Greetings - I am HOOP aka Stephen Douglas Hooper
   This site launches my kin and ancestors into cyberspace
   The families of - Hooper - Phillips - Mortimore - Adams
  Their spouses - offspring - and a variety of other relatives
My grandparents came from the UK to the USA in the 1900s
Most early relatives from Bristol England a few from Wales

The Hooper family (1930s) Yonkers, New York

Front row - George Edward - Janet (nee Phillips)

Edward Cornelius - Muriel Lucy

Second row - Hubert Lewis - Dorothy - Phillip

Gwendolyn - Richard

(George from Edward's first marriage)

Edward Cornelius Hooper & Janet Hooper (nee Phillips)
With an Airflow and friend

The Mortimore family (1930s)

Bessie Florence - Emma (nee Adams)

Beatrice Ada - John

John Mortimore in his Reo (1930s)

John Mortimore with his Chevrolet (1920s)

James (Jim) Adams and Bob the dog

Wedding day of my parents Hubert & Beatrice Hooper

Yonkers - New York

My Hooper family (1960s) Clifton, New Jersey

Beatrice (nee Mortimore) - Stephen - Hubert - Hubert

My father - Hubert Lewis Hooper

My mother - Beatrice Ada Hooper

Her mother (left)- Emma Mortimore -

Blackie - Stephen and Hubert Hooper

Enjoying the beach in Manasquan NJ

My brother Hubert John Hooper "Hugh"

His wife Pamela Hooper (nee Delessio)

Emma Mortimore & Skippy

Pamela Hooper (nee Delessio) with her husband Hubert Hooper
Pam's mom Ida Delessio - cousin Wayne David O'Brien
Minnie and Bitsie

HOOP aka Stephen Douglas Hooper

   More Hooper dogs

Minnie - Misty - Inky - Vicky Victoria
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Edward Cornelius Hooper - My father's father

Janet Hooper (nee Phillips) My father's mother with her daughter
Gwendolyn and grandson Johnny O'Brien

John Mortimore - My mother's father with his wife Emma

Emma Mortimore (nee Adams) - My mother's mother

John Mortimore family reunion

His first time back in England in over 50 years

Florence White - Daniel Casey - Walt Gibbons

Ellen Casey - Ada Gibbons (sister)

John Mortimore - Winnie - Arthur White

Reg & Quenny Potter - John Mortimore - Nellie & Dan Casey -Mabel & Leslie Potter
Kids - Ian - David & Stuart

Arthur White's establishment

Frank White and wife Ronnie

Pearl White - Pickles and puppies

Arthur White and wife Louie

(Children of Arthur and Florence White)

Daniel Casey's establishment

Ernest & Audrey Casey (center) with family

Son of Daniel & Ellen Casey (nee Harrison)

Little Hoop in a striped shirt on the left in his first grade class

Little HOOP looking at some girl and not the camera in third grade




Edward Cornelius Hooper's service station - Hammonton NJ - 1930s

 



Hugh Hooper's Atlantic sevice station - Union NJ - 1970s



Right of tree - Dick Hooper & wife Evelyn - George Edward Hooper & wife Billie

Left of tree - Hubert Lewis Hooper - Dorothy Hooper - Janet Hooper - Edward Cornelius Hooper

Gwendolyn Hooper - Dick & Evelyn's child Sonny Hooper - Muriel Hooper

Dick Hooper & wife Evelyn - Janet Hooper - Dorothy Hooper - Edward Cornelius Hooper

George Edward Hooper & wife Billie - Hubert Lewis Hooper - Muriel Hooper - John Smith

Dick & Evelyn's child Sonny Hooper

Sonny Hooper - Evelyn Hooper - Hubert Lewis Hooper - Muriel Smith (nee Hooper)

Dorothy Hooper's husband Bill Gessner - Phillip Hooper's daughter Phyllis Hooper - Dick Hooper

Teddy Hooper - Gwyneth Smith






James W. Hooper's Bakery Delivery truck
(Edward Cornelius Hooper's brother in Port Talbot - Wales)
From the collection of Tony Hooper in the UK



