Abstract: A phrase of unknown significance "the widow Kent to remove Stephen Hopkins" found in a court document in 1608, latter suggested to mean she took over his concession/license to sell ale [comments: since Stephen's wife did not die until 1610 and apparently still owned her "'shopborde & a plank' [i.e., a serving counter and a seating bench]" and her "ymplem[en]ts in the Beerehouse", the business did not appear to pass to widow Kent, and the nature of any relationship, if any, hinted by this record, is not at all clear.] This hint of a relationship, combined with the presence in the same area of a Giles Kent [Giles being the name of Stephen's son] and a Stephen Kent (son of said Giles Kent), two given names represented as less than common, has suggested a relationship between the Giles Kent and Stephen Hopkins [i.e., it is proposed that Giles is Mary's brother]. The conclusion is that Robert Kent and Joan Machell are the "proposed parents of Mary first wife of Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins" (and of Giles). Most of the thorough research presented is actually to find out who the widow Kent had married. It does not appear that a birth/baptism record for Mary has been found, or a marriage record of Stephen Hopkins to his first wife, or evidence that these parents actually had a daughter Mary has been found, beyond this circumstantial evidence.
