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Hooker, Sir Joseph D. (1817 natstand: last updated 13/10/2018 URL: www.natstand,org.uk/pdf/HookerJD000.pdf Root person: Hooker, Joseph Dalton (1817 - 1911) Description: Hooker family document Creation date: 2018 October 13 Prepared by: Richard Middleton Notes: Press items reproduced with kind permission of The British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) About Natstand family documents: A Natstand family document is intended to provide background information concerning the family of a deceased naturalist. It is hoped that such information will form a framework which will help interpret their surviving correspondence, specimens and records. In some cases it will also give an insight into the influences on their early lives and the family constraints within which they worked and collected. We have found that published family data concerning individuals rarely contain justification for dates and relationships and not infrequently contain errors which are then perpetuated. The emphasis in Natstand family documents will be on providing references to primary sources, whenever possible, which will be backed-up with transcriptions. Although a Natstand biography page will always carry a link to a family document, in many cases these documents will be presented without any further biographical material. We anticipate that this will occur if the person is particularly well known or is someone we are actively researching or have only a peripheral interest in. The following conventions are used: Any persons in the family tree with known natural history associations will be indicated in red type. Any relationships will be to the root naturalist unless otherwise stated. Dates are presented Year – Month – Day e.g. 1820 March 9 or 1820.3.9 1820 March or 1820.3 Dates will be shown in bold type if a reliable reference is presented in the document. In cases where an exact year cannot be given (e.g. it is derived from an age at death), the date will be presented in normal type and preceded with "c" – e.g. c1798. There are some cases where a date is available from a secondary source only (e.g. a published obituary), in these cases it will be presented in italics – e.g. 1823.7.21 Data sources: Census data have been used, whenever possible, to confirm relationships; they are not considered a reliable source of data concerning age. Contemporary newspaper family notices are considered as reliable sources of relationships and dates; reports and obituaries are treated more cautiously. Parish records generally provide a reliable source of data and digitised images have been used whenever possible. Any difficulties with transcription will be made clear. In some cases only transcripts have been available; errors here are usually confined to spelling. The most important source of this material is the International Genealogical Index compiled by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Utah. National Civil Registration Indexes are considered reliable, as are probate records. Richard Middleton James Robert Middleton - 1 of 11 - natstand: last updated 13/10/2018 More biographical details are provided in: Huxley, L. 1918. Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. New York. (Two volumes based on materials collected and arranged by Lady Hooker.) Items taken from this source alone are indicated with [L&L] or presented in blue italics in the pedigree. All other relationships and data presented here have, so far as reasonably practicable, been assembled from independent sources. - 2 of 11 - natstand: last updated 13/10/2018 Relationships shown are relate to Joseph Dalton Hooker 1Joseph Hooker (1752.1.30 – 1845.8.24) grandfather *** married Lydia Vincent (1759 – 1829.1.29) on 1782.10.25 uncle Joseph Hooker (1783.11.24 – 1815.1.3) Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785.7.6 – 1865.8.12) father *** married 2Maria Turner (1797.5.29 – 1872.10.16) on 1815.6.12 brother William Dawson Hooker (1816.4.4 – 1840.1.1) *** married Isabella Whitehead Smith (c1818 – 1880.1.29) on 1839.4.22 niece 3Willielma Dawson Hooker (1840.3.6 – 1879.7.17) [posthumous] ***married 4James Campbell (c1836 – 1884.3.7) on 1862.9.4 g-nephew William Jackson Hooker Campbell (1864.11.17 - ) g-nephew Thomas B Campbell (1868.1.8 - ) Engineer to Canada 1905 g-niece Isabella Whitehead Campbell (51869.7.6 – 1959.9.15) [1893: 6Mrs Walter Gardiner] g-nephew James Lumsden Campbell (1871.3.27 – 1919.1.9) male Campbell (1872.12.8 - ) g-nephew ?above = Joseph Dawson Campbell (c1873 -) Solicitor g-nephew 7Lieut. Col. Dr Ranald Douglas Campbell (1875.7.20 – 1955.2.23) g-niece Elizabeth Helen Campbell (c1878 – 1960.12.31) Unmarried Joseph 8Dalton Hooker (1817.6.30 – 1911.12.10) **1 married Frances Harriet Henslow (1825.4.30 – 1874.11.13) on 1851.7.4 son William Henslow Hooker (1853.1.24 – 1942.5.3) daughter Harriet