Samuel Hope 1709–1781
Samuel Hope was the son of Peter Hope, Esq. and Hannah Kirkman. He was born May 7, 1709 in Hope fold, Astley Green, Lancashire and died June 10, 1781 in England. Samuel Hope was my 6th great-grandfather.
He married Martha Hepworth, on April 27, 1740 in Manchester Cathedral, Lancashire, England, the daughter of Jonathan Hepworth and Martha Russett.
Samuel Hope was a bricklayer in Manchester, England. Two of his sons led the construction of the famous Piece Hall in Halifax, England in 1779. Read details below.
The Hope family prospered and the children left England to explore the world and find new careers as builders, bankers and business owners. His descendants emigrated to Mexico, USA, P.E.I. Canada and Australia.
Samuel Hope had a wife, Amy Venables, who gave birth to two children, Rachel (died in infancy) and Amy (1738-1764). Amy Venables died in 1738, and was buried on 19 Dec. ,1738 at St. Mary’s Church, Rostherne, Cheshire, England. She was only 26 years old.
Samuel then married Martha Hepworth on 27 April 1740, at Manchester Cathedral, in Manchester, Lancashire, England.
Martha Hepworth (1713–1776), my 6th great-grandmother, had seven children. Martha lived to be 63 years old, when the average lifespan was about 35 years.
Hopes of Lanchashire/Cheshire
The Hopes are well known in England.
“There is a second eminent family of Hope headed by John Hope of Astley in Lancashire. He died in 1601 and had a grandson John Hope (1626-1674) of Hopefold, Astley Green in Lancashire. His descendants included a Samuel Hope (1709-1781) whose descendants emigrated to Mexico, USA, P.E.I. Canada and Australia and were merchants/bankers in Liverpool and archiects/builders in Manchester.
They are remembered particularly in Liverpool by the name of Hope Street that includes the Hope & Anchor pub, and also Hope Park where can be found the Liverpool Hope University. It is certain that the Hopes were a very wealthy and powerful family in the area.”
Hope Family Tree
Hope, Samuel, the elder, of Manchester, bricklayer
Samuel Hope 1709–1781
Birth 7 MAY 1709 • Astley Green, Lancashire, England
Death 10 JUN 1781 • Manchester, Cheshire, England
6th great-grandfather
Parents
Peter Hope 1671–1741
Hannah Kirkman 1679–1746
Spouse & Children
1st Wife
Amy Venables 1708–1738
Children:
Racheal Hope 1737–1738
Amy Hope1739–
2nd Wife
Martha Hepworth 1713–1776
6th great-grandmother
Children:
Samuel Hope 1741–1817
John Hope 1744–1822
Anne Hope 1746–1817
Peter Hope 1747–1820
Henry Hope 1749–1819
William Hope 1751–1827 – 5th great-grandfather
Martha Hope 1753–1825
Career and Lineage
Samuel’s occupation was “bricklayer”, which is interesting because he is also listed in Burke’s Colonial Gentry as the father of William Hope, Esq. (1741-1827), who was, in turn, the father of Samuel Hope, Esq. (1781-1837) who is listed in Burke’s Colonial Gentry as a banker and as a Justice of the Peace (JP) for Liverpool, and who is also listed as the father of Thomas Arthur Hope, a landed proprietor and JP.
This might be a case of upward mobility in English late eighteenth and nineteenth century society.
(source: Anderson and Edwards family tree)
Two sons of Samuel Hope became famous builders. The hallmark structure was The Piece Hall, a cloth trading center in Halifax.
Halifax Manufacturers’ Hall – The Piece Hall
The Piece Hall, was built in 1779 as a trading centre for hand loom weavers selling “pieces” of locally-made cloth.
Halifax, England, has been a center of woolen manufacture from the 15th century onward, originally dealing through the Piece Hall.
“One of the proudest days in the history of Halifax was when the Halifax Manufacturers’ Hall was opened on 1st January 1779. Before many years passed, it was renamed The Piece Hall.
Many will recall that in May 2004, the Queen visited The Piece Hall during her most recent visit to Halifax. But how many people know that we have an ancestral Royal connection with the building?
