Brief Life History of James Edwin
James Edwin Hawkins was born in 1920, in Mississippi, United States. He had at least 1 daughter with Thelma Tedder. He died in 1980, in his hometown, at the age of 60, and was buried in Cleveland, Bolivar, Mississippi, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (5)
- James Edwin Hawkins, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
- James E. Hawkins, "Find A Grave Index"
- James Edwin Hawkins in entry for Richard Walter Fox and Emily Hawkins Fox, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
Spouse and Children
1920–1980 Male
1922–2014 Female
Children (1)
1952–2009 Female
World Events (8)
1920
Age 0
1925 · B.B. King is Born
Age 5
1937 · The Neutrality Act
Age 17
Name Meaning
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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