When John Hawkins was born in 1752, in Mecklenburg, Virginia, United States, his father, Thomas Hawkins, was 27 and his mother, Mary Howard, was 21. He married Mary Moss about 1777, in Lunenburg, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 13 March 1827, in Lunenburg, Virginia, United States, at the age of 75.
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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 .
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