Thomas Reginald Hooper
(1879 - )
Thomas Reginald Hooper|b. 1879|p441.htm#i4747|Thomas Hooper|b. s 1855|p440.htm#i4740|Georgianna Grigg|b. 2 Feb 1846|p363.htm#i4741|||||||William Grigg|b. s 1820|p363.htm#i4742|Hannah Hobbs||p427.htm#i4743|
Thomas Reginald Hooper was born in 1879 at Victoria, Australia. He was the son of Thomas Hooper and Georgianna Grigg.
unnamed Hooper
(11 September 1805 - )
unnamed Hooper|b. 11 Sep 1805|p441.htm#i16547|John Hooper|b. 1 Jul 1777|p436.htm#i16197|Helen Smith||p749.htm#i16542|Robert Hooper|b. 11 Oct 1737|p439.htm#i16183|Elisabeth Archbald||p21.htm#i16195|||||||
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Unnamed Hooper was christened on 11 September 1805 at Kelso, Roxburghshire. He was the son of John Hooper and Helen Smith.
unnamed Hooper
(8 June 1729 - )
unnamed Hooper|b. 8 Jun 1729|p441.htm#i16555|Henry or Harry Hooper|b. 9 Jan 1686/87|p435.htm#i16548|Elspeth Malcolm||p536.htm#i16550|Alexander Hooper|b. b 1665|p432.htm#i16562|Isabel Hoggart||p429.htm#i16563|||||||
Unnamed Hooper was christened on 8 June 1729 at Sprouston, Roxburghshire. He was the son of Henry or Harry Hooper and Elspeth Malcolm.
unnamed Hooper
(22 April 1734 - )
unnamed Hooper|b. 22 Apr 1734|p441.htm#i16556|Henry or Harry Hooper|b. 9 Jan 1686/87|p435.htm#i16548|Elspeth Malcolm||p536.htm#i16550|Alexander Hooper|b. b 1665|p432.htm#i16562|Isabel Hoggart||p429.htm#i16563|||||||
Unnamed Hooper was christened on 22 April 1734 at Sprouston, Roxburghshire. He was the son of Henry or Harry Hooper and Elspeth Malcolm.
unnamed Hooper
(1 November 1641 - )
unnamed Hooper|b. 1 Nov 1641|p441.htm#i16633|Henry Hooper|b. b 1620|p435.htm#i16627|Margaret Donaldson||p272.htm#i16626|||||||||||||
Unnamed Hooper was christened on 1 November 1641 at Stitchill, Roxburghshire. He was the son of Henry Hooper and Margaret Donaldson.
unnamed Hooper
(8 January 1760 - )
unnamed Hooper|b. 8 Jan 1760|p441.htm#i16597|Robert Hooper|b. 13 Dec 1713|p439.htm#i16622|Janet Ker||p471.htm#i16587|Joseph Hooper|b. c 1690|p437.htm#i16616|Janet Row||p680.htm#i16617|||||||
Unnamed Hooper was christened on 8 January 1760 at Kelso, Roxburghshire. She was the daughter of Robert Hooper and Janet Ker.
Valentine Hooper
(1925 - 1925)
Valentine Hooper|b. 1925\nd. 1925|p441.htm#i29435|Walter Henry Hooper|b. c Sep 1900|p441.htm#i29429|Julia Carter|b. 1901\nd. 1989|p143.htm#i29433|Walter E. Hooper|b. 19 Dec 1876\nd. 1937|p441.htm#i29421|Annie J. Styles||p808.htm#i29427|||||||
Valentine died in 1925. He was about six weeks old. He was born in 1925. He was the son of Walter Henry Hooper and Julia Carter.
Walter Edmund Hooper
(19 December 1876 - 1937)
Walter Edmund Hooper|b. 19 Dec 1876\nd. 1937|p441.htm#i29421|Walter Henry Hooper|b. Mar 1853\nd. Mar 1892?|p441.htm#i28611|Maria Ann Colston|b. b Apr 1856|p231.htm#i29418|||||||||||||
Walter Edmund Hooper was born on 19 December 1876 at Philip Street, Hoxton, London. He was the son of Walter Henry Hooper and Maria Ann Colston. Ellen, Walter, George and Maria were listed as the children of Walter Henry Hooper in the 1881 census at 8 Rawstone Street, Clerkenwell, London, Middlesex. Ellen, Walter, Georgina and Henry were listed as the children of Walter Henry Hooper in the 1891 census at 8 Rawstone Street, Clerkenwell, London.
Walter Edmund Hooper married Annie Jaconda Styles before 30 September 1899 at Shoreditch RD.
Walter Edmund Hooper and Annie Jaconda Styles appeared on the 1901 census at 34 Lloyds Row, Clerkenwell, London. Walter Hooper, 24, general dealer shop, hs wife Anie 25, and son Walter 6 months, all born in London.
Walter died in 1937. He killed himself after moving from house to flat.
Walter Edmund Hooper married Annie Jaconda Styles before 30 September 1899 at Shoreditch RD.
Walter Edmund Hooper and Annie Jaconda Styles appeared on the 1901 census at 34 Lloyds Row, Clerkenwell, London. Walter Hooper, 24, general dealer shop, hs wife Anie 25, and son Walter 6 months, all born in London.
Walter died in 1937. He killed himself after moving from house to flat.
Children of Walter Edmund Hooper and Annie Jaconda Styles
- Florence Hooper b. 1900
- Walter Henry Hooper+ b. c Sep 1900
- Eleanor Hooper b. 1902
- Herbert Hooper b. 1904
- Lorenzo Hooper b. 1907
Walter H Hooper
(circa 1853 - )
Walter H Hooper|b. c 1853|p441.htm#i33432|John James Hooper|b. 27 Feb 1810\nd. 1877|p437.htm#i16098|Sarah Elizabeth Horder|b. 18 Jun 1826|p442.htm#i27469|William Hooper|b. 22 Aug 1775\nd. 27 Dec 1840|p441.htm#i15761|Mary [Darby] Bickley|b. 1 Oct 1784\nd. 11 Oct 1839|p61.htm#i15762|||||||
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Walter H Hooper was born circa 1853 at London. He was the son of John James Hooper and Sarah Elizabeth Horder. James, Robinah, Sarah, Walter, Emily, Frank and Charles were listed as the children of John James Hooper in the 1861 census at 2 Hill-Martin Villas West, Islington.
Walter Henry Hooper
(March 1853 - March 1892?)
His birth was registered in the quarter ending in March 1853 at Clerkenwell, London.
Walter Henry Hooper married Maria Ann Colston on 25 December 1875 at St John the Baptist, Hoxton, Shoreditch RD, Middlesex. He was an artificial florist and they were both of 30 Philip St, He was the son of William Hooper, shoemaker.
Walter Henry Hooper was employed was an artificial florist.
Walter Henry Hooper and Maria Ann Colston appeared on the 1881 census at 8 Rawstone Street, Clerkenwell, London, Middlesex. Walter Hooper, head,26, artificial florist, born Clerkenwell; his wife Maria 25, born Middlesex; children Nelly 5, born Middlesex, Walter 4, born Clerkenwell, George 2, born Hoxton, James Hooper, brother unmarried 17, artificial florist, born Hoxton; Walter Wilson, lodger, unmarried 17, born Hackney, Maria Hooper 3, daughter, born Clerkenwell.
Walter Henry Hooper and Maria Ann Colston appeared on the 1891 census at 8 Rawstone Street, Clerkenwell, London. Walter Hooper, head, 38, artificial florist, born London, Shoreditch; his wife Maria 33?, born London, Cripplegate; children Ellen Elizabeth aged 16, born Clerkenwell, Walter Edmund 15, lead finisher born Hoxton, Georgina Maud 6 & Henry Edward 3, born at Clerkenwell.
Walter's death was registered in the quarter ending in March 1892?.
Walter Henry Hooper married Maria Ann Colston on 25 December 1875 at St John the Baptist, Hoxton, Shoreditch RD, Middlesex. He was an artificial florist and they were both of 30 Philip St, He was the son of William Hooper, shoemaker.
Walter Henry Hooper was employed was an artificial florist.
Walter Henry Hooper and Maria Ann Colston appeared on the 1881 census at 8 Rawstone Street, Clerkenwell, London, Middlesex. Walter Hooper, head,26, artificial florist, born Clerkenwell; his wife Maria 25, born Middlesex; children Nelly 5, born Middlesex, Walter 4, born Clerkenwell, George 2, born Hoxton, James Hooper, brother unmarried 17, artificial florist, born Hoxton; Walter Wilson, lodger, unmarried 17, born Hackney, Maria Hooper 3, daughter, born Clerkenwell.
Walter Henry Hooper and Maria Ann Colston appeared on the 1891 census at 8 Rawstone Street, Clerkenwell, London. Walter Hooper, head, 38, artificial florist, born London, Shoreditch; his wife Maria 33?, born London, Cripplegate; children Ellen Elizabeth aged 16, born Clerkenwell, Walter Edmund 15, lead finisher born Hoxton, Georgina Maud 6 & Henry Edward 3, born at Clerkenwell.
Walter's death was registered in the quarter ending in March 1892?.
Children of Walter Henry Hooper and Maria Ann Colston
- Ellen Elizabeth Hooper b. 3 Sep 1875
- Walter Edmund Hooper+ b. 19 Dec 1876, d. 1937
- Maria Hooper b. b Apr 1878
- George William Hooper b. 21 Sep 1878, d. b 1891?
- Harry Hooper b. 1880, d. b 1891?
- Bertie Charles Hooper b. 31 Mar 1881
- Georgina Maud Hooper b. a Apr 1885
- Henry Edward Hooper b. c 1887
Walter Henry Hooper
(circa September 1900 - )
Walter Henry Hooper|b. c Sep 1900|p441.htm#i29429|Walter Edmund Hooper|b. 19 Dec 1876\nd. 1937|p441.htm#i29421|Annie Jaconda Styles||p808.htm#i29427|Walter H. Hooper|b. Mar 1853\nd. Mar 1892?|p441.htm#i28611|Maria A. Colston|b. b Apr 1856|p231.htm#i29418|||||||
Walter Henry Hooper was born circa September 1900 at Hackney. He was the son of Walter Edmund Hooper and Annie Jaconda Styles. Walter Henry Hooper was listed as Walter Edmund Hooper's son in the 1901 census at 34 Lloyds Row, Clerkenwell, London.
Walter Henry Hooper married Julia Carter.
Walter Henry Hooper married Julia Carter.
Children of Walter Henry Hooper and Julia Carter
- Henry Charles Hooper b. 1924
- Valentine Hooper b. 1925, d. 1925
- Kenneth Edmund Hooper b. 1931
Wesley Trull Hooper
(1 February 1911 - 3 November 1997)
Wesley Trull Hooper|b. 1 Feb 1911\nd. 3 Nov 1997|p441.htm#i15483|Arthur Frederick Hooper|b. 8 Mar 1867\nd. 3 Jan 1941|p432.htm#i15327|Jean Hamlin Lusk|b. 13 Mar 1884\nd. 22 Aug 1953|p501.htm#i15484|William H. Hooper|b. 9 Oct 1834\nd. 8 May 1906|p442.htm#i15755|Sarah S. Halliday|b. b 23 Feb 1834\nd. 17 Jun 1915|p385.htm#i15758|||||||
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Wesley Trull Hooper was born on 1 February 1911 at Lansell Rd, Toorak, Victoria. He was the son of Arthur Frederick Hooper and Jean Hamlin Lusk. Wesley Trull Hooper was christened on 20 March 1911 at St John's, Toorak. He was educated from 1918 to 1921 at Glamorgan School in Toorak. This followed his first term at "Grange" in Domain Road, South Yarra.
