Stephen Hopkins

1581 - Aft 1644  (> 63 years)

• Name	Stephen Hopkins  [1, 2, 3]
  Born	30 Apr 1581	Upper Clatford, Hampshire, England   [4]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	of Hursley, Hampshire, England   [5]
  Alternate birth	Abt 1582	Hampshire, England   [6]
  Died	Aft 6 Jun 1644	Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [5, 6]
  Person ID	I8638	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	17 Feb 2020

  
  

  Father	John Hopkins,   b. Abt 1550, Hampshire, England ,   d. Bef 4 Oct 1593, Winchester, Hampshire, England  (Age ~ 43 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Williams,   d. Aft 1593
  Married	28 Jul 1579	Upper Clatford, Hampshire, England   [4]
  Family ID	F2703	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Mary,   d. Bef 9 May 1613, Hursley, Hampshire, England
  Married	Bef 13 May 1604	England   [5, 7]
  Children	+ 1. Constance Hopkins,   b. Bef 11 May 1606,   d. Oct 1677, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts  (Age > 71 years) + 2. Giles Hopkins,   b. Bef 30 Jan 1608, Hursley, Hampshire, England ,   d. Between 5 Mar 1689 and 16 Apr 1690, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts  (Age > 81 years)
  Last Modified	16 Dec 2018
  Family ID	F6346	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Elizabeth Fisher,   d. Bef 6 Jun 1644, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
  Married	19 Feb 1618	St. Mary Matfellon, Whitechapel, London, England   [6]
  Children	+ 1. Deborah Hopkins,   b. Between 1624 and 1625, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. Between 1666 and 1674  (Age ~ 42 years)
  Last Modified	4 Jan 2020
  Family ID	F12165	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Emigrated 1620, on the Mayflower, with his second wife Elizabeth Fisher and his children Elizabeth, Constance, and Giles. He was a tanner, merchant, and tavern-keeper. Notable as the only Mayflower passenger to have previously visited the New World, as it now appears that he was the same Stephen Hopkins that served as the minister's clerk on the 1609 voyage to Jamestown of the Sea Venture. This ship was caught in a storm and ran aground at Bermuda, marooning its passengers. Sir Thomas Gates, who had been travelling to Jamestown as its newly-appointed governor, organized the passengers to build new boats to complete the voyage. Hopkins vocally dissented against Gates's authority, and was charged with mutiny and sentenced to death, but ultimately pardoned after many other passengers pled for clemency toward him. The boat-building project was successful and the passengers of the Sea Venture ultimately made it to Jamestown, from whence Hopkins ultimately returned to England in 1614. A written narrative of the Sea Venture's story was in circulation in England by late 1610 and is known to have been read by Shakespeare, whose The Tempest, first performed in November 1611, concerns a group of passengers shipwrecked by a storm, and includes a comic-relief drunk named Stefano who attempts to take over as their leader.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2601] George Ernest Bowman, "The Will of Thomas Paine of Truro, Mass." The Mayflower Descendant 28:160, 1926. [S2613] Thomas Smith, "The Family of Ralph Smyth, of Hingham, Mass." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 26:190, Apr 1872. [S3647] Mayflower Families in Progress: William Brewster of the Mayflower and the Fifth Generation Descendants of His Son Jonathan2 compiled by Barbara Lambert Merrick with E. Virginia Hunt. General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1999. [S497] Ernest Martin Christensen, "The Probable Parentage of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower." The American Genealogist 79:241, October 2004. [S496] Caleb Johnson, "The True Origins of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower, With Evidence of His Earlier Presence in Virginia." The American Genealogist 73:161, July 1998. [S635] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 6, Third Edition, Family--Stephen Hopkins by John D. Austin. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2001. [S1647] The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New York Historic Genealogical Society, 2004., year only.