I am very appreciate of the responses from Keith and others to my query re possible
missing images for the 1871 census for the Parish of Mynyddyslwyn.
My query is - where was this HOPKIN/HOPKINS family in the 1871 census?
Thank you for any assistance.
Jenny
Victoria Australia
1851 census Civil Parish Mynyddyslwyn, District 3a, Pg 3 Household 9, Waterloo.
William HOPKIN, Head of House, aged 37, Collier, born Mynyddyslwyn.
Eliona HOPKIN, wife, aged 31, born ***** Glamorgan.
Mary HOPKIN, daughter, aged 8, born Mynyddyslwyn.
Richard HOPKIN, son, aged 4, born Mynyddyslwyn.
Rachel HOPKIN, daughter, aged 2, born Mynyddyslwyn.
David WILLIAMS, brother-in-law Visitor, aged 17, born ***** Glamorgan.
Ann JONES, relation, aged 10, maid, born Mynyddyslwyn.
1861 census Civil Parish Mynyddyslwyn, District 5, Hamlet Penmain, Pg 23, Household 137,
Waterloo.
William HOPKIN, Head of House, aged 47, Coal Miner, born Mynyddyslwyn.
Eleanor HOPKIN, wife, aged 41, born Neath Glamorgan.
Richard HOPKIN, son, aged 13, Coal Miner, born Mynyddyslwyn.
Rachel HOPKIN, daughter, aged 11, born Mynyddyslwyn.
Thomas HOPKIN, son, aged 10, born Mynyddyslwyn.
David HOPKIN, son, aged, 8, born Mynyddyslwyn.
Ann HOPKIN, daughter, aged 5, born Mynyddyslwyn.
William HOPKIN, son, aged 1, born Mynyddyslwyn.
Where were they in 1871?
1881 census Civil Parish Mynyddyslwyn, District 4, Town/Village/Hamlet Penmain, Pg 18,
Household 94, Cherry Tree.
William HOPKINS, Head of House, aged 67, Coal Miner, born Mynyddyslwyn.
Ellen HOPKINS, wife, aged 66, born Penylan (?) Glamorgan. (The age for Ellen is too old by
5 years here?)
William HOPKINS, son, aged 21, Coal Miner, born Mynyddyslwyn.
Henry HOPKINS, son, aged 17, Coal Miner, born Mynyddyslwyn.
Gwenllian HOPKINS, daughter, aged 14, born Mynyddyslwyn.
Note - next door was Thomas HOPKINS, aged 30, born Mynyddyslwyn, wife Leah and son William
James HOPKINS aged 3, born Mynyddyslwyn. I believe this may be Thomas HOPKIN aged 10 in
the 1861 census? Thomas living next door to his parents?
1891 census Civil Parish of Mynyddyslwyn, District 4, Town Penmain, Pg 3, Household 15,
Croespenmaen.
Ellen HOPKINS, Head of House, widow, aged 75, born Cwymnedd (?) Glamorgan.
William HOPKINS, son, aged 31, Coal Miner, born Waterloo.
Henry HOPKINS, son, aged 27, Coal Miner, born Waterloo.
Annie BISHOP, servant, aged 11.
On 28th March 1892 Henry HOPKINS (son of William, coal miner), married Margaret Ellen
JENKINS (daughter of Thomas Jenkins, coal miner), in the Parish Church at Mamhilad.
Henry's residence at the time of marriage was Mynyddyslwyn. Henry and Margaret Ellen
were the great grandparents of my husband Gwylym.