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Durham Completed Look up Requests / Re: Monumental inscriptions for Tow Law.
« on: Sunday 16 May 10 10:24 BST (UK)  »
Adam

That's interesting. It saves me some time because I would say it means John and William Hopwood are unrelated.
I have John and his wife Margaret in the 1891 census at Wolsingham so he may have moved from Towlaw upon his retirement in 1888. The geography is a little unclear to me as I am in Australia.

John was born in 1821 in Mold, Wales and moved to Consett as a coal miner in 1848. Various certificates list his descendants as Primitive Methodists. He moved to Towlaw in 1875 after working in various other collieries in Durham.

I have a copy of a news article sent to me by a distant relative referring to their Golden Wedding at Towlaw (which would have been in December 1891). It relates the main dates in his life and describes him as being an originator of the Durham Miners' Union and having chaired a mass meeting 'on Willington Battery with Tommy Ramsay as speaker.' I have a possible death reference to a John Hopwood in 1898 in Weardale.
I thank you for the further information you have detailed.

Kind Regards

Geoff

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Durham Completed Look up Requests / Re: Monumental inscriptions for Tow Law.
« on: Thursday 13 May 10 14:31 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Adam.

I'll have to investigate those names further.

I was looking for John Hopwood who moved to Towlaw in 1875 at the age of 54 with his wife. I think he died around 1898. So he was in the same generation to the inscriptions of those you have mentioned.

I very much appreciate your helpful and prompt reply.

Geoff

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Durham Completed Look up Requests / Re: Monumental inscriptions for Tow Law.
« on: Wednesday 12 May 10 13:38 BST (UK)  »
Do you have any information on inscriptions for Hopwood?

Thanks

Geoff

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