9 Station Road, Gillingham, Kent
Hookins Links
Sunday, October 13, 2024
Sidney Arthur HOOKINS (Tree 4A)
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Sidney Arthur HOOKINS (Tree I)
Monday, November 20, 2023
Sarah HOOKINS (Tree 3Q)
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Samuel HOOKINS (Tree M)
This Samuel HOOKINS was born on Christmas Day 1852 in Kings Brompton. He was the 2nd of 11 children born to William HOOKINS and his wife Charlotte (nee FARMER). His baptism, recorded as HOOKINGS, took place at the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Brompton Regis just 4 days after his birth. He therefore first appears in the Census returns in 1861 with the family name given as HOOKINGS. The family were at Great Smallmoor in Kings Brompton where Samuel lived with his parents and 4 siblings.
By 1871, again under the HOOKINGS name, Samuel was an indoor servant at Vinnicombe towards Exeter with the family of James QUICK whilst his own family lived a few miles away in the hamlet of Bury.
On 25 September 1873 Samuel married Margaret Hannah HOWE at Kings Brompton Parish Church. At that stage Samuel is described as a Miner. Margaret already had a son, Henry WOOD born 1871, whose father was John WOOD. Further children were born as a result of Samuel's union with Margaret - William born as HOOKINGS in Kings Brompton in 1875, Elizabeth born in Luxborough in 1877, and James born Brendon Hill in 1879.
The HOOKINGS name continues in the 1881 Census where Samuel is living at Brendon Hill, Old Cleeve with Margaret + Henery (spelling) now taking the HOOKINGS name, William, Elizabeth and James. Two more children, John in 1881, and George in 1885 were born before the next Census in 1891 where we find that Samuel had moved his family to the South Wales coalfields to pursue his mining career. He lived at Nailers Cottage in Risca with Margaret and all 6 children.
However a change of career seems to have happened at some time during the next 10 years as by the 1901 Census Samuel HOOKINGS was an Innkeeper in Risca where he lived with Margaret and 4 of their children. Daughter Elizabeth had married in 1895. Henry is now using his mother's maiden name of HOWE which he continues to use when with his own family in the 1911 Census.
Margaret died in April 1902 in Newport at which time Samuel was the Innkeeper of the Western Valleys Inn in Pontymeister. Samuel remarried in 1903 as HOOKINGS with his wife Elizabeth WILSON being 20 years his junior.
After his mining days and subsequent dabbling in the pub trade, Samuel makes a further random career diversion for, by 1911 he is a Fish Fryer living with Elizabeth at 29 Clive Road in Cardiff!
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Samuel HOOKINS (Tree A)
This Samuel HOOKINS was my great great grandfather and was born on 3 December 1830. He was the 2nd of 8 children born to Robert HOOKINS and his wife Mary Ann (nee FOXWELL). He was baptised just 16 days later (as HOOKINGS - a common transcription error in our family's history) at St John the Baptist Church in Wellington, Somerset.
In the Census for 1841 Samuel was living at Pitt Cottages in Wellington with his parents and 4 siblings, all again recorded as HOOKINGS. In 1851 he is not living with the family and has not yet been located elsewhere but on 8 July 1854 he married Eliza SANDY at Pawlett Parish Church still recorded as HOOKINGS! The interior of the church pictured below shows where they would have stood to recite their vows to each other.
Monday, January 30, 2023
Samuel HOOKINS (Tree A)
Thursday, December 1, 2022
Robert HOOKINS (Tree 3Q)
This next Robert was born on 10 June 1831 as the 4th of 8 children born to John HOOKINS and his wife Ann (nee SOUTHEY). He was baptised at Holy Trinity in Exeter on 18 July 1833.
Friday, September 30, 2022
Robert HOOKINS (Tree 3Q)
Saturday, July 2, 2022
Robert HOOKINS (Tree A)
My namesake Robert HOOKINS appears on my own Family Tree and was baptised in the church at Brompton Ralph.
Saturday, May 7, 2022
Reginald William HOOKINS (Tree M)
Sunday, February 27, 2022
Lyddon Charnock HOOKINS (Tree A)
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Lucy HOOKINS Tree 3Q
Monday, November 29, 2021
Leonard Alfred HOOKINS (Tree A)
Leonard Arthur HOOKINS was born on 13 January 1890 in Nottingham, the 5th child born to William HOOKINS and his wife Ellen Jane (nee FISHER). His father was a Minister in the Methodist Church.
10 years later the 1901 Census finds the family back in England living at 27 Steade Road in Eccleshall, Sheffield.
Leonard lived there with his parents + 5 siblings as 2 others had been born and one other was not now present with the family as he was in the armed forces.
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Joseph John HOOKINS (Misc Tree)
Joseph John HOOKINS was born in Southwark in 1816, the second of 3 children born to Glassblower John HOOKINS and his wife Amy. His baptism took place in Southwark on 9 Mar 1817.
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
John Lyddon HOOKINS (Tree A)
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
John HOOKINS (Tree K)
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
John HOOKINS (Tree 3Q)
Monday, June 7, 2021
Jeffrey Charles HOOKINS (Tree D)
Jeffrey Charles HOOKINS was born on 6 September 1889 at 50 Camden Street, Camden Town.
Sunday, May 2, 2021
James HOOKINS (Tree 2L)
Friday, April 9, 2021
James HOOKINS (Tree A)
James HOOKINS, who appears on my own Family Tree, was born either in 1833 or 1834. He was the 2nd of 5 children born to John HOOKINS and his wife Sarah (nee HAYES), although the eldest son was to die in August 1834. James was baptised in the local Parish Church in the village of Brompton Ralph on 27 April 1834.
At the first nationally recorded Census in 1841 James was living (as HOOKINGS) with his parents and the remaining 3 siblings at Park Cottage, Brompton Ralph.
Thursday, March 11, 2021
James HOOKINS (Tree M)
James HOOKINS was born on 4 November 1857 at Kings Brompton and was registered as HOOKINGS (unfortunately an all too frequent occurrence!). He was baptised later that month on the 29th at the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Brompton Regis.
Friday, February 5, 2021
Henry Lethbridge HOOKINS (Tree 3Q)
Henry Lethbridge HOOKINS was born on 9 May 1819 in the St Thomas district of Exeter. He was the 2nd son of 4 born to Robert HOOKINS and his wife Anne (nee WESTCOTT) in what was Robert's second marriage. He had an older brother called Henry but he must have died prior to Henry's birth to enable him to take the name. Henry Lethbridge was baptised in St Thomas the Apostle Church in Exeter on 1 July 1821 together with his younger brother.