Wesley was educated in 1922 at Waitaki, New Zealand.
Wesley was educated in first term 1923 at Geelong College, Victoria. He was educated from 1923 to 1927 at Melbourne Grammar School in South Yarra, Victoria. He settled at Melbourne Grammar School 1923-27, in Bromby House, from where he matriculated. Wesley was an accountant from 1928 to 1976. He was employed by Australian Mercantile Land & Finance Co. Ltd 1928-30; then had sheep station experience at "Willandra" and other stations from a jackeroo to overseer between 1931-35; then worked for Goldsbrough Mort & Co Ltd (Hay NSW - new office first under Melbourne control) from Jan 1 1936, Melbourne, Adelaide, Camperdown, Melbourne Adelaide, appointed accountant at Melbourne 3 Oct 1959, accountant Adelaide Dec 1960, and finally retired 28 Feb 1976.
Wesley held the "Trull" silver cruet, soup ladle, sauce ladle, ... spoon, & table spoon; also a pastel drawing of Martha Trull and a miniature of her which are mentioned in the family wills.
Wesley Trull Hooper lived at 2/45 Talbot Crescent, Kooyong, Victoria, from 1940 to 1941. Which he rented.
Wesley Trull Hooper married Margaret Swinburne Jolly on 18 October 1940 at Christ Church, North Adelaide.
He served in the Royal Australian Air Force from 1941 to June 1945. He was an E.A.T.S. Pilot, obtaining his "wings" in Alberta, Canada, then became a flying instructor in the UK & Australia as a Flight Lieutenant..
Wesley Trull Hooper lived at 15/287 Melbourne Street, Adelaide, South Australia, from 1941 to 1945. Which he rented.
Wesley Trull Hooper lived at 24 Balwyn Road, Canterbury, Victoria, 1945. Which he rented.
Wesley Trull Hooper lived at 5 Daphne Street, Canterbury, Victoria, between 1950 and 1955. Which he designed and built.
Wesley Trull Hooper lived at 8 Jacques Street, Hawthorn East, Victoria, between 1955 and 1960.
Wesley Trull Hooper lived at 10 Elderslie Avenue, Fitzroy, South Australia, between 1960 and 1971.
Wesley Trull Hooper lived at 18 Gawler Terrace, Walkerville, South Australia, between 1971 and 1980.
Wesley Trull Hooper lived at 24 Warwick Street, Walkerville, South Australia, from 1980.
Wesley died on 3 November 1997 at the hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, aged 86. He was cremated on 6 November 1997 after a service at the Eastchapel, Memorial Park at Enfield, South Australia.
Wesley was educated in 1922 at Waitaki, New Zealand.
Wesley was educated in first term 1923 at Geelong College, Victoria. He was educated from 1923 to 1927 at Melbourne Grammar School in South Yarra, Victoria. He settled at Melbourne Grammar School 1923-27, in Bromby House, from where he matriculated. Wesley was an accountant from 1928 to 1976. He was employed by Australian Mercantile Land & Finance Co. Ltd 1928-30; then had sheep station experience at "Willandra" and other stations from a jackeroo to overseer between 1931-35; then worked for Goldsbrough Mort & Co Ltd (Hay NSW - new office first under Melbourne control) from Jan 1 1936, Melbourne, Adelaide, Camperdown, Melbourne Adelaide, appointed accountant at Melbourne 3 Oct 1959, accountant Adelaide Dec 1960, and finally retired 28 Feb 1976.
Wesley held the "Trull" silver cruet, soup ladle, sauce ladle, ... spoon, & table spoon; also a pastel drawing of Martha Trull and a miniature of her which are mentioned in the family wills.
Wesley Trull Hooper lived at 2/45 Talbot Crescent, Kooyong, Victoria, from 1940 to 1941. Which he rented.
Wesley Trull Hooper married Margaret Swinburne Jolly on 18 October 1940 at Christ Church, North Adelaide.
He served in the Royal Australian Air Force from 1941 to June 1945. He was an E.A.T.S. Pilot, obtaining his "wings" in Alberta, Canada, then became a flying instructor in the UK & Australia as a Flight Lieutenant..
Wesley Trull Hooper lived at 15/287 Melbourne Street, Adelaide, South Australia, from 1941 to 1945. Which he rented.
Wesley Trull Hooper lived at 24 Balwyn Road, Canterbury, Victoria, 1945. Which he rented.
Wesley Trull Hooper lived at 5 Daphne Street, Canterbury, Victoria, between 1950 and 1955. Which he designed and built.
Wesley Trull Hooper lived at 8 Jacques Street, Hawthorn East, Victoria, between 1955 and 1960.
Wesley Trull Hooper lived at 10 Elderslie Avenue, Fitzroy, South Australia, between 1960 and 1971.
Wesley Trull Hooper lived at 18 Gawler Terrace, Walkerville, South Australia, between 1971 and 1980.
Wesley Trull Hooper lived at 24 Warwick Street, Walkerville, South Australia, from 1980.
Wesley died on 3 November 1997 at the hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, aged 86. He was cremated on 6 November 1997 after a service at the Eastchapel, Memorial Park at Enfield, South Australia.
William Hooper
(22 August 1775 - 27 December 1840)
William Hooper|b. 22 Aug 1775\nd. 27 Dec 1840|p441.htm#i15761|John Hooper|b. 6 Dec 1744\nd. 1 Jan 1820|p436.htm#i15759|Mary Fawler|b. 28 Jul 1749\nd. 13 Nov 1802|p317.htm#i15760|Robert Hooper|b. 22 Oct 1694|p439.htm#i16469|Margery Dawson|b. b 1720|p253.htm#i16181|Capt John Fawler|b. 5 Sep 1712\nd. 31 Jul 1766|p317.htm#i15809|Mary Poole|b. 9 Jul 1715\nd. 20 Dec 1757|p605.htm#i15810|
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William Hooper 1774-1840
William Hooper was an annatto manufacturer and merchant.
William Hooper married Mary [Darby] Bickley, daughter of George Darby and Martha Bickley, on 1 May 1804 at St Mary, Islington, London. William Hooper, bachelor of this parish & Mary Bickley, spinster of this parish, were married by banns, by Thomas Poole Hooper, AM, vicar of New Shoreham, Sussex. Both signed in the presence of John Hooper & John Parker.
William Hooper lived at Coleman St Buildings, London, 1805. He was listed in a directory dated between 1808 and 1820 as Blue & Annatto maker at 1 Nun's Court. Coleman St, London.
On 6 Oct 1814 William Hooper, anatto and blue manufacturer and drug grinder and merchant insured his property with the Sun Fire Office.
William Hooper of Finchley and St John Street, Clerkenwell, blue and arnotta [sic] manufacturer - lease for 19 3/4 years from 29 Sep 1820. He was listed in a directory dated between 1820 and 1830 as William Hooper at Brewhouse Yard, St John's Street, Clerkenwell. In the front of the 1820 directory, a list received too late for insertion, he is at Brewhouse Yard, St John's St, Clerkenwell. His business remained at this address at least until 1827 (in that year he was called William H).
On 17 May 1829 William Hooper, Brewhouse Yard, St John St, Clerkenwell, drug grinder, insured with the Sun Fire Office.
William Hooper and Dr Robert Hooper, George Henry Hooper and Rev Thomas Poole Hooper were mentioned on 2 November 1820. William Hooper was listed in a directory dated 1835 as William Hooper at 37 North Bank, Regent's Park, Middlesex.
Assignment of lease for remainder of term dated 1839 William Hooper of Finchley and St John Street, Clerkenwell, blue and arnatta [sic] manufacturer.
Lease for 21 years from 25 March 1839: 1. William Benjmain Hooper of anchester Terrace, Liverpool Road (parish of St Mary Islington?), and John James Hooper of Brew House Yard, St John St (parish of St James Clerkenwell), esqs. administrators of the estate of William Hooper later of Finchley esq. deceased.
William died of urinary disease on 27 December 1840 at Finchley, Middlesex, England, aged 65.
The administration of his estate was granted to John James Hooper and William Benjamin Hooper on 12 January 1841 at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Admon of the goods chattels and credits of William Hooper late of Brewhouse Yard Saint John's Street and of Finchley in the county of Middlesex Annatto and Blue manufacturer widower deceased was granted to William Benjamin Hooper and John James Hooper two of the natural and lawful children of the said deceased having been first sworn duly to adminster. Estate £9000, Resworn in December 1841 at under £10,000 and additional security given. Admon of goods unadministered passed at the Principal Registry May 1881.
The administration of his estate was granted to Mary Ann Trull on 23 May 1881 at the Principal Probate Registry, London. Personal estate under £1000. Administration of the personal estate of William Hooper late of Brewhouse Yard St John Street and Finchley, both in the co. of Middlesex, Annatto and Blue manufacturer, a widower, who died 27 December 1840 at Finchley afsd left unadministered by William Benjamin Hooper and John James Hooper the sons and two of the next of kin was granted at the Prinicipal Probate Registry to Mary Ann Hooper of 342 Liverpool Road in the parish of St Mary Islington in the said county, widow, the administrator (with will) of the personal estate of the said William Benjamin Hooper. Former grant PCC January 1841.
Children of William Hooper and Mary [Darby] Bickley
- William Benjamin Hooper+ b. 6 Aug 1808, d. 13 Feb 1871
- John James Hooper+ b. 27 Feb 1810, d. 1877
- Emily Augusta Hooper+ b. 8 Jun 1814, d. 17 Oct 1883
William Hooper
(2 February 1741 - )
William Hooper|b. 2 Feb 1741|p441.htm#i16184|Robert Hooper|b. 22 Oct 1694|p439.htm#i16469|Margery Dawson|b. b 1720|p253.htm#i16181|Robert Hooper|b. b 1670\nd. a 1723|p439.htm#i16178|Mary Japhray|b. c 1675|p459.htm#i16179|||||||
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William Hooper was christened on 2 February 1741 at Ednam, Roxburghshire. He was the son of Robert Hooper and Margery Dawson.
William Hooper married Janet Dickson.
William Hooper married Janet Dickson.
Children of William Hooper and Janet Dickson
- John Hooper b. 4 Jan 1767
- Alexander Hooper b. 16 Oct 1768
William Hooper
(23 July 1699 - before 10 March 1700)
William Hooper|b. 23 Jul 1699\nd. b 10 Mar 1700|p441.htm#i16192|Robert Hooper|b. b 1670\nd. a 1723|p439.htm#i16178|Mary Japhray|b. c 1675|p459.htm#i16179|Patriarch Hooper||p439.htm#i28628||||||||||
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William Hooper was christened on 23 July 1699 at Ednam, Roxburghshire. Robert Hopper's son William baptised. He was the son of Robert Hooper and Mary Japhray.
William died before 10 March 1700 at Ednam, Roxburghshire. He was buried on 10 March 1700 at Ednam.
William died before 10 March 1700 at Ednam, Roxburghshire. He was buried on 10 March 1700 at Ednam.
William Hooper
(18 June 1785 - 12 October 1807)
William Hooper|b. 18 Jun 1785\nd. 12 Oct 1807|p441.htm#i16210|James Hooper|b. 14 Jun 1739\nd. 15 Dec 1813|p436.htm#i16468|Katherine Saxon|b. 15 Sep 1753\nd. 17 Jan 1814|p728.htm#i16202|Robert Hooper|b. 22 Oct 1694|p439.htm#i16469|Margery Dawson|b. b 1720|p253.htm#i16181|John Saxon|b. 1713\nd. 1798|p728.htm#i27442|Katherine Kidwell||p471.htm#i30901|
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William Hooper was born on 18 June 1785 at Middlesex, England. He was the son of James Hooper and Katherine Saxon. William Hooper was christened on 14 July 1785 at St George Hanover Square, Westminster.
