Hobkirk/Hopkirk ancestry: Will and last testament
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Child of Adam Hobkirk and Mary Hobkirk. Note: when I opened up the attached church records, it showed he was born on 31 December [1784] [ex Ancestry database of London parish records, pre 1815]. His siblings = Adam (b. 1780); Samuel (b. 1784); and William (b.1785). HOBKIRK, Samuel, 1793-1815: On this list of people who received a UK Military Campaign Medal and was on the Award Rolls. His service date is listed as 1793-1815 [?wrong] and Napoleonic Wars; service location = Europe; states he was in 43rd Regiment of Foot; 2nd Battalion. HOBKIRK, Samuel, 1795-1815 files: Was in 1st battalion, 43rd Regiment, during the Napoleonic Wars of 1795-1815. [ex UK ….] HOBKIRK, Samuel & John, 1798: of Tokenhouse Yard were stopped on about 23.8.1798 in a chaise on top of Dartford Hill, by 3 foot pads and robbed of their watch, cash, and several bank notes. [ex Whitehall Evening
Lieutenant; 3.12.1812 = Captain of 43rd Regiment = Monmouthshire Regiment of Foot. On ½ pay on 25.3.1817; [ex Army List 1842]
Will in London at Commissary Court of London. He was from ‘foreign parts’ Notes: Ms Port au Prince [= Haïti]. [ex ?Society of Genealogists database; record source
3.12.1812; on ½ pay on 25.3.1817. Note: this Samuel did not die until 1853 – in France. [ex ?Gentleman’s Magazine]
indexes, 1806, ex Napoleonic War Records, via F[ex Find My Past probate website in 2012; origin= WO25 records of National Archives Office; Casualty Returns: www.britisharmyresearchnapoleonicwars.co.uk ] HOBKIRK, Samuel, 1806: 43rd regiment of foot 25.4.1806: = 2nd lieutenant; 7.4.1808 = 1st lieutenant; 3.12.1812 = Captain; 25.3.1817 = ½ pay. See also entry under Capt. Hobkirk. [ex microfiche records of UK Army Lists, John
December 1812, with 43rd; Was with the exhibition to Copenhagen + Corunna; at the Cos, Busaco, Fuentes d’Onaro, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Nivelle. Wounded and taken prisoner before Bayonne, 23 November; ½ pay 25 March 1817; 43rd foot; Died 1853. [information ex book ‘Historical Records of the 43rd Regiment, Monmouthshire Light Infantry, page 316, published in 1868] HOPKIRK, [Samuel] Mr. 1807: Mr. Hopkirk [C/F Captain S. HOBKIRK in other UK newspapers]: on 24/7/1806, of 43rd foot, purchased his Army commission as ? Ensign or ? Captain for £400 from Captain Woodford.
?1808; ½ pay on 25.3.1817 [ex-Army List of 1842, page 435] Note: this Samuel did not die until 1853 – in France.
formerly of Kingston, Jamaica; in 1809, living at Gower Street, St. Giles in the Fields, Middlesex, London; his (Adam) dear Wife = Mary; brother =
image of his mother, Mary Hobkirk, given to Samuel on 9 August, 1809, at/ following the death of his father, Adam Hobkirk. . [“The Times”, London, 16
reward: lost, a small oval painting, the bust of a lady, with the hair in a curl behind the ear, mounted in gold; and set round with diamonds (brilliants). Inscription on the back “Mrs. M. Hobkirk” likeness taken in 1773, given to her son, Captain S[amuel] Hobkirk, August the 9th, 1809. Whoever will bring the same shall receive the above reward by Messrs. Noble and ?Harrison, goldsmiths, 55 Fetter Lane. If pawned, the same reward will be given.
