Elizabeth FISHER

1582 - 1639  (57 years)

• Name	Elizabeth FISHER  [1]
  Birth	1582	London, Middlesex, England   [1]
  Christening	3 Mar 1582	Saint Mary Matfelon, Stepney, Middlesex, England   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Immigration	11 Nov 1620	Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America   [2]
  	One of the passengers on the Mayflower's first voyage along with her husband and children (one born during the voyage) Elizabeth was one of only four women who survived to the "First Thanksgiving."
  Name	Eliza Fisher  [2]
  _FSFTID	L5F1-4C9
  _FSLINK	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L5F1-4C9
  _UID	2D812EBCD36544FE8722FA6F8A2F1A877EDD
  Death	4 Feb 1639	Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America   [1]
  Burial	7 Feb 1639	Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America   [1]
  Person ID	I594776596	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	2 Sep 2024

  
  

  Family	Stephen HOPKINS,   b. 1581, Hampshire, England d. 6 Jun 1644, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America (Age 63 years)
  Marriage	9 Feb 1618	St. Mary Matfelon, Whitechapel, London, England   [1]
  Children	1. Damaris HOPKINS,   b. 1618, England d. 1627, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America (Age 9 years)   2. Oceanus HOPKINS,   b. 1620, Mayflower, Atlantic Ocean d. 22 May 1627, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States (Age 7 years)   3. Caleb HOPKINS,   b. 1622, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America d. Between 6 Jun 1644 and 1651, Barbados, , West Indies (Age 22 years)   4. Deborah HOPKINS,   b. 1625, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America d. Bef 1674, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America (Age 48 years)   5. Damaris HOPKINS,   b. Abt 1628, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America d. 18 Nov 1669, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States (Age ~ 41 years)   6. Ruth HOPKINS,   b. 1630, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 30 Nov 1644, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 14 years)   7. Elizabeth HOPKINS,   b. Abt 1632, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America d. Bef 29 Sep 1659, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America (Age ~ 27 years)
  Family ID	F536731481	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Sep 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Elizabeth Fisher was born in England perhaps about 1585-1590. Her identity has not been conclusively established, but there were several Fisher families in the area near where she married in Whitechapel in London. One was an Elizabeth Fisher baptised at St. Mary's on 03 March 1582, an intriguing possibility. She may also have been a widow when she married Stephen, so Fisher as her maiden name is not certain.[1] Elizabeth Fisher married Stephen Hopkins as his second wife on 19 February 1617/18 at St. Mary's, Whitechapel, London.[2][3][4] Their home had been just outside of London Wall on the high road entering the city at Aldgate in the vicinity of Heneage House. In this neighborhood lived John Carver and William Bradford of the Mayflower Company; Robert Cushman, the London agent for the Pilgrims; and Edward Southworth, who all later came to New England. Steven returned to the New World after perhaps another voyage to Jamestown on the Sea Venture, this time with his wife and three children when he joined the voyage of the Mayflower in 1620.[5] Elizabeth (Fisher) Hopkins traveled with her husband, Stephen Hopkins in 1620 on the ship Mayflower, along with Stephen's two children from his previous marriage, Constance and Giles, and their toddler daughter, Damaris, to Plymouth Colony in the New World. She gave birth to a son while on the ship. He was named Oceanus Hopkins, born between 16 September and 11 November 1620. He died in Plymouth, New England before 1627.[5] In the late spring of 1621, Elizabeth was one of only four adult women who had survived the brutal, killing, first winter after their arrival in Plymouth Colony. The voyage had begun with 18 women.[1] Many of the children of the colony were left as orphans. It was once published that Elizabeth died after 04 February 1638/9,[6] which was the date of the Plymouth court session that weighed the situation of Stephen Hopkins' pregnant servant, Dorothy Temple, but Stephen's wife was not mentioned.[7] Elizabeth was certainly dead by the time her husband executed his will on 06 June 1644, in which he directed that he be buried near his deceased wife,[8] an error corrected in a later edition of the same book.[5] Mary as Mary Kent alias Back, daughter of Robert Kent alias Back and Joan Machell.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 2 Sep 2024), entry for Stephen Hopkins, person ID LVQ1-FMH. (Reliability: 3). [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 2 Sep 2024), entry for Elizabeth Fisher, person ID L5F1-4C9. (Reliability: 3).