Birth: ABT 1585 in England
Details: According to the immigration passenger list. But on 12 Aug 1569, a “Raffe Tompkyns the son of John Tompkyns” was baptized at Edlesborough. If this is our passenger, then he is 7 yrs older (rather than 8 yrs younger) than his wife.
Marriage: 06 NOV 1608 to Katherine Foster in Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England
Birth of Son: 1610
Name: John Tompkins
Birth of Son: 01 DEC 1611 (baptized)
Name: Samuel Tompkins
Birth of Daughter: 05 NOV 1612 (baptized)
Name: Elizabeth Tompkins
Birth of Daughter: 19 DEC 1613 (baptized)
Name: Sarah Tompkins
Birth of Daughter: 16 MAR 1616/17 (baptized)
Name: Marie “Mary” Tompkins
Immigration: 19 SEP 1635 from Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England to Massachusetts Bay
Details: On Sept. 19, 1635, “husbandman Ralph Tomkins,” aged 50, uxor Kat[herine} Tomkins.” aged 58, “Elizabeth Tomkins,” aged 18, “Marie Tomkins,” aged 14, & “Samuel Tomkins,” aged 22, were enrolled at London as passengers for New England on the “Truelove.”
Settled in: Dorchester, Massachusetts
Moved to: by 1642
Place: Salem, Massachusetts
2nd Marriage: AFT 1642 to Hannah Arborne, sister of Samuel Aburne.
Death: 1666 Bridgewater, Plymouth Co, Massachusetts
Parents are unknown
Katherine Foster
Birth: 1578 England
Note: According to the immigration passenger list.
Note: Katherine was the sister of Thomas Foster, whose widow married Jonas Humphrey as his 2nd wife. Three of the children of Thomas Foster came to New England.
Death: 1642 Salem, Essex Co, Massachusetts
Parents are Peter Foster and ?
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