EDWARD BOMPASSE

Edward arrived in Plymouth, Mass. in 1621 on the ship Fortune, one year after the Mayflower.

This is a name of French derivation but he probably came from London as a John Bumpas was living in the parish of St Bartholomew the Great in 1620 (Subsidy 147/505). Another John Bumpasse, gardener, lived in Battersea across the Thames on the South Side of London (P.R.O. Court of Request LXIV -- Pt. I, temp. Charles I). He was unmarried on arrival and also single in 1623 at the division of land that year. He was probably one of the "lusty yonge men" in this ship. Robert Bumpus was a householder in 1638 in the parish of St. Andrew Holborn, London, near St. Bartholomew. (Reference: The english Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers..., By Charles Edward Banks; Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. 1980.)

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