'Older sources claim that John Hoskins's wife was Ann Filer sister of Walter Filer, and that there were two more children: Anthony Hoskins, who married in 1656, and Rebecca, who also married in 1656. There is, however, no evidence for the identity of Hoskins's wife, and Anthony and Rebecca are more likely his nephew and niece, or even totally unrelated. Genevieve Kiepura presented the arguments for excluding Anthony and Rebecca [TAG 30:191-92], and her conclusions were supported by Coddington a few years later [TAG 38:1-4].
Thomas and Katherine were clearly both children of Ann (_____) Hoskins, but it is not clear whether Katherine was daughter of John Hoskins; and these two children and the probable John were all born in the second decade of the seventeenth century, while Anthony and Rebecca would have been nearly a generation younger. See also the more recent work of Gerald J. Parsons [NEHGR 143:117-19], which is in agreement with Kiepura and Coddington on these points.'
