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This index not only includes chapter headings but also the names of the early home districts ofthe Hodgins in Ireland as well as the names of early settlements of the pioneers in Canada,Australia, and the United States of America. Thesurnames of the related families are also givenas they appear in each chapter. It will have verylittle meaning when you come upon one or twonames related to your family, but, if you come upon a group of family names which yourecognize as familiar to your own family's past,then you may well be on the right track to locatethe chapter in which your own family history isrecorded.
This book is divided into fourteen sectionswhich are subdivided into one hundred andtwenty-five chapters. Then there is a subdivisionof family groups referred to as "Clans". In thedays of the early settlers, there were so many Hodgins each named either James, John,George, Tom, or William, that the neighbours took to nicknaming each in order to tell one fromthe other of similar given name. Thesenicknames have been a great blessing to theresearcher for they were often the only clue tolink descendants to their true ancestor.
Nicknames, place-names as well as othermarked differences have often become clan-names. Clan-names have little value today but they often help the waifs and strays to find theirway back to the family fold and to their ownfamily chapter.
Chapter 1 -Prologue ------pg 1
Section one under the heading"Early home districts of theHodgins in Irelandand Canada".
This is divided into two chapters:
Chapter 2- Home towns andvillages in Ireland ------pg 3
Chapter 3 -Early communitiesin Canada ------pg 6
Section two under the heading "Thedistant past". It also is reported in two chapters:
Chapter 4 -Origin of the nameHodgins ------pg 9
Chapter 5- The Huygens and theHodgins ------pg 10
Section three under the heading"Early history". This is divided into four chapters:
Chapter 6 -English Ancestors ------pg 13
Chapter 7 -Irish Ancestors ------pg 16
Chapter 8- Canadian Ancestors,or patriarchs ------pg 19
Chapter 9- Early history's findings and conclusions ------pg 22
Section four under the heading "Hodgins in Ireland after emigration days". This is dividedinto five chapters:
Chapter 10- The Martin-Hodgins family ------pg 25
Chapter 11 -The Hobbs family ------pg 27
Chapter 12- The Old-Richardfamily ------pg 29
Chapter 13- The Lewis-Hodginsfamily ------pg 33
Chapter 14 -Ireland, Farewell,with historical fragments ------pg 37
End of section four
Chapter 15 -Canadian Introduction ------pg 41
Section five under the heading"Descendants of James Hodginsof Borrisokane." This is thelongest section in the book, forit includes the next twenty-eightchapters.
Chapter 16 -Col. James Hodgins of Biddulph, Ontario ------pg 47
James was a commander atBorrisokane,Tipperary,beforecoming to Canada where, Canadian Archives list him first as a Major before he was commissioned in 1857 as a Lieutenant-Colonel. His wife wasMary Hodgins, daughter of John and Jane (Napier) Hodgins of Ireland. The next fourchapters give descendants of the Lieutenant-Colonel's foursons. These are listed under thesubheading: -"The Big-JimClan, -Clan one.
Chapter 17- Deputy-John Hodgins family ------pg 51
Related families: McMillin,Clatterham -or Clutterham,Ryan, Howard, Culbert,Scott, Sproule, Ottoman,Moore, Sterling, Dishman andmany more.
Early home district is mainly Biddulph but also parts in Ontario, Southwest.
Chapter 18 -Adam and Janefamily ------pg 53
Related families -McAdam, Whitaker, McNoughton, McIsaac, Wall, Dorman, Leitch, Banister, Reith, Wilson, Kaufman, Menzies, and many more.
Chapter 19- James and Hannahfamily, (James known asCream-Jim) ------pg 60
Related families -Ryan, Turner, Carroll, Sadlier, Keith and Amos of B.C., Stanley, Hamilton, and many more. Homedistricts, mainly Ontario andWestern Canada.
Chapter 20 - William & Anniefamily.(This William knownas Bill-Napier) -pg 61
Related families -Webb,Fairley, Orme, Stanley, Hay,Shaw, Sadlier, and many more.
Concludes Clan one -The Big-Jim Clan.
Clan two, under the subheading "Carp and Huntley Hodgins" includes the next threechapters.
