Hopgoods and Newtons - amazing to see so many descendants from Susan Adams / Hopgood / Newton. Susan was my great grandmother and Richard Newton my great grandfather. According to my grandfather Jack the Hopgood children and the Newton children all got along well with each other as half brothers and half sisters.
I live in Wales, but am finally visiting Colac Bay in November 2018 so will get to see where it all started for the NZ family. I have quite a bit of info on the family.
I am great grandson of Caroline (Carrie) Adams who married Robert Flowers. Carrie was the sister to Susan Adams who married Edward Hopgood. As I see it, my line of descendancy is Henry Adams and Caroline Elizabeth Rowland to Caroline Adams/Flowers to Caroline (Carrie) Elizabeth Flowers/Ramsay to Alpha Centaurus Ramsay to me Alan Stewart Ramsay. I guess we are about fourth cousins.
Hi i'm Zachary McCosh, the great great great grandson of Harry Hopgood, it's amazing reading through all of these comments to think that nearly all of you are a distant relative. I'm 12 and doing research with my cousin and have discovered so much about my family and where they came from!
Im a direct descendant of Private Richard Cook .. here a link to an intersting story about his bible being found 92 years later and a notice re his death in the Southland Times 1917
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3825688/Family-of-battlefield-bible-owne...
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19171016.2.11?query=Cook%...
my grandfather Charles was Susan and Edwards first born, and my wife has done extensive reasearch on our family if there is anything you wish to know..
Hey Kathy I think your father and I share the same grandmother, mine was Caroline who married Henry Dawson?
Hi Mel,
I would be interested in any information you have about Susan Hopgood, she was my father's Great Grandmother, Carrie was his Grandmother.
Kathy
Hi Brian - my mother's grandmother was Susan Hopgood, whose first husband was Edward Hopgood, with whom she had five children - Carrie, May, Charlie, Bill (your grandfather?) and Harry. Susan ran the Railway Hotel in Colac Bay, as well as the local grocery store and post office. Let me know if you'd like any further information as I have some old records which might interest you. Mel
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