St. Olave´s Church

Southwark, Surrey, England

FHL #6906115 Marriages, 1639-1753

Drawing of St. Olave's Church

In trying to find out more about my Hopkins ancestors, I've been transcribing information from the records of parishes near where they lived: St. George the Martyr in Southwark. This page is about the parish church of St. Olave, which was located very near the Thames, and close to London Bridge. It is one of the oldest parishes south of the river, and one that was mentioned in a number of the records I've found relating to the Hopkinses and related families.

"The parish of St. Olave is bounded on the north by the river Thames, whence it extends in an irregular line towards the Dover Road, separating Bermondsey from Rotherhithe and Deptford parishes; it enters Bermondsey Street by Snow's Fields, and proceeds thence to St. Saviour's (once called Savory) Dock.

St. Olave's, like many other parishes in the suburbs of London, having been greatly increased in the number of its inhabitants, in 1732 one of the fifty new churches provided by the Act of Queen Anne was built for the district of Horselydown, which was made a separate parish by an Act of Parliament passed in the following year, and to which was given the name of St. John.

The parish church of St. Olave stands on the north side of Tooley Street, near its western end; and with the exception of the south side, is concealed from public observation."

Source: Walter Thornbury, Old and New London: A Narrative of its History, its People and its Places.
Illustrated with Numerous Engravings from the Most Authentic Sources.: Volume 6
London, New York, Cassell, Peter & Galpin [1872-78]
(from Tufts University Library)

These are the St Olave Parish records in the collection of the Southwark Local History Library:

* Christenings 1639 to 1665, 1685 to 1884
* Marriages 1639 to 1665, 1685 to 1864, 1903 to 1918
* Burials 1639 to 1665, 1685 to 1853

The following are marriages I transcribed from FHL film #6906115, St. Olave Marriages 1639-1753, 1876-1885. As with the other neighboring parishes, I found very few Hopkinses listed in these records.

Groom Surname	Groom Name	Bride Surname	Bride Name	Date
Bingley	John	Stockes	Mary	13 Sep 1733
Bolton	Benjman	Hopkins	Elizabeth	25 Nov 1735
Buckersfeild		Hopkins	Mary	18 Jul 1659
Burges	Henrey	Hopkins	Hannah	1 Jul 1729
Clifford	Thomas	Alcocke	Judith	24 Sep 1663
Cornish	Thomas	Hopkines	Mary	6 Sep 1643
Ewen	George	Hopkin	Eliza Ann	22 Jan 1877
Falkner	Edward	Stoakes	Sarah	19 Nov 1719
Fearess	Richard	Hopkins	Susanah	5 Nov 1730
Gatward	James	Hopkins	Mary	5 Apr 1657
Gibbs	Robert	Hopkines	Mary	18 Oct 1658
Haddon	Mark	Matcalfe	Mary	12 Jul 1733
Hopkines	James	Cole	Mary Cather	11 Nov 1641
Hopkins	Edward	Nicholes	Mary	19 Jun 1656
Hopkins	Robert	Turner	Elizabeth	29 Dec 1716
Hopkins	William	Roberson	Esabeler	1 Jul 1729
Horphett	Alfred John	Stocks	Elizabeth Maria	20 Aug 1876
Johnson	Martin	Hopkins	Hannah	13 Mar 1686
King	William	Hopkins	Elizabeth	12 Jun 1691
Lee	Thomas	Stoakes	Anne	16 Oct 1750
Manwearing	Thomas	Stoakes	Ann	28 Jan 1720
Masters	Edward	Hopking	Ann Hannah	29 Oct 1723
Palmer	Alfred Benjamin	Haddon	Sarah	30 Oct 1881
Pice	George	Hopkins	Ann	8 Jan 1664
Prior	William	Alcott	Elizabeth	7 Dec 1690
Stokes			Ann	11 Sep 1656
Stokes	Henry	Trigg	Mary	14 Oct 1740
Stokes	Phillip	Tepris	Margery	17 Jun 1645
Stokes	Robert	Fox	Elizabeth	21 Feb 1722
Stokes	Thomas	Love	Martha	11 Apr 1642
Stokes	Thomas	Burges	Christian	2 Feb 1663
Stokes	William John	Denton	Sarah Jane	21 Feb 1880
Tomlinson	John	Haden	Mary	20 Sep 1720

Drawing of St. Olave Church, Tooley Street.

Map of western part of St. Olave's parish.

Photos of Present-day St. Olave's Church.

This file was last updated on 7/12/2019