Chapter 21 -Tom Hodgins ofCarp, and descendants ------pg 62
Related families -Mulligan,Munson, Dugas, McKeon, Holmes, Revington, Kidd, Graham, McVetty, and others.
Home districts are mainly inCarleton County, Ontario.
Chapter 22 -John Hodgins ofHuntley ------pg 70
Related names are not listed.
Early homes West of Ottawa, but some went to live in Biddulph in MiddlesexCounty.
Chapter 23- Daughters of Johnof Dromineer, Ireland ------pg 70
The daughters are SusanDavies, Margaret Saney, andlater Margaret Davies,Maryann, and a Mrs. Robinsonwhose first name is unknown, and Mary whose family islisted in Section fourteen underchapter .'The Ryan Family."
Home districts for these areCarp and Biddulph. -And thisconcludes Clan two.
Chapter 24 -Adam Hodgins ofDromineer, Ireland, and laterof Biddulph in Ontario ------pg 71
Related names are Haskett andWebb. Adam's descendants divide themselves into twoclans -Clan three -the Long-Hodgins, and Clan four –theButcher-Jim Clan. Clan three includes the next ten chapters.
Chapter 25 -Long-John Hodgins,the stage-driver of Biddulph ------pg 74
Other locations, and relatedfamilies given in the followingchapters.
Chapter 26 -Adam-Albert Hodgins, the engineer ------pg 75
Related family -MacDougall.
Home districts -Biddulph andUtah, U.S.A.
Chapter 27 -Joseph Hodgins ofMervllle ------pg 76
Related families -Davis,Crosleys of Iowa, U.S. etc.
Home districts in Alberta, butmainly in British Columbia.
Chapter 28 -The Merville Hodgins, descendants of Joseph and Grace of British Columbia ------pg 84
Related families -The Smithsand Cookes of Penticton, B.C., Metcalfe, Vass, McPhee,Davlson, Murray, Blakely ofVancouver Island, and a greatmany others.
Chapter 29- Tom Hodgins of Edmonton in Alberta ------pg 92
Related families Hodgson, andothers as listed in next chapter.
Chapter 30 – Tom and Eve Hodgins family of Edmonton ------pg 95
Related families –Alexander, Kirkwood, Fawcett, Deegan,Hay, Cameron, Meade, andmany more. Home districtsmainly in Alberta, with some inB.C. and California.
Chapter 31- Daughters of Long-John, the stage-driver of Biddulph ------pg 99
Related names -DeCoursey, Carter, Rawlins, etc. Home districts in Medicine Hat, Alberta,and Biddulph in Ontario.
Carters and DeCourseys are listed further in Section fourteen.
Chapter 32 -Walter Hodginsfamily of Biddulph, Ontario ------pg 100
Related families -Herbert,MacDonald, Ayles, Woods,Paynter, Thompson, Philips,Trowhill, and others. Home districts mainly in Ontario andAlberta.
Chapter 33 -Long-Tom Hodgins of Biddulph, and family. ------Pg 101
Related families -DeCoursey, Culbert, Whiteside,Lownds, Leavltt, Brockhaus, and others. Home districtsmainly in Ontario.
Chapter 34 -Long-Adam Hodgins, first of Biddulph, but later of Kincardine in Ontario------pg 102
Related families -DeCoursey, Sadlier, Bloor,McKenzie, Bertnik, Doyle,Pomahoe, Morrow, Detloff,Reily, Gemmel, Downes, Winters, and others. Descendants live in Toronto and otherparts of Ontario. -This concludes Clan three, the Long-Hodgins clan.
Descendants of the first three sons of Adam Hodgins fromDromineer, Ireland, were the Long-Hodgins while the fourthson's descendants are known asClan four, the Butcher-JimClan.
Chapter 35 -Butcher-Jim Hodgins of Biddulph and his wife,Elizabeth --- pg 104
Chapter 36 -Edgar Hodgins ofCloverdale, British Columbia------pg 104
Edgar's mother was an Ardiel, while his wife was a Stuartfrom the village of Hairn,Middlesex County, Ontario.
Chapter 37 -The Cloverdale Hodgins, descendants of Edgar .and Tena ---pg 107
Related familIes -Hartin,Butler, Godard, Stevenson, Reid, Forcier, Beveridge, andmany more.
