23. Rebecca Paris Driver

Rebecca Paris Driver was my great-great grandmother, and mother of Elizabeth Driscoll Hopgood, who married Alfred Strutt.

Her husband was Thomas Hopgood. However, I searched the years 1842-1854 at the FRS, but wasn't able to find a marriage certificate for them.

According to her birth certificate, Elizabeth Driscoll Hopgood was born on 3 November 1854 at 4 Causeway, Limehouse in the registration district of Stepney in the County of Middlesex. It gives her father as Thomas Hopgood, Hatter and her mother as Rebecca Paris Hopgood, formerly Driver. She was the informant, and made her mark, indicating that she could not write.

Many thanks to Gavin Grace for giving me the following information about other children of Thomas and Rebecca Hopgood. According to him, there was a Rebecca Isabella Hopgood who had an older brother Thomas and a younger brother Charles. Her parents were Thomas Hopgood and Rebecca Driver.

Rebecca Isabella's birth certificate has the following info.
b 18 February 1860, 20 James Street, Limehouse, to Thomas (Hatter -
Journeyman) and Rebecca (nee Driver)

Her marriage certificate has following info.
6 December 1885 at St Thomas Church, Stepney, Thomas Cox (33) m Rebecca
Isabella Hopgood (25) of 4 Palmer St, father Thomas Hopgood, Hatter.

There is a family story about the origins of the Drivers.

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