Hooper, Edwin - (1820 -1884)

Deputy Dockmaster - Penarth Dock - 1870's until early 1880's - Jane Bennett kindly wrote on 1st October 2016 - 'I found your fascinating website while researching family history, having discovered that my 2nd great grandfather Edwin Hooper was employed as dock master at Penarth Docks during the 1870s and '80s. He appears on both the 1871 and 1881 census with his family, resident at Ivy Cottage Docks Penarth, occupation Deputy Dock Master.   He died in 1884 at Ivy Cottage, but by the 1901 census his widow Elizabeth had left that address and was living on Paget Terrace, then subsequently in probate records she was living at Clive Place both of which still exist.  However, I've tried locating Ivy Cottage but have had no success, since presumably the area around the docks has altered beyond recognition since the 19th century.'

A newspaper report in the Evening Express of 1902 stated that one Benjamin Denman of Ivy Cottage, St. Augustine's-road, Penarth (pilot) was summoned for assault . . . . It appears that there was more than one Ivy Cottage in the Penarth district but the proximity to the docks of the St. Augustine's-road cottage seems to be the logical choice!   There is reference to Edwin in the fine book by E. Alwyn Benjamin 'Penarth 1841-71 - A Glimpse of the Past' [431] in which he states referring to 1871:- 'The deputy dockmaster of Penarth at this time was Edwin Hooper, aged 50, born at Ilfracombe. He and his wife, Elizabeth, and two daughters (Emma and Florence) and two sons (Edwin and John) lived at Ivy Cottage. All four children were born at Bristol.'   left - South Wales Daily News of 25th October 1884 - notice of the funeral of Captain Edwin Hooper aged 64. [325] [361]