When Abraham Hawkins Sr was born on 22 April 1725, in Paugasset, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Moses Gunn Hawkins, was 21 and his mother, Ann Smith, was 20. He married Elizabeth Bassett on 20 April 1748. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 10 April 1769, in his hometown, at the age of 43.
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English: variant of Hawkin , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: habitational name, with excrescent -s, from Hawkinge (Kent). The placename derives from the Old English personal name Heafoc or Old English heafoc ‘hawk’ + the placename forming suffix -ing. This name has been assimilated to the patronymic surname in Devon from Sir John Hawkyns (1532–95), victor against the Spanish Armada (1588), who was a member of the Devon family of Hawkins, a branch of a Kentish family from the village of Hawkinge. They held land in Plymouth as long ago as 1480.
Irish: variant of Haughn .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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