I went up to Gloucester R.O. yesterday, and Geoff asked me to check two entries for David HOPKINS in the gaol records. This message is really for him, but I thought others would be interested as well. Admitted 17th February 1829, Number 196 David HOPKINS, aged 36, Hawkesbury Charged with having in his possession and selling three hens and one cock the property of Daniel Watts of the tything of Upton in the Parish of Hawkesbury. Description: Sandy hair, sandy whiskers, grey eyes, fresh complexion, thin face, eyes far in his head, a scar on his nose, scar on left eye brow, a scar over his right temple, a scar on his right knee, several scars on his left shin. Read a little Weaver Height: 5' 9 1/4" Appeared Lent Assizes, 1st April 1829 Not guilty Discharged: 8th April 1829 How behaved: Orderly There is a second entry: Brought in: 12 Dcember 1834, Number 150 David HOPKINS, age 43, Hawkesbury Charged upon the oath of Wm Minett of the parish of Wickwar, farmer, with feloniously stealing on the night of the eleventh of December last from an outhouse in the parish of Wickwar aforesaid two geese the property of Wm Minett and his sister Elizabeth Minett, spinster. Tried: Epiphany sessions, 6th January 1835. Transported seven years Removed: 7th January 1835 How behaved: orderly It must have been a miserable Christmas for the HOPKINS family. Bob Lawrence