When Benjamin Hopkins was born about 1698, in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Hopkins , Leighton Buzzard, was 11696 and his mother, Jane Cox, was 29. He married Mary Tuley on 24 June 1716. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died in June 1734, in his hometown, at the age of 37, and was buried in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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English and Welsh (Glamorgan): variant of Hopkin with genitival or excrescent -s. In Ireland, where the name is also frequent, it is sometimes Gaelicized as Mac Oibicín.
History: Stephen Hopkins (c. 1580–1644) was a pilgrim on the Mayflower in 1620 and one of the founders of Plymouth Colony. At his death he left seven children and eighteen grandchildren.
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