Mary Poole (abt. 1556 - 1581)

Just because you can't find a source does not make them fictional characters. I have dealt with profiles of people who didn't exist until I found documentation. Don't take the word of other people. Do the research. You might discover something.

I agree. It basically says that in the Biography section. The question is, what to do about it. I think the best thing is to leave the profile here and mark it as a fictitious person. That way, when the next person imports a gedcom from ancestry, maybe they will merge with this profile. Whatever you think is best to do with this.

Nicholas Hopkins & Mary Poole were invented in a book as parents of Stephen of the Mayflower. The Mary Poole who Nicolas was supposed to have married died childless before 1536. Same book invented that Stephen "of Nofolk 1518-1592" person with not a clue of any dates, marriage, bapts of any children, death/burial, will/probate. There was a Stephen Hopkins in Norfolk from 1550 to 1560-ish and the last we see of him is when the Queen let him out of Fleet Prison. Of course the book had to have parents for him so grabbed a Hopkins family from Coventry, Warwick who doesn't have a Stephen in the family in these generations.

See the whole mess at their section at http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.hopkins/5435/mb.ashx

We know where "Kathrine Wheldon 1525" came from. She's bogus too.

Poole-1636 and Poole-1266 appear to represent the same person because: Apparently these profiles represent the same fictitious person. The records on Ancestry are apparently mistaken. See the comments in the biography of Poole-1636. Maybe these two profiles should be merged just to help clean this up.