When John Hopkins was born on 10 October 1692, in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Hopkins, was 27 and his mother, Jane Cox, was 21. He died on 30 September 1705, at the age of 12.
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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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