William died on 12 October 1807 at Bond Street, Soho, Westminster, Middlesex, England, aged 22. Gentleman's magazine, October 1807 reported: - 12 October. After a very short illness, at his father's house in Bond St, Mr William Hooper; a young man of unimpeached and unimpeachable integrity; a son, a brother, a friend, a citizen, exemplary in the discharge of every relative and social duty, connected with his sphere of life; a warm lover of his kind, and humble adorer of his God. His life was short, but useful; he lived innocent; he died resigned; His remains were interred on Monday Oct. 19.. He was buried on 19 October 1807.
William died on 12 October 1807 at Bond Street, Soho, Westminster, Middlesex, England, aged 22. Gentleman's magazine, October 1807 reported: - 12 October. After a very short illness, at his father's house in Bond St, Mr William Hooper; a young man of unimpeached and unimpeachable integrity; a son, a brother, a friend, a citizen, exemplary in the discharge of every relative and social duty, connected with his sphere of life; a warm lover of his kind, and humble adorer of his God. His life was short, but useful; he lived innocent; he died resigned; His remains were interred on Monday Oct. 19.. He was buried on 19 October 1807.
William Hooper
(before 1822 - )
William Hooper|b. b 1822|p441.htm#i16221|James Hooper|b. 8 Jul 1782\nd. 20 Nov 1861|p436.htm#i16211|Sophia Richman|b. c 1785\nd. 13 Oct 1858|p665.htm#i16212|James Hooper|b. 14 Jun 1739\nd. 15 Dec 1813|p436.htm#i16468|Katherine Saxon|b. 15 Sep 1753\nd. 17 Jan 1814|p728.htm#i16202|||||||
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William Hooper was born before 1822 at England. He was the son of James Hooper and Sophia Richman.
William Hooper lived at Mexico, 1854. He was not with the family in 1841.
William Hooper lived at Mexico, 1854. He was not with the family in 1841.
William Hooper
(6 July 1719 - )
William Hooper|b. 6 Jul 1719|p441.htm#i16624|Joseph Hooper|b. c 1690|p437.htm#i16616|Janet Row||p680.htm#i16617|||||||||||||
William Hooper was christened on 6 July 1719 at Kelso, Roxburghshire. He was the son of Joseph Hooper and Janet Row.
William Hooper
(11 May 1651 - )
William Hooper|b. 11 May 1651|p441.htm#i16628|Henry Hooper|b. b 1620|p435.htm#i16627|Margaret Donaldson||p272.htm#i16626|||||||||||||
William Hooper was christened on 11 May 1651 at Stitchill, Roxburghshire. He was the son of Henry Hooper and Margaret Donaldson.
William Hooper
(before 1630 - )
Children of William Hooper and Elspeth Dickson
- Robert Hooper b. 3 Dec 1648, d. b 1652
- Nancy Hooper b. 25 Feb 1649/50
- Robert Hooper b. 27 Oct 1652
- Elspeth Hooper b. 4 Jul 1655
William Hooper
(before 1740 - )
William Hooper was born before 1740.
William Hooper married Janet Dickson on 1 June 1760 at Stitchill, Roxburghshire, Scotland. William was a servant to Robt Hooper.
William Hooper married Janet Dickson on 1 June 1760 at Stitchill, Roxburghshire, Scotland. William was a servant to Robt Hooper.
Children of William Hooper and Janet Dickson
- John Hooper b. 4 Jan 1767
- Alexander Hooper b. 16 Oct 1768
William Hooper
(17 June 1742 - 14 October 1790)
William Hooper|b. 17 Jun 1742\nd. 14 Oct 1790|p441.htm#i12818|Rev William Hooper|b. 12 Mar 1704\nd. 14 Apr 1767|p441.htm#i16194|Mary Dennie|b. 1 Dec 1717\nd. Nov 1779|p266.htm#i12815|Robert Hooper|b. b 1670\nd. a 1723|p439.htm#i16178|Mary Japhray|b. c 1675|p459.htm#i16179|||||||
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William Hooper was born on 17 June 1742 at Marblehead, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The date has also been given as 28 June. He was the son of Rev William Hooper and Mary Dennie.
William was educated at the Boston Latin School, Massachusetts, USA. He was educated at home until the age of 8.
William studied at Harvard College, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1757. He achieved a BA in 1760 and then switched to law, achieving a MA in 1763.
A M Hooper states: Aided by the instruction of his father, which was never remitted, he made literary acquirements uncommon for one of his age, and advanced himself in his scholastic studies beyond his contemporaries. It was, no doubt, owing to this circumstance that he was admitted, contrary to established rules into the sophomore class at Harvard College. There he. took rank among. the most distinguished, and signalized himself in oratory. He graduated AB in 1760, MA in 1763.
Such was the anxious attention which his father bestowed on him in order to form him as an orator, that his vacations, were periods of more laborious study and exertion than the terms of his scholastic exercises, And here it, is worthy of observation, that the genius of the father and son were diametrically opposite. That of the father was of a loftier cast, and was formed in the school of Demosthenes; that of the son was Ciceronian in its features. The characteristic of the father was vehemency; that of the son insinuation. Were it not a presumptuous comparison, I would say, the father was Chatham, the son was William Pitt.
William Hooper married Anne Clarke on 16 August 1767 at King's Chapel, Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, USA.
William Hooper was a lawyer and MP for North Carolina. A M Hooper states: It was the early intention and earnest wish of his father to devote this son to the ministry. To this, however, the son was disinclined, for reasons that were considered satisfactory by his father, who agreed to alter his destination. Finding that he preferred the study of the law, he placed him with James Otis, Esq., who was then a lawyer of eminence.
At this period commenced the attempts of the English Parliament against the rights and privileges of the subjects in the provinces. Mr. Otis took an early and decided stand, by Iiis writings and open declarations, against this power of the British government. He was exceeded by none in zeal, and equalled by few in abilities. The high esteem and respect which the subject of these sketches entertained for Mr. Otis, naturally rendered him partial to Iiis political principles; and there can be, no doubt, had the effect of assisting to engraft those principles on his mind, and to establish them permanently there. Subsequent events ripened them into maturity, and rendered them active.
Mr. Hooper, having prepared himself for the practice of law, and finding the bar in his native State so overflowing that there was no encouragement for juvenile practitioners, determined, about 1763, to try the experiment of making his fortune in North Carolina. To this he was invited by the circumstance of his family's having very particular friends, influential characters in the province. Accordingly, in 1764, he embarked at Boston for Wilmington, on Cape Fear. He did not remain long in North Carolina at that visit, but returned to Boston in about a year. In 1765 he again visited North Carolina, and advanced in the practice of law. His health, however, sustained such severe shocks, that lie resolved, conformably to the wishes of Iiis father, to abandon it.
In 1767, the death of his father made it necessary that he should revisit his native place, and at the same time blasted the hope of his quitting North Carolina, which, on account of his health only, he wished to do.
He started a practice in Wilmington, NC as a lawyer and practiced in North Carolina post 1764. William Hooper started in politics in 1773 as member of the Provincial Assembly and was one of North Carolina's 3 signers of the Declaration of Independence. He bitterly opposed the colonial status of his homeland. In a letter written 26 April 1774 to a friend, James Iredell, he wrote: "They [the colonies] are striding fast to independence , and ere long will build an empire upon the ruins of Great Britain; will adopt its Constitution, purged of its impurities, and from an experience of its defects, will guard against those evils which have wasted its vigour." (Quoted from 'Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, edited by William S. Powell, The University of NC Press, 1988)
He was a Member of Continental Congress 1775-77. He opposed democratic tendencies as North Carolina legislator.
A M Hooper states: In person, he was of the middle size, elegantly formed, delicate rather than robust. HIs countenance was pleasing and indicated intelligence. His manners were polite and engaging. With his intimates and friends his conversation was frank and animated, enlivened by a vein of pleasing humor, and aboudning with images of playful irony. It was sometimes tinctured with the severity of sarcasm, and sometimes marked by compreshensive brevity of expression. His father, himself a model of colloquial excellence, had cultivated this talent in his son with great assiduity. From the same preceptor he learned the art of, rarely attained, of reading with elegance... In mixed society he was apt to be reserved. Sincerity was a striking feature of his character. Hospitality he carried to excess. In his domestic relations he was affectionate and indulgent. Failings he certainly had, but they were not such as affected the morality of his private or the integrity of his public conduct.
Hooper, William (17 June 1742-14 Oct. 1790), one of North Carolina's three signers of the Declaration of Independence, foremost Patriot leader, writer, orator, attorney, and legislator, was the oldest of five children of the Scots divine, the Reverend William Hooper (1704-14 Apr. 17677), second rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, Boston, Mass., and Mary Dennie Hooper (b. ca. 1720), daughter of Boston merchant John Dennie. He was the grandson of Robert and Mary Jaffray Hooper of the Parish of Ednam, near Kelso, Scotland. It should be noted that William Hooper's blackened sandstone slab in Hillsborough, N.C.'s Old Town Cemetery carries the New Style or Gregorian calendar birthdate, 28 June 1742, eleven days later than the Old Style or Julian calendar date, 17 June 1742, used in the published accounts of Hooper. The slab is thought to have been placed between 1812 and 1818 by the Signer's only daughter and surviving child, Elizabeth (Mrs. Henry Hyrn Watters), who evidently preferred the New Style date.
An unusually delicate, nervous child, William was at first painstakingly taught at home by his father, himself a classicist and orator of some note, educated at the University of Edinburgh. At age eight, the boy was sent to the Boston Public Latin School where he worked so hard under headmaster John Lovell, a celebrated disciplinarian and staunch Loyalist, that at fifteen he entered the sophomore class of Harvard College on 7 Oct. 1757. He graduated A.B. in 1760 with marked distinction in oratory, surpassing, it is said, even his father in that field.
Although the Reverend Mr. Hooper had hoped that his oldest son and namesake would enter the ministry, William's own inclination led him to law; and in 1761 his father allowed him to study under the brilliant James Otis, famed for his knowledge of common, civil, and admiralty law. Various Hooper biographers have stated that Otis's fiery stands for colonial rights indoctrinated the young Hooper.
In 1763 Harvard College conferred an M.A. on Hooper, and in 1764 he settled temporarily in Wilmington, N.C., to begin the practice of law. Hooper, who was handsome, well-bred and well-educated, with courtly manners and a pleasing personality, was warmly accepted by the planters and lawyers of the lower Cape Fear. By June 1766 he was unanimously elected recorder of the borough.
From the beginning, however, Hooper's health had been precarious in the low-lying Wilmington area. He was seriously considering leaving New Hanover County when his father died without warning one Sunday, "falling down suddenly in his garden." William's education was to be his chief inheritance, although his father's will also left to him "all my Books and Manuscripts," a legacy that he treasured. He apparently made a firm decision to continue his legal career so well begun in North Carolina and, on 16 Aug. 1767, married at King's Chapel in Boston Anne Clark, of New Hanover, the daughter of Barbara Murray and Thomas Clark, Sr., late high sheriff of New Hanover County. Anne was the sister of Thomas Clark, jr., who became a colonel and brigadier general in the Continental Army. It was the fortunate affluence of the Clark family that enabled the William Hoopers to survive the difficult years of the American Revolution.
