Person:Stephen Hopkins (42)

"The claim Stephen [Hopkins] had a son William is based on Wotton-under-Edge records, and is invalid since that Hopkins family had no connection with the Mayflower. The claim that Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower had a son Stephen baptized at St. Stephen Coleman Street, London on 22 December 1609 is also wrong--no such baptism record exists. This baptism is apparently an error for a real baptism which is found on 3 December 1609 at the parish of St. Katherine Coleman, London. This child died on 19 February 1609/10, and the father had another child named John Hopkins, baptized on 14 April 1611. Since Stephen Hopkins the Mayflower passenger was in Virginia at the time this child was conceived and later baptized, he could not have fathered it. The name Stephen Hopkins is quite common--there are at least five of them in London during this time period. This is just another man named Stephen Hopkins, and there is no connection with the Mayflower passenger of the same name." Caleb Johnson, http://members.aol.com/calebj/hopkins.html

1. ↑ D.O.B.: Presumed from his D.O.Bapt., (ref.: "The English Ancestry and Homes of.
2. ↑ D./P.O.Bapt.: "The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers...", by (4).