When John Hope was born on 14 April 1786, in Mindrum, Northumberland, England, his father, Thomas Hope, was 27 and his mother, Isabel Tait, was 25. He married Jane Cairns about 1809, in England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Canada in 1851. He died in 1865, in Otonabee Township, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 79.
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The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
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Scottish and English: topographic name for someone who lived in or near a ‘remote enclosed place’, from Middle English and Older Scots hop(e) (Old English hop); or else a habitational name from any of several places called Hope in Cheshire, Devon, Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Kent, Lancashire, Shropshire, and North Yorkshire. A hop most often denoted a distant, secluded valley, especially in the West Midlands, northern England, and southern Scotland, but in Essex, Kent, and Sussex it usually referred to an enclosed piece of land or a promontory in a marsh or in wasteland. In other cases, the name may refer to someone who lived at a small landlocked bay or inlet, or who came from a place so named, such as Stanford le Hope in Essex, Middle Hope in Somerset, and Hope by Bolt Head in Devon (Middle English hop(e), Old English hōp, Old Norse hóp). The surname is also established in Ireland.
Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads, notably in Hordaland, from Old Norse hóp ‘narrow bay’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Lespérance ‘hope’ (see Lesperance ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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