Frances Louisa HOOKINS (Tree T)

Frances is significant for the fact that she is the 1600th name to be added to my Family Tree database. Her parents were John HOOKIN(G)S and Amelia (nee FINCH). John seems to have been registered in the name of HOOKINGS as was their marriage in Salperton Parish Church in December 1874 when John was a Servant but later he became a Coachman Domestic Servant and later still a Domestic Gardener. Frances Louisa was their firstborn being born at the beginning of 1875 in the name of HOOKINS but has not previously appeared on my records of the family as she was not with the family in the 1891 Census. I do not appear to have found the family yet on the 1881 and 1901 Censuses but she did turn up with the family in 1911 when they lived at Trelawney Road in Brislington, Bristol. Her siblings were Edmund George born in 1877, Ellen Mary born in 1879 both born in the name of HOOKINGS, Desmond born in 1885 recorded it seems as HOOKINGS and HOOKINS but one may have been a correction, and Florence Beatrice born 1890 as HOOKINS. In 1911 Florence was a Parlour Maid to the family of a retired Vinegar Maker in Clifton, Bristol as HOOKINS. Ellen Mary was in Queens Gate in London as Housemaid to the family of a Barrister as HOSKINS. I may have to follow some of the lines on to the next generation to find out which name they actually all ended up with but I am glad that the 1911 Census enabled me to restore Frances to her rightful place in the family.