Anne Hooker (1854.6.23 – 1945.12.16) [1877: Mrs Sir William Turner Thistleton-Dyer] son Charles Paget Hooker (1855.7.16 – 1933.2.4) daughter Maria Elizabeth (Minnie) Hooker (1857.8.10 – 1863.9.28) son Brian Harvey Hodgson Hooker (1860.5.27 - 1932.6.17) son Reginald Hawthorn Hooker (1867.1.12 – 1944.6.2) daughter Grace Ellen Hooker (1868 – 1955.12.30) Unmarried **2 married Hyacinth Jardine née Symonds (1842 – 1922.12.8) on 1876.8.22 son Joseph Symonds Hooker (1877 – 1940.4.26) son Richard Symonds Hooker (1885 – 1950.2.18) continued … - 3 of 11 - natstand: last updated 13/10/2018 sister Maria Hooker (1819.5.8 – 1889.10.25) *** married Rev. Dr. Walter McGilvray (c1810 – 1880.6.30) on 1846.3.24 niece Margaret Greene McGilvray (c1847 - ) [1883: Mrs Henry A T Newman] niece Maria Hooker McGilvray (1848.12.14 - ) Unmarried nephew Walter McGilvray (1850.3.17 - 1858) niece Anne McGilvray (1851 – 1862.8.15) nephew Dr. William Jackson Hooker McGilvray (c1853 – 1930.6) nephew Malcolm McGilvray (c1855 – 1879.5.9) niece Elizabeth Evans McGilvray (c1856 - 1942) [1889: Mrs F. H. Milton Whitfield] nephew Thomas F. McGilvray (1860.7.8 – 1957.11.25) sister Elizabeth Hooker (1820.11.15 – 1898.8.1) *** married Dr. Thomas Robert Evans later Lombe (c1821 – 1902.2.23) on 1853.7.20 No Issue sister Mary Harriette Hooker (1825.10.2 – 1841.6.19) - 4 of 11 - natstand: last updated 13/10/2018 Sources: 1752 February 16: Baptisms register, St John, Croydon Baptism of Joseph Hooker, son of James and Sarah Hooker. Child born 1752 January 30. [This may be someone else] 1759 March 18: Baptisms Register, St Saviour, Norwich Baptism of Lydia Vincent, daughter of James and Lydia Vincent. 1782 October 25: England, Marriages, 1538–1973. Salt Lake City, Utah Marriage of Joseph Hooker and Lydia Vincent at St Saviours' Norwich. 1783 November 24: Baptism records, Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion Temple, Norwich Joseph the son of Joseph and Lydia Hooker was born November 24th 1783 baptized the 2nd December 1783 by the Revd Mr Green. 1785 July 6: Baptism records, Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion Temple, Norwich William Jacson [sic] son of Joseph and Lydia Hooker born July 6th 1785 baptized the November 9th 1785 by the Revd Wm Green. 1797 May 29: England & Wales Christening Records, 1530-1906. Provo, UT, USA Birth of Maria, daughter of Dawson Turner and Mary Palgrave. Baptised at Yarmouth, Norfolk, on 1797 July 13. 1815 March 4: *Norfolk Chronicle DIED. Wednesday last, in the 31st year of his age, Mr. Joseph Hooker, jun. of this city. A particular description of his virtues would appear extravagant to those who did not know him, and defective to those who did. It is hoped, however, that they will remain fixed in the remembrance, and be imitated I the lives, of his relatives and friends. To the world they cannot be known, till that awful day, when they will not only be proclaimed but rewarded. 1815 June 17: *Norfolk Chronicle MARRIED – Monday last, at Nicholas' church. Yarmouth, by the Rev. R. Turner, William Jackson Hooker, Esq. of Halesworth, in Suffolk, to Miss Maria Turner, eldest daughter of Dawson Turner, Esq. banker, of Yarmouth. 1816 April 5: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah Baptism of William Dawson, son of William Jackson and Maria Hooker at Halesworth, Suffolk. 1817 July 3: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah Baptism of Joseph Dalton, son of William Jackson and Maria Hooker at Halesworth, Suffolk. 1819 May 8: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah Baptism of Maria, daughter of William Jackson and Maria Hooker at Halesworth, Suffolk. 1820 November 22: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah Baptism of Elizabeth, daughter of William Jackson and Maria Hooker at Halesworth, Suffolk. 1825 May 14: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah Baptism of Frances Harriet, daughter of John Stevens and Harriet Henslow at St Andrew-the- Great, Cambridge; born April 30. 1825 October 2: Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. Salt Lake City, Utah "Birth of Mary Hariet Jackson, daughter of William Jackson and Maria Turner, Barony, Lanark." [There seems little doubt that this is a garbled and incomplete record of the birth of Mary Harriette Hooker.] - 5 of 11 - natstand: last updated 13/10/2018 1829 February 14: *Norwich Mercury DIED. At Glasgow, on the 29th ult. Mrs Lydia Vincent, aged 70, wife of Joseph Hooker, Esq. late of Norwich. 1839 May 18: *Norfolk Chronicle MARRIED. – Lately, at Glasgow, William Dawson Hooker, M.D. eldest son of Sir W. J. Hooker, to Isabella, eldest daughter of David Smith, Esq. of West Bank, near Glasgow. [Marriage records show the date to have been 1839 April 22] 1840 February 22: *Norfolk Chronicle DIED. – On the 1st January, of yellow-fever, at the residence of Dr.
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