http://boar.org.uk/abpwxa2HopkinsA.htm.
Text, page and pictures ©R.J.PENHEY 2006. Latest edit 2 Aug
2007.
The Bourne Archive
Reading Artefacts as Documents:
Details about the
association between people’s names and the things they were doing are
especially interesting for genealogists and researchers into trades. I have
therefore, included some examples but, where people have allowed me to give
details, I have not included information as to where the artefact is. This is
for the security of the owners.
There is in Bourne, a
long case clock in the style of the early nineteenth century.
Its dial bears the name:
A.
Hopkins
Bourn
The clock
dial is 300mm (11.8 inches) in diameter and it is surrounded by painted scenes
of ruins, grazing livestock and figures in the dress of circa 1800.
Lower left
spandrel.
and a paper label,
formerly pasted to the inside of the case, bears the legend
OLIVER,
Clock-Case
Maker,
SPALDING.
The
label’s dimensions are 48mm x 78mm.
Brian Loomes, p.115 lists no
A. Hopkins of Bourne as a clockmaker but there was an Abraham Hopkin, of Bourne
(Lincs); working in 1835. This seems close enough to merit further
investigation.