Sarah Salome (Hopkins) Stone (1844 - 1892)

Born Sep 1844 in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Wife of Alexander Thomas Stone — married 17 Apr 1876 in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

Died 1 Aug 1892 at age 47 in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

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Biography

Sarah Salome, known as Salome, was the daughter of Maria Webley and John Hopkins of Avening, Gloucestershire.

In the 1851 Census she is recorded as Sax. Salome, her sisters Rhoda, Eliza and Thomas Hopkins are missing on the Census Transcript. ^[1] Ancestry Version Name Age John Hopkins 64 Maria Hopkins 49 Thos Hopkins 17 Rhoda Hopkins 15 Eliza Hopkins 8 Sax Hopkins 6 ^[2]

Salome emigrated to Nelson with her mother Maria (who died on the voyage) and sister Louisa on the ship 'Anne Dymes in March 1864.

Her sibling Eliza and half brother Edward had sailed out from England a few years earlier.

Salome married in 1876 to Alexander Stone, a Compositor in Dunedin. One known child was born in their marriage, Alexander Hopkins Stone , born 1877 died April 28, 1968 aged 91, Dunedin.

Salome died at her home in 1892, Russell Street after a long illness aged 48. She is buried at Northern cemetery in Dunedin and recorded as Salome Sarah Stone. BLK 158 PLOT 14.^[3]

Sources

• "England and Wales Census, 1861," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M7LL-KH8 : 20 April 2019), John Hopkins, Avening, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom; from "1861 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 9, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.

• https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:26BQ-791 BIRTH

• https://ancestry.com.au

England & Wales Civil Registration Birth Index Vol 11 Pg 394 - Registration July qtr

NZ Marriage Index Folio 1377

NZ Death Index Folio 1572 - Registration July/Sept qtr

• https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz Nelson Examiner & NZ Chronicle 5/3/1864 Shipping Intelligence, Otago Daily Times - 9/7/1892, P 5 Out of copyright
• https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~nzbound/genealogy/anne_dymes.htm

Note Recorded as Maria Salome, Louie Hopkins

• https://www.dunedin.govt.nz/services/cemeteries/cemeteries-search?recordid=79360&type=Burial

Footnotes

Sarah is shown on Census transcripts as Sax and Salvame

Footnotes

1. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGKL-8GR 1851 CENSUS John & Maria
2. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGKL-8GY 1851 CENSUS - Children
3. ↑ Entered by Faye Whitfield.

Acknowledgments

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