When Elizabeth Ann Hawkins was born on 9 March 1842, in Western, Oneida, New York, United States, her father, Benjamin Hawkins, was 39 and her mother, Mary Ann Charlotte Dana, was 26. She married Wesley Seth Trescott on 8 September 1861, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1860. She died on 11 February 1864, in Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States, at the age of 21, and was buried in Fillmore, Millard, Utah, 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.
Possible Related NamesEliza Ann Trescott Crist Her Parents Story and Her Early Life Although no history was been found written about Eliza or her parents, the following is my attempt to put a story together based on hist …
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