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From: John Hopkins <>
Subject: Re: [FoD] Life in Hewelsfield and Brockweir
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:50:44 +1200
In-Reply-To: <3AA13C00-A99F-47B4-8DD2-DE765438B484@forest-of-dean.net>


Hi David

Thank you for forwarding that reference. The article is fascinating. My
great great grandfather (Thomas Hopkins) shows up in most censuses as having
been born in St Briavels, but I have found one reference to him having been
born in Brockweir.

The family 'legend' is that the Hopkins family is Welsh (and it certainly is
on one side), but wouldn't it be amazing if the Hopkyns in that article was
an ancestor of ours! That would mean that our branch of the Hopkins family
go back to that time at least in the FOD, and we would have a detailed and
valuable story about our family! Sigh... More research to do...

Of course if that were true, it doesn't mean that the family isn't Welsh. I
guess it just depends on where you believe the border lies!

Thanks once again.

John Hopkins
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Sent: Wednesday, 27 September 2006 12:09 a.m.
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Subject: [FoD] Life in Hewelsfield and Brockweir


Life in Hewelsfield and Brockweir during the 16th Century
http://www.forest-of-dean.net/?Stories_and_Articles

If you like reading a little about history and the way people lived
in the
Forest back in the 16th Century, then you will certainly enjoy
reading this
article which was originally published by the Chepstow Society back
in 1950.

Enjoy

David Watkins

Forest of Dean Family History
http://www.forest-of-dean.net/





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