BIRTH: Hopkins, Hannah Clarke Bailey, Records of the Bailey family : descendants of William Bailey of Newport, R.I., chiefly in the line of his son, Hugh Bailey of East Greenwich, R.I. Providence, R.I.: unknown, 1895, 230 pgs. Parents were Pardon Hopkins (12 Feb 1815) and Lydia Ann Lillibridge (d. 5 Jan 1843).
Name: Charles Wyman Hopkins
Gender: Male
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Birth Date: 08 Aug 1839
Birthplace: Rhode Island, USA
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Father's Name: Pardon Hopkins
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Mother's Name: Lydia A
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I09428-5
System Origin: Rhode Island-EASy
Source Film Number: 925978
Reference Number: v 3 p 140
Collection: Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1878-1914
BURIAL: The Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries. Transcription Project Index. HOPKINS CHARLES WYMAN 1839 - 14 JUN 1910 CY066. CY066 WOODLAND CEMETERY COVENTRY WASHINGTON ST AT KNOTTY OAK ST ->20 ft. NW Sept 2004
BIOGRAPHY: Stukeley Westcote and some of his Descendants
Fifty Copies Onley. Privately Printed No. 43 1886
Page 68 - 69
Charles W. Hopkins, of Providence, born 1839, August 8, of Pardon and Lydia (Lillebridge) Hopkins. Mr. Hopkins is a gentleman who devotes all of the time he can spare from his business to antiquarian and genealogical research. He is the author of "The Home Lots of The Early Settlers of the Providence Plantations," a work of much interest and value. To locate these lots with accuracy from imperfect records, after the lapse of two and a half centuries, was a work of great labor, requiring a most careful and critical examination of all of the earlier surveys and deeds, in which the description of the lands and streets was clothed in language brief, untechnical, and often ambiguous.
Colonial Hopkins and Some of Their Descendants
Compiled from the notes of Timothy Hopkins
By Margaret Griffith
San Francisco
1951 - Page 95
Charle Wyman, b. in Exeter, R. I., 8 Aug. 1839; m. 1 May 1860, Jane Frances Knight, b. in Scituate, R. I., the daughter of Daniel R. and Susan (Colvin) Knight; resided in Providence, R.I. He was interested in the history of the Hopkins family and compiled a genealogy of the Roxbury branch which he left unpublished of his daughter. He was also the author of “The Home Lots of the Early Settlers of Providence Plantations,” published in 1886.
The Providence Society Blue Book
Including suburbs in Rhode Island together with Fall River
and the Attleboros, Mass.
Elite Family Directory
Club Membership
1905 - Page 52
Hopkins, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W.
417 Cranston street
Mrs., nee Knight (18). Mr. (65-77)
American Ancestry giving the name and descent, in the male line, of
Americans whose Ancestors Settled in the United States previous to the
Declaration of Independence. A. D. 1776.
Vol. V. – Albany, N.Y.
Joel Munsell’s Sons, Publishers
Page 138
HOPIINS, CHARLES WYMAN of Providence, R. I., b. at Exeter, R. I., Aug. 8, 1839, author of .. The Home Lots of the Early Settlers of the Providence Plantations" (m. May I, 1860, Jane Frances, dau. of Rev. Daniel Knight, grandson of Col. Joseph Knight who was in battle of Bunker Hill); son of Pardon of West Greenwich, R. I., b. there Feb. 12, 1815, town clerk nearly 20 years, now town treas. (m. lst, Apr. 2, 1837, Lydia Ann, dau. of Reynolds and "sarah [Ellis] Lillibridge); son of Layton of West Greenwich, b. there Apr. IS, 1793, d. there June 25, IS71, well-known and respected farmer (m. Elizabeth, dau. of Simeon Whitford); son of Ruins of West Greenwich, b. there 1773, d. there June 8, 1844, farmer, manufacturer of cotton goods (m. Amey, dau. of Thomas and Elizabeth [Spencer] Shippee); son of Samnel of West Greenwich, b. there Oct. 15, 1734, d. there 1813, farmer, memo of Gen. Assembly of the colony of Rhode Island (m. Phebe, dau. of John Case); son of Samnel of West Greenwich, b. at Kingston, R. I., Jan. 6, 1703-4, d. at West Greenwich Apr. 14, 1790, farmer, memo of Gen. Assembly and judge of Common Pleas for Kent co., R. I. (m. Apr. 23. 1729-30, Honor, dau. of Alexander and Honor [Huling] Brown, desc. of families of great wealth and influence); son of loseph, removed from Kingston to the locality now known as Hopkins Hill, West Greenwich, about 1713, d. there May 15, 1735 (m. Martha, dau. of Theophilus Whaley); probably son of William of Roxbury, Mass. (m. Hannah Goffe).
CENSUS: 1870 United States Federal Census
Name: Charles Hopkins
Estimated birth year: abt 1840
Age in 1870: 30
Birthplace: Rhode Island
Home in 1870: Providence Ward 9, Providence, Rhode Island
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Providence
Source Citation: Year: 1870; Census Place: Providence Ward 9, Providence, Rhode Island; Roll: M593_1480; Page: 416; Image: 293.
MEDIA: J0434 - Charles Wyman Hopkins - spouse of Jane Frances Knight
DEATH: Name: Charles Wyman Hopkins
Gender: Male
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Death Date: 14 Jun 1910
Death Place: Providence, Providence, Rhode Island
Age: 70
Birth Date: 1840
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Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Jane Knight Hopkins
Father's Name: Pardon Hopkins
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Mother's Name: Lydia L. Hopkins
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I01186-5
System Origin: Rhode Island-EASy
Source Film Number: 2023658
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Collection: Rhode Island Deaths and Burials, 1802-1950
OBITUARY: Boston Evening Transcript, Wednesday, June 15, 1910
Recent Deaths
Wrote On Genealogy
Charles Wyman Hopkins of Providence, R.I., had a National Reputation as an Investigator.
Charles Wyman Hopkins died yesterday suddenly at the home of his son-in-law, Dr. George S. Mathews, in Providence, R.I. Mr. Hopkins, who was seventy-one years of age, was active until about two months ago, when his health compelled him to remain at home. He was suffering from heart trouble and found himself unable to return to his desk at the offices of the Providence Gas Company in whose employ he had been for thirty-six years. Mr. Hopkins was born in Exeter, Aug. 8, 1839, and his ancestors were among the early settlers of Rhode Island and active in the establishment of national independence. He was educated in the common schools and at the East Greenwich Seminary. In early he taught school for several years and was in charge of the village school at Noose Neck, when on Aug. 14, 1862, he enlisted as musician in the Seventh Rhode Island Volunteers. He served at various times as regimental and brigade clerk, was appointed chief clerk of the commissary department of the First Brigade and was also responsible for money received from sales to officers. After his Civil War services, Mr. Hopkins entered business, until, in 1874, he began his long service for the Providence Gas Company. Mr. Hopkins was the author of “Home Lots,” a history of the early settlers of Providence. He also wrote the chapter on East Greenwich for the “History of Washington and Kent Counties.” He was a genealogist of national reputation, and had collected many records of some of the prominent families of Rhode Island. At the time of his death he had ready for publication, a genealogy of the Hopkins family. He was a member of Rodman Post, G.A.R, of which he was commander in 1908 and 1909; of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Rhode Island Historical Society, the Seventh Rhode Island Veterans Association and the Cranston Street Baptist Church in Providence. He is survived by his wife Jane Frances (Knight) Hopkins; his daughter, the wife of Dr. George S. Mathews; a brother, William P. Hopkins, of Lawrence, the historian of the Seventh Regiment.
