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Hi Karen.
I hope it is OK to list your tree?
I have a dna match with Alicia Reade, who has people in her family tree with the name Syiem.

Joseph Hooper. Born 11 March 1800, The Hamlet, Ratcliff, Stepney, Middlesex. Occ: Clerk, Bank of England.  Probate - Letters of Administration Name   Joseph Hooper
Death Date   11 Jan 1858   Death Place   Middlesex, England
Probate Date   4 Feb 1858   Probate Registry   Principal Registry
'.... late of Alpha Villa, London Road, Clapton in the County of Middlesex   Clerk in the Bank of England  deceased who died 11 January 1858 at Alpha Villa aforesaid were Granted at the Principle Registry to Harriet Hooper of Alpha Villa aforesaid Widow the Relict of the said deceased she having been first sworn. 
A note next to the entry, in handwriting, says that 'Admin of Goods unadministered passed Principle Registry March 1880'.
Another entry for 31st March 1880 - the widow Harriet Hooper having left it unadministered. This time Admin is granted to his son William Henry Hooper, Clerk in the Bank of England, of East Avenue Walthamstow Essex, the son and one of the Next of Kin.  I.e. 22 years later.
This gives the same death date and location - Alpha Villa, on 11 January 1858.

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I see that he is a clerk by 1841 but that doesn’t make him wealthy

My thought too.
Having a servant doesn't either. Even working class people had servants.
As for being a Gentleman this may apply to anyone above working class who usually had independent means but not always.
As a carpenter he may have regarded himself as upper working class. The Vautins may have been lower middle so not much of a glass ceiling to break through.

He had a career in the Bank of England, moved upwards by the look of it. The Vautin family were certainly not poor, doing OK.  As active and committed non-conformist Christians, they would live and behave modestly, and would look after their finances responsibly.

Hi, belatedly.
Hannah Hooper m James Vautin: parents of Hannah Hooper were John Hooper and Mary Calder.
John Hooper would have been born about 1858, could have been anywhere. There are a number of Hooper families in the area, in Wapping, Stepney, Limehouse, Spitalfields, Hackney - just not possible to know if he is of any of them or from elsewhere. First appears, assuming it is the same John Hooper, 1782 - 1784 in Butcher Row, Ratcliffe, Stepney, renting a house at £9 week (so not of the poorest people in the area). 1785 - 1818 he is at Cock Hill, nearby, renting a house at £10 10s.  The rent goes up to £15, so maybe he rented more of the property or it just goes up. He was at 1 Cock Hill, a house and a shop. He was a tailor and slop-seller (ready made clothes). He also rented a house etc at 25 Shadwell Hight Street in 1825, with his son, where he was a tailor and slop-manufacturer. From 1818 the land tax records show John Hooper living at Brooke Street, Ratcliffe, and no longer at Cock Hill. In 1825 he was still a slop-seller, from his grandson's birth record.

On 23rd April 1789 he married Mary Calder, at St Katherine by the Tower.   His home parish was St Dunstans, Stepney, Middlesex, England.  Which covers Ratcliffe.  Witnesses were William Emmerson and Will? Davis. 
Mary Calder was born 26 Nov. Mile End Old Town, Stepney, Middlesex. Her parents were William Calder, a market gardener, and Mary Atkinson.  William Calder and family were in Old Ealing, Brentford, Middlesex (he a gardener - this was a major fruit growing area serving London) before they moved down to Stepney, where he rented land for market gardening.

John Hooper and Mary Calder had six children: Samuel, Hannah, Georgiana, David, John and Joseph. They were non-conformists, so the births and baptisms are not recorded in the Anglican records. They are in the England & Wales Christening Register as well.  Cannot find Mary Calder's death or burial, but John Hooper died on 6 March 1838 at his son John's house at Millwall, Poplar, Middlesex, England.

The children's births -   see Piece 4661-1: Dr Williams' Library Registry, Birth Certificates, 1805-1812, and the England & Wales Christening Registers.

Hannah Hooper: born 26 Sep 1792 in Ratcliffe, Stepney, Middlesex (probably at home at 1 Cock Hill).
Married James Vautin at St Mary, Stratford le Bow, Tower Hamlets, Middlesex, England, on 26 September 1819. Witnesses were John Hooper, Joseph Hooper, James Vautin and Eliza Vautin.

Hannah Hooper/Vautin's aunt, Hannah Calder, married William Emmerson, who was a witness at the marriage of John Hooper and Mary Calder. He was probably the Wm Emmerson who was a captain of a ship, and a widower. He died in 1796, and had not changed his will since before his second marriage, so his daughter inherited.  Hannah Calder/Emmerson ended up living with her brother-in-law John Hooper at Cock Hill.

James Vautin baptised some of the Hooper family children, Hannah Hooper/Vautin's nephews and nieces, at the non-conformist Stepney meeting - I take it this is James Vautin senior?

Hi all.

I am uploading a Brockway photo for Knysh, which has not scanned in very well. My mother said that it is probably Mary Ann Brockway, one of Emma Brockway's sisters. If that is correct, she would be sister-in-law to J B Shadwell.