Hooper's legal work took him in every direction of the province; he traveled on horseback 150 miles and more to backcountry courts in all seasons and weather. In 1769 he was appointed deputy attorney general of the Salisbury District and inevitably ran afoul of the Regulators, incurring their lasting enmity. A 1768 incident in Anson County was followed by another at the Hillsborough riots of September 1770, when Hooper reportedly was dragged through the streets by the Regulators.
His formal entry into political life came on 25 Jan. 1773, when he sat for the first time in the Provincial Assembly as representative for the Scots settlement of Campbellton (later Fayetteville). The Assembly, meeting at New Bern, lasted only forty-two days, but Hooper became acquainted with such recognized provincial leaders as Samuel Johnston, Allen Jones, and John Harvey. In the same year, Hooper made the first purchase of land for his future home on Masonboro Sound eight miles below Wilmington-108 acres of Caleb Grainger's old Masonborough Plantation. In 1774 he bought 30 adjoining acres on which he built his house, Finian. The Hoopers offered lavish hospitality at Finian to guests from far and wide, and the sound provided pleasant surroundings for their three young children: William (b. 1768), Elizabeth ("Betsy") (b. 1770), and Thomas (b. ca. 1772).
In 1773 a new courts bill agitated the province, and Hooper threw all of his energy and talent into a campaign to defeat it, arguing that the bill meant further encroachment by the Crown on colonial rights. His influential "Hampden" essays, now lost, were written about this time to explain to the citizenry at large the critical issues involved and why the bill should be defeated. The upshot of the conflict was that most provincial courts were dosed and that Hooper was disbarred from practicing law for a year.
In December 1773 he was returned to the Provincial Assembly as representative for New Hanover County together with John Ashe, leader of the Whig party. On 8 December the Assembly took the important step of appointing a standing Committee of Correspondence and Inquiry and selected nine of the most significant leaders in the province to serve on it. Hooper's was the fourth name listed, and it was on this committee of communication that he made signal contributions throughout the Revolutionary years. His prophetic observation in a letter of 26 Apr. 1774 to his friend James Iredell is often quoted as a landmark of colonial foresight at this early period. He wrote, "They [the colonies] are striding fast to independence, and ere long will build an empire upon the ruins of Great Britain; will adopt its Constitution, purged of its impurities, and from an experience of its defects, will guard against those evils which have wasted its vigor."
In June 1774 the port of Boston was closed, and Hooper took the lead in mustering aid and support for his native city. At a notable general meeting of lower Cape Fear citizens in Wilmington on 21 July, he was elected chairman and presided over the selection of a committee to issue the historic call for the First Provincial Congress. A significant resolve approved by the New Bern meeting stated, "We consider the cause of the Town of Boston as the common cause of British America, and as suffering in defense of the Rights of the Colonies in general." Two shiploads of provisions and £2,000 in currency were sent for the relief of the Massachusetts port town. Already the thirty-two-year old Hooper's diverse talents for persuasive oratory and fluent writing plus his ardent, personal commitment to the colonial cause and his trained knowledge of civil and admiralty law had combined to make him a most useful and effective leader in any assembly in which he sat.
When the First Provincial Congress - the first such convention ever to meet without royal assent-duly convened in New Bern on 25-28 Aug. 1774, Hooper was named the first of three delegates to represent North Carolina at the First Continental Congress which met on 20 September at Carpenters' Hall, Philadelphia. The other two envoys were Richard Caswell and Joseph Hewes. Although Hooper was one of the youngest of the fifty delegates in Philadelphia, he was immediately named to a committee "to state the rights of the colonies" and to another to report on legal statutes affecting trade and commerce in the colonies. "[Richard Henry] Lee, Patrick Henry, and Hooper are the orators of the Congress," wrote John Adams. Back in Wilmington, Hooper was named to the Wilmington Committee of Safety, formed on 23 Nov. 1774. He could not, however, be present until 30 December.
There now began the steady, physically exhausting cross-country travel by horseback between Philadelphia and North Carolina that Hooper continued until the spring of 1777. Nearly all of his work in both places followed the same routine: long days of committee sessions and staggering amounts of correspondence, reports, and addresses to be written at night. At Philadelphia there was the added burden of purchasing supplies at warehouses and wharves and dispatching them to Committees of Safety and militia at home. Moreover, yellow fever in Philadelphia and malaria in Wilmington were constant hazards.
Before the close of 1776, Hooper had attended three Continental Congresses, four Provincial Congresses (he did not attend the fifth in Halifax in November 1776 because of the pressure of work in Philadelphia), and four Provincial Assemblies besides meetings of the Wilmington Committee of Safety. Almost invariably he was made chairman or member of any committee with important resolutions or addresses to compose, and some of the most significant statements of the Revolution crystallizing public opinion came either wholly or partially from his pen.
At the lengthy Third Provincial Congress (20 Aug - 10 Sept. 1775), which met for safety's sake far inland at Hillsborough, Hooper was made chairman of a committee to prepare a Test Oath for the 184 delegates. Since the Battle of Lexington on 19 April, tension and alarm had been rampant. Hooper was appointed to a committee to prepare an explanatory address to the people of North Carolina and named chairman of another to prepare an address to the -inhabitants of the British Empire." Hooper alone composed the important British Empire address declaring the views of the Congress on the existing state of affairs. Besides other assignments, he was also one of a committee of 45 delegates to devise a temporary government for the province.
About 1 Feb. 1776 Hooper quietly absented himself from the Continental Congress in Philadelphia to go to his widowed mother's aid in Cambridge, Mass. According to Joseph Hewes, Mrs. Hooper had only lately got out of Boston," and her Patriot son was greatly alarmed for her safety. Still absent from Philadelphia a month later, Hooper may have seized this opportunity to escort his mother to Milton, N.C., where she is said to have spent her later years. Her death date is unknown.
The Fourth Provincial Congress convened at Halifax on 4 Apr. 17776, and Hooper and John Penn (who had replaced Caswell) appeared on 15 April, three days after the passage of the Halifax Resolves. Hooper was immediately made chairman of a committee to supply the province with ammunition and "warlike stores," and he and Penn were added to a committee to produce a civil constitution and to another on secrecy, war, and intelligence. Both men were placed on committees to consider business necessary to be brought before the Congress and to form a temporary government, as well as on a committee of inquiry. Hooper, Hewes, and Penn were all re-appointed delegates to the Third Continental Congress which convened on 10 May 1776.
In Philadelphia Hooper served on Hewes's marine committee; with Benjamin Franklin on the highly important committee of secret intelligence which had broad powers to hire secret agents abroad, make agreements, and even to conceal information from the Congress itself; and on Thomas Jefferson's committee to compose a Declaration of Independence. Although Hooper was absent when independence was actually voted and declared on 4 July 1776, he, like most of the other delegates, affixed his name to the amended Declaration on 2 August.
For the rest of the year Hooper was concerned with committees for the regulation of the post office, the treasury, secret correspondence, admiralty courts, laws of capture, and the like. On 22 December he was appointed chairman of a committee with Hewes and Thomas Burke to devise a Great Seal for the new state of North Carolina.
Early in 1777 Hooper and numerous other delegates were stricken with yellow fever. On 4 February he secured permission to return to Wilmington to attend the General Assembly on 8 April, and on 29 April he formally resigned his seat in the U.S. Congress. -The situation of my own private affairs ... did not leave me a moment in suspense whether I should decline the honour intended me," he wrote to Robert Morris. He was succeeded by Cornelius Hamett and never again appeared on the national scene.
Hooper resumed his residence at Finian and his law practice in the newly opened courts, again riding the circuits with his friend Iredell as he had done before the Revolution. He attended the General Assembly of 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, and 1781 as member for the borough of Willmington, serving on numerous committees. When it appeared that Finian would not be safe from British men-of-war in Masonboro Sound (a house owned by Hooper three miles below Wilmington was burned and Finian was shelled), Hooper moved his family into the town. He himself, at times seriously ill with malaria and his right arm badly swollen, became a fugitive from the British, going from friend's house to friend's house in the Windsor-Edenton area.
On 29 Jan. 1781 Major James H. Craig's men took Wilmington, although the town was not evacuated until November. Then, an ailing Mrs. Hooper and two of her children were forced to flee by wagon to Hillsborough where her brother, General Clark, found shelter for them. Finally, on 10 Apr. 1782, the reunited Hoopers purchased General Francis Nash's former home on West Tryon Street (still standing and in 1972 named a National Historic Landmark). Hooper's preserved Memorandum Book, 1780-1783 provides valuable records of this period.
With his permanent removal to the backcountry, Hooper was now entirely out of the mainstream of current events, both state and national. His election to the 1782 General Assembly as member for Wilmington was declared invalid, and in 1783 he suffered the first political loss of his career at the hands of Hillsborough tavern keeper Thomas Farmer, who defeated him for a seat in the General Assembly. One absorbing new interest developed, however. Some years before, in 1778, Hooper had been named first on a committee of nine prominent men to begin an academy, "Science Hall," in the vicinity of Hillsborough. The school had made a brave start on Colonel Thomas Hart's Hartford Plantation, but it had been swept aside by Revolutionary activity. Now, Hooper pushed a new academy bill through the 1784 Assembly, to which he was elected, and almost single-handedly began a second venture, a new "Hillsborough Academy", which prospered for a few years. Unfortunately, the November 1786 Assembly at Fayetteville, the last that he attended, tabled a bill to raise funds for the school and thereby ensured its demise.
Hooper's law practice was still a considerable one owing to steady litigation concerning Loyalists' estates, confiscated lands, treason, and all the legal backwash of the Revolution. Like Iredell and other conservative men, Hooper lamented unreasonable severity and vengefulness against Loyalists and absentees and urged moderation in their treatment. In consequence, he found himself at painful odds with some of his old friends and acquaintances. On 22 Sept. 1786 he was appointed to a federal court to settle a Massachusetts-New York territorial dispute, but the matter was resolved locally and the court never met.
A bitter blow fell when Hooper was not elected a delegate to the 1788 Constitutional Convention, which met in Hillsborough's old St. Matthew's Church (then renovated as the new academy), literally within sight and sound of his own house. He never recovered from this second important rejection. The Iredell correspondence indicates that from 1787 onward there had been a perceptible decline in Hooper's health and that, like his fellow townsman, Thomas Burke, he had chosen to drown his increasing disillusionment in rum. He died at age forty-eight, the evening before his daughter Elizabeth's marriage to Colonel Henry Hyrn Watters of the Cape Fear.
Hooper's portrait was painted in 1873 by the prominent Philadelphia artist, James Reid Lambdin (1807-89), who was commissioned by the Committee on the Restoration of Independence Hall. Lambdin's portrait copied the head of William Hooper in John Trumbull's (17561843) study for his famous painting, The Signing of the Declaration of Independence. It remains uncertain, however, whether Trumbull actually painted Hooper from life. In February 1790 Trumbull traveled to Charleston, S.C., to collect likenesses of the Signers, but it seems unlikely that Hooper's swiftly deteriorating condition at that date would have permitted even short sittings for a sketch.
