Thomasine was born about 1481 in Shropshire, England, the daughter of John Hotchkiss and Margaret Heynes.
Her husband was Thomas Williams, who she married on 30 JAN 1506 in St Andrews, Plymouth, Devonshire, England. They had no known children.
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Note 1
!Note: Thomasine Hotchkiss, youngest known child of Sir John Hotchkiss of Castle Pulverbatch and Hawkeswood and Margaret Heynes, was born around 1481 in Shropshire. She appears in one of the earliest parish registers bearing a Hoskins-type variant.
On 30 January 1506, she married Thomas Williams at St. Andrew’s Church, Plymouth, in Devon. This union was almost certainly arranged by her family as part of a deliberate strategy to establish a southern trade base, particularly in the growing ports and wool-handling towns of western Devon.
Her husband, Thomas Williams, was likely chosen not for just his prestige but his surname and regional linkages—matching that of another Williams family tied to Hotchkiss marital alliances in southern Wales, directly across the Bristol Channel. This strongly suggests the marriage served as a bridgehead, linking the Marcher cloth network with southern trade routes through Bristol, Barnstaple, and Plymouth.
!Source: Devon Marriage Registers, Vol 2 https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=GBOR%2FPHILLIMORE-MARS%2F0806329%2F2
First name Thomasine
County Devon
Last name Hoskins
Country England
Year 1506
Volume Devon Marriage Registers, Vol 2
Event date 30 Jan 1506
Record set England, Phillimore Marriage Registers, 1531-1913
Spouse's first name Thomas
Category Birth, Marriage & Death
Spouse's last name Williams
Subcategory Parish Marriages
Parish St Andrews, Plymouth
Collections from England, Great Britain
!Note: This is actually the earliest parish record of Hoskins, although there is a William Hoskins in Wiltshire for some unknown legal record in 1513. I also can’t find a previous record for her husband. I’m guessing that one or both of them had some reason for traveling. Also, Sir John is the actual only one I can find of a reasonable age to be her father.