When Isaac Hawk III was born on 5 May 1783, in Frederick, Virginia, United States, his father, Isaac Hawkes, was 23 and his mother, Rebecca Collins, was 23. He married Margaret Lotz on 20 January 1805, in Greenbrier, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Wilkesville, Vinton, Ohio, United States in 1850 and Wilkesville Township, Vinton, Ohio, United States in 1860. He registered for military service in 1812. In 1850, at the age of 67, his occupation is listed as farmer in Wilkesville, Vinton, Ohio, United States. He died on 22 March 1862, in Vinton, Ohio, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Wilkesville Cemetery, Wilkesville, Vinton, Ohio, United States.
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English: nickname from Middle English havoc, havek, hauk ‘hawk or falcon’ (Old English hafoc). It may have been given to a professional falconer, to someone of a savage or cruel disposition, or to someone who held land by providing hawks for his lord, as in an instance from 1130, where Ralph Hauoc owed the royal Exchequer two ‘girfals’ (i.e. gyrfalcons or hawks).
English: topographic name for a ‘(dweller in) the nook or corner’, from Middle English halke (derived from Old English halh + the diminutive suffix -oc).
English: possibly also a survival into Middle English of the Old English personal name Hafoc, which was originally a nickname from the word ‘hawk, falcon’. It seems to have died out of use as a personal name by c. 1250.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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