between Fleet Street and Holborn] HOBKIRK, Samuel, 1812: Captain of 43rd Regiment = Monmouthshire Regiment of Foot [[= definitely near Wales]]. On 3.12.1812; 25.4.00 = 2nd Lieutenant; 7.4.09 = Lieutenant [ex Hart’s Army List]. 3.12.1812 = Captain; 25.3.1817, = ½ pay; [ex-Army List 1842]
also) at The Theatre Royal, Frenada, in the Light Division Theatre, Gallegos, performing a comedy. [ex Lord Wellington’s mail from the Peninsula] 18.1.1813; HOBKIRK, S[amuel], (Captain), 1813: of 43rd regiment [of foot], was wounded and taken prisoner before 28.11.1813; @ St. Jean de Luz. [see also 1807 entry in UK Parliamentary papers, under Hopkirk, re purchasing commission in 1806; + under Capt. Hobkirk p 2 above] [ex Marquis of Wellington 22, 28.11.1813; London Gazette and Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh) dated 28.11.1813 page 81 London Gazette; 18.12.1813]. HOBKIRK, S[amuel], (Capt.), 1813: November 28: 43rd regiment. Wounded and taken prisoner at Arcangues on 29 November 1813. He was reputed to spend near 1,000 pounds a year on dress. Dining at Soult’s on the evening of his capture, he was mistaken by a guest for a field marshal from the richness of his dress [ex Levinge’s book, ?title, pp 205, 206].
18.12.1813]. HOBKIRK, [Samuel] Captain, 1813: “…Captain Hobkirk was taken prisoner. He was a great dandy, and his splendid uniform and equipage made the French assume he was a general at least. Napier, writing to his wife 4 days later, mentioned having heard that Hobkirk was not badly wounded; and that he had been ‘as usual, very well treated by the French, who I am sorry to say, exceed us considerably in their attention to officers who are made prisoner.’ It was hoped an exchange might be made before long …[ex google books “Wellington Invades France: the final phase of the Peninsular War: by Ian Robertson, 2003 304 pages] HOPKIRK [sic = Hobkirk], [Samuel] Lieutenant, 1813: of 43rd regiment, to be promoted to ?? [Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, 19.4.1813] HOBKIRK, Samuel, 1813: Lieutenant Samuel Hobkirk, to be Captain of a Company, by purchase, vice ??Ferguson, promoted in 'the... [ex The London Gazette, Issue 16703 – 1813-02-13 Published in 1813, page 5] HOBKIRK, S[amuel] (Captain), 1813: of 43rd regiment, was wounded and taken prisoner before 28.11.1813; @ St. Jean de Luz [ex Marquis of Wellington 22, 28.11.1813; London Gazette and Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh) dated 18.12.1813. HOBKIRK, Samuel, 1813: 43rd foot Captain Samuel Hobkirk, wounded and taken prisoner. [ex The London Gazette, Issue 16824 - 1813-12-14 Published in 1813, page 24] HOBKIRK, Samuel, 1813: [ex “Letters from the Peninsular”] talking re Samuel HOBKIRK: “He [[? who; another officer]] introduces a fellow subaltern, Samuel Hobkirk: [ref no: 78] "He is very gay here. He gave a Ball and Supper which at least cost him 300 Doll : everything that's good he gave.” 78 Hobkirk was taken prisoner at Arcangues 29 Nov. 1813: he was reputed to spend near £1000 a year on dress. Dining at Souk's on the evening of his capture he was mistaken by a guest for a field marshal from the richness of his dress.
? Captain. [Caledonian Mercury, April 19, 1813] HOBKIRK, [Samuel] Lieutenant, 1813: 43rd regiment: 1813: was promoted from Lieutenant to ? Captain. [Bombay Courier 1813] HOBKIRK, [Samuel], 1813: Captain /Capitaine du 43rd regiment + Lt. Crowley of 27th Regiment. Hobkirk was taken prisoner on 23.11.1813 with Lieutenant Crowley on 10.11.1813; both to be exchanged for French Prisoners [ex dispatches 13.1.1814 by
France.
HOBKIRK, Samuel, 1814: Captain: of 43rd regiment; was taken a prisoner. [Ex Gentleman’s Magazine, p81, 1814] HOBKIRK, Samuel, (Captain), 1814: of 43rd foot, wounded and taken prisoner [in 1813].