See: Edwin Anderson Alderman, Address on the Life of William Hooper, "The Prophet of American Independence" (Guilford Battle Ground, 4 July 1894); Samuel A. Ashe, ed., Biographical History of North Carolina, vol. 7 (1908 [portrait]); Walter Clark, ed., State Records of North Carolina, vols. 11-24 (1895-1905); John De Berniere Papers (Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina Library, Chapel Hill); Crockette W. Hewlett, Between the Creeks: A History of Masonboro Sound, 17351970 (1971); Archibald Maclaine Hooper, - Life of William Hooper, Signer of the Declaration of Independence ... Written in 1822 ... by Callisthenes," Hillsborough Recorder, 13, 20, 27 Nov., 4 Dec. 1822; William Hooper Papers (Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina Library, Chapel Hill); Griffith J. McRee, ed., The Life and Correspondence of James Iredell, 2 vols. (1857); William L. Saunders, ed., Colonial Records of North Carolina, vols. 7-10 (1886-90); "Unpublished Letters of William Hooper," Historical Magazine (August 1868); Fanny De Berniere Whitaker,---The Hooper Family," North Carolina Booklet, vol. 5 (July 1905); William Hooper Memorandum Book, 1780-93 (microfilm in the North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh, from the original in the New-York Historical Society Library); Will of Anne Hooper (Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough); Will of William Hooper (North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh).
MARY CLAIRE ENGSTROM.
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William died on 14 October 1790 at Hillsborough, Orange county, North Carolina, USA, aged 48. He was buried at Old Town cemetery, Hillsborough. Hooper was buried in a corner of his garden, and the brick-walled plot was later incorporated into the adjoining Old Town Cemetery. On 25 Apr. 1894, the grave was opened at dawn before various family representatives, and a very few discernible relics-part of a button and a nail or two-were placed in an envelope and removed, together with the covering sandstone slab, to the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, Greensboro. There an imposing 19-foot-high monument, surmounted by a statue of Hooper in colonial dress and in orator's pose, honors the patriotic services of William Hooper and his friend and colleague, John Penn. The sandstone slab, with six additional words deeply incised, "Signer of the Declaration of Independence," was later returned to the original Hillsborough grave site.
William was educated at the Boston Latin School, Massachusetts, USA. He was educated at home until the age of 8.
William studied at Harvard College, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1757. He achieved a BA in 1760 and then switched to law, achieving a MA in 1763.
A M Hooper states: Aided by the instruction of his father, which was never remitted, he made literary acquirements uncommon for one of his age, and advanced himself in his scholastic studies beyond his contemporaries. It was, no doubt, owing to this circumstance that he was admitted, contrary to established rules into the sophomore class at Harvard College. There he. took rank among. the most distinguished, and signalized himself in oratory. He graduated AB in 1760, MA in 1763.
Such was the anxious attention which his father bestowed on him in order to form him as an orator, that his vacations, were periods of more laborious study and exertion than the terms of his scholastic exercises, And here it, is worthy of observation, that the genius of the father and son were diametrically opposite. That of the father was of a loftier cast, and was formed in the school of Demosthenes; that of the son was Ciceronian in its features. The characteristic of the father was vehemency; that of the son insinuation. Were it not a presumptuous comparison, I would say, the father was Chatham, the son was William Pitt.
William Hooper married Anne Clarke on 16 August 1767 at King's Chapel, Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, USA.
William Hooper was a lawyer and MP for North Carolina. A M Hooper states: It was the early intention and earnest wish of his father to devote this son to the ministry. To this, however, the son was disinclined, for reasons that were considered satisfactory by his father, who agreed to alter his destination. Finding that he preferred the study of the law, he placed him with James Otis, Esq., who was then a lawyer of eminence.
At this period commenced the attempts of the English Parliament against the rights and privileges of the subjects in the provinces. Mr. Otis took an early and decided stand, by Iiis writings and open declarations, against this power of the British government. He was exceeded by none in zeal, and equalled by few in abilities. The high esteem and respect which the subject of these sketches entertained for Mr. Otis, naturally rendered him partial to Iiis political principles; and there can be, no doubt, had the effect of assisting to engraft those principles on his mind, and to establish them permanently there. Subsequent events ripened them into maturity, and rendered them active.
Mr. Hooper, having prepared himself for the practice of law, and finding the bar in his native State so overflowing that there was no encouragement for juvenile practitioners, determined, about 1763, to try the experiment of making his fortune in North Carolina. To this he was invited by the circumstance of his family's having very particular friends, influential characters in the province. Accordingly, in 1764, he embarked at Boston for Wilmington, on Cape Fear. He did not remain long in North Carolina at that visit, but returned to Boston in about a year. In 1765 he again visited North Carolina, and advanced in the practice of law. His health, however, sustained such severe shocks, that lie resolved, conformably to the wishes of Iiis father, to abandon it.
In 1767, the death of his father made it necessary that he should revisit his native place, and at the same time blasted the hope of his quitting North Carolina, which, on account of his health only, he wished to do.
He started a practice in Wilmington, NC as a lawyer and practiced in North Carolina post 1764. William Hooper started in politics in 1773 as member of the Provincial Assembly and was one of North Carolina's 3 signers of the Declaration of Independence. He bitterly opposed the colonial status of his homeland. In a letter written 26 April 1774 to a friend, James Iredell, he wrote: "They [the colonies] are striding fast to independence , and ere long will build an empire upon the ruins of Great Britain; will adopt its Constitution, purged of its impurities, and from an experience of its defects, will guard against those evils which have wasted its vigour." (Quoted from 'Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, edited by William S. Powell, The University of NC Press, 1988)
He was a Member of Continental Congress 1775-77. He opposed democratic tendencies as North Carolina legislator.
A M Hooper states: In person, he was of the middle size, elegantly formed, delicate rather than robust. HIs countenance was pleasing and indicated intelligence. His manners were polite and engaging. With his intimates and friends his conversation was frank and animated, enlivened by a vein of pleasing humor, and aboudning with images of playful irony. It was sometimes tinctured with the severity of sarcasm, and sometimes marked by compreshensive brevity of expression. His father, himself a model of colloquial excellence, had cultivated this talent in his son with great assiduity. From the same preceptor he learned the art of, rarely attained, of reading with elegance... In mixed society he was apt to be reserved. Sincerity was a striking feature of his character. Hospitality he carried to excess. In his domestic relations he was affectionate and indulgent. Failings he certainly had, but they were not such as affected the morality of his private or the integrity of his public conduct.
Hooper, William (17 June 1742-14 Oct. 1790), one of North Carolina's three signers of the Declaration of Independence, foremost Patriot leader, writer, orator, attorney, and legislator, was the oldest of five children of the Scots divine, the Reverend William Hooper (1704-14 Apr. 17677), second rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, Boston, Mass., and Mary Dennie Hooper (b. ca. 1720), daughter of Boston merchant John Dennie. He was the grandson of Robert and Mary Jaffray Hooper of the Parish of Ednam, near Kelso, Scotland. It should be noted that William Hooper's blackened sandstone slab in Hillsborough, N.C.'s Old Town Cemetery carries the New Style or Gregorian calendar birthdate, 28 June 1742, eleven days later than the Old Style or Julian calendar date, 17 June 1742, used in the published accounts of Hooper. The slab is thought to have been placed between 1812 and 1818 by the Signer's only daughter and surviving child, Elizabeth (Mrs. Henry Hyrn Watters), who evidently preferred the New Style date.
An unusually delicate, nervous child, William was at first painstakingly taught at home by his father, himself a classicist and orator of some note, educated at the University of Edinburgh. At age eight, the boy was sent to the Boston Public Latin School where he worked so hard under headmaster John Lovell, a celebrated disciplinarian and staunch Loyalist, that at fifteen he entered the sophomore class of Harvard College on 7 Oct. 1757. He graduated A.B. in 1760 with marked distinction in oratory, surpassing, it is said, even his father in that field.
Although the Reverend Mr. Hooper had hoped that his oldest son and namesake would enter the ministry, William's own inclination led him to law; and in 1761 his father allowed him to study under the brilliant James Otis, famed for his knowledge of common, civil, and admiralty law. Various Hooper biographers have stated that Otis's fiery stands for colonial rights indoctrinated the young Hooper.
In 1763 Harvard College conferred an M.A. on Hooper, and in 1764 he settled temporarily in Wilmington, N.C., to begin the practice of law. Hooper, who was handsome, well-bred and well-educated, with courtly manners and a pleasing personality, was warmly accepted by the planters and lawyers of the lower Cape Fear. By June 1766 he was unanimously elected recorder of the borough.
From the beginning, however, Hooper's health had been precarious in the low-lying Wilmington area. He was seriously considering leaving New Hanover County when his father died without warning one Sunday, "falling down suddenly in his garden." William's education was to be his chief inheritance, although his father's will also left to him "all my Books and Manuscripts," a legacy that he treasured. He apparently made a firm decision to continue his legal career so well begun in North Carolina and, on 16 Aug. 1767, married at King's Chapel in Boston Anne Clark, of New Hanover, the daughter of Barbara Murray and Thomas Clark, Sr., late high sheriff of New Hanover County. Anne was the sister of Thomas Clark, jr., who became a colonel and brigadier general in the Continental Army. It was the fortunate affluence of the Clark family that enabled the William Hoopers to survive the difficult years of the American Revolution.
Hooper's legal work took him in every direction of the province; he traveled on horseback 150 miles and more to backcountry courts in all seasons and weather. In 1769 he was appointed deputy attorney general of the Salisbury District and inevitably ran afoul of the Regulators, incurring their lasting enmity. A 1768 incident in Anson County was followed by another at the Hillsborough riots of September 1770, when Hooper reportedly was dragged through the streets by the Regulators.
His formal entry into political life came on 25 Jan. 1773, when he sat for the first time in the Provincial Assembly as representative for the Scots settlement of Campbellton (later Fayetteville). The Assembly, meeting at New Bern, lasted only forty-two days, but Hooper became acquainted with such recognized provincial leaders as Samuel Johnston, Allen Jones, and John Harvey. In the same year, Hooper made the first purchase of land for his future home on Masonboro Sound eight miles below Wilmington-108 acres of Caleb Grainger's old Masonborough Plantation. In 1774 he bought 30 adjoining acres on which he built his house, Finian. The Hoopers offered lavish hospitality at Finian to guests from far and wide, and the sound provided pleasant surroundings for their three young children: William (b. 1768), Elizabeth ("Betsy") (b. 1770), and Thomas (b. ca. 1772).
In 1773 a new courts bill agitated the province, and Hooper threw all of his energy and talent into a campaign to defeat it, arguing that the bill meant further encroachment by the Crown on colonial rights. His influential "Hampden" essays, now lost, were written about this time to explain to the citizenry at large the critical issues involved and why the bill should be defeated. The upshot of the conflict was that most provincial courts were dosed and that Hooper was disbarred from practicing law for a year.
In December 1773 he was returned to the Provincial Assembly as representative for New Hanover County together with John Ashe, leader of the Whig party. On 8 December the Assembly took the important step of appointing a standing Committee of Correspondence and Inquiry and selected nine of the most significant leaders in the province to serve on it. Hooper's was the fourth name listed, and it was on this committee of communication that he made signal contributions throughout the Revolutionary years. His prophetic observation in a letter of 26 Apr. 1774 to his friend James Iredell is often quoted as a landmark of colonial foresight at this early period. He wrote, "They [the colonies] are striding fast to independence, and ere long will build an empire upon the ruins of Great Britain; will adopt its Constitution, purged of its impurities, and from an experience of its defects, will guard against those evils which have wasted its vigor."
