A H O OP E R F AM I L I AM E R CA Y N I . Th is genealogical sk et ch of one line of Hoopers in America has b been prepared for the enefit of the children of Mrs . Sumner b I d olene l Cros y ( Snow Hooper) , now living in A ameda , Cal . b b N o attempt has een made y the compiler of these records , (a b grandmother of the children) , to esta lish a distinguished name . in Like most families New England , this family of Hoopers is of good yeoman stock . L AR N E D n in M R . J . N , the learned historia , Books , Culture , ” s and Character , sugge ts the thought that human life is lived b n n - on a narrow strand , etwee two great ocea s , the Ocean of Time Past and the Ocean of Time to Come . When you turn , futureward n : looking , you see nothing with certai ty it is veiled b . by an impenetra le mist But , if you look to that other sea and look out upon that measureless expanse of Time Past , you will see that it is covered with ships . Those ships come sailing d to us in numbers beyon our counting . They bring us the story n m of a forgotten life , with its experie ce , its wisdo , its warnings , and its counsels , its consolations , its discoveries . What if there were no ships to bring us all this ' , It is through our ancestors that we learn the way in which American independence was won and the Federal Republic of the ' nited States was constructed . It is through these ancestors H ill that we learn of Bunker and George Washington , we learn “ of the coming of the Mayflower , and the planting of life in “ the New World from Old World stocks . And yet there are those men and women who live as though no ship had ever come to them from the far shores of old Time , where their ancestry dwelt ; and the interest of existence to them is huddled in the b petty space of their own few years , etween walls of mist which ” thicken as impenetrably behind them as before . It is the hope . b of this grandmother , that the children of Mrs Sumner Cros y will not accept life on su ch narrow terms ; that they will not be content to live in ignorance of their own ancestors ; that 4 through a study of the lives of these ancestors they may come to have a knowledge of the history of Time Past . n m In E ngland a d in A erica , in the early records , the surname o f Hooper is spell ed in various ways . In England we have the ” m . na e as Hope , Hoope , Hupper , Hopper , and Hooper In “ ” n 1 76 1 t h e Provi ce of Mayne records , as late as , in the same “ il find m deed , you w l the na e written as hupper , hopper , and ” and Hooper , referring to the same person ; this is equally true “ ” in th e Mayne wills . I t is probable that the surname of Hooper was first used in England about the year 1 275 . There is no record to show that i n m t is older tha this date . Whether the na e was originally ” e m t i d rived fro a rade , as Bowditch cla ms in his Origin of n t no . New E gland Family Names , is now known “ I n 1 275 le H o ore William p possessed lands in Dorset , Eng n 1 2 n la d . In 3 5 the ame of Hooper is found in the county of S n m omerset . The a e of Hooper was the Norman French term t nt it m a be m for a clo h mercha , and y presu ed that the famil y b it was — The . N orman P eo le 2 9 . 8 which ore foreign p , p n m not D omes- da B ack The a e of Hooper does appear in the y . For th e benefit of these grandchildren it m ay be well to insert t h e following : m b Doo sd ay Book , 'so called ecause its decision was regarded n ' b n n n as fi al a ook co tai i g a digest , in Norman French , of the s ts re ul of a census or survey of E ngland undertaken by order o f m th e n n Willia Co queror a d completed in 1 08 5 ” It consists o f two o m s um v lu e in vell , a large folio containing 3 82 pages a nd u t nt n n 4 a q ar o co ai i g 5 0 . They form a valuable record of the n t t th e land ow ership , ex en , and value of s of England ( 1 ) at the t th e y 2 th e ime of surve , ( ) at date of bestowal when they had b n t b th e n 3 ee gran ed y ki g , and ( ) at the time of Edward the ‘ ( o n es o n m t m f s r , whe a so ewha si ilar survey had been made ; t he n mb u ers of te na nts and dependents amou nt of live stock , , ” e tc e o t e — , . Th e Centu D i cti ona wer als re urn d ry ry , vol . ii . e a re m n n t Th re a y ge ealogis s , as shown in printed family his to e wh o m to m ri s , see care ore for glory than for truth ; and he nc e you find th e se same families claimi ng descent from “ Will ” ia m t h e C o nqu e ro r (whe n it is no t from Charlemagne ) , whose m “ ” fa ily surnam e had its birth l o ng years after this survey was m in in 1 08 5 e Engl n , . N o t al ays is it ishonest is ad a d w d y , but 5 the result of either carelessness or ignorance on the part of the family . ’ ’ JOHN H O OP E R (written also hup er and hop er) was an Eng lish Protestant bishop . All authorities agree that he was born E b 1 4 95 . in Somersetshire , in ngland , a out the year This Bishop Hooper is the most distinguished member of the English family “ of Hoopers . While a student at Oxford , he was converted 1 5 3 9 to the Protestant faith . In , to escape the Bloody Statutes V . of Henry III , he retired from England , and passed several ' . years in urich At the death of Henry he settled in London , b where he ecame an eminent and eloquent preacher . In 1 5 5 0 1 2 he was made Bishop of Gloucester , and in 5 5 received the i n commendam bishopric of Worcester . Soon after the accession of Mary he was condemned as a heretic , and , refusing to recant , 1 was burned at the stake in 5 5 3 . He wrote numerous theologi ” cal works . (See Burnet , History of the Reformation . ) “ ” “ John Fox, in his Book of Martyrs , writes , John Hooper B ur onian was married in 'urich to a g (p . 1 63 5 “ In , on the thirteenth day of July , the ship James , sail b ing from the port of London , England , for New England , rought among its passengers two young men , one William Hooper , age th e - eighteen , other Thomas Marshall , age twenty two . This Williaml Hooper was destined to become the father of the family of Hoopers in America . No one has ever searched the English records to see from whence came this Wil liam Hooper to New b England , and in the a sence of such proof , it is all a matter of conj ecture with the compiler of these records as to where Will ’ iam Hooper s home was in England . “ P ersons ualit The under written names , of Q y, are to be trans imbar ued Juo . ported to New England q in the James , May , . : c nf Mr , for N . E p Cert from the ministers of their o ormiti e in R eligeon : and that they are no subsedy men : William Hooper age 1 8 : Thomas Marshall age 22 : porte of London July 1 3 — , , L i sts: . H otten . 1 0 r C 7 . 0 i i nal J . g , p Af ter this date ( 1 63 5 ) there is no record of any one bearing the i 1 642 surname of Hooper in New England unt l , when the name of William1 Hooper appears in the First Church records in the town of “ ” s Redding , Mas , as one of the original members in this church . “ This record has also the name of Elizabeth Hooper . Whether 6 1 this Elizabeth Hooper was the wife of William it will be diffi b b cult to prove ; but it is pro a le that she was , from the fact that b 1 642 in her name did not appear efore any other record , neither r does it appear after this date . If so , she was a fi st wife , for in 1 “ ” h Ruth H oo er 1 669 and in 1 679 t e wife of William Hooper was p .