Hopkins Family Windsor Junction Halifax N.S.

[Rosie1213]

Am searching for any information on the Hopkins family who lived in Windsor Junction, Nova Scotia, Canada from about 1860 to early 1900s.  Michael Hopkins was born around 1815 in Galway Ireland and emigrated from Ireland with his wife (Mary Jennings) around 1860. 

His son, Timothy Hopkins (born around 1836) also born in Galway was married 7 January 1860 to Hanora Ryan, also born in Ireland.  They had 9 children, one of whom was my grandfather, John William Hopkins, born 8 July 1874.

Found the families in the 1880 Canadian census.  Looking for any other information on the family.

Appreciate any assistance.

[aghadowey]

1901 and 1911 Canadian census are both online (free) at www.automatedgenealogy.com (be sure to look at scanned image as well as transcribed image).
Vital records (doesn't cover all years but it's fantastic as you can see scanned birth register entries, etc.):
https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com

[jorose]

It should be noted that I've found some very odd misspellings in the index on the Nova Scotia site!

http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/vitalstats/death/halifax/ - there are also deaths in Halifax city indexed here which aren't on the main site.

[J.J.]

Halifax censuses...some earlier information for you...hopefully they are in there :
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nshalifa/Census.html

Our resource sub board for N.S.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,224493.0.html