Sarah Hopkins

Brief Life History of Sarah

When Sarah Hopkins was born on 3 September 1803, in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Samuel Hopkins, was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth Frances Fanny Pratt, was 29. She married Charles Chrisp on 13 April 1821, in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 26 December 1868, at the age of 65.

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Family Time Line

Charles Chrisp
1800–1851
Sarah Hopkins
1803–1868
Marriage: 13 April 1821
Elizabeth Martin Chrisp
1821–1898
Samuel Chrisp
about 1823–
Ann Chrisp
1825–
Sarah Chrisp
1831–1912
Thomas Chrisp
1834–
Mary Chrisp
1836–
James Chrisp
1840–
Jane Chrisp
1841–1844
William Chrisp
1842–

Sources (34)

  • Sarah Crisp, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
  • Sarah Hopkins, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
  • Sarah Hopkins, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"

World Events (6)

1808 · The British West Africa Squadron

The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.

1815

The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.

about 1823

Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.

Name Meaning

English and Welsh (Glamorgan): variant of Hopkin with genitival or excrescent -s. In Ireland, where the name is also frequent, it is sometimes Gaelicized as Mac Oibicín.

History: Stephen Hopkins (c. 1580–1644) was a pilgrim on the Mayflower in 1620 and one of the founders of Plymouth Colony. At his death he left seven children and eighteen grandchildren.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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