Richard HOPKINS

  General Notes:

Joan Hopkins' research indicates that: "Richard is from the Townland of Corrandogg, Parish of Moyne, County Wicklow, Coolattin Estate. The family sailed from Dublin on the barque 'Industry' (a three-master) on April 1846, and landed in Quebec City, May 30, 1846. According to research at the Canadian Archives, Richard Hopkins and his party of 5 adults, 5 children under fourteen and one under four, along with 9 cwt. of baggage, were transported from Hamilton, ON to Guelph, ON, a distance of 36 miles, on June 13, 1846. In Ireland he had lived as a tenant on the large Coolattin estate of Lord Fitzwilliam. When the Fitzwilliam family sold the estate in the 1970's they donated 250 years of estate records to the National Archives in Dublin." Donna (Hopkins) Graham reports: "Their seventh child, James, was born in Bentink Twp. in Grey Cty in 1847. He cleared land and farmed in Bentinck Twp., Grey County, Ontario. He later moved to Euphrasia Twp. with his youngest son James, first to farm and then, after retirement, they lived in a house next to their son James."

They travelled overland June 13, 1846 (Canadian Archives) Richard travelled with Martha's brother Charles Hopkins 1793 and his wife Hannah to Grey Co. There are handwritten teamster records available at the Canadian Archives. Charles Hopkins 1793, Martha Hopkins 1802 and Charlotte Hopkins Hutton 1801 are the children of Charles Hopkins 1760 and Margaret Edge 1760 and all settled in Grey.


The Hopkins family intermarried with the descendants of John Code (1787-1867) and John Wright of Ramsay. Members of this family may certainly have joined the exodus to Western Ontario - including Grey County - which occurred from Ramsay about 1850. www.yclc.ca/indexze.html

  Noted events in his life were:

• He immigrated to , , Grey County, ON.

Richard married Martha HOPKINS, daughter of Charles HOPKINS and Margaret EDGE, in 1828 in , Cty Wicklow, Ireland. (Martha HOPKINS was born in 1802 in Shillelagh or Tinahely, Wicklow. Ireland, died in 1882 in , Euphrasia Twp., , ON and was buried in 1882 in , Euphrasia Twp., , ON.)