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Vokins was born as Joan Bunce. [1] Her father Thomas Bunce was a yeoman of Charney Bassett in (what was then) Berkshire. She married another local farmer, Richard Vokins, of West Challow and she joined the Quakers. She was an enthusiastic evangelist for Quakerism. She persuaded her family and then set about to preach.
He converted to Quakerism sometime before 1656 from the Baptist faith. He preached in Ireland, Italy, England, the West Indies, and Virginia. Hannah Stranger was a Quaker who did missionary work in England. Joan Vokins (née Bunce) was an early Quaker missionary from England.
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Vokins is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: George Vokins (1896–1985), British modern pentathlete; Jake Vokins (born 2000), English footballer; Joan Vokins (?–1690), English Quaker preacher and traveller
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