The Cloverdale Hodgins live mainly In British Columbia,
like their parents. Some live inthe FraserValley and theOkanaganValley while others live In California and Florida.
Chapter 38 -Wilmar Hodgins family of Biddulph, Ontario ------pg 110
Related families -Armitage,Summerhaus, Crane, andothers. Many descendants live in Biddulph and London township, Ontario.
Chapter 39 -Francis-Berton Hodgins family ------pg 110
Related families -Armitage, Wilson, Hunt, Gerard, Nelson, Goodman, Crane, Pringle,Egan, Parkenson, and others.
Chapter 40 -Clara and Hilton Armitage family ------pg 111
Related families -Dann, Wilson, Robertson, Lewis,Tilbury, Roberts, Leger, Leitch, English, Stanley, Phillips, Vinall, Cobleigh,Belyea, and others.
Chapter 41 -Ida and FreemanTalbot, and a glance at the early Talbot history
------pg 112
Ida and Freeman had nochildren. The couple lived in Biddulph, London township, and in the city of London in Ontario. This concludes Clan four, the Butcher-Jim Hodgins clan.
Butcher-Jim was the youngest son of Adam from Dromineer, Ireland.
Clan five -The Peeler- Hodgins, descendants of Tom and James -two Hodginsbrothers.
Chapter 42 -Hodgins from Terryglass, Tipperary------pg 114
Several families of thesemoved from Terryglass,Tipperary, In the 1830s and settled in Biddulph near Clandeboye. Tom's family later moved to Kinloss.
Clan six -The Jury-James, orShannon Clans. This clan, likeclan five, is limited to onechapter.
Chapter 43 -Jury James Hodgins family ------pg 117
Related families are not listed but some members of this family reached notable prominence,such as Adam-Kingsley, M.P.
Descendants lived in Biddulph,London township and parts ofthe States.
This not only concludes Clansix, but also the lengthy Sectionfive.
Section six under the heading "Descendants of William Hodgins of Ballymackey, Tipperary”. This section is reported inthe next ten chapters:
Chapter 44 -William and Jane (Blackwell) Hodgins, Ballymackey ------pg 121
Clan seven under the sub-heading, "The Napier-Hodgins, including the Rakers and theStout-Hodgins." One chapterfor this clan.
Chapter 45 -John and Jane (Napier) Hodgins, and descendants ------pg 121
Related families -Atkinson,Sceli, Sadlier, McCutcheon,Seeds and others. Somenarrative concerning Jane(Napier) Hodgins. Location,from Ballymackey theyemigrated to CarletonCountyand Biddulph in MiddlesexCounty, Ontario.
Clan 8 under subheading "TheLissenhall-Hodgins."
Chapter 46 -Richard Hodgins,and descendants ------pg 125
Related families -Colbert,Boak -or Burke, Armitage,Fentons, Kidd, Watts, Casey,Switzer, Filmer, Bales, andothers. Children of Richard emigrated from Modreeny inTipperary and settled in Gouldbourn township in Carleton county as well as the town of St.Marys and St. Catharines inOntario, and also in Biddulph.
Clan nine under the subheading"The Old-Robert Clan.
Chapter 47 -Descendants of Old-Robert, Young-Robert, Peeler-John and Nigger-Tom
------pg 128
Related families -Bernard,Lewis, Casey, Wigginson,Maunsell, Pardy, Campbell, Hardy, Rye, Hambly of Edmonton, Taylor, Haskett, DeCoursey, Ainslie, Smith, Cunningham, Annington, Neely, Hodgson, Morley, Simpson, Abbott and others.
Clan ten "The Otway Hodginsof Templederry." The notes onthis clan are given in the nexttwo chapters:
Chapter 48 -"The Little-Hodgins Family" ------pg 134
Little-William and his wife,Margaret (Sherlock) Hodgins,emigrated from Irelandwiththeir children and settled atBiddulph, Ont., in the mid-1850s. Descendants settled atGranton, Parkhill, and Wiartonin Ontario, while others moved to other provinces and severalwent to the States. RelatedFamilies -Sheriock, Holmes,Derham, Lowney, Colbert,Shouldice, Sceli, and others.