“I have heard from Hopkirk, who is not badly wounded, and who I hope we shall be able to get exchanged. He has been as usual, very well treated by the French, whom, I am sorry to say, exceed us ….[Ex E.M. Pakenham,
foot [ex ?War Office in Gazette] HOBKIRK, Samuel, 1819: February 6: was plaintiff with others (Adam Hobkirk, Jane Cartwright Hobkirk) against Mary Hobkirk, his mother, and other Defendants [?William Hobkirk, John Vale, Henry Lees were defendants or other plaintiffs]. moved reasons unto Chancery Court, UK re their father,
Captain in British Army on ½ pay; and witnessed his brother William Hobkirk’s Will in France. See other file for typed and hand-written versions of this 1819 Will of William’s. HOP[B]KIRK, Samuel, 1820: Irish = nationality; returned to England, from Gran Colombia = Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, South America; April, 1820 [ex Results from the nineteenth century adventurers in Gran Colombia database] But compare this info, with newspaper version of 1825 [Liverpool Mercury, Liverpool, England, Friday September 16, 1825, via British Newspapers 1600-1900 database saying that it was William Hobkirk who was the Colonel in this Colombian War, assisting Bolivar against the Spanish. ? both of them were Colonels; or ? one of these accounts is wrong. HOBKIRK, Samuel, (Captain), 1821: Listed as being on ½ pay 43rd Regiment of Foot; ½ pay since 25.3.1817. [ex list of officers of Army and Corps Royal Marines, 1853 published by War Office of Great Britain] HOBKIRK, Samuel, (retired Captain), 1826: July 8: Was present in London or made an oath, for the proving of the Will of his brother, William. Samuel signed his name as Samuel W. Hobkirk, of York [UK]
Pa= Served in Peninsular War; 2nd battalion August 1808 – January 1809; 1st Battalion July 1809 – March 1813, August 13-April 18; Vimiero, Coruna, ??Coa, Busaco, Redhina, Casal Nova, Fox D’Arrounce, Sabugal, Fuentes d’Onoro, Ciudad Rodrigo, Capture of Badajoz, Sabugal, San Munos, Pyrenees, Bidassoa, Nivelle, Wounded ??D..angues and P.W. [= prisoner of war] 23 November 1813 – April 1814. [Ex “Peninsula Roll Call” by Lionel S. Challis]
was on 29 ?June / ?October, 1853; he was aged 76 years [sic]; was a ‘Capitaine de Infanterie’ in the service of his/her majesty, Great Britain. I couldn’t read much of the certificate, but it didn’t mention anything about his family. [ex Archives municipales de Nantes – État civil – Nantes – Décès 1853 (1E 945) vue 50. In Canton Number 6 of Nantes. Record number 227]. HOBKIRK, Samuel, [1853], 1803 sic: June; administration of the probate of his Will in London at Commissary Court of London. He was from ‘foreign parts’ Notes: Ms Port au Prince [= Haïti]. [ex ?Society of Genealogists database; record source
newspaper called “the Nenagh Guardian” Monthly military obituary, includes Capt. Hobkirk, ½ pay 43rd foot; [original obituary not available] HOBKIRK, Sarah, 1765: buried 25 February 1765 at Whitby, St. Mary, Yorkshire N.R. [National Burial Index for England and Wales 1761-1825: (disc 2)] HOBKIRK, Sarah, 1768: Was born as Sarah Cooke. [ex 1841 census info]. She became the wife of John Peter Hobkirk. HOBKIRK, Sarah, ~ 1769: born; Was buried 8.5.1853 at Highgate Cemetery of St. James, Swains Lane, St. Pancras; borough – Camden, county of Middlesex = same cemetery as Hamilton DAY. She was born about 1769. HOBKIRK, Sarah, 1769: born approx; buried 8.5.1853; lived at 13 Dunford Tce., Camden New Town, London. Aged 84 years at death; buried Highgate Cemetery of St. James, Swains Lane, St. Pancras; borough of Camden, Middlesex, London. HOBKIRK, Sarah, 1769 - 1853: Born about 1769; buried in 1853, on ?8 May at Highgate Cemetery of St. James, Swains Lane, St. Pancras; borough – Camden, county of Middlesex = same cemetery as Hamilton DAY. She was born about 1769.[ex National Burial Index, UK] HOBKIRK, Sarah, 1770: Was baptised on 17April, 1770 at St. Andrew’s, Holborn, London. ? Letitia’s child. [ex 1841 census info]. HOBKIRK, Sarah, 1770: April 17: buried at St. Andrew, Holborn, London. [ex Ancestry database of London parish records pre 1815] HOBKIRK, Sarah, 1777: child of William & Letitia (née Hawes) who married in 1772 June 2: William Hobkirk married Letitia Hawes at Hertford, All Saints. They had the following children: Adam, baptised 18.2.1774 at St. Andrews, Enfield; Alicia,
