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    Oct 30, 2015 · Well, he was in Mistley because his mother (widowed by the death of James Hopkins in about 1634) had married Mistley’s rector, Thomas Witham. The Withams Thomas Witham and his delightfully neat handwriting first appear in the parish register for Mistley in 1610 (he followed the previous parson, John Linton, who was buried 2nd July 1610).

  2. What historian James Sharpe has characterised as a "pleasing legend" grew up around the circumstances of Hopkins's death, according to which he was subjected to his own swimming test and executed as a witch, but the parish registry at Mistley confirms his burial there.

  3. Mar 5, 2023 · Son of William Hopkins and [mother unknown] Brother of Robert Hopkins. Husband of Mary (Hopkins) Witham — married [date unknown] (to 1634) [location unknown] Father of James Hopkins, Thomas Hopkins, John Hopkins and Matthew Hopkins. Died about 1634 at about age 54 in Wenham, Suffolk, England.

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  4. James Hopkins died in 1634, leaving the bulk of his estate to his wife Marie, to be divided amongst their six children when they reached the age of twenty-two. The family had deep Puritan leanings. Hopkins’s eldest brother Thomas emigrated to New England while his brother John also became a Minister.

  5. Jun 25, 2013 · Several decades on, Selina, who is married to James Hopkins, founder and executive chairman of Hopkins Homes, is using the same basket to introduce their year-old daughter, Lily, to riding.

  6. Jun 11, 2023 · But in the 1841 Census I did find an Edwin Hopkins, born in Tewkesbury in 1839, born to parents James Hopkins, a carpenter of Barton Street, Tewkesbury and his wife Harriett(nee Evans). James and Harriett had been married in Tewkesbury in 1827.

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