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Marriage record, Cottam, Essex Co., ON, from Mary Crandall's site:
003182 95 (Essex) Alexander HOPGOOD, 21, Canada, Maidstone, farmer, s/o Henry & Susan Ann HOPGOOD to Mary Ann DALTON, 24, Canada, Gosfield North, d/o James B. DALTON; wit Mary SHAW & Gertrude SHAW on 18 December 1895 in Cottam.

1881 personal census, Maidstone Twp, Essex Co., ON, LDS 1881 census household record:
Hopgood Henry, M, Married, 36, born Ont, origin: English, Wesleyan Methodist, Farmer;
Susan Ann, F, Married, 34, born England, origin: English, Wesleyan Methodist;
Elizabeth, F, 13, born Ont, origin: English, Wesleyan Methodist;
Arthur, M, 11, born Ont, origin: English, Wesleyan Methodist;
Alexander, M, 6, born Ont, origin: English, Wesleyan Methodist;
Adaline, F, 2, born Ont, origin: English, Wesleyan Methodist.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 217-218:
David Hopgood, who is well located on Lot 277, Talbot Road South, Gosfield North, County of Essex, is a prosperous farmer and a true son of Canada, having been born on his present farm, March 22, 1855, son of James and Eliza (Jones) Hopgood.
     James Hopgood was born in England in 1809, and the mother in 1811. She was a daughter of James Jones, who came to Canada and settled on the Talbot Road in the County of Essex. The same sailing vessel which brought the Jones family to the Dominion, brought also young James Hopgood, and the acquaintance then begun resulted in marriage after landing in Canada. The young couple settled in Huron County for two years, and then came to Talbot street, where Mr. Hopgood bought 100 acres of land of a Mr. Cummiford. A few words will suffice to tell that this wild land was cleared and later cultivated, but they give little idea of the toil and perseverance necessary to transform the wilderness into the good farm which Mr. Hopgood later possessed, and lived long enough to enjoy. His death took place Oct. 9, 1877, and that of his widow in October, 1889. They were most worthy, pious people, founders of the Methodist Church, and were both respected and beloved. Politically Mr. Hopgood favored the principles of the Reform party, but never aspired to office, contenting himself with his private business and the care of his family. The children born to James Hopgood and his wife were as follows: ... Henry, born in the County of Essex, married Susan Robinson, and they settled on a farm in Maidstone township, where he died in 1893, leaving his widow with four children, Arthur, Alexander, Elizabeth and Adeline, the last named since deceased...

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 465-466:
John Dalton, a prosperous and highly respected farmer of Gosfield North, living on Lot 270, on the Talbot Road North, has been a resident of the County of Essex since eary manhood, as he accompanied his parents hither in 1873, when they settled here. His parents, James and Annie (Sweetman) Dalton, were both natives of Lower Canada, but he was born in the United States, March 4, 1848, during a temporary residence of the parents in the State of New York.
      James Dalton returned from New York to Canada and settled on a farm in the County of Durham, where he remained until 1873. In that year, as was mentioned before, he took his family to the County of Essex, and settled on wild land in Gosfield South, which he cleared, and on which he made his permanent home. There his wife died in June, 1889, and Mr. Dalton followed her two years later, in the same month. Besides our subject, John Dalton, they had eight children, all born in Canada, and all now married: ... (8) Mary A. is the wife of Alexander Hopgood, of Maidstone, the son of Henry Hopgood, one of the old pioneers. They have no children...

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James Hopgood 1809-1877   Eliza Jones 1811-1889    
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Henry Hopgood ca 1846-1893   Susan Ann Robinson ca 1849-
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Alexander Hopgood ca 1874-