Another Hooper bakery Delivery Truck

Muriel Smith (nee Hooper) on a Picnic in Wales with James W. Hooper's '50's bakery truck

Jennet Phillips (later Janet) To the right of the teacher

Elizabeth Golden (nee O'Brien) & her daughter Elizabeth - Pamela Hooper (nee Delessio)

Phyllis Chiulli (nee Hooper) & her daughter Diana

Wayne O'Brien - Gwyneth Phillips (nee Smith) - Hubert John Hooper - Stephen Douglas Hooper

The Hooper sisters with their Welsh singing group on Broadway

4th of July with the Hooper's in Florida - Phil Hooper in center - his mother in law - on right Chip and his girlfreind Paulette ----- Phil & Chip both worked for NASA

Beatrice Hooper's 75th birthday party

Evan Smith - son of Muriel Smith (nee Hooper) with his wife Carol
Also Ben - Steve - Janel and Kelsey

Evan & Carol Smith with grandchildren
Katie - Tyler - Jacob -Emma - Kelsey - Gavin



John & Muriel Smith - Gwen & John O'Brien -
Dorothy & Bill Gessner
A fashionable family



MY HOOPER FAMILY

IN THE EARLY APPEARANCE OF THE HOOPER NAME IN THE  SOMERSET AREA OF ENGLAND IT WAS CONNECTED TO THE NAME ELSTONE - THE FAMILIES HAD DIFFERENT VARIATIONS OF THE NAME
SOME WERE ELSTONE - ELSTONE-HOOPER - ELSTON-HOOPER - HELSTON-HOOPER - OR HOOPER
THIS SEEMS TO BE A COMMON PRACTICE OF FAMILIES THERE - DIFFERENT THEORIES ARE PUT
FORTH OF WHY TWO SURNAMES WERE USED - POSSIBLY IT WAS DUE TO LAND RITES OF FAMILIES
OR IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN TO SHOW MATRIMONIAL TIES TO FAMILIES OF THE SAME STATURE
MOST OF OUR FAMILY MEMBERS CAME FROM THE SOMERSET / BRISTOL AREA
ALTHOUGH SOME FAMILY MEMBERS EVENTUALLY MOVED TO WALES

WILLIAM ELSTONE (1668) MARRIES ESTER CORED IN 1689
CHILDREN - THOMAS (1690) - JOHN (1692) - WILLIAM (1693) - EDWARD (1698) - HENRY (1701)

JOHN ELSTONE-HOOPER (1692) MARRIES MARY CHESTER (1696) IN 1714
CHILDREN - JOAN (1715) - MARY (1717) - WILLIAM (1719) - ELIZABETH (1722) - EDWARD (1725)
SARAH (1727) - JOHN (?) DIED 1730 - JOHN (1731)

WILLIAM ELSTONE-HOOPER (1719) MARRIES CATHERINE SKINNER IN 1739
CHILDREN - JOHN (1748) - EDWARD (1750)

EDWARD ELSTONE-HOOPER (1750) MARRIES ELIZABETH PALMER IN 1777
CHILDREN - MARY (1778) DIED 1781 - WILLIAM (1780) - JANE (1781) DIED ? - MARY (1782)
THOMAS (1783) DIED 1783 - JOSEPH (1787) - JANE (1788) DIED ? - JOHN (1789) - EDWARD (1791)
THOMAS (1791) TWIN OF EDWARD - JANE (1792) DIED 1793

THOMAS ELSTONE-HOOPER (1791) MARRIES LTTITIA PARSONS IN 1814
CHILDREN - HENRY (1818) - ROBERT (1819) DIED 1820 - LETTITIA (1821) DIED 1828
THOMAS (1822) - ROBERT (1824) - JOHN (1826)

