Hooper Family Tree
Eliza Jane Passmore Hooper, was born in England before her parents married. Her mother Mary Jane Passmore was well born, and fell in love with a man 'below her station' called Richard Hooper. After that they married and had several more children. Because Mary Jane Hooper had married beneath her, her brother Henry Passmore suggested that the couple migrate to the Swan River Colony in Western Australia. Mary Jane's brother Henry Passmore married Mary Ellis and supervised the a shipment of convicts to the colony of Western Australia. He arrived in Perth on 10 August, 1865, on the ship named Racehorse, among the last ships of convicts to arrive. He was chief warder on the ship as he had been employed in the Prison Service at Dartmoor Prison after he left the Imperial Navy. Henry Passmore lived out his life in the Perth Swan River colony and died a respected person known as the 'Old man of North Fremantle'.
So Mary Jane and Richard Hooper and their little daughter Eliza Jane came out to Western Australia in the 1860s. Mary Jane Hooper arrived in the middle of the bush near Midland, sat down on her trunks and cried, as she knew she would never see her parents again. At first the family struggled to make a living, and the family had to work hard to establish their land. Eliza's younger sister Rosalind died when young. She got ill one winter, as the girls had to change out of their good clothes when they got home from school, into their thin second hand dresses. The Hoopers worked hard and became wealthy over the years.
Eliza Jane Passmore Hooper married David Mountjoy, the son of a convict, Charles Mountjoy. David's mother was Harriet Bashford, daughter of an indentured servant who had arrived in Western Australia the first year of white settlement. Eliza told her family that Harriet was much kinder to her than her own mother. Unfortunately for Eliza, her husband David Mountjoy was a violent alcoholic, who spent all the money he earned as a labourer on drink. Eliza took in ironing work and did cleaning, and everything possible to support her children. She was a hard worker, and greatly loved by her 9 children.
The Hooper and Mountjoy family are very closely related, as David's younger sister Emily Jane Mountjoy married Eliza's younger brother Francis Hooper. So Eliza Jane Passmore Hooper and David Mountjoy's children were double cousins to Francis Hooper and Emily Jane Mountjoy's children.
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KNOWN DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD HOOPER AND MARY JANE PASSMORE
KNOWN DESCENDANTS OF ELIZA JANE PASSMORE
HOOPER AND DAVID HENRY MOUNTJOY
KNOWN DESCENDANTS OF FRANCIS HOOPER AND EMILY JANE MOUNTJOY
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