Hopkins Family History
- Hopkins Name Meaning
- English: patronymic from Hopkin. The surname is widespread throughout southern and central England, but is at its most common in South Wales. Irish (County Longford and western Ireland): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Oibicín, itself a Gaelicized form of an Anglo-Norman name. In other parts of the country this name is generally of English origin.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 4,604,712 Historical Documents with Hopkins on Ancestry
- 1,409,826 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 912,705 Census and Voter Lists
- 146,490 Military Records
- 86,292 Immigration Records
- 2,049,399 Member Trees
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Number of Hopkins families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hopkins families
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62 - 122 21 - 61 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hopkins census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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