{"id":17873,"date":"2016-11-09T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=17873"},"modified":"2017-01-27T12:45:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T17:45:25","slug":"descendant-of-mayflower-pilgrim-constance-hopkins-shares-her-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/descendant-of-mayflower-pilgrim-constance-hopkins-shares-her-heritage.html","title":{"rendered":"Descendant of Mayflower Pilgrim Constance Hopkins Shares Her Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s that time of year when families reflect on their Pilgrim heritage.<\/p>\n

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Source: GenealogyBank.com, State (Columbia, South Carolina) 26 November 1992, page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kathy Handel likes to do just that. In fact \u2013 she regularly shares her heritage with others. Dressed as her ancestor, Mayflower passenger Constance Hopkins (1606-1677), Handel is seen in this newspaper photo speaking at the Wilson Vocational School in South Carolina.<\/p>\n

Constance Hopkins was the daughter of Stephen Hopkins, also a Mayflower passenger. Her stepbrother Oceanus Hopkins (1620-1626) was born on the Mayflower during the voyage to America.<\/p>\n

This newspaper article also reports that Marylen Smith Jackson of Williston, South Carolina, \u201cis related to a dozen\u201d Mayflower passengers. She told the State<\/em> newspaper that \u201cshe has had fun as a Mayflower descendant. Last summer she visited Plimoth Plantation<\/a>, where she talked to actors portraying life as her ancestors knew it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Source: GenealogyBank.com, State (Columbia, South Carolina) 26 November 1992, page 18A<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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