When Thordorin Henry Hawkins was born about 1844, in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States, his father, John Strawn Hawkins, was 30 and his mother, Nancy Nixon, was 29. He died on 18 July 1848, at the age of 5.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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