This chapter also includes afew notes concerning William-Henry Hodgins, the tax collector of Clandeboye whosenickname was "Little Big-Billy" but please don't confusehim with the little big-Billy ofthe Castle Hodgins in sectionnine.
Chapter 49 -"The GreenhornHodgins family." ------pg 135
John Hodgins of Templederry,-nicknamed "Greenhorn-John", came to Canada in the1860s. His descendants lived inLondon township, in Toronto and suburbs and in BritishColumbia but John himselfspent many years at Biddulph.
Related families -DeCoursey, Luscombe, andothers. The notes here are far too brief.
Clan eleven -"The Forrest-Hodgins of Templemore." This clan is given in the next fourchapters from Chapter 50 toChapter 53 inclusive.
Chapter 50 -"William of Forrest near Templemore, andfamily" ------pg 136
This William was the fifth sonof William Hodgins ofBailymackey. He spent his lifein Ireland but his childrencame to Canada. They settled at Biddulph but some moved toLondon township. Related families -Deacon, Shoebottom, Wilkin.
Chapter 51 -George Hodgins ofTemplemore" ------pg 136
Like his brother William ofForrest, George lived all hislife in Tipperary and died atTemplemore in the eariy 1850s.
Nearly all of his children cameto Canada. His daughter, AnnHodgins, married WilliamHayes and the account of theirdescendants appears in thechapter, "The Hayes Family",in section 14. George's otherchildren, and descendants, arelisted in the next two chapters.
Places of residence and relatedfamily names appear in Chapter 53, and these refer toboth Chapters 52 and 53.
Chapter 52 -"Billy-D. Hodginsand descendants" ------pg 137
Chapter 53 -"lrish-Jim Hodgins and descendants ------pg 138
They settled in Ontario in counties Middlesex and Bruce, and in the townships of Biddulph,McGilivray, and Kinloss.
Related families -Raycraft,Dykes, Beatson, Powell,Crouch, Elders, Richardson,Snowden, Scott, Robinson,McFalls, Thompson, Pickering, Whiting, Duncan, Woods,Gilbert, Cunningham, Cowan, Baird, Taylor, Latta, Turner, Clarke, or Clark, Woodbury,Lowe, Brown, Saddler, orSadlier, Watson, McBerney,Mac, and many more. Chapter53 not only concludes clan 11,but it also concludes section
six, "William Hodgins of Ballymackey and descendants". William ofBallymackey was the secondson of Robert of NorthTipperary.
Section Seven -"Descendantsof Robert Hodgins Jr., third son of Robert of North Tipperary."
Chapter 54 -Introduction to clan 12, "The Clarendon Hodgins," and clan 13, "The AuxSauble Hodgins of Biddulph" ------pg 145
This chapter lists antecedencein Ireland and something of their early history. IntroducesGeorge and Mary (Williams)Hodgins, and the Silverstream family of Tipperary. Clan 12 includes chapters from 55 to 60, and clan 13 includes the twochapters, 61 and 62.
Chapter 55 -Pioneer-WilliamHodgins and family ------pg 147
Pioneer- William and Maria(Stoney) Hodgins of Clarendonhad nine sons and three daughters. This chapter contains a paragraph, or report giving the chronology for eachof the eight sons who remainedin Canada. We know the namesfor at least seventy grand-children for Pioneer-Williamand Maria but there are quite afew whose names are unknown.
It goes without saying that the"Stoney-Hodgins" family is the largest Hodgins family in allCanada and probably thelargest Hodgins family in anycountry. Places of residence, past and present, are -Pontiac county, Quebec and manyparts of the OttawaValley aswell as in all three prairieprovinces and many placesbeyond. Ancestral nicknamesare sometimes best known to descendants and, when known,we will use these to identifyearly members of the family.
The nine sons were -George,White-Tom, Butty-John,Councillor-Bill, James,Edward, Richard, Adam, andRalph.
George Hodgins, the first son,took his large family to the States and lived in Wisconsinleaving behind in Canada twodaughters, Mrs. John Hodgins and Mrs. John Daley, of Shawvllle.