In June 1774 the port of Boston was closed, and Hooper took the lead in mustering aid and support for his native city. At a notable general meeting of lower Cape Fear citizens in Wilmington on 21 July, he was elected chairman and presided over the selection of a committee to issue the historic call for the First Provincial Congress. A significant resolve approved by the New Bern meeting stated, "We consider the cause of the Town of Boston as the common cause of British America, and as suffering in defense of the Rights of the Colonies in general." Two shiploads of provisions and £2,000 in currency were sent for the relief of the Massachusetts port town. Already the thirty-two-year old Hooper's diverse talents for persuasive oratory and fluent writing plus his ardent, personal commitment to the colonial cause and his trained knowledge of civil and admiralty law had combined to make him a most useful and effective leader in any assembly in which he sat.
When the First Provincial Congress - the first such convention ever to meet without royal assent-duly convened in New Bern on 25-28 Aug. 1774, Hooper was named the first of three delegates to represent North Carolina at the First Continental Congress which met on 20 September at Carpenters' Hall, Philadelphia. The other two envoys were Richard Caswell and Joseph Hewes. Although Hooper was one of the youngest of the fifty delegates in Philadelphia, he was immediately named to a committee "to state the rights of the colonies" and to another to report on legal statutes affecting trade and commerce in the colonies. "[Richard Henry] Lee, Patrick Henry, and Hooper are the orators of the Congress," wrote John Adams. Back in Wilmington, Hooper was named to the Wilmington Committee of Safety, formed on 23 Nov. 1774. He could not, however, be present until 30 December.
There now began the steady, physically exhausting cross-country travel by horseback between Philadelphia and North Carolina that Hooper continued until the spring of 1777. Nearly all of his work in both places followed the same routine: long days of committee sessions and staggering amounts of correspondence, reports, and addresses to be written at night. At Philadelphia there was the added burden of purchasing supplies at warehouses and wharves and dispatching them to Committees of Safety and militia at home. Moreover, yellow fever in Philadelphia and malaria in Wilmington were constant hazards.
Before the close of 1776, Hooper had attended three Continental Congresses, four Provincial Congresses (he did not attend the fifth in Halifax in November 1776 because of the pressure of work in Philadelphia), and four Provincial Assemblies besides meetings of the Wilmington Committee of Safety. Almost invariably he was made chairman or member of any committee with important resolutions or addresses to compose, and some of the most significant statements of the Revolution crystallizing public opinion came either wholly or partially from his pen.
At the lengthy Third Provincial Congress (20 Aug - 10 Sept. 1775), which met for safety's sake far inland at Hillsborough, Hooper was made chairman of a committee to prepare a Test Oath for the 184 delegates. Since the Battle of Lexington on 19 April, tension and alarm had been rampant. Hooper was appointed to a committee to prepare an explanatory address to the people of North Carolina and named chairman of another to prepare an address to the -inhabitants of the British Empire." Hooper alone composed the important British Empire address declaring the views of the Congress on the existing state of affairs. Besides other assignments, he was also one of a committee of 45 delegates to devise a temporary government for the province.
About 1 Feb. 1776 Hooper quietly absented himself from the Continental Congress in Philadelphia to go to his widowed mother's aid in Cambridge, Mass. According to Joseph Hewes, Mrs. Hooper had only lately got out of Boston," and her Patriot son was greatly alarmed for her safety. Still absent from Philadelphia a month later, Hooper may have seized this opportunity to escort his mother to Milton, N.C., where she is said to have spent her later years. Her death date is unknown.
The Fourth Provincial Congress convened at Halifax on 4 Apr. 17776, and Hooper and John Penn (who had replaced Caswell) appeared on 15 April, three days after the passage of the Halifax Resolves. Hooper was immediately made chairman of a committee to supply the province with ammunition and "warlike stores," and he and Penn were added to a committee to produce a civil constitution and to another on secrecy, war, and intelligence. Both men were placed on committees to consider business necessary to be brought before the Congress and to form a temporary government, as well as on a committee of inquiry. Hooper, Hewes, and Penn were all re-appointed delegates to the Third Continental Congress which convened on 10 May 1776.
In Philadelphia Hooper served on Hewes's marine committee; with Benjamin Franklin on the highly important committee of secret intelligence which had broad powers to hire secret agents abroad, make agreements, and even to conceal information from the Congress itself; and on Thomas Jefferson's committee to compose a Declaration of Independence. Although Hooper was absent when independence was actually voted and declared on 4 July 1776, he, like most of the other delegates, affixed his name to the amended Declaration on 2 August.
For the rest of the year Hooper was concerned with committees for the regulation of the post office, the treasury, secret correspondence, admiralty courts, laws of capture, and the like. On 22 December he was appointed chairman of a committee with Hewes and Thomas Burke to devise a Great Seal for the new state of North Carolina.
Early in 1777 Hooper and numerous other delegates were stricken with yellow fever. On 4 February he secured permission to return to Wilmington to attend the General Assembly on 8 April, and on 29 April he formally resigned his seat in the U.S. Congress. -The situation of my own private affairs ... did not leave me a moment in suspense whether I should decline the honour intended me," he wrote to Robert Morris. He was succeeded by Cornelius Hamett and never again appeared on the national scene.
Hooper resumed his residence at Finian and his law practice in the newly opened courts, again riding the circuits with his friend Iredell as he had done before the Revolution. He attended the General Assembly of 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, and 1781 as member for the borough of Willmington, serving on numerous committees. When it appeared that Finian would not be safe from British men-of-war in Masonboro Sound (a house owned by Hooper three miles below Wilmington was burned and Finian was shelled), Hooper moved his family into the town. He himself, at times seriously ill with malaria and his right arm badly swollen, became a fugitive from the British, going from friend's house to friend's house in the Windsor-Edenton area.
On 29 Jan. 1781 Major James H. Craig's men took Wilmington, although the town was not evacuated until November. Then, an ailing Mrs. Hooper and two of her children were forced to flee by wagon to Hillsborough where her brother, General Clark, found shelter for them. Finally, on 10 Apr. 1782, the reunited Hoopers purchased General Francis Nash's former home on West Tryon Street (still standing and in 1972 named a National Historic Landmark). Hooper's preserved Memorandum Book, 1780-1783 provides valuable records of this period.
With his permanent removal to the backcountry, Hooper was now entirely out of the mainstream of current events, both state and national. His election to the 1782 General Assembly as member for Wilmington was declared invalid, and in 1783 he suffered the first political loss of his career at the hands of Hillsborough tavern keeper Thomas Farmer, who defeated him for a seat in the General Assembly. One absorbing new interest developed, however. Some years before, in 1778, Hooper had been named first on a committee of nine prominent men to begin an academy, "Science Hall," in the vicinity of Hillsborough. The school had made a brave start on Colonel Thomas Hart's Hartford Plantation, but it had been swept aside by Revolutionary activity. Now, Hooper pushed a new academy bill through the 1784 Assembly, to which he was elected, and almost single-handedly began a second venture, a new "Hillsborough Academy", which prospered for a few years. Unfortunately, the November 1786 Assembly at Fayetteville, the last that he attended, tabled a bill to raise funds for the school and thereby ensured its demise.
Hooper's law practice was still a considerable one owing to steady litigation concerning Loyalists' estates, confiscated lands, treason, and all the legal backwash of the Revolution. Like Iredell and other conservative men, Hooper lamented unreasonable severity and vengefulness against Loyalists and absentees and urged moderation in their treatment. In consequence, he found himself at painful odds with some of his old friends and acquaintances. On 22 Sept. 1786 he was appointed to a federal court to settle a Massachusetts-New York territorial dispute, but the matter was resolved locally and the court never met.
A bitter blow fell when Hooper was not elected a delegate to the 1788 Constitutional Convention, which met in Hillsborough's old St. Matthew's Church (then renovated as the new academy), literally within sight and sound of his own house. He never recovered from this second important rejection. The Iredell correspondence indicates that from 1787 onward there had been a perceptible decline in Hooper's health and that, like his fellow townsman, Thomas Burke, he had chosen to drown his increasing disillusionment in rum. He died at age forty-eight, the evening before his daughter Elizabeth's marriage to Colonel Henry Hyrn Watters of the Cape Fear.
Hooper's portrait was painted in 1873 by the prominent Philadelphia artist, James Reid Lambdin (1807-89), who was commissioned by the Committee on the Restoration of Independence Hall. Lambdin's portrait copied the head of William Hooper in John Trumbull's (17561843) study for his famous painting, The Signing of the Declaration of Independence. It remains uncertain, however, whether Trumbull actually painted Hooper from life. In February 1790 Trumbull traveled to Charleston, S.C., to collect likenesses of the Signers, but it seems unlikely that Hooper's swiftly deteriorating condition at that date would have permitted even short sittings for a sketch.
See: Edwin Anderson Alderman, Address on the Life of William Hooper, "The Prophet of American Independence" (Guilford Battle Ground, 4 July 1894); Samuel A. Ashe, ed., Biographical History of North Carolina, vol. 7 (1908 [portrait]); Walter Clark, ed., State Records of North Carolina, vols. 11-24 (1895-1905); John De Berniere Papers (Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina Library, Chapel Hill); Crockette W. Hewlett, Between the Creeks: A History of Masonboro Sound, 17351970 (1971); Archibald Maclaine Hooper, - Life of William Hooper, Signer of the Declaration of Independence ... Written in 1822 ... by Callisthenes," Hillsborough Recorder, 13, 20, 27 Nov., 4 Dec. 1822; William Hooper Papers (Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina Library, Chapel Hill); Griffith J. McRee, ed., The Life and Correspondence of James Iredell, 2 vols. (1857); William L. Saunders, ed., Colonial Records of North Carolina, vols. 7-10 (1886-90); "Unpublished Letters of William Hooper," Historical Magazine (August 1868); Fanny De Berniere Whitaker,---The Hooper Family," North Carolina Booklet, vol. 5 (July 1905); William Hooper Memorandum Book, 1780-93 (microfilm in the North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh, from the original in the New-York Historical Society Library); Will of Anne Hooper (Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough); Will of William Hooper (North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh).
MARY CLAIRE ENGSTROM.
William Hooper made a will dated 24 April 1788 at North Carolina. See A Goodwin's website at: www.fscompass.com/wills/WHooper1788.htm lfor a transcript of his will and further information on this line.
More information about William Hooper may be found at www.fscompass.com/Bible/WHooper.html. This is a transcript and image of a family bible.
More information about William Hooper may be found at American National Biography Online;[EMAIL:]http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hoops/hooper/signer.htm[:EMAIL].
William died on 14 October 1790 at Hillsborough, Orange county, North Carolina, USA, aged 48. He was buried at Old Town cemetery, Hillsborough. Hooper was buried in a corner of his garden, and the brick-walled plot was later incorporated into the adjoining Old Town Cemetery. On 25 Apr. 1894, the grave was opened at dawn before various family representatives, and a very few discernible relics-part of a button and a nail or two-were placed in an envelope and removed, together with the covering sandstone slab, to the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, Greensboro. There an imposing 19-foot-high monument, surmounted by a statue of Hooper in colonial dress and in orator's pose, honors the patriotic services of William Hooper and his friend and colleague, John Penn. The sandstone slab, with six additional words deeply incised, "Signer of the Declaration of Independence," was later returned to the original Hillsborough grave site.
Children of William Hooper and Anne Clarke
- William Hooper+ b. 1768, d. 15 Jul 1804
- Elizabeth Hooper+ b. b Jul 1770, d. 30 Jun 1844
- Thomas Hogg Hooper b. c 1772, d. 1806
William Hooper
(1768 - 15 July 1804)
William Hooper|b. 1768\nd. 15 Jul 1804|p441.htm#i12912|William Hooper|b. 17 Jun 1742\nd. 14 Oct 1790|p441.htm#i12818|Anne Clarke|b. 1743\nd. 30 May 1795|p154.htm#i12911|Rev William Hooper|b. 12 Mar 1704\nd. 14 Apr 1767|p441.htm#i16194|Mary Dennie|b. 1 Dec 1717\nd. Nov 1779|p266.htm#i12815|||||||
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William Hooper was born in 1768 at Masonboro Sound, North Carolina, USA. He was the son of William Hooper and Anne Clarke.
