughter to Charles Hopkins and Mary Kear (Charles is a brother to my great great grandfather Thomas - the 1851 Census Thomas). In fact, going by the FoD parish records, I believe her to be the daughter of my ggf Thomas. She married Edmund Fletcher and migrated to NZ, and was said to be a sister to my great grandfather William.
The 1851 Census records are definitely my family - thank you.

2. The Robins name is interesting because I had an uncle with that surname, long since deceased. He was of Welsh descent, but came to NZ as a first generation migrant (in the 1930's?) from Gloucester. I wonder if his family came from the Forest as well. My father and this uncle had an awful relationship, and I always wondered what was behind the animosity. I will never know!

Thank you both once again. I will explore the maps with interest. I wish I had known all this when my wife and I were in Britain and explored the Forest... John