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You've made me feel guilty for not explaining myself properly, TootyFruity!

I've got all of those names, and a lot more!

It's a heck of a long-shot I know, but I was just wondering if someone has a family tree with ALL of the members of the Bideford Hookway clan showing in it.

Since posting the above request, I've found a dozen more Hookways that I've yet to sort out where they belong to on my family tree.

The Hookways are taking me ten times longer to sort out than any other branch of my family tree.

Thank you for your kind intentions, TootyFruity! :)

Regards
Allan

1841 census. Image very faint so unable to get any other info

Name: Robert Taylor Hookway
Age: 7 MO
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1840
Gender: Male
Where born: Devon, England
Civil parish: Bideford
Hundred: Shebbear
County/Island: Devon
Country: England

Registration district: Bideford
Sub-registration district: Bideford
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Robert Taylor Hookway 7 MO
Mary Branch 2

Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece 242; Book: 9; Civil Parish: Bideford; County: Devon; Enumeration District: 4; Folio: 11; Page: 18; Line: 24; GSU roll: 241320.

1851 census

Name: Rob J Hookway
Age: 10
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1841
Relation: Grandson
Mother's Name: Sarah Taylor
Gender: M (Male)
Where born: Bideford, Devon, England
Civil parish: Bideford
Town: Bideford
County/Island: Devon
Country: England

Registration district: Bideford
Sub-registration district: Bideford
ED, institution, or vessel: 2e
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 51

Robert Taylor 57
Sarah Taylor 58
Sarah Taylor 33
Rob J Hookway 10
Wm Palway 5
Margt Pilifant 17

Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece: 1895; Folio: 84; Page: 22; GSU roll: 221046.

Have you tried Search Trees on this site?
There are 134 Hookway's born in Devon between 1770 and 1790 listed.
You could write to contacts to see if they have a connection.

1861

Name: Robert T Hookway
Age: 20
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1841
Relation: Grandson
Mother's Name: Sarah Taylor
Gender: Male
Where born: Bideford, Devon, England
Civil parish: Bideford
Town: Bideford
County/Island: Devon
Country: England
Registration district: Bideford
Sub-registration district: Bideford
ED, institution, or vessel: 6
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 26

Robert Taylor 67
Sarah Taylor 68
Sarah Taylor 43
Robert T Hookway 20
Dinah Hooking 17

Source Citation: Class: RG9; Piece: 1502; Folio: 63; Page: 4; GSU roll: 542823.

There is a Will


Name: Robert Taylor Hookway
Probate Date: 23 Jul 1913
Death Date: 7 Oct 1912
Death Place: Devon, England
Registry: Exeter

Address Bath House, Bideford
Probate awarded to Robert Edward Lethbridge Hookway, Borough Surveyer and Vernon Boyle, Draper

Effects £3538 8s 2d. Resworn £3722 0s 10d

Marriages Sep 1862   (>99%)   
Hookway  Robert Taylor    Bideford  5b 890   
Lethbridge  Mary Jane    Bideford  5b 890   

1871 census

Name: Blanche E Hookway
Age: 5
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1866
Relation: Daughter
Father's Name: Robert I Hookway
Mother's Name: Mary Jane Hookway
Gender: Female
Where born: Bideford, Devon, England
Civil parish: Bideford
Town: Bideford
County/Island: Devon
Country: England
Registration district: Bideford
Sub-registration district: Bideford
ED, institution, or vessel: 7
Household schedule number: 76

Robert I Hookway 30
Mary Jane Hookway 31
Ann I Lethbridge 65
Florence I Hookway 7
Blanche E Hookway 5
Anne L Hookway 2
Leah C Stricklin 75

Source Citation: Class: RG10; Piece: 2200; Folio: 78; Page: 14; GSU roll: 834864.

1881 census


Name: Blanche H. Hookway
Age: 15
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1866
Relation: Daughter
Father's Name: Robert T. Hookway
Mother's Name: Mary J. Hookway
Gender: Female
Where born: Bideford, Devon, England
Civil parish: Bideford
County/Island: Devon
Country: England
Street Address: 11 Quay

Occupation: Scholar
Registration district: Bideford
Sub-registration district: Bideford
ED, institution, or vessel: 7

Robert T. Hookway 40
Mary J. Hookway 41
Florence T. Hookway 17
Blanche H. Hookway 15
Annie L. Hookway 12
Robert E. L. Hookway 7
Ethel S. Hookway  
Anne Lethbridge 75
Susan Stapleton 50
Laura Manning 16
  
Source Citation: Class: RG11; Piece: 2258; Folio: 70; Page: 3; GSU roll: 1341543.

1901 census


Name: Ethel S T Hookway
Age: 20
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1881
Relation: Daughter
Father's Name: Robert T Hookway
Mother's Name: Mary J Hookway
Gender: Female
Where born: Bideford, Devon, England
Civil parish: Bideford
Ecclesiastical parish: Bideford St Mary
County/Island: Devon
Country: England

Registration district: Bideford
Sub-registration district: Bideford
ED, institution, or vessel: 8
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 54

Robert T Hookway 60
Mary J Hookway 61
Annie L Hookway 32
Ethel S T Hookway 20
Florence G Stevens 15
Majorie R H Stevens 12

Source Citation: Class: RG13; Piece: 2160; Folio: 94; Page: 8.

1891 census

Name: Ethel S T Hookway
Age: 11
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1880
Relation: Daughter
Father's Name: Robert T Hookway
Mother's Name: Mary J Hookway
Gender: Female
Where born: Bideford, Devon, England
Civil parish: Bideford
Ecclesiastical parish: Bideford
County/Island: Devon
Country: England

Registration district: Bideford
Sub-registration district: Bideford
ED, institution, or vessel: 6
Robert T Hookway 50
Mary J Hookway 51
Blanche H Hookway 25
Annie L Hookway 22
Robert E L Hookway 17
Ethel S T Hookway 11
Florence G Steven 5
John E Lethbridge 48
John Colleary 22
Source Citation: Class: RG12; Piece: 1786; Folio 51; Page 5; GSU roll: 6096896.

Marriage ref


Name: Ethel Sarah T Hookway
Year of Registration: 1904
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Bideford
County: Devon
Volume: 5b
Page: 1069

Possible birth


Name: Ethel Sarah T Hookway
Year of Registration: 1880
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Bideford
County: Devon
Volume: 5b
Page: 501

Hello fellow-members.

For some days now I've been researching my Hookway family tree in the Devonshire area - mostly centred around the town of Bideford, and it has proved to be something of a nightmare of complexity.

So far I have managed to find exactly 20 people with the Hookway surname, starting with John Hookway born in 1780.

I'm still finding other 'Bideford' Hookways who don't seem to connect with any of the other 'Bideford' Hookway family trees.

Every Hookway family seems to have at least 10 children in them.

Is there any chance that I can find someone who has actually succeeded in putting together the entire Hookway clan from the Bideford Devonshire area?

Ethel Sarah Taylor Hookway who married Rudolf Wilhelm Schmidt in 1904 (later changed to 'Munro-Smith) - was my father's mother.

Thanks for any help with this.

Allan Munro-Smith
Sydney Australia