William Hooper married Helen Hogg on 26 June 1791 at Brunswick county, North Carolina, USA. She re-married Joseph Caldwell in 1809.
William died on 15 July 1804 at Brunswick, NC, USA.
William Hooper married Helen Hogg on 26 June 1791 at Brunswick county, North Carolina, USA. She re-married Joseph Caldwell in 1809.
William died on 15 July 1804 at Brunswick, NC, USA.
Children of William Hooper and Helen Hogg
- Rev William Hooper+ b. 31 Aug 1792, d. 19 Aug 1876
- Thomas Hooper b. Sep 1794, d. Nov 1828
- James Hooper b. 1797, d. 26 Jun 1841
William Hooper
(9 December 1846 - )
William Hooper|b. 9 Dec 1846|p441.htm#i26137|Dr Edward Jones Hooper|b. 24 Mar 1818\nd. 21 Oct 1850|p433.htm#i18286|Amelia Massy|d. Oct 1851|p544.htm#i26136|Rev William Hooper|b. 31 Aug 1792\nd. 19 Aug 1876|p441.htm#i12914|Frances P. Jones|b. 1798\nd. 10 Mar 1863|p464.htm#i12915|||||||
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William Hooper was born on 9 December 1846. He was the son of Dr Edward Jones Hooper and Amelia Massy.
William Hooper
(18 October 1823 - 29 August 1825)
William Hooper|b. 18 Oct 1823\nd. 29 Aug 1825|p441.htm#i28610|Archibald Maclaine Hooper|b. 7 Dec 1775\nd. 25 Sep 1853|p432.htm#i12931|Charlotte De Bernier||p253.htm#i12932|George Hooper|d. a 8 Apr 1820|p434.htm#i12925|Catherine Maclaine|d. 1820 or 1821|p519.htm#i12929|||||||
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William Hooper was born on 18 October 1823 at St James Episcopal church, Wilmington, New Hanover, North Carolina, USA. He was the son of Archibald Maclaine Hooper and Charlotte De Bernier.
William died on 29 August 1825 aged 1.
William died on 29 August 1825 aged 1.
Rev William Hooper
(12 March 1704 - 14 April 1767)
Rev William Hooper|b. 12 Mar 1704\nd. 14 Apr 1767|p441.htm#i16194|Robert Hooper|b. b 1670\nd. a 1723|p439.htm#i16178|Mary Japhray|b. c 1675|p459.htm#i16179|Patriarch Hooper||p439.htm#i28628||||||||||
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Rev William Hooper was christened on 12 March 1704 at Ednam, Roxburghshire, Scotland. Robert Hopper's son William baptised. He was the son of Robert Hooper and Mary Japhray.
William studied at Edinburgh University graduating 26 March 1723. William was minister of the West Church at Boston, Massachusetts, USA, in 1737. He served as paster of a Congregational church and later as the second rector of Trinity Episcopal church in Boston from 1747-67.
Rev William Hooper married Mary Dennie on 18 October 1739 at Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, USA.
Rev William Hooper emigrated on 7 July 1747 to New England, USA. Dobson quotes The Scots overseas, London 1966 and 'List of emigrant ministers to America 1690-1811. G Fothergill, London, 1904' in his books Directory of Scottish settlers in North America 1625-1825. This date contradicts his claim that he was minister in Boston in 1737. William was the second rector of Trinity Episcopal church at Boston.
William died on 14 April 1767 at Boston, Massachusetts, aged 63. He was buried at Trinity Church, Boston.
William Hooper was born in Scotland, in the year 1702, and soon after leaving the university of Edinburgh emigrated to America. He settled in Boston, where he became connected in marriage with the daughter of Mr John Dennie, a respectable merchant. Not long after his emigration, he was elected pastor of Trinity Church, in Boston, in which office, such were his fidelity and affectionate intercourse with the people of his charge, that long after his death he was remembered by them with peculiar veneration and regard .
William studied at Edinburgh University graduating 26 March 1723. William was minister of the West Church at Boston, Massachusetts, USA, in 1737. He served as paster of a Congregational church and later as the second rector of Trinity Episcopal church in Boston from 1747-67.
Rev William Hooper married Mary Dennie on 18 October 1739 at Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, USA.
Rev William Hooper emigrated on 7 July 1747 to New England, USA. Dobson quotes The Scots overseas, London 1966 and 'List of emigrant ministers to America 1690-1811. G Fothergill, London, 1904' in his books Directory of Scottish settlers in North America 1625-1825. This date contradicts his claim that he was minister in Boston in 1737. William was the second rector of Trinity Episcopal church at Boston.
William died on 14 April 1767 at Boston, Massachusetts, aged 63. He was buried at Trinity Church, Boston.
William Hooper was born in Scotland, in the year 1702, and soon after leaving the university of Edinburgh emigrated to America. He settled in Boston, where he became connected in marriage with the daughter of Mr John Dennie, a respectable merchant. Not long after his emigration, he was elected pastor of Trinity Church, in Boston, in which office, such were his fidelity and affectionate intercourse with the people of his charge, that long after his death he was remembered by them with peculiar veneration and regard .
Children of Rev William Hooper and Mary Dennie
- William Hooper+ b. 17 Jun 1742, d. 14 Oct 1790
- John Hooper
- George Hooper+ d. a 8 Apr 1820
- Thomas Hooper b. bt 1746 - 1750, d. 1 Aug 1798
- Mary Hooper d. Nov 1771
Rev William Hooper
(31 August 1792 - 19 August 1876)
Rev William Hooper|b. 31 Aug 1792\nd. 19 Aug 1876|p441.htm#i12914|William Hooper|b. 1768\nd. 15 Jul 1804|p441.htm#i12912|Helen Hogg|b. c 1770\nd. 30 Oct 1846|p429.htm#i12913|William Hooper|b. 17 Jun 1742\nd. 14 Oct 1790|p441.htm#i12818|Anne Clarke|b. 1743\nd. 30 May 1795|p154.htm#i12911|||||||
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Rev William Hooper (1792-1876)
Copy supplied by Roger Bullard
Copy supplied by Roger Bullard
More information about Rev William Hooper may be found at http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hoops/hooper/signer.htm.
Rev William Hooper married Frances Pollack Jones in December 1814 at Chatham Coounty, North Carolina, USA.
William died on 19 August 1876 at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, aged 83.
A M Hooper on p. 63 states: Hooper, William (31 Aug. 179-7-19 Aug. 1876), educator and clergyman, was born in Hillsborough, the oldest son of William and Helen Hogg Hooper. His father, a merchant, was the son of the William Hooper (1742-90) who was one of North Carolina's signers of the Declaration of Independence. His mother was the daughter of James Hogg, resident of Orange County, who was one of the commissioners appointed to select a site for The University of North Carolina. The first William Hooper-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch-had emigrated to Massachusetts from Scotland about 1737; in Boston, he served as pastor of a Congregational church and, subsequently, as the second rector of Trinity Episcopal Church (1747-67).
After the death of her husband in 1804, Helen Hooper moved to Chapel Hill in order to provide the best educational opportunities for her three sons. Here William entered the preparatory school of The University of North Carolina in the winter of 1804 and was tutored by President Joseph Caldwell and Matthew Troy. The university awarded him the B.A. degree in 1809 and the M.A. degree in 1812. During the academic year 1812-13 Hooper studied theology at the Princeton Theological Seminary. He received additional degrees from Princeton University (M.A., 1817) and The University of North Carolina (LL.D., 1833; D.D., 1857).
Hooper entered the teaching profession as a tutor at The University of North Carolina in 1810. The greater portion of his next sixty-five years was spent as teacher and/or administrator at the preparatory college. and university levels. His positions at Chapel Hill included principal tutor, 1810-17; professor of ancient languages, 1818-22 and 1828-37; and professor of rhetoric and logic, 1825-28.
Leaving his teaching post at the university in 1837, Hooper was named senior professor (president) at the newly formed Furman Theological Institute, Winnsboro, S.C. He remained at the institute during its first year of operation (1838~39) before becoming professor 6f Roman literature at South Carolina College where he taught from 1840 to 1S46 and served for a time as acting president of the college.
In October 1845 the trustees of Wake Forest College elected Hooper to succeed Samuel Wait as president of the college. He accepted the offer-although he did not assume his duties until January 1847 - on the condition that the friends of Wake Forest would make a concerted effort to eliminate its $20,000 debt. Hooper relinquished the presidency at the end of the fall term, December 1848. Thereafter, he served as teacher and/or educational administrator at the following institutions: Hooper's Family School, Warren County, 1849-51; Sedgwick Female Seminary, Raleigh, 1851-52; Chowan Female Institute (now Chowan College), president, 1854-62; Fayetteville Female Seminary, 1862-63, 1865-67; Mt. Vernon Female Seminary, Chatham County, associate principal, 1863-64; and Wilson Collegiate Seminary, associate principal, 1867-75. He retired to Chapel Hill in the latter year, spending the rest of his life with his daughter and his son-in-law, Professor John De Berniere Hooper, a member of the university faculty.
A deeply pious man as well as an erudite scholar, Hooper combined his career in education with a religious calling.
Confirmed in the Episcopal church in 1818, he became a lay reader in 1819 and a deacon in 1820. Two years later he was ordained to the priesthood and assumed the pastoral charge of St. Johns Church, Fayetteville, on 24 Apr. 1822. He remained in this position until 1824, when doubts concerning the church's teaching on baptism, confirmation, and Holy Orders led to his resignation.
In 1831, Hooper was baptized into the fellowship of Mt Carmel Baptist Church, Orange County. Thereafter, he was welcomed into the councils of the Baptist denomination, even though his views on such controversial questions as "intercomrnunion" and "pulpit affiliation" were far more liberal than those of the vast majority of his fellow Baptist ministers. Hooper's pastoral charges included Wake Forest Baptist Church (1847-48), New Bern Baptist Church (1852-54), Buckhorn Baptist Church in Hertford County (1855 ff.), and Wilson Baptist Church (1868). He also served as co-pastor, with William Hill Jordan, of the Warrenton Baptist Church (1849-50).
A concern for the provision of adequate educational opportunities, especially in the preparatory schools, had been expressed by Hooper during his tenure at The University of North Carolina. Invited to deliver a lecture before the North Carolina Institute of Education, meeting at Chapel Hill on 20 June 1832, he developed the theme, "Imperfections of Our Primary Schools, and the Best Method of Correcting Them." He noted three "imperfections" in particular: indolent and indulgent youth, who were not prepared for the rigors required to attain a sound education; the desire of parents and other patrons for an education that could be acquired both inexpensively and rapidly; and the scarcity of able teachers and tutors. Among the improvements he suggested for schools attempting to prepare men for the university were greater attention to the rudiments of English grammar and penmanship, concentration on "classical" studies, a more lively and spirited manner of instruction, and greater use of the oral lecture to supplement the texts required. Finally, he urged the establishment of a seminary for the education of schoolmasters.
Once he had cast his lot with the Baptists, Hooper was numbered among those advocates of higher education - for both men and women - within the newly formed Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. He was the author of the report to the convention in 1832 recommending the "establishment of a Baptist literary institution in this State"-a report that led to the founding of Wake Forest Institute in 1834.
