Thomas Hawkins

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Thomas was born about 1365 in Kent, England, the son of John Hawkins and Joane.

He died after 1460 in England.

He had two marriages/partners. His first wife was Unknown2, who he married in ABT 1394. The place has not been found. Their only known child was Austin (c1395-1450).

His second wife was Unknown1, who he married in ABT 1419. The place has not been found. Their two known children were William (c1420-c1483) and Margaret (c1425-c1467).

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Note 1

!Note: This appears to be the oldest known Hawkins. As William is the next oldest, I’m am recording Thomas as William’s father to represent the generation, but this is definitely not proved, though likely.

!Source: Hertfordshire Probate Records, Index, 1415-1858 https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=GBOR%2FOR%2FHERTSWILLS%2F11969&tab=this

First name Thomas

Archive Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studies

Last name Hawkyns

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Year 1460

County Buckinghamshire

Place Aston Abbots

Country England

Court Archdeaconry of St Albans

Category Birth, Marriage & Death

Document Document Type: registered will, Document Reference: 1AR100, Additional Information: , HRT Reference: 29180

Subcategory Wills & Probate

Document 2 Document Type: registered will, Document Reference: 2AR158, Additional Information: , HRT Reference: 29181

Collections from England, Great Britain

!Source: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward II, File 65 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol6/pp139-149

244. ANDREW HAUKYN of Preston in Holdernesse.

Writ. 3 July, 13 Edward II. [25 Apr 1307-1327, so 3 Jul 1320]

[YORK.] Thursday the eve of the Assumption, 14 Edward II.

Preston. A messuage, 1/2a. and 1r. land, and a toft and 6a. land, 2a. 1r. meadow, and pasture for a fat beast in the ox marsh held jointly with Stephen Haukyn his brother who survives, and the heirs of the said Andrew, of the king in chief, as of the honour of Albemarle, by knight’s service.

Margery his daughter, aged 2 1/2, is his next heir.

C. Edw. II. File 65. .

!Note: Wiltshire Inquisition Post Mortem Records – Contextual Placement

This individual is associated with a Wiltshire Inquisition Post Mortem record dated between 1242 and 1377. The names and dates align closely with John and William Hawkins , who were responsible for the 1294–1295 donation of the Manor of Hawkinge and Flegis Court to St. Radegund’s Abbey. They retained the adjacent Nash Court estate, which became the long-term seat of the Hawkins family in Kent.

The Wiltshire entries strongly suggest that William and John le Haukere were the same individuals involved in that donation — likely appearing in these records due to ongoing legal obligations, land transactions, or ecclesiastical claims tied to the Abbey and its holdings.

Wiltshire, bordering Kent, was within the geographic sphere of Folkestone barony interests. These records may reflect transitional property holdings or residual duties related to the Kent estates, especially as such matters often spanned decades. The presence of Thomas le Haukere may represent either a close kin or administrative witness tied to the same affairs.

This reinforces the identification of this individual as part of the core Hawkins line descending from the Hotchkiss / Hokeswod family of Shropshire.

!Source: Wiltshire Social & Institutional Records 1123-1968 https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=WILTS%2FSOCIAL%2F0006785&tab=this

First name Thomas Le

Notes Mentioned in a case. See page 194.

Last name Haukere

Source 1327-1377 covered by transcription printed by The Index Library, Chadwick-Healey Ltd.

Year 1327-77

Archive reference TNA

Year as transcribed 1327-1377

Record set Wiltshire Social & Institutional Records 1123-1968

Record type Inquisition Post Mortem

Category Directories & Social History

Place -

Subcategory Social History

County Wiltshire

Collections from England, Great Britain

Country England

!Source: The visitation of Kent : taken in the years 1619-1621, page 202, by John Philipot, Rouge Dragon, Marshal and Deputy to William Camden, Clarenceux., edited Robert Hovenden, F.S.A., London 1989. [Public Library of Boston]

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Additional Pedegrees. Hawkins. [Harl. 6138, fo. 45th.]

John Hawkins had lands at Boughton in Kent as appeareth by a release from John Langnath & Thomas Hayte to the same John Hawkins & Joane his wife A" 4 et 7" Rici. 2 [1374]

Son: Thomas Hawkins A« 2 Hen. 4.[1371]

Son: John Hawkins of Nash in Kenthad Lands of the guift of William Makenade in mariage with Margery his wife A° 2 et 11 Hen. 4 [1378] et 6 Hen. 5. [1392]

!Source: A Hawkins Genealogy Volume 2, Record of the Descendants of Robert Hawkins of Charleston, Massachusets, by Ralph Clymer Hawkins, photocopy from original at New England Historic Genealogical Society, 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116, appears dated June 1973.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://archive.org/download/hawkinsgenealogy02hawk/hawkinsgenealogy02hawk.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwii9ObSudGMAxWxODQIHXgMKLw4HhAWegQIHBAB&usg=AOvVaw3srpGPSvgAVMqYgkacIPAs

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Unfortunately, this was discredited by the inclusion of the Fake Joan de Nash, and fake ownership of an estate called Nash in York. The rest “may” be right, assuming his sons died before him as they seem to match real documentation aside from refrences to Nash in York.

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The first of them that I find mention of, is Andrew Hawkins, who had a fair estate in the Liberty of Holdness in the co. of York, as appears by an inquisition taken anno 17 Edward III [1343-4], and left issue by his wife [Fake wife and estate was here, see below], two sons, Richard, and John, the latter of whom purchased divers lands in Boughton in the beggining of the reign of King Richard II [1367-1399].

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He [John] left issue by Jane his wife, two sons, >>> Thomas <<< who was living in the beginning of King Henry IV’s reign [1399-1413], and

John, who was of Nash and had lands of the gift of William Makenade and Margery his wife, who was daughter and heir of Robert Hanes, and brought her husband such lands as Peter Hanes sold to William Makenade above mentioned. He died at the beginning of K. Henry VIth reign [1422-1461 and 1470-1471, and left issue william Hawkins, who resided at Nash- the 12th year of King Edward IV [1442-1487 so 1454].

Note: Picked birth year so that he was of age for the above mentioned inquisiton in 1343-4.