Her name was Magy Agnes Roche, but she was always known as Mary Ann. The surname is seen as "Rotch" in the New Bedford Births, p. 394; Roche in the 1852 City Directory, and "Roach" on her marriage certificate. Her birth date comes from the 1852 City of New Bedford (MA) Directory, p. 394. There her mother's surname was "Drimon" but it has been seen as Drainer, Driner, etc.
She married Walter Leslie Hopkins, Esq., her brother-in-law, at Stockton, San Joaquin Co, California, on 16 Jan 1879, after the death of her sister, Ellen "Nellie" Roach Hopkins. An incentive for her marriage to Walter as his 2nd wife, may have been that he had been left a widower in 1876 with four young children. The youngest, Walter Jr., was very young and had tuberculosis of the spine and who died in 1881. She delivered a baby of her own who died shortly before her husband.
She supported herself and her step-children by working in Stockton, San Joaquin Co CA, at the State of California Insane Asylum located between California and Sacramento streets, in Stockton. The extensive grounds had been donated to the State by Capt. C. M. Weber, in 1853.
She saw her children raised and eventually moved to San Francisco, where her eldest daughter lived and worked. She died 7 or 8 October 1903.
She was buried at the San Joaquin Catholic Cemetery, Cemetery Lane & Harding Way, Stockton, California. Burial is in Section G. Her body was moved to this cemetery, with hundreds of others, from its original resting place. As the city of Stockton grew, the town decided it needed the land on which the cemetery was located. So, all the graves were removed elsewhere. Mary was interred at the San Joaquin Catholic Cemetery on 3 May 1892.
She married Walter Leslie Hopkins, Esq., her brother-in-law, at Stockton, San Joaquin Co, California, on 16 Jan 1879, after the death of her sister, Ellen "Nellie" Roach Hopkins. An incentive for her marriage to Walter as his 2nd wife, may have been that he had been left a widower in 1876 with four young children. The youngest, Walter Jr., was very young and had tuberculosis of the spine and who died in 1881. She delivered a baby of her own who died shortly before her husband.
She supported herself and her step-children by working in Stockton, San Joaquin Co CA, at the State of California Insane Asylum located between California and Sacramento streets, in Stockton. The extensive grounds had been donated to the State by Capt. C. M. Weber, in 1853.
She saw her children raised and eventually moved to San Francisco, where her eldest daughter lived and worked. She died 7 or 8 October 1903.
She was buried at the San Joaquin Catholic Cemetery, Cemetery Lane & Harding Way, Stockton, California. Burial is in Section G. Her body was moved to this cemetery, with hundreds of others, from its original resting place. As the city of Stockton grew, the town decided it needed the land on which the cemetery was located. So, all the graves were removed elsewhere. Mary was interred at the San Joaquin Catholic Cemetery on 3 May 1892.
Her name was Magy Agnes Roche, but she was always known as Mary Ann. The surname is seen as "Rotch" in the New Bedford Births, p. 394; Roche in the 1852 City Directory, and "Roach" on her marriage certificate. Her birth date comes from the 1852 City of New Bedford (MA) Directory, p. 394. There her mother's surname was "Drimon" but it has been seen as Drainer, Driner, etc.
She married Walter Leslie Hopkins, Esq., her brother-in-law, at Stockton, San Joaquin Co, California, on 16 Jan 1879, after the death of her sister, Ellen "Nellie" Roach Hopkins. An incentive for her marriage to Walter as his 2nd wife, may have been that he had been left a widower in 1876 with four young children. The youngest, Walter Jr., was very young and had tuberculosis of the spine and who died in 1881. She delivered a baby of her own who died shortly before her husband.
She supported herself and her step-children by working in Stockton, San Joaquin Co CA, at the State of California Insane Asylum located between California and Sacramento streets, in Stockton. The extensive grounds had been donated to the State by Capt. C. M. Weber, in 1853.
She saw her children raised and eventually moved to San Francisco, where her eldest daughter lived and worked. She died 7 or 8 October 1903.
She was buried at the San Joaquin Catholic Cemetery, Cemetery Lane & Harding Way, Stockton, California. Burial is in Section G. Her body was moved to this cemetery, with hundreds of others, from its original resting place. As the city of Stockton grew, the town decided it needed the land on which the cemetery was located. So, all the graves were removed elsewhere. Mary was interred at the San Joaquin Catholic Cemetery on 3 May 1892.
She married Walter Leslie Hopkins, Esq., her brother-in-law, at Stockton, San Joaquin Co, California, on 16 Jan 1879, after the death of her sister, Ellen "Nellie" Roach Hopkins. An incentive for her marriage to Walter as his 2nd wife, may have been that he had been left a widower in 1876 with four young children. The youngest, Walter Jr., was very young and had tuberculosis of the spine and who died in 1881. She delivered a baby of her own who died shortly before her husband.
She supported herself and her step-children by working in Stockton, San Joaquin Co CA, at the State of California Insane Asylum located between California and Sacramento streets, in Stockton. The extensive grounds had been donated to the State by Capt. C. M. Weber, in 1853.
She saw her children raised and eventually moved to San Francisco, where her eldest daughter lived and worked. She died 7 or 8 October 1903.
She was buried at the San Joaquin Catholic Cemetery, Cemetery Lane & Harding Way, Stockton, California. Burial is in Section G. Her body was moved to this cemetery, with hundreds of others, from its original resting place. As the city of Stockton grew, the town decided it needed the land on which the cemetery was located. So, all the graves were removed elsewhere. Mary was interred at the San Joaquin Catholic Cemetery on 3 May 1892.
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