Hooper's views on the education of women - to which he had made passing reference in the 1852 lecture-appeared in an article in the Biblical Recorder of 21 Apr. 1848 entitled "Importance of Female Education." Here, he contended that women ought to be educated because of the various "offices" and "relations" they occupied in society as daughters, sisters, wives, and mothers. But beyond the familial advantages accruing to the educated, he noted that new fields of philanthropy had been opened to educated women-visiting and instructing the poor, distributing religious tracts, composing juvenile books, teaching in "charity" schools. and cooperating in missionary and other religious societies. Then, in a sentence that might have been penned a century and a half later, Hooper added: "But education has lifted and expanded woman's views to take in the wide compass of her duty-to see that she is the 'daughter of God,' that she can [,] like him[,] diffuse happiness around her; that she can be man's equal if not his superior in the removal of crime and wretchedness in the world" [italics added].
Although he published no books, Hooper was a gifted and prolific writer. Many of his letters, articles, and essays appeared in the pages of the Biblical Recorder, the Baptist weekly published in Raleigh. He was also a popular and eloquent speaker-especially before the literary societies of various educational institutions - and at least twelve of his addresses (or sermons) were published frequently in pamphlet form. Fifty Years Since: An Address Before the Alumni of The University of North Carolina, delivered on 7 June 1859, was used extensively by Kemp Plummer Battle in writing his history of the university. The Force of Habit, originally delivered as a sermon before Chapel Hill students in 1833, is said to have been read often by President Swain to succeeding generations of graduating classes. Hooper's concern for the cultivation of the human spirit, together with the mind, was expressed in The Discipline of the Heart, to be Connected with the Culture of the Mind: A Discourse or Education, Delivered to the Students of the College, at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, August 22, 1830.
SEE: Samuel A. Ashe, ed., Biographical History of North Carolina, vol. 7 (1908); Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. 1 (1907); Charles L. Coon, "Imperfections of Our Primary Schools," North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-i340 (1915); John De Berniere Hooper Papers (Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina Library~ Chapel Hill); George Washington Paschal, History of Wake Forest College, vol. 1 (1935 [portrait]); Thomas Jerome Taylor, A History of the Tar River Baptist Association, 1830-1921 (n.d.). R. HARGUS TAYLOR.
Children of Rev William Hooper and Frances Pollack Jones
- Dr William Wilberforce Hooper+ b. Jan 1816, d. 25 Nov 1864
- Dr Edward Jones Hooper+ b. 24 Mar 1818, d. 21 Oct 1850
- Mary Elizabeth Hooper+ b. 26 Sep 1819
- Joseph Caldwell Hooper b. 21 Jun 1821
- Elizabeth Watters Hooper b. 9 Nov 1824
- Thomas Clark Hooper+ b. 15 Nov 1827, d. 27 Oct 1884
- Dr Du Ponceau Hooper b. 8 Jan 1833, d. 4 Apr 1863
William Albert Hooper
(1879 - )
William Albert Hooper|b. 1879|p441.htm#i4748|Thomas Hooper|b. s 1855|p440.htm#i4740|Georgianna Grigg|b. 2 Feb 1846|p363.htm#i4741|||||||William Grigg|b. s 1820|p363.htm#i4742|Hannah Hobbs||p427.htm#i4743|
William Albert Hooper was born in 1879 at Victoria, Australia. He was the son of Thomas Hooper and Georgianna Grigg.
William Barwick Hooper
(before 17 April 1868 - )
William Barwick Hooper|b. b 17 Apr 1868|p441.htm#i3995|Rev Robert Poole Hooper|b. 15 Oct 1826\nd. 12 Sep 1918|p440.htm#i16177|Harriet Brereton|b. s 1820\nd. 22 Feb 1886|p103.htm#i16291|George H. Hooper|b. 7 Dec 1779\nd. 15 Jun 1863|p434.htm#i16104|Margaret B. Ross|b. c 1791\nd. 21 Sep 1838|p679.htm#i16105|||||||
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His birth was registered in the quarter ending before 17 April 1868 at Hove, Sussex. William Barwick Hooper was christened on 17 April 1868 at St Nicholas, Brighton, Sussex. He was the son of Rev Robert Poole Hooper and Harriet Brereton. George, Harriet, Augusta, Margaret, Herbert, Helen, William and James were listed as the children of Rev Robert Poole Hooper in the 1871 census at 29 Cambridge Rd, Hove, Sussex. Harriet, Margaret, Helen, Herbert, William and James were listed as the children of Rev Robert Poole Hooper in the 1881 census at 31 Cambridge Road, Hove, Sussex. Augusta, Margaret, Helen and William were listed as the children of Rev Robert Poole Hooper in the 1891 census at 31 Cambridge Rd, Hove.
The marriage of William Barwick Hooper and Mary Elizabeth or Helen Lucy Cripps or Jones was registered in the quarter ending in December 1894 at Steyning RD, Sussex.
William Barwick Hooper and Harriet Anna Hooper, Augusta Maude Hooper, Margaret Ross Hooper, Helen Elizabeth Hooper, Harry Brereton Hooper, Capt Herbert Ross Hooper, James Brereton Hooper and Lt Robert Poole Hooper were mentioned on 30 March 1912.
The marriage of William Barwick Hooper and Mary Elizabeth or Helen Lucy Cripps or Jones was registered in the quarter ending in December 1894 at Steyning RD, Sussex.
William Barwick Hooper and Harriet Anna Hooper, Augusta Maude Hooper, Margaret Ross Hooper, Helen Elizabeth Hooper, Harry Brereton Hooper, Capt Herbert Ross Hooper, James Brereton Hooper and Lt Robert Poole Hooper were mentioned on 30 March 1912.
William Benjamin Hooper
(6 August 1808 - 13 February 1871)
William Benjamin Hooper|b. 6 Aug 1808\nd. 13 Feb 1871|p441.htm#i15753|William Hooper|b. 22 Aug 1775\nd. 27 Dec 1840|p441.htm#i15761|Mary [Darby] Bickley|b. 1 Oct 1784\nd. 11 Oct 1839|p61.htm#i15762|John Hooper|b. 6 Dec 1744\nd. 1 Jan 1820|p436.htm#i15759|Mary Fawler|b. 28 Jul 1749\nd. 13 Nov 1802|p317.htm#i15760|George Darby|b. b 1748\nd. 12 Mar 1804|p250.htm#i15763|Martha Bickley|b. 18 Oct 1747?\nd. bt 3 Sep 1817 - 31 Jan 1818|p61.htm#i15764|
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William Benjamin Hooper and Mary Ann Trull obtained a marriage licence on 21 July 1831 at London.
William Benjamin Hooper married Mary Ann Trull, daughter of George Trull and Martha Copperwheat?, on 8 September 1831 at St Leonard, Shoreditch, Middlesex.
Lease for 21 years from 25 March 1839: 1. William Benjmain Hooper of anchester Terrace, Liverpool Road (parish of St Mary Islington?), and John James Hooper of Brew House Yard, St John St (parish of St James Clerkenwell), esqs. administrators of the estate of William Hooper later of Finchley esq. deceased. Administration of the estate of William Hooper was granted to John James Hooper and William Benjamin Hooper, on 12 January 1841 at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury Admon of the goods chattels and credits of William Hooper late of Brewhouse Yard Saint John's Street and of Finchley in the county of Middlesex Annatto and Blue manufacturer widower deceased was granted to William Benjamin Hooper and John James Hooper two of the natural and lawful children of the said deceased having been first sworn duly to adminster. Estate £9000, Resworn in December 1841 at under £10,000 and additional security given. Admon of goods unadministered passed at the Principal Registry May 1881.
William Benjamin Hooper and Martha Gambell appeared on the 1841 census at Manchester Terrace, Islington. Martha Gamble, 60, independent, not born in county; Wm Hooper 30, blue manufacturer, yes; Mary Ann Hooper, 30, yes; William, 6, yes; George 4, yes; Mary Ann 11 months, yes; with two female servants'
A Charles Copperwheat aged 42 with his family resided at Britannia Row, Islington in 1841. William Benjamin Hooper was listed in a directory dated 1844 as Hooper Bros. Annatto, Blue, etc. makers and drysalt-makers at Brewhouse Yard, St John Steet, Clerkenwell, London.
William Benjamin Hooper lived at 2 Albion Villas, Liverpool Rd, Islington, London, 1846. In the commercial section, Hooper Brothers, annatto & blue makers, & lead grinders, were at 28 St John St, Clerkenwell.
His son George were not with the rest of the family at Albion Villas in the 1851 census nor with his father visiting Herefordshire.
William Benjamin Hooper appeared on the 1851 census at Oxford Arms Hotel, Kington, Herefordshire. William B Hooper aged 44, born London was a visitor at a hotel and a merchant in anatto. He was listed in a directory dated between 1853 and 1858 as Hooper Brothers at 28 St John Street, Clerkenwell, London, Middlesex, England. Annatto & Blue Manufacturers, Drug & Black Lead Grinders and Importers and Merchants. They were not listed in 1866. In 1853 he was still living at 2 Albion Villa (also known as Stanmore Villa), Liverpool Road..
William Benjamin Hooper and Mary Ann Trull appeared on the 1861 census at Mimms Village, South Mimms. William B Hooper, head, 57, retired London merchant, born London; Mary Ann wife 57 born Highgate; George, son, unmarried 23, hair jeweller, born Islington; Mary Ann, daughter unmarried, 20, born Islington; Eliza Green, house servant.
William Benjamin Hooper made a will dated 16 May 1861 at South Mimms, Middlesex. I William Benjamin Hooper of Cedar Cottage, Sth Mimms, co. Middlesex do hereby bequeath to my wife Mary Ann Hooper all ... William was awarded a claret jug which is now held by John Ashby Hooper for enabling a bridge to be built An act of gratitude: A bridge has lately been erected over the river at Colney Heath, in the stead of the one which was placed there by the late Lady Caledon, but which was soon after washed down. The new bridge has been erected by subscriptions, obtained by W B Hooper, Esq. Many of the labourers at Colney Heath had been forced to ford the river every day, on their way to and from work, and to mark their sense of gratitude to Mr Hooper, for his kindness in getting a new bridge built for them, they presented him with a silver claret jug, bearing the inscription "Presented to W B Hooper, to commemorate the restoration of the bridge at Colney Heath, and as a token of gratitude by 54 of the peasantry, 1865" on 25 November 1865 at Colney Heath, Hertfordshire.
William died of erysipelas on 13 February 1871 at 342 Liverpool Rd, Islington, London, aged 62. He was described as a drug merchant. He was buried at Highgate cemetery, London. The family grave at Highgate cemetery reads: Sacred to the memory of William Benjn Hooper, died 13 February 1871 in the 63rd year of his age. However the base stone reads: The family grave of William A Hooper of Albion Villas, Holoway.. The cemetery records do not list his interment there.
His will was proved on 14 March 1871 at the Principal Probate Registry, London. He was described as a retired merchant of Stanmore Villa, Liverpool Rd, Islington (formerly of Cedar Cottage, South Mimms).
Children of William Benjamin Hooper and Mary Ann Trull
- William Henry Hooper+ b. 9 Oct 1834, d. 8 May 1906
- George Hooper b. 4 May 1837, d. 17 Mar 1916
- Mary Ann Hooper b. 2 Jul 1840, d. 26 May 1920
- Robert Hooper b. 18 Aug 1842, d. 16 Feb 1858
- Frederick Hooper b. 20 Dec 1846, d. 2 Mar 1915
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