Our Genealogy - Person Sheet
Our Genealogy - Person Sheet
NameRobert Hoopes 
262, 7G Grandfather, M
262, 7G Grandfather, MFatherRobert Hoopes , M (1639-1719)
MotherEleanor Hodgkinson , F (ca1638-1730)
Notes for Robert Hoopes
Adam Hoops named his eldest son Robert, and his sister Margaret also named her son Robert, making the name Robert a good likelihood for their father, the elder Hoops.
Circumstantial evidence suggests he’s from northern Ireland because his son Adam and daughter Margaret settled in the frontier of Pennsylvania in an area predominanted by Ulster Scots, and were Presbyterians.261
One internet source claimed Adam was the son of Robert Hoopes (1639-1719) who came to Lurgan, County Armagh, Ireland from England in the 1600’s but this link is unverified.262 There are listings of this Robert Hoopes (a Quaker) and his wife Eleanor and their 10 children (born too early and no Adam among them)263 but there is also a record: “Robert Hoope and Ann Harding, both of Lurgan, were married at Lurgan, County Armagh, 9 Mo. 17, 1702 - Minutes of Ulster Province Mtg.”264 It’s likely this is a separate Robert rather than a second marriage for the elderly Robert, since Eleanor was said to have lived until 1730 and I don’t think elderly Quakers ever divorced their wives! The younger Robert’s marriage to Ann Harding is more consistent with the later births of Adam and his sisters, and the name Ann is repeated in Adam’s sister. Also, Harding is a Scottish origin name, providing for the possibility of a Presbyterian influence on the children’s upbringing. Perhaps Robert who married Ann Harding was an unlisted son of the older Robert Hoopes who had come to Lurgan earlier from Yorkshire, England. This would provide a basis for the various late 1800’s sources reporting that Adams Hoops’ genealogy was documented back to the 9th century in England.265,266,267
Interestingly there is a Quaker line of Hoopes in Pennsylvania descended from Joshua Hoopes, who came from Yorkshire, and who was the brother of the elder Robert Hoopes who went to Lurgan.268 There is also a record in the Newark Monthly Meeting Marriage records in Delaware (which included some residents of Pennsylvania) of a marriage back in Lurgan, County Armagh between John Hoopes and Ruth Webb on Aug 22, 1687.269 This was likely the same John who was a son of Robert Hoopes, and who later came to America and died in Maryland, illustrating another link between the Lurgan Hoopes and America.263
As written by Charles Hart in 1911, “...There is a tradition, for what it is worth that there were the proverbial three brothers Hoops in England, one, Joshua Hoops, emigrating to America, one to Scotland and one to Ireland.”265
Thus the current theory (unverified) is that Adam Hoops was a Presbyterian branch off the Quaker Hoopes tree, suggesting a common Yorkshire English ancestry to the two different Hoops/Hoopes lines in Pennsylvania.
Circumstantial evidence suggests he’s from northern Ireland because his son Adam and daughter Margaret settled in the frontier of Pennsylvania in an area predominanted by Ulster Scots, and were Presbyterians.261
One internet source claimed Adam was the son of Robert Hoopes (1639-1719) who came to Lurgan, County Armagh, Ireland from England in the 1600’s but this link is unverified.262 There are listings of this Robert Hoopes (a Quaker) and his wife Eleanor and their 10 children (born too early and no Adam among them)263 but there is also a record: “Robert Hoope and Ann Harding, both of Lurgan, were married at Lurgan, County Armagh, 9 Mo. 17, 1702 - Minutes of Ulster Province Mtg.”264 It’s likely this is a separate Robert rather than a second marriage for the elderly Robert, since Eleanor was said to have lived until 1730 and I don’t think elderly Quakers ever divorced their wives! The younger Robert’s marriage to Ann Harding is more consistent with the later births of Adam and his sisters, and the name Ann is repeated in Adam’s sister. Also, Harding is a Scottish origin name, providing for the possibility of a Presbyterian influence on the children’s upbringing. Perhaps Robert who married Ann Harding was an unlisted son of the older Robert Hoopes who had come to Lurgan earlier from Yorkshire, England. This would provide a basis for the various late 1800’s sources reporting that Adams Hoops’ genealogy was documented back to the 9th century in England.265,266,267
Interestingly there is a Quaker line of Hoopes in Pennsylvania descended from Joshua Hoopes, who came from Yorkshire, and who was the brother of the elder Robert Hoopes who went to Lurgan.268 There is also a record in the Newark Monthly Meeting Marriage records in Delaware (which included some residents of Pennsylvania) of a marriage back in Lurgan, County Armagh between John Hoopes and Ruth Webb on Aug 22, 1687.269 This was likely the same John who was a son of Robert Hoopes, and who later came to America and died in Maryland, illustrating another link between the Lurgan Hoopes and America.263
As written by Charles Hart in 1911, “...There is a tradition, for what it is worth that there were the proverbial three brothers Hoops in England, one, Joshua Hoops, emigrating to America, one to Scotland and one to Ireland.”265
Thus the current theory (unverified) is that Adam Hoops was a Presbyterian branch off the Quaker Hoopes tree, suggesting a common Yorkshire English ancestry to the two different Hoops/Hoopes lines in Pennsylvania.