Alexander HOPKIRK was a younger son of William HOPKIRK and Isabel HUNTER
Alexander was christened 10 January 1720 in Galashiels, Selkirk.
Alexander HOPKIRK became a linen dyer at Dryburgh and died there in 1789.
Alexander married Isabel Paterson at Galashiels on 1 July 1742. They had the following children, all christened at Galahiels:
Helen HOPKIRK, 5 May 1743. Presumably died before 1749.
William HOPKIRK, 28 April 1745.
Helen HOPKIRK, 5 May 1749
George HOPKIRK, 17 June 1750
John HOPKIRK, 12 August 1753. Presumably died before 1755.
Isobel Paterson must have died shortly after the birth of her son John.
On 26 July 1754 Alexander HOPKIRK married Jane Bridges at Galashiels.
Alexander HOPKIRK and Jane BRIDGES had the following children:
John HOPKIRK, 1 July 1755 at Galashiels. This may be the source of the Hopkirk Family of LARGS.
James HOPKIRK, 4 November 1756 at Galashiels. James died 14 August 1777, aged 21 Years
George HOPKIRK, born about 1768, birthplace unknown.
He died on 11 March 1816. Please read
Mary Perkins Hopkirk's Melrose Hopkirk
History for more information about George and the
Jamaican Hopkirks .
Jean HOPKIRK, born about 1769, birthplace unknown, who died 21 August 1770, aged 1 year.
Click here to see the picture of the inscription on the monument to George HOPKIRK erected on the Dryburgh Abbey grounds. Dryburgh is only a couple miles from Melrose.
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