HOPKINS, Edmund (Grimwade p.359, 384)

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Goldworkers List (Section VII).

He was christened at St Vedast, Foster Lane in 1776, the son of William (Grimwade p.384) and Elizabeth Hopkins.
He signed indentures in 1790 to be an apprentice to his father William of the Goldsmiths Company , a ring maker of Maiden Lane. He was made free in 1797.
He married Jane Anne Hancock at St John Zachary also in 1797. She was a minor from Bethnal Green.
There are christening records from 1798 to 1812 at that church for seven of their children but none show their address.
He had entered a mark at Goldsmiths Hall in 1806 in partnership with his father as gold workers from 17 Maiden Lane (incorrectly entered as Maiden Street) and another alone in the same trade in 1811 from 3 Lilypot Lane. John Tollit (Grimwade p.373) is recorded at this address in 1824.
Christening records for three more of their children born between 1814 and 1820 at St John Zachary all in 1824 show their address as Hackney and, unlikely as it may seem, their father as a surgeon.
In son Thomas’ application in 1840 for freedom by patrimony in the Goldsmiths Company he reported he had been born in St John parish, Hackney in 1816.
Edmund Hopkins’ burial aged 47 years, late of Hackney, was recorded at St John Zachary in 1824 followed two months later at the same church by the burial of his son Edmund Price Hopkins aged 20 years also from Hackney.