Horatio Nelson Hope (1802-1867)
– Founder of the Canadian branch of the Hope family
– Family farmer, with nine children
BIRTH
1801 • Liverpool, Lancashire, England
DEATH
23 JAN 1867 • St. Eleanors, Prince Edward Island, Canada, 66 years old
Family relationship:
– 1st cousin 6x removed
Hope Family Tree
Parents of Horatio Nelson Hope:
Peter Hope and Ann Chisholm of England
Siblings:
• Cuthbert Collingwood Hope (1805-1882) – USA
• Archibald Hope (1803-1871) – Mexico
Marriages:
First marriage to Matilda Ann Hooper on 15 Jan 1835 in Prince Edward Island, Canada
Matilda Ann Hooper Also known as Matilda Ann Hope
BIRTH
1810 • Prince Edward Island, Canada
DEATH
10 OCT 1854 • Saint Eleanors, Prince Edward Island,
44 years old
Parents:
Elisha Hooper and Margaret Crosby
Grandfather:
Thomas Hooper – British Loyalist during the American Revolution
8 Children:
- Cuthbert Collingwood Hope 1836–?
- Annie Hope 1839–1906 (67 years)
- Isabella Hope 1844–1925 (80 years)
- Delores C Hope 1845–1865 (19 years)
- Margaret Crosby Hope 1847–1882 (35 years)
- Janette Hope 1847–1926 (67 years)
- Matilda Hope 1849–1875 (26 years)
- John Priestey Hope 1852–?
Second Marriage
After the death of Matilda Ann in 1854, Horatio Nelson Hope married Sarah Elizabeth (Emery) Holman , a widow. The marriage was on Prince Edward Island in 1855.
It was common in this era to remarry after a spouse died, especially if one had children and a farm to run.
2nd Wife – Sarah Elizabeth Emery
Sarah Elizabeth Holman (widow) married Horatio Nelson Hope on 11 March 1849
BIRTH 5 NOV 1824 • Buxton, York, Maine, USA
DEATH 15 JUN 1914 • Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Age: 89 years old
Parents of Sarah Emery:
Joseph D Emery 1791-1847
Abigail Moulton 1792-1874
3 Children:
Two children from her first marriage:
Sarah Holman and Susan Maria Holman
One child with Horatio Nelson Hope:
Susan Goodwin Hope 1858–?
wife of 1st cousin 6x removed
Backstory – Hooper family in P.E.I.
Matilda Ann Hooper is related to Thomas Hooper, a Loyalist, who was a farmer in New Jersey – uprooted the family and moved to Canada following the American Revolutionary War. Note: Prince Edward Island is known as P.E.I. in Canada.
The Hooper Family history is sufficiently pertinent to this chronicle to include the following. In the P.E.I. Magazine, August 1900, there are two articles by Henry Hooper, entitled “Bedque and its People”. A shorter version of these are found in the old book ‘In Pioneer Days’ by D. J. Dickie and is as follows:
A Troubled Loyalist
“Thomas Hooper was a farmer and lived in Windsor, Mercer Co. a few miles from Princeton, New Jersey. He had a hundred acre farm, a large house and barn, a wife and happy growing family. When the war came, Hooper, feeling that he could not fight against his flag, refused to join the American Army; he remained quietly on his farm taking neither side.
His American neighbors and relatives were angry at his loyalty to Britain. They helped themselves to his cattle, pigs, and fowl whenever they needed them. They stripped his place of oxen. The war dragged through nine weary years; by 1782 it was plain that peace was near and that Britain would give the struggling colonies their freedom. Hooper was a shrewd man. He wished to live in a British country and he felt sure that the Americans who had treated him badly during the war would not be kinder when they had all power in their own hands. He decided that it would be best for him to go to Nova Scotia, or Prince Edward Island.
Early in the spring he set out to find a new home. He went to the Maritime Provinces and traveled about examining the country, for he wanted a good farm. The Governor at Halifax had already promised farms to all the Loyalists who wished to leave the United States. Hooper was everywhere kindly received, and in July returned to his home full of hope. He also went to Prince Edward Island; returned to Nova Scotia; and sailed from Shelburne, taking three weeks to reach New York. He immediately went to New Jersey.
Matters had not been going well in his absence. He found his wife and two children sick of fever. His American neighbors had grown bolder than ever. They pretended to think he was hiding a spy, went often to his place, plundered his house and barn, thrust their bayonets through the furniture, curtains, and the hay-filled bed-ticks. At last one morning they came in and took the bed from under Mrs. Hooper who was still convalescing from the birth of a baby boy. They carried her out, and laying her down on the floor of an outhouse, they made off with the bed. Mrs. Hooper took cold and died. After that Thomas Hooper hated the Americans. One of his brothers was bitter against him for being a Loyalist.
He was watched, but he managed to escape with his two sons, lads of nineteen and ten. He left behind him four girls and his baby boy. To do so must have been a trial to the poor father, but he had as yet no home to which to take them.
Hooper and his sons got safely to Shelburne which was then building. Thomas worked and saved for two years. By that time he thought he had enough money to take a farm, and he begged Governor Patterson of Prince Edward Island to get him a grant of land. The Governor arranged that Hooper should be granted a lease at Bedeque.
Hooper and his sons crossed to the Island in 1784 and presented the following memorial to Governor Patterson. Thomas was a careful man, but in the end he found just the farm he wanted. The land was rich, the sea abounded with fish, the river with wild fowl. Hooper hoped that at last he might build a little home and gather his family about him again. They first drew lands in Lot 19 and finally settle in Lot 26.
In New Jersey Ann the eldest daughter, who had had charge of the farm and the children, now prepared to move. She held an auction sale. Three month’s credit was allowed to all those who bought more than ten shillings worth. The goods were sold for a third of their value, but they were sold, and the family began to pack up and make ready. Sarah, the second daughter (now nineteen) married and remained in New Jersey — becoming the wife of William Dey Jewell of Princeton, N.J.”
References
Knight family tree on Ancestry.com
(Lots of Knights have ‘Hope’ as a middle name)
But My Hope is Not Broken – A Partial History of the Hope Family by Constance Hope Harding,
The Hurley Printing Company Limited 1967
“Bedque and its People” by Henry Hooper, 1900
Knight Family of Seattle 