with the 3 known sons and 1 known daughter of Adam and Mary Hobkirk, who have identical names to some of Letitia’s children; and were born around the same time – 2 in London; 2 in Jamaica. HOBKIRK, Sarah, 1777: March 16: baptised at Enfield St. Andrews. Child of William & Letitia. HOBKIRK, Sarah, 1777: March 16: baptised at St. Andrew, Middlesex. Child of William Hobkirk and Letitia Hobkirk [ex Ancestry database of London parishes pre 1815] HOBKIRK, Sarah, 1787: October 25: was baptised at Hexham, Northumberland, England. Father = John Hobkirk. Denomination = Independent congregation of protestant ... I saw original entry which says John Hobkirk = gardener in ?Wrylam
Parents = Thomas and Ann Hobkirk. HOBKIRK, Sarah, 1800: August 12: married William Holmes, at Enfield, St. Andrew. William Holmes was a bachelor from Stansted parish, Essex; Sarah Hobkirk was from the parish of St. Andrew, Enfield, Middlesex. c/f a Mary Hobkirk was also married in 1800 at Enfield. ? sisters; [witnesses: Mary Hobkirk + John ?Hobkirk]. [ex Ancestry database of London marriages] HOBKIRK, Sarah, 1800: On 12.8.1800, Sarah Hobkirk [daughter of the owner of the ] of George Inn, Enfield, London, married Mr. Holmes of Bishops Stortford. [ex Gentleman’s Magazine 1800, via Hertford Marriage Indexes] HOBKIRK, Sara, 1800: A marriage occurred at Enfield, London, U.K. [ex Find My Past database in 2012] HOBKIRK, Sarah, 1800: A marriage occurred at Enfield, Middlesex, London, U.K. [ex Find My Past database in 2012] HOBKIRK, Sarah, 1800: An entry appears for the Dioceses of England and Wales for ? A marriage. U.K. [ex Find My Past database in 2012] HOPSKIRK, Sarah, ~1802: Born with maiden name of ??. She died in Jamaica, 12 May, 1897. Aged 95 years. Was wife of George Hopskirk. [ex ?Find My past database or Family Search database] HOBKIRK, Sarah, [1817]1827 (sic; should be 1817); 1817: (née Cooke) married John [Peter] Hobkirk at Chelsea, St. Luke’s, London. [ex Pallot’s Marriage Index for England, 1780-1837] HOBKIRK, Sarah, 1824: A marriage occurred at Jarrow, Durham, U.K. [ex Find My Past database in 2012] HOBKIRK, Sarah, 1824: Married William Dodds on 8.9.1824 at Jarrow St. Paul, ?Durham, UK. U.K. [ex Genuki files] HOBKIRK, Sarah, 1827 (sic; should be 1817); 1817: (née Cooke) married John [Peter] Hobkirk at Chelsea, St. Luke’s, London. [ex Pallot’s Marriage Index for England, 1780-1837] HOBKIRK, Sarah, 1828: aged 88, buried 20 January 1828 at Durham, St. Margaret, County Durham. [National Burial Index for England and Wales 1826 - 1860: (disc 3)] HABKIRK, Sarah, 1832: aged 72, buried 26.12.1832 at Settrington, All Saints, Yorkshire E.R.[National Burial Index for England and Wales 1826 - 1860: (disc 3)] HOPKIRK[sic], Sarah, 1841: On Census for London, living with John Hopkirk, [presumably her husband, JPH]. Both of them lived at the Alms House, Silver Street, St. Olave, Middlesex, London = same address as was given on John Peter Hobkirk’s death certificate, when JPH died in 1842. John is listed as being of independent means. John was aged 79; Sarah was listed as being aged 73. [ex
Sunderland Church. [Newcastle Courant 4.1.1861] HOBKIRK, Sarah Ann, 1864: June ¼: birth registered at Durham, UK [ex Free Births, Marriages, Deaths, on UK Rootsweb database] HOBKIRK, Sarah Ann, 1867: buried 30 January 1867 aged 34m (?= months), at Durham, Collierley, St. Thomas. [National Burial Index for England and Wales 1861- 2003 (Disc 4 ]
