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Robert Howpe
Will dated 31 August 1570, Will proved 27 March 1571. Robert Howpe's birthdate has been reported to be somewhere between 1510 and 1526. Robert Howpe is reported to be the father of John Hoopes. This was found on the internet at Geocities.Com but the author of the site cites The Hoopes Family Record as his source. This is probably the point at which the Hooper's began changing the spelling of their names to distance themselves from Bishop John Hooper, burned at the stake by Queen Mary in 1553. Those with similar names but not neccesarilly related to Bishop Hoopes would still change their name so no question would come of their relations. Great Moorsham is a township in the parish of Skelton-in-Cleveland, eastern division of the liberty of LANGBAURGH, North riding of the county of YORK, 6 miles (E. by S.) from Guilsbrough, containing 353 inhabitants. Moorsham (Moorsholm, Moorsam) is a Viking name that means "weel-drained moor". "GREAT MOORSOME, (and Little Moorsome) in the parish of Skelton-in-Cleveland, wapentake and liberty of Langbargh : 6 miles E. of Guisborough; a long straggling village, about one mile to the SW. of it stands the beautiful conic mountain, commonly called Freebrough hill, which serves as a sea mark to the sailors who frequent the neighbouring coast. Pop. 353." Skelton is a parish in the eastern division of the liberty of LANGBAURGH, North riding of the county of YORK, comprising the townships of Great Moorsham, Skelton-in-Cleveland, and Stranghow, and containing 1235 inhabitants, of which number, 791 are in the township of Skelton-in-Cleveland, 4 miles (N.E. by N.) from Guilsbrough. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Cleveland, and diocese of York, endowed with �200 private benefaction, and �200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Archbishop of York. The church is dedicated to All Saints. Skelton-in-Cleveland castle was built by Robert de Brus, a Norman baron, who came over with the Conqueror, and from whom descended some of the kings of Scotland and the present family of Bruce, Marquises of Ailesbury. There are now but few remains of the ancient building, the whole having been entirely modernised, or renovated, in 1794. Skelton-in-Cleveland is an Anglo-Saxon name meaning "brook-village". Skelton-in-Cleveland is a remote parish on the coast of England.
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