John Hopkins  m. Emma Bond (1880 ish)
1. Gladys m. Hill NZ
2. 1898? Stanley Osborne Hopkins m. Susan Mary Smith (Parents William Hall Smith , Mary nee Woolliams) Auckland NZ
3. May m. Skipworth NZ
4. John Henry Hopkins NZ
5. Charles Gordon (Dean) Hopkins NZ

2. Stanley Osborne Hopkins m. Mary Smith Auckland NZ
1. Rodney John Gordon Hopkins b.1924
2. Trevor d.
3. Joan Mary b. 1930 m. L Alexander 1952

Notes to [email protected]

Other surnames
Hamilton ; Service
 Woolliams
 Hopkins
 

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Letter from:  Marlene Blood 31A John Davis Rd. (My additions in italics)
 AUCKLAND
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24/4/96

Dear Anne

t&t4t~
 

Please accept my apologies for not answering your letter sooner I had lent all my files to another relative and have had to remind him several times to let me have them back.  However now I have them so to answer your letter.

Robert Woolliams m. Elizabeth ?
(occ. tailor Maugersbury Glouchestershire England)

William Charles Woolliarns  was born in Broadwell, Gloucestershaire on 23/6/1630 and was first married to Priscilla Matilda Mace sometime in 1851.   They had three children:
Sarah    born 1851
Elizabeth born 1854
Albert   born 1857
 Priscilla died 1861
William Charles married Rebecca Wilsdon Adams in 1864.  It seems that Rebecca had a child before she married William Charles.  The child was Laura Margaret and she was born in 1862.  William and Rebecca had five children of their own.
 Frank born 1864
John Charles born 1866 - grandfather of Marlene Blood
 Tom born 1867
 Louis born 1870
 Mary born 1871
The family excluding Sarah but including Laura sailed for New Zealand on the William Davie.  They left London on 10/1/1875 and arrived in Dunedin on 22/4/1875.  William Charles was listed as a Carpenter and the cost of their passage was One hundred and Twenty Three pounds five shillings.  Travelling with them was a 19 year old girl named Emily Minton, I dont know if she was to help with the children or not but they appeared to have paid for her passage.

Elizabeth married a William Broadbent and they settled in the South Island.
Albert married Bessie Baggett and they also settled in the South Island
Frank married a part maori Lady called Sarah Edwards and ther finally settled in Papakura (I am in contact with their grandson who is married and has four boys so he is doing his bit to keep the family name going.)
John Charles married Elizabeth navies and they settled in Marton but eventually came to Hawera.
Tom married Henrietta McKay and they later settled in Hawera. Louis of course you would know about and
Mary - I dont know a lot about she married William Hall Smith in Hawkes Bay. They had Susan Mary, Marjorie, Violet, Tommy and Louis. Susan was my Mum (m. Stan Hopkins).

Laura as I have said came to New Zealand as well and her name is recorded as Woolliams on the passenger list but not on her birth certificate so I dont~know if William Charles adopted her or not.