been born about1865. [ex Find My Past website in 2012] HOPKIRK, Sarah Tamarzine, 1879: March 16 – born at Porus, Spanish Town, Jamaica; Female; was baptised in Jamaica. Father = George Hopkirk. Mother = Dorothy Ann Denton Hopkirk. [ex Jamaica Births and Baptisms 1752-1920 – via ?FamilySearch website] HOPSKIRK, Sarah, 1897: died Jamaica, 12 May, 1897. Aged 95 years. Was wife of George Hopskirk. [ex ?Find My past database or Family Search database] HOBKIRK, Sergeant, 1943: K.S., Royal Air Force: death; missing, believed killed in action. [“The Times”, London 19 July 1943] HOPKERK, Setphie, 1825: approx.; born; departed Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; arrived 6 April 1865 at Boston, Massachusetts. [Atlas shows there is a Yarmouth in Nova Scotia] C/f other departures from Yarmouth: e.g. J. Hopkerk, in 1867; James Hopkirk in 1883; Martha in 1894] HOBKIRK, Sidney, 1915-1935: birth:1915; death:01 Dec 1935; burial:02 Dec 1935; Secunderabad, Madras, India. [ex India records of deaths and Burials 1719-1948 on IGI database, downloaded September, 2011] HOPKIRK, Sidney, 1915: Of Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers; British armed forces death; [ex Find My Past probate website in 2012] HOPKIRK, Sidney S.,(Sergeant) 1915: Died 16 May, 1915. Buried in France at Le Touret Memorial Cemetery, Richebourg-l’Avoue Nord-Pas-de-Calais Region, France [ex ?archives-en-ligne]
the son of William Hopkirk. [ex Scotland’s People indexes] HOBKIRK, SMITH & WHITECROSS, 1874: = Sunderland upholsterers [Leeds Mercury 30.12.1874] HOPKIRK, Sophia, 1865: She migrated from Nova Scotia to the U.S.A. on board the “Forest Oak” on 4 June, 1865, entering via Boston, Massachusetts. She was aged 40. [ex FamilySearch database of United States Index to Passengers …and Gulf Ports, 1820-
Northumberland, U.K. [ex Find my Past database in 2012] HOBKIRK, Stephen, 1942: Died in Queensland, Australia. [Ex Australia Death Index 1787- 1985] HOBKIRK, Stewart, 1887: July He was a student who passed some exams, ? Law or medicine. Captain Heane, FRCS, FRAS passed him. It states ‘1st trial’ [ex “The Times” ??6.8.1887 page 3, column A] c/f Arthur HOPKIRK exams.
Company, Braemar [Aberdeen Weekly Journal, Aberdeen 14.9.1894] HOBKIRK, Street, 1853: [N.S.W., Australia] There was a Hobkirk Street in North Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, on 1.7.1853. An advertisement for Ferry Hotel said it was in Hobkirk Street. [? Which newspaper of Friday 1.7.1853] Note: 2011 November: I’ve contacted Wagga Council, and they say Hopkirk Street appears as early as on a 1849 map. They did not know the origin of the name. But it changed from Hopkirk to Hobkirk Street at some stage.
village of St. Ives in Cornwall, U.K. in the 1800’s. HOBKIRK, Stuart William Tatton, 1868-1940: Was born 17 February 1868 at Edinburgh parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian; Manchester Regiment; d.s.p. = ?died without issue; 4.1.1940 at St. Ives, Cornwall, UK. Resigned his commission 1890. In 1901, living in Cornwall with his stepfather, the Baron Farina. ? is also buried in Hobkirk family plot at Trelleck Parish Church in Gwent, Wales. See entry re his being an artist also. [ex “Shore Family of Norton Hall” – http://www.geocities.com/layedwyer/shore.htm] His parents = John Hobkirk (1825-1876) and Margaret Leishman (1846-1936 – she remarried Baron Farina) He was 1st son.
resigns his Commission. [“The Times”, London, 12.3.1890 page 11, column 2/C; + London Gazette 11.3.1890] HOBKIRK, Stuart William Tutton, 1890: His name is listed in the: [New Annual Army List, Militia List, and Yeomanry Cavalry List, ? for Bengal, 1890, page 310] Yüklə 2,66 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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