Hopkins Family Page
James Gordon CAMPBELL was born Leslie Gordon HOPKINS in 1907 in Faversham, Kent. He was the son of William Henry HOPKINS and Alice KEEN. He married Winifred Daisy CREASY in 1933 in Reigate, Surrey.
John HOPKINS married Mary BUSHELL at Birchington, Kent on 17 January 1769. John and Mary had six children: Thomas born 1769, John born 1770, William born 1772, Mary born 1774, Stephen born 1778 and Henry born 1780. Not a lot else is known about the family with any certainty. John probably served in the Light Dragoons from 1803 until 1814 when he was discharged on health grounds. William - see below. Mary married John GOLDFINCH on 14 December 1793 at Faversham. She died in 1861 and was buried at Canterbury on 17 January that year. She appears on the census for 1841 and 1851 as a widow living with her widowed brother Henry in Caterbury. Henry married Hannah SANKEY on 11 January 1808 at Canterbury but nothing else is known about their married life - there is another Henry Hopkins with wife Hannah living in Maidstone. Henry was buried at Canterbury on 29 September 1857.
William HOPKINS was born about 1772 on Isle of Thanet.He was the son of John and Mary Hopkins and was baptised at Birchington, Kent on 15 March 1772. He married Ann HINGE on 5 November 1800 at Boughton-Under-Blean, Kent. Ann was born in 1769 at Lynsted, Kent. William and Ann had six children; Mary Ann, Ann, Willam, John, Catherine and Edward. In 1841 William and Ann are living near the windmill in Preston, Faversham. William is working as an agricultural labourer. Living with them is Catherine, whose age is given as 25, and Edward whose age is also recorded as 25, he is also an agricultural labourer. Two other girls are recprded at this address: Emma, aged 3 and Sarah aged 1 month.These two girls are likely to be the daughters of Catherine. Births are recorded at Faversham for Emma, June Qtr 1838 and for Sarah Ann March Qtr 1941, no father's name recorded for either child. In 1842 at Faversham Sessions William was sentenced to 7 days imprisonment for larceny. In 1851 William and Ann are still living at Preston, no address is given but it is near the Mill House. It records that William is aged 80 and receiving Parish relief and that he was formerly an agricultural labourer born at Isle of Thanet. Ann is aged 66 and her birthplace is recorded as Lynsted, Kent. Catherine and Edward are still living with them, both born at Boughton. Catherines age is given as 38 and Edward as 35, he is an agricultural labourer. Emma and Sarah are also still living with them, aged 12 nad 10 years and both scholars. A grandson is also recorded but only by initils LR and he is aged 4 years. William died at Faversham, and was buried there on 16 September 1854. Ann was buried at Preston 23 June 1858.
Mary Ann was baptised on 19 April 1801 at Boughton-under-Blean. Ann was buries at Preston on 21 February 1832.
Ann - nothing more is known.
William - see William HOPKINS and Elizabeth KITE
John was baptised at 19 June 1808 at Boughton-under-Blean. Nothing more is known about him.
Catherine was baptised on 14 October 1810 at Boughton-under-Blean. I can find no record of a marriage for Catherine and nothing more after 1851 when she was living with her parents in a house near tha Old Mill, Preston. Catherine had at least two children; Emma born 1838 and Sarah born 1841. These two girls are includedin the census with Catherine and living with their grandparents in the 1841 and 1851 census. Catherine possibly had a son born about 1847, there is and entry on the census of 1851 for a male child with initials which could be F. R.
Edward was baptised 13 February 1814 at Boughton-under-Blean. Edward worked as an agricultural labourer and never married. In 1841 and 1851 he is living with his parents near the Old Mill at Preston, Faversham. In 1871 he is living in a house on his own at West Street, Faversham and in 1891 he is lodging at the Windmill Inn. He died the following year.
William Hopkins and Elizabeth Kite
Before he married Winifred, James was probably living in Reigate, Surrey with his sister Eva and her family. Sometime after he left home he changed his name from Leslie Gordon Hopkins to James Gordon Campbell. It was 1956 before he had official documents drawn up for this name change.