When Mary Griffiths Hoopes was born on 13 May 1790, in East Bradford Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Abiah Hoopes, was 32 and her mother, Abigail Griffith, was 34. She married Thomas Nicholson on 11 January 1821. She died on 21 September 1829, in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 39.
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Variant of Hopes or Hoops .
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