[Hooper] [HOOPER] English Hoopers

[Deanna Baumgardner]

Mickey:  Thank you for noting there is no proof that Richard was the  
father of Obadiah Hooper.  We need to move on and investigate further;  
these are my nominations:

Early Virginia Immigrants 1623-1666
Surname G-H
Hooper, John 1643 by Thomas Wheeler, Chas City County VA

Hooper, Thomas
  Virginia Colonial Records 1600s – 1700s
Early Virginia immigrants 1623-1666
Surname G-H 1635 by William Barker, Chas City County, VA.
Charles City County Court orders 1658-1661

William Hooper, aged 22, appears in court in Charles  City  County  in  
1658

St. Paul's Parish, Hanover VA. James Hooper 1723.At a Vestry held 16  
Apr 1723. "In obedience to an order of Ct. date 1 Feb 1723, appointing  
John Tinsley to be Surveyor of a Road to be cleared from Crumps Creek,  
by Richard Corley to the road by Edward Chambers Senior, James Hooper,  
Col. Birds Middle Quarter, with all their male tithables to assist  
him, to clear & maintain the said road.


  Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Record  about  
Joseph Hooper
Name: Joseph HooperYear: 1729 Place: Virginia-Source Publication Code:  
8925 Primary Immigrant: Hooper, Joseph

Annotation: Alphabetical list of immigrants to Virginia, 1635-1800,  
from a variety of sources

Accounts of Store of Francis Jerdone year of 1736, Hanover Town.  
Hanover, VA (where Obadiah Hooper is reported to have been born)

Listed accounts for the following: John Hooper, William Hooper and  
James Hooper.

Deanna Hooper Baumgardner


On Aug 11, 2008, at 3:46 PM, mickey wrote:

> There is no prove that Richard was the father, that story came from  
> the Word
> family many years ago. According to their chart Richard was 10 when  
> he had
> Obediah.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Hooper" <jwhooper at gmail.com>
> To: <hooper at rootsweb.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 4:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [HOOPER] English Hoopers
>
>
>> For some reason I never thought of that: the English Hooper direct  
>> male
>> descendents are the best, if not only, hope for us to ever know  
>> where the
>> founding American Hooper ancestors (in my case Richard Hooper,  
>> father of
>> Obediah) came from.  Imagine how many more cousins we might have  
>> all over
>> the world!
>>
>> John W. Hooper
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Linda Erland <svjewels at pacbell.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> And that's where DNA testing comes in!   If all the English Hoopers
>>> would join the American Hoopers in submitting samples for DNA  
>>> testing,
>>> it would help to sort out the groups.   I think it would be a very
>>> exciting project.   I would suggest you check out
>>> http://hooperconnections.com/
>>>
>>> Blebley Ball wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Philip and list members,
>>>> I too am descended from English HOOPERs with two lines.First  
>>>> going back
>>>> to
>>> William HOOPER  chr 10 April 1709 in Perrazabuloe, Cornwall;  
>>> second going
>>> back to George HOOPER born about 1656 in Horsington, Somersetshire.
>>> Descendants of both these lines of HOOPER emigrated to New Zealand  
>>> but
>>> do
>>> not know the movements of other members of these families.
>>>> However, on this occasion it is the origin of the name that has  
>>>> prompted
>>> me to reply as I always understood that a 'hooper' was the man who  
>>> made
>>> the
>>> hoops of iron that fitted round the barrels and those that where  
>>> fitted
>>> over
>>> the rims of wooden wheels.  I agree, Philip, that because the name  
>>> came
>>> from
>>> a trade there will be many unrelated families.
>>>> Beverley
>>>> Palmerston North, NZ
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>>> From: Philip TWEEDIE <philip at ptweedie.fsnet.co.uk>
>>>>
>>>> So far, I have found that the name Hooper is very common in  
>>>> Devon; and
>>> that
>>>> it is an old form of Cooper, that is people who made barrels. So I
>>>> suspect
>>>> many of the Hooper families will be unconnected.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Philip Tweedie
>>>>
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