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Carlow / Re: James Hopkins Born 1879 County Carlow - Hopkins Family Tree
« on: Friday 14 June 19 05:53 BST (UK)  »
Thank You Rufy G. I will have to dig out the Eire map and locate these places. The names, of course, are familiar. We grew up with the jests that our great-grandfather Hopkins was a prolific sire. Actually that came from my Dad, not a Hopkins. In the conformity of the post-war fifties, the ideal of nuclear family with one spouse for life held sway. Some realists were wont to poke some holes in that rigid stereotype.

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Carlow / Re: James Hopkins Born 1879 County Carlow - Hopkins Family Tree
« on: Monday 20 May 19 04:14 BST (UK)  »
This is Peggy Lynn Sherrell (Hopkins) checking in with the Hopkins clan of Tullow, County Carlow. Since 2017 there have been transatlantic meetings of these kins. Linn actually located some descendants of the elusive James, and included them on Facebook. Still many mysteries to solve.

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Carlow / Re: James Hopkins Born 1879 County Carlow - Hopkins Family Tree
« on: Sunday 26 February 17 08:20 GMT (UK)  »
Margaret McWilliams was my great-grandmother. Her daughter Margaret Hopkins left Ireland as the third of a chain migration in the early nineteen hundreds. Her brother Jack Hopkins was the first state trooper of New York state, he liked to say, since he was the first man sworn-in of the first graduating class of New York State troopers. As a wee lass I loved to hear the siblings talk in their lilting brogue. Uncle Jack had two wives, also, and his first daughter, Peggy Hopkins drove cross country in the nineteen-fifties through the Columbia Gap to become a social working in Tacoma, Washington. I enjoyed her stories and family tales before she died a few years ago, in Tacoma.

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Carlow / Re: James Hopkins Born 1879 County Carlow - Hopkins Family Tree
« on: Sunday 26 February 17 08:11 GMT (UK)  »

Uncle Jack Hopkins came to America to join his older sisters  Sarah, Anna, and Margaret Susan Hopkins, my grandmother. The sisters came to Rochester, New York. Uncle Jack became the first State Trooper of New York State. I can send you a picture. My grandmother Margaret Susan, born in  1885 in County Carlow, took the Oceanic to New York in 1903.  I was named after both my grandmother, Margaret, and my great-grandmother, Margaret McWilliams.
There are several other descendants in the Rochester area who are interested in the genealogy. One of them started a group in the nineteen-nineties called "The Daughters of Margaret".
My sisters and I are traveling to Ireland, and Carlow, in late June and early July 2017. We hope to find the house at 7 the Course, Tullow, where the family lived. We hope to find the grave of Margaret McWilliams and Nicholas Hopkins.

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