John Thomas Hopewell

John Thomas was the youngest son of Arthur and Amelia Hopewell (née Heaps).

Arthur Hopewell was born on 27 March 1861 at Cotgrave, Nottinghamshire, and Amelia Heaps on 8 August 1865, at Doddington, Cambridgeshire.

Married in 1888 at Nottingham, they had seven children: Ellen Amelia b.1889 Hyson Green, Florence Edith b.1891 Hyson Green bap. Hyson Green St Paul 17 April 1902, Annie Elizabeth b.1892 Nottingham bap. Hyson Green St Stephen 28 March 1896, Ernest Arthur b.1894 Hyson Green bap. St Stephen 29 March 1896, Herbert Bolton b.1896 Nottingham bap. St Stephen 22 March 1896, Fred b.1897 Hyson Green bap. St Stephen 4 August 1897 and John Thomas b.1899 Nottingham bap. St Stephen 21 June 1899.

Arthur, a tram conductor with Nottingham Corporation Tramways, and Amelia and their daughters Ellen and Florence were living at 2 Enfield Street, Radford in 1891. Also in the household was Arthur's brother, Herbert Hopewell (25, b. Cotgrave) a professional cricketer.

The family was still living at the same address, 2 Enfield Street, the following year when Florence was baptised but had moved to 30 Howitt Street by 1896 when their third child, Annie, was baptised.

Arthur and Amelia were still at 30 Howitt Street in 1901; all seven children were in the home on the night of the census.

By the time of the 1911 Census the family was living at 29 Highbury Avenue, Bulwell, Nottingham. Arthur was now a tramway inspector. Only five of their children were still living at home; Annie a draper’s assistant, Ernest Arthur a clerk, Herbert a grocer's assistant and Fred and John Thomas who were school age. Their daughters Ellen and Florence were hospital nurses (Lincoln Corporation City Fever Hospital) and living at Albion Villa, Long Leys Road, Lincoln.

Florence married Engineer Lieutenant William George Alltree, Royal Artillery, at Christ Church, Shooters Hill, Kent, on 9 June 1915. In 1939 they were living in Shrewsbury, William was a heating engineer and ironmonger and also an ARP warden and Florence was a hospital nurse.

Fred married Phoebe May Elizabeth Rhodes in 1919. (See record for Gordon Frederick Hopewell killed 1943.)

Annie Elizabeth married Harold Francis Sexton at the parish church of St Giles Camberwell on 4 July 1920. They had two daughters, Irene May (b. 1920) and Margaret Ellen Agnes (b. 1922). They were living in Camberwell in 1921; Harold was a hospital porter at Joyce Green Hospital (Metropolitan Asylum Board). However, by 1939 they were living on Valley Road Nottingham. Harold was a bus driver, Annie a hospital nurse and their eldest daughter, Irene, a ladies hairdresser. Their youngest daughter was probably still living in Camberwell. Annie died in 1967

Arthur, Amelia and two of their children, Ellen and Herbert, were at 29 Highbury Avenue in 1921: Arthur was an inspector with Tramways and his son Herbert was a tram conductor while Ellen was a school nurse with the Medical Department, Nottingham Education Committee. Herbert married Winifred MA Ashmore in 1925. Ellen, a nurse (public health) was still living in Nottingham in 1939; she died in 1975.

Arthur died in 1926 aged 65 and Amelia in 1936 aged 73.