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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