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Samuel Hopley

Samuel was born in September 1854 in Waverton.¹

Birth Notes
- Aged 7 in 1861, "Son"
  Aged 26 when died 1881
  
  Cheshire Birth indexes for the years: 1855
  HOPLEY    Samuel         Winsford    Cheshire West    WI/10/040
  
  HOPLEY, SAMUEL        BESWICK
  GRO Reference: 1855 D Quarter in NORTHWICH
  Volume 08A Page 217
  
  Born Waverton (1861) when with Mary
  
  Name:    Samuel Hopley
  Gender:    Male
  Record Type:    Christening (Baptism)
  Baptism Date:    16 Nov 1855
  Baptism Place:    Little Budworth, Cheshire, England
  Residence Place:    Little Budworth, Cheshire, England
  Father:    John Hopley
  Mother:    Mary Hopley

He had a brother and five sisters, named James, Jane, Mary, Sarah, Ann and Martha. He was adopted by William Hopley & Mary Manley. He died at the age of 27 in October 1881 in Chester.²

Death Notes
- Name:    Samuel Hopley
  Estimated birth year:    abt 1855
  Registration Year:    1881
  Registration Quarter:    Oct-Nov-Dec
  Age at Death:    26
  Registration district:    Chester, Cheshire
  Volume:    8a
  Page:    248

General Notes
- Samuel may be the son of John Hopley and MAry Beswick who married at Manchester in 1841 (based on MMN = BESWICK).
  
  In 1861, Recorded as "Son" of William and Mary, aged 7, but possibly a grandson (or adopted son) as parents William and Mary Hopley are 61 and 60. However they did have a grandson John (12, Servant)
  
  In 1881, Samuel (26, Ag Lab) is at Hawarden, married to Jane (22) and has daughters Sarah and Mary (3 & 1)
  
  NOTE: There is a John and Mary Hopley family from Little Budworth. They had Ann (Aug-1846 & Dec-1847), James (1852), John (1854) and Samuel (1855).

Personal Timeline

Click here for details of Samuel's family with Jane Ann Jones

¹ 1861 UK Census
² FreeBMD.org.uk
Sources/Citations Burial Rocords - Robert & Jane Jackson, Ancestry Family Trees