Birth: July-September 1874 Islington, Middlesex, UK
Father: Thomas (Tom) Hopkins c1844-a1901
Mother: Sarah Turner 1842-1898
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 21 May 1904 St Andrew, Barnsbury, Islington, London, UK
Wife: Constance Shackleton 1882-1958
Death: October-December 1952 Wood Green, Middlesex, UK
Sidney (Sydney) Albert Hopkins 1905-1994
Winifred Maud (Maude) Hopkins [Nelson] 1910-1983
Constance Gwendoline Hopkins [Morgan] 1913-1967
Birth of Albert John Hopkins in FreeBMD in July-September 1874 in Islington (1b 278).
In the 1881 census as Albert Hopkins aged 6, born in Islington, Middlesex, and living with his parents (Thomas and Sarah), two brothers (James and William), and three sisters (Emma, Florence and Martha) at 112 Palmerston Road, Islington St Mary, London.,
In the 1891 census as Albert Hopkins aged 16, born in Islington, London, a wine merchants assistant, and living with his parents (Thomas and Sarah), brother (James), two sisters and (Emma and Adelaide) at 112 Palmerston Road, Upper Holloway, Islington, London.
His mother died in Islington in 1898.
In the 1901 census as Albert John Hopkins aged 26, born in Islington, London, single, a traveller in the wine trade, and living with his widowed father (Thomas), and two sisters (Florence and Martha) in three rooms at 14 Bingfield Street, Barnsbury, Islington, London. Two other families lived at this address.
Marriage of Albert John Hopkins and Constance Shackleton in FreeBMD in April-June 1904 in Islington (1b 478).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 for Albert John Hopkins aged 29, son of Thomas Hopkins, and Constance Shackleton aged 22, daughter of Henry Shackleton, on 21 May 1904 at Barnsbury St Andrew, Islington. "1904 Marriages solemnized at St Andrew's Church in the Parish of Islington in the County of London No 90 May 21st 1904 Albert John Hopkins, aged 29, a bachelor, employed as a traveller of 14 Bingfield Street, father Thomas Hopkins, a gas fitter, and Constance Shackleton aged 22, a spinster of 14 Bingfield Street, father Henry Shackleton, a pensioner in Chelsea Hospital Married in the Church of St Andrew according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church by banns in the Presence of Henry Shackleton (father?) and Alice Maud Shackleton".
In the entry for the baptism of his son on 25 June 1905 he is stated to be a commercial traveller living at 14 Bingfield Street, St Andrew Islington.
There are two entries in Ancestry London Metropolitan Archives London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Albert John Hopkins living at 10 Bruce Buildings, Caledonian Road, Islington in 1909 and 1910.
His daughter was born in Stoke Newington in 1910.
In the 1911 census as Albert John Hopkins aged 36, born in London, an insect exterminator, and living with his wife (Constance), son (Sidney Albert) and daughter (Winifred Maud) in two rooms at 222 Lancaster Road, Notting Hill W, Kensington, London.
His daughter was born in 1913 in Kensington North.
There are three entries in Ancestry London Metropolitan Archives London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Albert John Hopkins living at 222 Lancaster Road, Kensington in 1913 to 1915.
Entry in Ancestry British Army WWI Service Records, 1914-1920 for Albert John Hopkins of 157 Roslyn Road, S Tottenham N15 aged 43 years 11 months employed as a vermin killer who enlisted on 19 June 1918 at Whitehall as private 153798 in RAMC. His wife was Mrs Constance Hopkins of 157 Roslyn Road, S Tottenham N15, formerly Shackleton, a spinster, married on 21 May 1904 in Islington, London, and three children: Sidney Albert born 2nd May 1905 in Barnsbury, Winifred Maud born 27th July 1910 in Stoke Newington, and Constance Gwendoline born 23rd July 1913 in Kensington N. He was called up on 19 June 1918, posted to Training Battalion 21 June 1918, granted 5th rate pay 29 September 1918 and demobilised on 24 May 1919 at Woking. He was charged with gross drunkenness on 29 September 1918. He was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal on 19 May 1922.
There are eighteen entries in Ancestry London Metropolitan Archives London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Albert John Hopkins address 157 Roslyn Road, Tottenham South, Haringey in 1922 to 1951, other occupants Constance (wife?), Sidney Albert (son?) in 1926 to 1933, Winifred Maud (daughter?) in 1932 to 1934, and Constance Gwendoline (daughter?) in 1936.
Death of Albert J Hopkins in FreeBMD in October-December 1952 aged 78 in Wood Green (5f 549).
There are two entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Albert John Hopkins born in 1875 and married to Constance Shackleton, and his three children, and another with his parents Thomas and Sarah Hopkins.
Albert John Hopkins was the husband of Constance Shackleton, my half second cousin once removed.
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