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===History===
 
===History===
 
The Hoopers began as apprentice smiths, creating barrel hoops and other accessories in the early sixteenth century in the rural areas of Frome, England. The family eventually grew in prosperity under George Hooper, known as ''George the Elder''. His son, also named George, became Arch Bishop and in a bid to end confusion between him and his father, began going by his surname as simply Hooper. This created a tradition, and for centuries male members of the family were not given a birth name. In the last century, a birth name has been given but is always disused when the male becomes a man, as deemed so by his father. Thus, the Hooper line is one of the few true mononymous lines, and this practice has found its way into modern pop culture which characters with the surname in numerous films and novels also being referred to simply as '''Hooper'''.
 
The Hoopers began as apprentice smiths, creating barrel hoops and other accessories in the early sixteenth century in the rural areas of Frome, England. The family eventually grew in prosperity under George Hooper, known as ''George the Elder''. His son, also named George, became Arch Bishop and in a bid to end confusion between him and his father, began going by his surname as simply Hooper. This created a tradition, and for centuries male members of the family were not given a birth name. In the last century, a birth name has been given but is always disused when the male becomes a man, as deemed so by his father. Thus, the Hooper line is one of the few true mononymous lines, and this practice has found its way into modern pop culture which characters with the surname in numerous films and novels also being referred to simply as '''Hooper'''.
 
===Family Lineage===
 
The following is the ancestral line at-a-glance, using birth names. Starting with John Hooper in 1681, the family has not used birth names past adolescence.
 
 
Possibly a Thomas Hooper ''Unknown - Unknown'', Batcombe, Somerset, South West England
 
*George "the Elder" Thomas Hooper ''c.1627 - 1698'', Frome, Somerset, South West England
 
**Hugh Hooper ''c. 1651 - Unknown'', Frome, Somerset, South West England
 
***John Hooper ''c.1681 - Unknown'', Merriott, Somerset, South West England
 
****Col. George Hooper ''1734 - c. 1800'', Moved from Merriott to Buckingham County, Virginia
 
*****James Hooper ''Unknown - Unknown'', Hooper's Mountain, Buckingham, Virginia
 
******William Hooper ''1802 - Unknown'', Hooper's Mountain, Buckingham, Virginia
 
*******William Hooper ''1836 - 1867'', Moved from Hooper's Mountain to Hickman Country, TN
 
********Unknown Hooper ''Unknown - Unknown'', Hickman County, TN
 
*********John Franklin Hooper ''1868 - 1927'', Moved from Hickman County to Hohenwald, Lewis County, TN
 
**********Blanche B. Hooper ''1903 - Unknown'', Hohenwald, Lewis County, TN - '''Unmarried Female, Children kept Maternal name'''
 
***********Billy Frank Hooper ''1933 - 1994'', Moved from Hohenwald to Benton, Kentucky.
 
************James Hollis Hooper ''1958 - Present'', Moved from Benton/Savannah ''(mother's residence)'' to Paducah, Kentucky.
 
*************Brian Keith Hooper ''1985 - Present'', Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky
 
**************William James Riley Hooper ''2010 - Present'', Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky
 
 
===Current members===
 
====Hooper====
 
;Birth Name: James
 
:Father of this user, family patriarch
 
 
====Hooper====
 
;Birth Name: Brian
 
:This user, heir
 
 
====Hooper====
 
;Birth Name: William James Riley
 
:Toddler, son of this user
 
 
====Aimee====
 
;Maiden Name: Taber
 
:Wife of this user
 
 
====Katherine====
 
;Full Name: Katherine Elizabeth Renee Alexandra
 
:Toddler, daughter of this user
 
 
===Past and Historical Members===
 
====George the Elder====
 
Keeper of the King's Woods
 
 
====George Hooper====
 
Bishop of Bathe and Wells
 
 
  
 
===Sworn Houses===
 
===Sworn Houses===

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My name is Hooper. That is my full legal and real name, not a online handle. BookHipsters can rightfully say that they followed the series before it was cool, but I can not. I am thankful to HBO for letting me discover the series, of which I have now read all released novels and am anxiously awaiting the next release. I am fond of Tyrion, but, then again - who isn't?

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House Hooper

House Hooper
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"Our Way is the Old Way"
Seat Paducah
Region The Midwest
Title N/A
Heir Hooper
Overlord House Targaryen
Cadet branch House Cossey
Ancestral weapon N/A
Founder George the Elder
Founded c. 1540

House Hooper is a house in the midwest United States, which traces its decent from George the Elder and his son, Arch Bishop George Hooper. The house has birthed numerous members of the clergy, and is unique in that it's male line is a rare western mononymous family.

History

The Hoopers began as apprentice smiths, creating barrel hoops and other accessories in the early sixteenth century in the rural areas of Frome, England. The family eventually grew in prosperity under George Hooper, known as George the Elder. His son, also named George, became Arch Bishop and in a bid to end confusion between him and his father, began going by his surname as simply Hooper. This created a tradition, and for centuries male members of the family were not given a birth name. In the last century, a birth name has been given but is always disused when the male becomes a man, as deemed so by his father. Thus, the Hooper line is one of the few true mononymous lines, and this practice has found its way into modern pop culture which characters with the surname in numerous films and novels also being referred to simply as Hooper.

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