Hello Designer Jeans,
Thank you for your response and information, it is indeed helping me put more missing pieces together. If you descend from Matthew Hopkinson and Anne Ffaulke, then you are definitely distant cousins with poster "Marp", and probably distant cousins with me, as I think that Anne is almost certainly the sister of my ancestor Thomas Foulke.
Tell me if I have this right, is the "manor" of Stretton a house, land, or both? If the lordship of the manor was split into 3 equal parts, and Matthew Hopkinson and Thomas Fowke each acquired a third of it, does that somehow make them a lord of the (reduced) manor?
I also suspect Robert Wood as being another brother-in-law of Thomas Fowke, so our families all seem to be interlocked into this Coldwell Farm area, originating with the manor of Stretton.
As you probably noticed, "Marp" had given me information on the will of Matthew Hopkinson, which lists 6 of the 9 children that you had for him. Apparently daughters Emily, Ellen, and Dorothy predeceased him.
What is interesting is that my ancestor Thomas Foulke (c1624-1714) definitely had parents Thomas and Dorothy (Cham) Fouke, and that two of Anne (Fauke) Hopkinson's children are named Thomas and Dorothy (though I believe that Matthew also had an uncle named Thomas). I really do believe Anne was their daughter and "my" Thomas her brother, which would give you an extra generation of ancestry. Thank You again for your interest and sharing, please feel free to comment again.