THOMAS ELSTONE-HOOPER MARRIES MARTHA JANE JEWELL IN 1840
CHILDREN - CHARLES (1841) - THOMAS (1843) - ALFRED (1845) - ROBERT EDWARD (1847)
ROSINA (1849) - MARY (1854)
THOMAS ELSTONE-HOOPER REMARRIES IN 1865 TO MARGARET JANE MORGAN
CHILDREN - ELIZABETH (1870)

ROBERT EDWARD ELSTONE-HOOPER (1847) MARRIES FRANCES MACCARTHEY (1850) IN 1869
CHILDREN - ALFORD (1871) DIED ? - FRANCES LOUISA (1873) - THOMAS (1874) - FREDERICK (1876)
EMMA CAROLINE (1878) - EDWARD CORNELIUS  (1880) - ELLEN ROSINA (1882) - BENJAMIN (1884)
LUCY ALICE (1887) - JAMES WILLIAM (1889) - CORNELIUS (189

FRANCES (MacCARTHEY) HOOPER - LATER MARRIES - THOMAS HOOPER (1842)

EDWARD CORNELIUS HOOPER (1880) - MARRIES - ELEANOR CRAIG (1879)
HER PARENTS - GEORGE and MARY ELLEN CRAIG
CHILDREN - GEORGE EDWARD HOOPER (1901) - ELSTON HOOPER (BORN1902-DIED1902)
ELEANOR DIES IN 1904
1907 HE LEAVES GEORGE WITH HIS MOTHER AND TRAVELS TO THE USA
LATER GEORGE LIVES WITH JAMES WILLIAM - CORNELIUS AND LUCY  IN WALES

EDWARD CORNELIUS HOOPER SETTLES IN YONKERS NY WHERE HIS UNCLE JAMES W. CARTER LIVES
I BELIEVE JAMES W. CARTER (BROTHER OF FRANCES MACCARTHEY) SHORTENED HIS NAME IN THE USA

E C H SENDS FOR HIS LADY FRIEND JENNET (JANET) PHILLIPS (1879) - SHE COMES TO THE USA
EDWARD CORNELIUS HOOPER and JANET PHILLIPS GET MARRIED IN YONKERS NY
CHILDREN - PHILLIP (1908) - MURIEL (1910) - RICHARD (1912) - HUBERT (1916) my father
GWENDOLYN (1918) - DOROTHY (1920) a seventh child died
AT 18 GEORGE EDWARD HOOPER TRAVELS TO THE USA AND REUNITES WITH HIS FATHER

HUBERT HOOPER (1916) - MARRIES - BEATRICE MORTIMORE (1916)
CHILDREN - HUBERT JOHN (1942) - STEPHEN DOUGLAS (H00P)

THE PHILLIPS FAMILY
RICHARD PHILLIPS (1838) - MARRIES - ANN (possibly Lewis) (1844)
children - RICHARD (1872) - EVAN (1873) - ELIZABETH (1875) - MARGARET (1876)
JENNET (1879) my grandmother  - HARRIET (1881) - MARY (1881) - PHILLIP (1886)

THE MORTIMORE FAMILY
JOHN MORTIMORE Sr. (1852) - MARRIES - CAROLINE OFFIELD (1855)
children - BESSIE (1873) - ELLEN (1874) - KATE (1877) - EVA (1883) -
JOHN (1885) my grandfather - ADA (1886) - ANNIE (1887) - AMELIA (1889) - BEATRICE (1891)
CAROLINE DIES AND JOHN Sr. MARRIES ELIZABETH MAWDITT

JOHN MORTIMORE (1885) - MARRIES - EMMA ADAMS (1885)
children - BESSIE FLORENCE AMELIA (1909) BORN IN ENGLAND
JOHN - EMMA & BESSIE TRAVEL TO THE USA
BEATRICE ADA (1916) IS BORN IN BROOKLYN NY

THE ADAMS FAMILY
JOHN ADAMS (1858)  - MARRIES - CAROLINE DAVIES (1857)
children - MARY (1883) - JOHN (1884) - EMMA (1885) my grandmother
CAROLINE (1887) - MARTHA (1890) - JAMES (1895) - FLORENCE (1897)