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The Revd. Hopkins FOX
1742 - 1793 (~ 50 years)
Has 22 ancestors and 5 descendants in this family tree.
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Name Hopkins FOX Prefix The Revd. Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Baptised 11 Mar 1741/42 St. Mary’s Church, Nackington, Kent, England 
- From Tyler's notebook (image on Ancestry, viewed 31 Dec 2015)
Gender Male Occupation Rucking, Kent, England Rector Occupation From 1767 to 1793 Lynsted, Kent, England Vicar - For details of Hopkins ordinations and appointments see the CCEd website
Died 3 Jan 1793 - From tablet in Lynsted Church
Buried 9 Jan 1793 St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church, Lynsted, Kent, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 29 Dec 2015)
"1793 Jan. 9th. Reverend Hopkins Fox Vicar of this Parish. B.D." - under heading '1793'
Tablet on the North wall of the chancel of Lynsted Church in memory of Hopkins and his family (from the Lynsted Society website):
D.O.M. [Deo, Optimo, Maximo - To God, the Best, the Greatest (motto
of the Benedictine order)]
Here lyeth the Remains of The
Revd. HOPKINS FOX B.D. Rector of
RUCKINGE in this County, and Vicar
of this Parish. He departed this life on the
3rd Jan, 1793 In the 57(?) Year of his Age.
Here also lyeth the Remains of
ELIZABETH FOX, the Wife of the said
HOPKINS FOX, and Daughter of
WILLIAM HINDE of B...sou? in the County
of York Esq., she died the 7th of
July 1771, Aged 37(?).
Also the Remains of ELIZ. MARY FOX
the infant Daur. of the said HOPKINS FOX and
ELIZ. FOX who died on the 19th Sept 1768
Also the Remains of the Rev. JOHN HINDE
A.M. of St. John College (?) Cambridge.
and Bro. of the said ELIZ FOX.
he died on the 17th June 1781 Aged 41
Underneath the Gallery in this Church
lyes the Remains of HOPKINS FOX.
an Infant, the son of JOHN HOPKINS FOX
Eldest son of the said Revd. H. FOX
he died on the 21st Novr. 1789
Requieseant in Peace Amen
SACRED to the Memory of FRANCES FOX
Posthumous Daughter of the late Revd. HOPKINS
FOX and MARY his Wife who Died August 25th
1796, Aged 3 Years and 5 Days.
I hope to see this memorial for myself and see what I make of it - several dates and ages in the above are not quite right, or inconsistent with other sources.
Siblings3 brothers and 1 sister Patriarch & Matriarch 
William FOX, b. Abt 1683, d. 13 Jan 1746/47 (Age ~ 64 years) (Grandfather)
Mary ARNOLD, b. Abt 1686, d. 16 Oct 1739 (Age ~ 53 years) (Grandmother)Person ID I18798 All Last Modified 31 Dec 2015
Father Hopkins FOX, bap. 6 Nov 1711, St. Mary’s Church, Nackington, Kent, England , d. 22 Apr 1787 (Age ~ 75 years) Mother Mary HALKE, bap. 2 Apr 1719, All Saints’ Church, Petham, Kent, England , d. Aft 1787 (Age ~ 68 years) Married 28 Jun 1740 St. Mary’s Church, Nackington, Kent, England - Hasted described the Thomas with the table tomb in Petham as the father of the Mary who married Hopkins Fox, and having seen the tomb for myself I can just about read that Thomas died leaving one son and one daughter, the latter named on the tomb as "Mary Wife of Hopkins Fox of Nackington".
Date and place from Tyler's notebook (image on Ancestry, viewed 31 Dec 2015) - assuming he got the information from the PR, and not from the licence.
Marriage License 28 Jun 1740 Canterbury, Kent, England - "Fox, Hopkins, of Nackington, ba., and Mary Halke, of Petham, m. At P. or Littlebourne. June 28, 1740."
(from Cowper, 6th series, p.152)
Family ID F6982 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family 1 Elizabeth HINDE, b. Abt 1740, bur. 1 Jul 1771, St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church, Lynsted, Kent, England (Age ~ 31 years) Marriage License 7 Nov 1765 - From transcription on FMP, viewed 29 Dec 2015
Married 27 Jan 1766 St. Mary the Great Church, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England - From FamilySearch - 2 entries, one from BTs, the other transcribed from Cambridge parish registers, marriages. -- Vol. 8, p. [1]-61. -- London : Phillimore, 1927
(both show date and place, Hopkins Fox and Eliz(abeth) Hinde).
Children3 children Last Modified 29 Dec 2015 Family ID F7722 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family 2 Mary WANSTALL, d. Yes, date unknown Married 19 Nov 1792 St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church, Lynsted, Kent, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 29 Dec 2015)
"Hopkins Fox Clk of this Parish widower
and Mary Wanstall of the
Parish of Teynham Spinster were
Married in this Church by Licence
this nineteenth Day of November in the Year One Thousand seven Hundred
and ninety two by me John Cautley Vicar of Teynham
This Marriage was Hopkins Fox
solemnized between Us Mary Wanstall
In the Henry Wanstall
Presence of William Wanstall"
Children 1. Frances FOX, b. 20 Aug 1793, d. 25 Aug 1796 (Age 3 years) Last Modified 29 Dec 2015 Family ID F7725 Family Group Page | Family Chart
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Baptised - 11 Mar 1741/42 - St. Mary’s Church, Nackington, Kent, England 
Child - John Hopkins FOX - 25 Sep 1766 - St. Paul’s Church, Canterbury, Kent, England 
Occupation - Vicar - From 1767 to 1793 - Lynsted, Kent, England 
Child - William Hinde FOX - 13 Aug 1767 - St. Martin’s Church, Canterbury, Kent, England 
Child - Elizabeth Mary FOX - 27 Jun 1768 - St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church, Lynsted, Kent, England Married - 19 Nov 1792 - St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church, Lynsted, Kent, England Buried - 9 Jan 1793 - St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church, Lynsted, Kent, England = Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install) Pin Legend 
