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My husbands grandfather was born in 1889 in Merton Surrey, we are trying to find what happened to him after he split with my husbands grandmother Ada Emmeline Hopper nee Galyer

Doody

Name: Frederocl George Hopper
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 24 Feb 1889
Christening Place: Merton, Surrey, England
Birth Date: 14 Dec 1888
Father's Name: Henry Hopper
Mother's Name: Mary Hopper

Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C01034-7 , System Origin: England-EASy , GS Film number: 1278892 , Reference ID: item 5 p 102

Name: Frederick G Hopper
Event Type: Marriage
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration Year: 1911
Registration District: Epsom
County: Surrey
Event Place: Epsom, Surrey, England
Volume: 2A
Page: 17
Line Number: 110


Frederick G Hopper probably married one of the following people
Name: Ada E E Galyer

she married again?

Name: Ada E E Hopper-Nye
Event Type: Death
Registration Quarter: Jan-Feb-Mar
Registration Year: 1969
Registration District: Kingston Upon Thames
County: Surrey
Event Place: Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey, England
Age (available after 1866): 74
Birth Year (Estimated): 1895
Volume: 5C
Page: 943
Line Number: 170

Name: Fred Hopper
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 31 Mar 1901
Event Place: Merton, Surrey, England
County: Surrey
Civil Parish: Merton
Ecclesiastical Parish: Merton St Mary
Sub-District: Mitcham
Registration District: Croydon
Gender: Male
Age: 12
Relationship to Head of Household: Son
Birthplace: Merton, Surrey
Schedule Type: Household

Bit of an aside. The death of his brother Edwin:

Name: Edwin John Hopper
Rank: AB
Birth Date: 3 Apr 1886
Birth Place: Wimbledon, Surrey, England
Branch of Service: Royal Navy
Cause of Death: Killed or died by means other than disease, accident or enemy action
Official Number Port Division: 228745. (Dev)
Death Date: 8 Dec 1919
Ship or Unit: HMS Vivid
Location of Grave: Not recorded
Name and Address of Cemetery: Merton Churchyard, Merton, London
Relatives Notified and Address: Father: Henry 19, Croft Road, Merton, London, SW19

You didn't say when he split with Ada; last child of the marriage seems to have been born c1920 Epsom.

Electoral registers show a Frederick George Hopper at 4 Gurney Rd, Carshalton, Mitcham in 1918.

Frederick is still at the same address with Ada Evaline in 1927.

In 1928 Frederick George Hopper and Ada Hopper are living at 61 Culvers Way , Carshalton, Mitcham, and they are still there on the 1929 Electoral roll.

Ada is recorded as Ada Evaline on Electoral rolls 1922-1927.

She may have been born with a slightly different name - remember the Ada E E Galyer on the marriage index? Also the Ada E E Hopper-Nye on the death ref posted earlier by Ann Cardiff.

Name: Ada Emma E Gallyer
Registration Year: 1891
Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration district: Epsom
Inferred County: Surrey
Volume: 2a
Page: 4

There is at least one George Frederick Hopper on the London Ers, but it's impossible to tell if it's the same man.

There are records of an Ada, Ada Elizabeth, Ada E., with an Albert Edward Nye from 1934 onwards in the Surrey ERs (the record collection ends in 1945) . It looks like Ada's younger child took the surname Nye by 1945, and may have had her death recorded as Nye in 1946.

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Thankyou for the info have printed it off

Doody