When Thomas Hawkins was born in 1802, in Rutherford, North Carolina, United States, his father, Edward Dycus Hawkins Sr, was 29 and his mother, Mary Polly Rawlins, was 24. He married Ellender Williams in 1825, in North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Township 7 Sandy Run, Cleveland, North Carolina, United States in 1880. He died on 30 March 1881, in Cleveland, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Cleveland, North Carolina, United States.
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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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