Evidence suggests the Piece Hall’s contractors were surnamed Hope – the Hope brothers of Manchester. By 1773, Samuel (1741-1817) and John Hope (1744-1822) were described in Manchester Directories as Architects and Marble Cutters. Whoever designed our remarkable local edifice, the plans having been drawn up, in 1775 the Committee for the Piece Hall chose the Hope brothers to prepare estimates for the building work. In his book ‘The Architecture of the Piece Hall,’ published in 1988, Philip Smithies suggested that one of the Hope brothers was the builder, while the other was the surveyor.”
David C Glover – June 2017
Note: The Piece Hall is a Grade I listed building in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. It was built as a cloth hall for hand loom weavers to sell the woolen cloth “pieces” they had produced. The original 315 units in the arcades now contain new shops, cafes and offices.
Royal Connection
Samuel Hope and Martha Hepworth were the 5th great-grandparents of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall – who is married to Charles, Prince of Wales, the son of Queen Elizabeth II.
Camilla was also known as Camilla Rosemary Shand and Mrs. Andrew Parker Bowles. Her children are my 6th cousins.
Prince William and Prince Harry are the step-sons of Camilla, so I guess that makes them my step-cousins.
(step 6th cousins in genealogy terms)
Click to access Piece-Hall-Camilla-pedigree.pdf
Hope of Timaru, New Zealand
While researching Samuel Hope, I found a cousin who left England to farm in New Zealand. So, the Hopes have lots of family and sheep down under.
Arthur Hope, Esq. of Timaru – Canterbury, New Zealand was listed in Burke’s Colonial Gentry. Arthur Hope was born at Seaforth House, Lancaster, England in 1853. He immigrated to New Zealand and became a sheep farmer with a large estate of 87,000 acres with 24,000 sheep!
In 1882, he married Frances Emily Tripp in 1882. Read the published wedding notice.
Wednesday, Aug 30, 1882
Hope : Tripp Wedding – On the 25th July, at Woodbury, New Zealand, by the Right Rev. the Bishop of Christchurch, Arthur, third son of Thomas Arthur Hope, of Stanton, Bebington, Cheshire, to Frances, eldest daughter of Charles George Tripp, of Orari Gorge, Canterbury, New Zealand. (source: The Times)
Bebington is a small town 5 miles south of Liverpool.
Arthur Hope, my 2nd cousin 4x removed, was descended from the Hope family of Liverpool – via the lineage of Samuel Hope.
This entry illustrates that the Hope family scattered about the british colonies – from Australia, to Canada and New Zealand. Hope relatives are also found throughout Mexico and the United States.
Timaru is a port city in the southern Canterbury region of New Zealand, located 157 kilometres southwest of Christchurch and about 196 kilometres northeast of Dunedin on the eastern Pacific coast of the South Island.
A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry by Bernard Burke, p253.
Artistic Hopes
Here is a colorful New Zealand coastal painting
by Henry Studholme Hope – my 5th cousin 1x removed.
From Henry’s bio:
“I was born and raised in rural South Canterbury. Brought up on a farm in the South Island foothills. I studied graphic design in Christchurch and then went on to study fine art at the Byam Shaw School of Art ,London. Upon returning to New Zealand in the early 1980’s I took up farming for a time but was always painting in my spare time. I began painting landscapes full time in the late 1980’s always in oils on canvas or board. In 1990 I won the Birkenhead Art Award at the Auckland Society of Arts. In the 1990’s several of my paintings were featured by the Giesen brothers on their wine labels. My main artistic influences have been, locally: my grandmother Esther Hope the well known watercolourist, Austen Deans and Sydney Thompson.”
Sisters, Sally and Eve Hope, are also professional artists who were influenced by their granny in New Zealand.
(source: http://yorkstreetgallery.com/henry-hope)
References
- A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry
known as Burke’s Colonial Gentry (Google Books) - Samuel Hope – Anderson and Edwards family tree
- History – A Royal Link to the Builders of the Piece Hall by David Glover (unedited)
- The Piece Hall
- Halifax Piece Hall opens after £19m regeneration
- Henry Hope – artist in New Zealand
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