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Hoy Loper (named after his uncle Thomas Hoy Booker) was born on 28 December 1985 at Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville , Virginia at 6:15 am. He was nine pounds four ounces at birth.
At the time of his birth, his father George Edward Loper was Secretary of the Charlottesville Housing Foundation and Treasurer of the League of Women Voters of Charlottesville/Albemarle. His mother Ann Lewis Booker Loper was employed as an Assistant Professor in the Curry School of Education in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of Virginia.
In our family, the name Hoy has been passed down from Uncle to Nephew for four generations, beginning with Hoy Booker and ending with Hoy Loper. Hoy's great uncle, Hoy Mortimer Booker, says that first Hoy was named after the Isle of Hoy, a part of the Orkney Islands off the coast of Scotland.
As a place name, Hoy is said to be a derivation of the Norse form, H'aey - the high island, from h'a - high (The Orkney Story by Liv Kjorsvik Schei & Gunnie Moberg, New York: Hippocrene Books, 1985).
According to Lost Country Life by Dorothy Hartley (Pantheon Press), the Hoy is a sea-going boat which traded from the east coast as far as the Baltic ports and probably carried pilgrims across the Channel. Under Henry VIII the hoys were armed, and may later have helped defeat the Armada.
While there is no evidence of a Hoy in our family prior to our first Hoy, it is worth noting that one of the earliest Bookers to live in the United States (Richard Booker of James City, Virginia) had a daughter -- not a son -- named Hoy.
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