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My Grandfather Thomas Richard was adopted at age 12 or 13 from an orphanage in Chicago (St Josephs, 35th street) Illinois in 1895, he kept his birth name of Hopkins. He believed that he may have had a sister who visited him in the orphanage. He was a half orphan, father living mother dead. His father was thought to be a streetcar operator who at some point died on the job. His mother was thought to have died during his childbirth. He didn't get dropped off at the orphanage until he was six years old.  Recent DNA testing places our Hopkins line from Roscommon.
My Grandfather believed he was Irish, now we know he was and that we are.  We believe that he was born in 1883 in Illinois.  My profile picture is Thomas.