***-----Original Message----- ***From: Gary Richardson [mailto:grichardson@watercove.com] ***Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 1:06 PM ***To: MAYFLOWER-L@rootsweb.com ***Subject: [MFLR] Hopkins in Bucksport, Maine *** *** ***Hi all, *** ***I'm wondering if anyone on this list has any info that might help me. I'm ***working on tracing my family back to Stephen Hopkins. I've been able to ***trace forward from Stephen and backwards from my Mom, and can't get any ***solid confirmation on one generation that'd link it all together. :-) *** ***Does anyone have any information on the following Hopkins ancester: *** ***Name: Francis A. Hopkins ***Birth date: May 26, 1844 ***Birth place: Bucksport, Maine *** ***Death date: February 9, 1874 *** ***Married to: Mary Louise Davidson (b. 1850), daughter of David ***Davidson and ***Mary Fowler Swett *** ***I'm having a difficult time getting any solid information on who ***Francis's ***parents were. I've got unconfirmed information that they may be ***Joel Hopkins ***(b. 1804) and either Eliza Kilby or Susan Boynton. Gary, you didn't tell us what you have looked at, so this may be something you know about and have accounted for. In the 1850 census there is no Francis in the household of Joel and Eliza. There is a Francis, age 6, in Bucksport in the household of William A. Hopkins, age 38, b. ME and Euphaime Hopkins, age 45, born MA. There is also a Charles, age 9. Both children were born in ME. Of course this may not be your Francis, and if it is this does not prove he is the son of William. I looked at the FHL online catalog and birth records for that time in Bucksport may not be available. Have you tried probate records, which they do have, etc.? Another curious detail which you may have an explanation for is that in the 1880 census there is a Mary L. Hopkins, age 29, widow, living in Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA. She is perhaps in a boarding house--there are several people with different surnames in the household, but she is listed next to Jos. H. Davidson, 31. Joseph and Mary seem to be siblings--both are b. in ME, both have a father b. Prince Edward Island and mother b. ME. So this looks like Mary L. Davidson Hopkins. Do you know where her child(ren) might be? It's quite possible a grandparent or someone might be caring for the child(ren), but is it at all possible that she didn't have any?