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Families covered: Hopwood of Hopwood
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Foster identifies the arms of this family as "Paly of six, argent and vert, in dexter chief an escallop shell of the first". | |||||||||||||||
James Hopwood of Hopwood, Lancashire | |||||||||||||||
m. ?? Langeley (dau of Thomas Langeley of Agecrofte) | |||||||||||||||
1. | Thomas Hopwood of Hopwood | ||||||||||||||
m. Margaret Damport (dau of William Damport of Cheshire) | |||||||||||||||
A. | John Hopwood of Hopwood | ||||||||||||||
m1. Margery or Margaret Assheton (dau of Sir Richard Assheton of Middleton) | |||||||||||||||
i. | Edmund Hopwood of Hopwood | ||||||||||||||
m1. Anne Talbot (dau of John Talbot of Sallesbury) | |||||||||||||||
a. | John Hopwood of Hopwood | ||||||||||||||
m. Elizabeth Manley (dau of Nicholas Manley of Pulton (Poulton)) | |||||||||||||||
(1) | Edmund Hopwood of Hopwood (d 1612) | ||||||||||||||
m. Alice Ashton (dau of Edmund Ashton of Chadderton) | |||||||||||||||
Flower ends showing the children of Edmund & Alice as John, Edmond, Jane, Anne & Alice. | |||||||||||||||
(A) | John Hopwood of Hopwood the first mentioned by Dugdale | ||||||||||||||
m. Dorothy Holt (dau of Charles Holt of Stubley) | |||||||||||||||
(i) | Edmund Hopwood of Hopwood (b c1599, bur 06.02.1665-6, 2nd son) | ||||||||||||||
m. Dorothy Ashton (dau of Rev, Edward Ashton of Middleton) | |||||||||||||||
(a) | John Hopwood of Hopwood (b c1623, d 1689-90) | ||||||||||||||
m. Elizabeth Lever (dau of John Lever of Alkrinton) | |||||||||||||||
((1)) | John Hopwood of Hopwood (bur 20.06.1700) | ||||||||||||||
m. Elizabeth Norris (dau of Thomas Norris or Norreys of Speke) probably wife of this John, possibly mother of ... | |||||||||||||||
((A)) | Edmund Hopwood of Hopwood (dsp 1758) | ||||||||||||||
((B)) | Robert Hopwood of Hopwood (dsp 1762) | ||||||||||||||
Subject to leaving it to his wife for the remainder of her life, Robert bequeathed Hopwood Hall to Edward Gregge who then assumed the name Gregge-Hopwood. Apparently this was because of "Services rendered during the incursion of the Young Pretender in 1745". | |||||||||||||||
m. ?? (d 1773) | |||||||||||||||
((2)) | Ralph Hopwood mentioned by VCH but not by Dugdale | ||||||||||||||
VCH identifies Ralph as ancestor of the Hopwoods of Horsedge in Oldham and Rhodes Green in Great Heaton. | |||||||||||||||
((A)) | daughter cousin of Robert Hopwood of Hopwood, possibly fits here | ||||||||||||||
m. (sp) Richard Chadwick (b 1698, d 1754) | |||||||||||||||
((3))+ | other issue - Edmund (b 1646-7, dvp 1671), Robert (d infant), Thomas, Katherine, Elizabeth, Alice, Dorothy, Sarah, Anne | ||||||||||||||
(b) | Anne Hopwood | ||||||||||||||
m. John Sandford of High Ash | |||||||||||||||
(c) | Mary Hopwood | ||||||||||||||
m. Lawrence Ingham of Rochedale | |||||||||||||||
(d)+ | other issue - Edmund (d young), Thomas, Robert, William, Dorothy (d unm), Priscilla (d unm), Elizabeth, Katherine | ||||||||||||||
(ii) | Priscilla Hopwood | ||||||||||||||
m. Toby Tunstall of Yorkshire | |||||||||||||||
(iii) | Mary Hopwood | ||||||||||||||
m. Francis Chadwick of Nackbank | |||||||||||||||
(iv) | Winifred Hopwood | ||||||||||||||
m. John Hulton of Darley | |||||||||||||||
(v)+ | other issue - Edmund (d young), Elizabeth (d unm?) | ||||||||||||||
(B) | Isabella Hopwood (d 1643) probably of this generation, born after 1567? | ||||||||||||||
m. (09.08.1609) Savile or Saville Radclyffe of Todmorden (b c1583, bur 29.09.1652/1664) | |||||||||||||||
(C)+ | other issue - Edmond, Jane, Anne, Alice | ||||||||||||||
It may have been one of the daughters who married ... | |||||||||||||||
m. Robert Holt of Ashworth | |||||||||||||||
(2) | Catherine Hopwood | ||||||||||||||
m. Geffrey Holcroft of Hurst (d 1590-1) | |||||||||||||||
b. | Anne Hopwood | ||||||||||||||
m1. Richard Urmston of Westerleigh | |||||||||||||||
m2. Richard Valantyne of Beauclyff | |||||||||||||||
m2. Jenett Gerard (dau of William Gerard of Inch) | |||||||||||||||
c. | Elizabeth Hopwood | ||||||||||||||
m. Rauf Belfelde | |||||||||||||||
m3. Jane Marland (dau of Henry Marland of Ashton-under-Lyne) | |||||||||||||||
d. | Robert Hopwood (dsp) | ||||||||||||||
ii. | Elizabeth Hopwood | ||||||||||||||
m. Thomas Chetham of Nuthurst (b c1489, d 1546) | |||||||||||||||
iii.+ | other issue (dsp) - Thomas, Richard | ||||||||||||||
It appears that John also married ... | |||||||||||||||
m2. Isabel Towneley (dau of Sir Richard Towneley of Towneley, widow of Sir John Talbot of Salesbury (who d 1515-6)) | |||||||||||||||
v. | Anne Hopwood mentioned in Talbot pedigree in 'History of Whalley' | ||||||||||||||
m. Francis Paslew | |||||||||||||||
B. | Anne Hopwood | ||||||||||||||
m. Thomas Langhton of Lincolnshire | |||||||||||||||
C. | Alice Hopwood | ||||||||||||||
m. _ Dymocke (of near Bever Castle) | |||||||||||||||
D.+ | other issue - Robert, Rauf, Margaret | ||||||||||||||
2.+ | other issue - John, William | ||||||||||||||
Main source(s): Visitation (Flower, Lancashire, 1567, 'Hopwood of Hopwood'), Visitation (Dugdale, Lancashire, 1664-5, 'Hopwood of Hopwood'), VCH (Lancashire, vol 5, 'Townships: Hopwood')
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