When John Hopps was born on 1 January 1849, in England, United Kingdom, his father, Benjamin Hopps, was 44 and his mother, Margaret Banks, was 26. He married Ellen Hoey on 27 February 1876, in Hastings, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Northumberland and Durham, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years and Seymour Township, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada in 1891. He died on 14 May 1922, in Northumberland, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 73, and was buried in Sterling, Orange Free State, South Africa.
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Sand River Convention. Britain recognizes Transvaal as the independent Afrikaner South African Republic.
The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
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English (North Yorkshire and Durham): variant of Hobbs with unvoicing of /b/.
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