The History of the Family of Drury

Arthur HopkinsAge: 91 years1891–1982

Name
Arthur Hopkins
Given names
Arthur
Surname
Hopkins
Birth January 7, 1891
Aberdulais, Glamorganshire, Wales

Address: New House, Underfforest
Birth of a son
#1		Dennis Alan Hopkins
September 26, 1919 (Age 28 years)
Neath, Glamorganshire, Wales

Address: Cadoxton
Occupation
Variously a tinplater, furnaceman and Railway porter

Baptism of a sonDennis Alan Hopkins
November 23, 1919 (Age 28 years)
Cadoxton-juxta-Neath, Glamorganshire, Wales

Census September 29, 1939 (Age 48 years)
Cadoxton-juxta-Neath, Glamorganshire, Wales

Address: 1 Francis Terr
Shared note: 1939 England - Census transcript - Arthur Hopkins - Household
Death of a wifeDaisy May Drury
February 8, 1974 (Age 83 years)
Neath, Glamorganshire, Wales

Address: Port Talbot Hospital
Death October 1982 (Age 91 years)
Port Talbot, Glamorganshire, Wales

Address: Mor-a-Welan
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himself
Arthur Hopkins
Birth: January 7, 1891 — Aberdulais, Glamorganshire, Wales
Death: October 1982 — Port Talbot, Glamorganshire, Wales
wife
Daisy May Drury
Birth: October 28, 1893 20 21 — Wolfsdale, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Death: February 8, 1974 — Neath, Glamorganshire, Wales
son
Dennis Alan Hopkins
Birth: September 26, 1919 28 25 — Neath, Glamorganshire, Wales
Death: February 6, 1999 — Warrington, Cheshire, England
daughter
Private

  1. Generation 1

    1. Arthur Hopkins, variously a tinplater, furnaceman and Railway porter, was born on January 7, 1891 in Aberdulais, Glamorganshire, Wales and died in October 1982 in Port Talbot, Glamorganshire, Wales at the age of 91. He married Daisy May Drury, daughter of Charles Drury and Elizabeth Grace Phillips.

      Children of Arthur Hopkins and Daisy May Drury:

      1. Dennis Alan Hopkins (1919–1999)
      2. Private
  2. Generation 2back to top

    1. Dennis Alan Hopkins, electrical Engineer (in 1950), electrical engineer (about 1959), lecturer (about 1960) and lecturer (to 1984), son of Arthur Hopkins and Daisy May Drury, was born on September 26, 1919 in Neath, Glamorganshire, Wales and died on February 6, 1999 in Warrington, Cheshire, England at the age of 79.

      Dennis Alan Hopkins had 2 children.

    2. The details of this family are private.
  3. Generation 3back to top
    The details of this generation are private.
Census
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1939 England - Census transcript - Arthur Hopkins - Household RG101/7402D/017/13 1 Francis Terr,Cadoxton,Neath, Neath R.D., Glamorganshire, Wales

Schedule SubNum Name Role Sex DOB MC Occupation
202 1 Hopkins, Arthur M 7 Jan/1890 Mar Railway porter
202 2 Drury, Daisy M F 28 Oct/1893 Mar Unpaid domestic duties
202 3 Hopkins, Dennis Al M 26 Sep/1919 Unm University student (elec engr)
Record closed
Note

A gentle man with a kindly sense of humour. Went to school in Cefn-yr-Allt. Served on Q ship 'Acton' in WW1, which toured from Scapa to Liverpool, Queenstown, Gibraltar, Naples, Bizerta, trying to provoke German U-boats. Tinplate worker (furnaceman) at Aberdulais Tinplate Wks until it closed in 1940's. After that, was a parcelporter on GWR and BR at Neath General until past retirement age. He was quite well-known for wearing clogs without socks. These clogs were like working boots with heavy wooden soles. A lovely man, who used to tell Phil and me (Tony) stories and send them to us by letter. According to Daddy, Pop was at various times a doubler, a behinder and a furnaceman in the tinworks. He bought the house at 1 Francis Terrace in Cadoxton, about 1920. This was renumbered and should have been 13 Church Road, but his daughter Marjorie was superstitious, and it was numbered 11A instead (and I think remains so - 2003). He moved (unwillingly) to his father-in-law's house in Bryncoch in about 1960. At some point (maybe if unemployed?) did oddjobs for Mrs. Curtis, wife of the Neath town clerk (I think that Pop told me this himself).