White-Tom Hodgins, second son of Pioneer-William, livednear Shawville and many of his descendants remained in PontiacCounty and nearby counties in Quebec. Notes list placessuch as Yarm, Masham, Rupert, Murrello, and, in Ontario, Ottawa, Kitchener,Cornwall, Timmins, Pettawawa. On the prairies -- Medicine Hat, Edmonton,Seamans, Meyronne, Regina, and, in the States, Tucson andPhoenix in Arizona. Relatedfamilies -Best, McGuire,Shouldice, Rondeau, Bews,Elliott, Cuthbertson, Crawford, McNabb, Grant, Connolly,Hake, and many more.
White-Tom's brother, Butty-John Hodgins, lived in theClarendon district and many ofthe descendants still live in thatarea or scattered throughout towns in the Ottawa valley.
Related families are -Corrigan, Wallace, Campbell,Armstrong, Scully, Shaw, Beach, Murphy, Prendergast,Kirkpatrick, Johnson, Lucas,Richardson, Bateman, Rooni,Appleby, Telford, Baird,Caldwell, MacDowell, andmanyothers.
Butty-John's brother,Councillor-Bill Hodgins, livedat Shawville, P.Q., and descendants scattered throughout theOttawa valley towns with many living in Northwestern Ontarioand on the prairies. Relatedfamilies -Hobbs, Smith,Smiley, Corrigan, Armstrong,Wilson, Mee, Brown, Black, MacDowell, Paul, Stanley,Gillis -or McGillis, McLean,Rulledge, Ayears -or Ayers,Murphy, Murchison, Holleman,Goth, Wellington, Wellwood,Kilgour, Glenn, Walsh,Richardson, Hoffmann, andmanyothers.
Councillor-Bill's brother,James Hodgins, was the fifthson of Pioneer-William. Earlymembers of this familyremained in Shawville andother,parts of Clarendon but later generations settled at Ottawa and some moved to theAtlantic seaboard of the States. Some lived in Union City, Pennsylvania, but others moved tothe prairies and lived at Reginaand other prairie towns.
Related families -Taggart,Stewartson, Gayler, Campbell,Coles, Masson, Manton, Macdonald, Charlton, Judson, Hirt,Smith, Thomas, Dlxon, Paz, and others. The Gaylers lived at St. Lamberts in Quebec.
Edward Hodgins was the sixth son of Pioneer-William. This family lived at Shawville, andthe Shawville parties werealways a lively and dazzling success If Edward, and hislarge family of boys, werethere. Related families -Armstong, McFarlane,Kaulback, Sheppard, Dagg,Reily, Dickson, Smith, O'Hara, Caldwell, Poisson, Witticker ,Lunan, Childerhose, Naylor, McLean, Young, Durocher,Wallace, Brownlee, and manymore.
Richard Hodgins was theseventh son of Pioneer-William. His home was in Pontiaccounty, Quebec, but many of his descendants made their homes on the prairies or in thecity of Ottawa. Relatedfamilies -The Daggs of McCord, Blakes of LaFleche,Schwab, Anderson, Anthony ofAlida, Williamson of Ferland,Gavelin of Calgary, Haynes ofPowell River In B.C., Sjodln of Moose Jaw , Larsen of Burrows,MacDonald, Heikkilla, Jones,Hiltz of McCord, the Daggs of Bladworth, Knox, Shaw, Barton, Moffatt, Morrison,McDowell, McNabb, Gray, Lead and Robertson of Hartneyand Underhill as well as Gilbert Plains and Winnipeg, Coles,McKillip, McRay, Wallace, Stevens, Corrigan, Russell, Hawkins, Harris, Clark, Elliot,and many others.
Adam Hodgins was the eighth son of Pioneer-William. He andhis wife, Ruth, had a farm near Shawville. Some of his descendants live at Ottawa and inPontiacCounty but five of hissix sons moved to the prairieswhere a great many descendants still live. You will find them at McCord, Mortlach, Nipawin, Whitefox, Redwater,Moose Jaw, Regina, and some at Sarnia In Ontario. Relatedfamilies -McDowell, Houston,Collins, Stewart, Patton,McFarlan, Steele, Ward, Greggains, Grant, McMunn,Reuchwald, Rondeau, Smith, Ayearst, Orchson, Rennie,MacDonald, McLachlan, Hall, Blackstock, Sorrenson, Guenther, Brinnan, Marrington, andmany more.