Family Record from Professor William Hooper

Lineage of Reverend William Hooper and his son William Hooper, Signer of the Declaration of Independence

Source: William Hooper family record donated by Mrs. C. W. Nielson to North Carolina Department of Archives and History, #400.1.1.1122. Please note that to protect the privacy of potentially living persons (and to prevent automated harvesting of such data), no information dated after 1900 was transcribed.
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First page
Family Record
1st Generation in America
William Hooper (Rev.) born in Scotland
died in Boston in 1767
2d Generation
William Hooper (Signer Declar. Indep)
born in Boston June 28th 1742 gradu-
ated at Cambridge (N. E.) 1760married Anne
Clark 1767 removed to N. Carolina - died 1790
His children...
3d Generation:
William Hooper born 1768
Elizabeth Hooper (Mrs Watters) born 1770
Thomas H. Hooper born - - 1773
William Hooper & Helen Hogg were married
30th June 1791
Their children
4th
William Hooper born at Hillsboro N.C.
August 31st 1792
Second page
Family Record, continued
4th Generation continued
Thomas Clark Hooper born Sept     1794
died Nov.    1828
James H. Hooper born Sept 1797 died June 184?
5th Generation
William Wilberforce Hooper born Jany 1816
Edward Jones Hooper born March 24th 1818
Mary E. Hooper born Sept 26th 1819
Joseph Caldwell Hooper born June 21st 1821
Elizabeth Watters Hooper born Nov. 9th 1824
Thomas Clark Hooper born Nov 15th 1827
Duponceau Hooper born Jan.y 8th - 1833.
6th Generation
The children of John Deberniere Hooper &
Mary E. Hooper
Helen Hooper born Oct 29th ---1838
Fanny Hooper born Feb. 1st - 1842
Edward Debernier Hooper born July 23 1846
[died Aug. 10th 1847]
Henry de' Berniere born June 9th 1849
Mary Louisa, born July 20, 1851
died Oct 10 1853
Julia de' Berniere, born July 24th 1856
Third page
6th Generation continued
Edward J. Hooper & Amelia Massy
were married Nov. 27th 1845
Their children:
William was born Dec. 9th 1846
Theresa  "       "       "
 
Benjamin Crowell Alston was born
1st January 1854
Bettie R. Alston was born 12 June 1881
Charlie Cooke Alston was born 19 Feb 1884
Lillian Mayfield Alston was born 1887 April
Mary Lucy Ellen Alston was born 17 Mch.
1889
John Crawell and Robert Mumford Alston
were born 29 November 1891
Bernadene Alston was born 24th Jan 1894
Josephine Alston was born 15 March 1896
De Berniere Hooper Alston was born 1st May 1898
Marian Loucretia Bradford Alston was
born Nov. 23, 1900
[another date, almost entirely obscured, was after 1900]
Fourth page
6th Generation continued
William W. Hooper and Mary Jane Kearny
were married on the 23d of December 1852.
Their son Edward William Hooper was
born, April 18th 1854 (Easter Monday).
Lucy Roxana Elizabeth Earlis Florence Antoinette Hooper
born June 25th 1856 (Wednesday morning)
James Havelock Hooper, born March 13th
1858 (Saturday)
Charlotte Elizabeth Hooper, born
18th December 1859 (Sunday evening)
Benjamin Crowall Alston and Charlotte Elizabeth
Hooper were married January 28, 1880
William C. Daughtry and Laura
Rencher Hooper Was Married Dec 3 1874.
Benj. C. Alston & Charlotte E. Hooper
    Were married     1880
Jas. H. Hooper & Frances Daughtry was married on Feb 23rd 188?
Their Son born on December 18, 1881 Sunday night     died on Jan 31st '82
lived one month
Seven days
Last page
[deaths]
Edward Jones Hooper M.D. died Oct 21 1850
Amelia, his wife, died 1851 Oct,
Wm. Wilberforce Hooper died Oct Nov. 25 1864.
Rev. William Hooper Died August 19th 1876
Mary Jane Hooper died January 24, 1892
Lillian Mayfield Alston died 21st Sept 1887
[rest of data on page dated after 1900]




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