| Sources:
1. Marriage Record:
2. 1860 Census Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #58
of 59): Winthrop P.O., Winthrop, Kennebec Co., ME, p. 1050, PN 58,
442/482, enumerated 7 Jul 1860, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1860 (extracted
by Diana Gale Matthiesen):
| Patrick Nolan |
29 |
M |
|
Oil Cloth Carpet Laborer |
|
|
Ireland |
| Catharine " |
23 |
F |
|
|
|
|
do |
| Margaret " |
3 |
F |
|
|
|
|
Maine |
| Timothy " |
1 |
M |
|
|
|
|
do |
| Marg Fallan |
25 |
F |
|
|
|
|
Ireland |
Several men on this and adjacent pages were employed in various jobs in
an "Oil Cloth Carpet" factory. Margaret FALLAN is almost certainly
Catherine's sister.
3. Family Quest Archives: California Federal Census 1870:
Plumas and Sacramento Counties. (Heritage Quest CD M593-77):
Sacramento 4th Ward, Sacramento Co., CA, p. 320B, PN 4, enumerated ca.
9 Jun 1870, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1870 (extracted by Diana Gale
Matthiesen):
1870: for an explanation of the column
headings, please see
What
the Numbers in the Federal Census Mean (missing columns contained
no data). |
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
15 |
19 |
| 27 |
36 |
Hopkins Mark |
54 |
M |
W |
Treasr R R Co |
9150 |
8,655,780 |
New York |
|
|
|
/ |
| |
|
_______ Mary F |
48 |
F |
W |
Keeps House |
|
|
" " |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Nolan Timmy N |
9 |
M |
W |
attends school |
|
|
Maine |
|
|
/ |
|
| |
|
Ah Sing |
25 |
M |
C |
domestic |
|
|
China |
/ |
/ |
|
|
This may be a "Stella Dallas" story, with Catherine giving up her son so
he could have a better life than she could have given him. On the
dark side, she could have sold him or just deserted him.
4. 1880 United States Census and National Index (LDS Family
History Resource File: CD-ROM Library):
| Census Place: 6th Ward, San Francisco,
San Francisco, California |
| Source: FHL Film 1254074; NARA
Film T9-0074; Pg 701B |
| |
Relation |
Sex |
Marr |
Race |
Age |
Birthplace |
Occupation |
Fa |
Mo |
| M. F. HOPKINS |
Self |
F |
W |
W |
52 |
NY |
Keeping House |
CT |
MA |
| Timothy HOPKINS |
Son |
M |
S |
W |
21 |
CA |
At Home |
CA |
CA |
| May CRITTENDEN |
Niece |
F |
S |
W |
17 |
MO |
At Home |
NY |
NY |
| [nine servants] |
Mary adopted Timothy, her housekeeper's son, as an adult, after the death
of her husband, Mark HOPKINS, in 1878. Timothy was born in Maine,
not CA, and his parents were born in Ireland, not CA. Timothy seems
always to have gone to some length to disguise the fact that he was adopted.
5. Timothy Hopkins. 1932. John Hopkins of Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 1634, and Some of His Descendants. Stanford Univ.
Press, Stanford, CA.
6. Harold Clarke Durrell. 1936. "Memoirs of Deceased
Members of the New England Historic Genealogical Society." New England
Historical and Genealogical Register 90(April): 167-194. On p.
182:
| TIMOTHY HOPKINS, of Menlo Park, Calif., adopted son of Mark
and Mary Frances (Sherwood) Hopkins, elected a resident member 6
May 1896 and made a life member 18 May 1896, was born at Hallowell, Maine,
2 March 1859, the son of Patrick and Catherine (Fallon) Nolan, and
died in San Francisco, Calif., 1 January 1936.
His father, Patrick Nolan, born at Glenmore, co. Mayo, Ireland,
in 1829, came to New England in 1852, settled at Winthrop, Maine, where
he found employment in an oilcloth shop and married Catherine Fallon.
In May 1862 he left home for California to seek better fortune in the gold
fields. However, he secured work in San Francisco and sent East for
his family, but he was accidentally drowned on the day that they sailed
form New York.
Mrs. Nolan, who later married a second time and moved to St. Louis,
Mo., found work in the family of Mark Hopkins, the railroad magnate, and
in a short time Timothy, now three years of age, was made a member of the
family. On the death of Mark Hopkins in 1878, he was legally adopted
by the widow, who married secondly, in 1887, Edward F. Searles, and died
in 1891. |
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