Margaret (Hawkins) Amadas (abt. 1450 - aft. 1470)

Born about 1450 in Cornwall, England

Descendants

Died after 1470 after about age 20 in England

Biography

Henry Drake's 1881 edition of Hasted's History of Kent^[1] cites Harleian MS 3288 as stating that Margaret, daughter of an unnamed Hawkins was the wife of William Amadas. This is the only known primary source that mentions her.

The only thing really known about her is her name and that she had children sometime in the late 1400s with William Amadas. It seems reasonable to put the date of her birth sometime around 1450 and death after 1470, but these are little more than wild guesses.

Children of Margaret and William include:

• John Amadas, born before 1489, at Court Gate, Tavistock, Devon. (as published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982, Available from Boydell and Brewer) Their son, John, rose to be one of the King's serjeants-at-arms and a member of Parliament ^[2]

• Joan Amadas, who married John Hawkins (who had lived at Tavistock) and became the mother of Captain William Hawkins, born at Plymouth towards the end of the fifteenth century. He was an officer in the navy of King Henry VIII. ^[3]

Research Notes

Internet sources frequently make Margaret the daughter of Andrew Hawkins, ultimately based on a Harleian manuscript of unknown provenance which is given in an edition of the Visitation of Kent.^[4] Other sources added Joan de Nash as Andrew's wife,^[5] though the primary source for this is unclear. The magic of internet genealogy then made her into the mother of Margaret Hawkins. The chain of intermediate sources obscures the basic impossibility of this idea, since the inquisition post mortem of Andrew that the pedigree cites is dated 1340 (and he actually died in 1321). Since Margaret was having children in the late 1400s, this parentage really makes no sense.

Sources

1. ↑ Edward Hasted; Henry Holman Drake, Hasted's History of Kent, corrected, enlarged, and continued to the present time, from the manuscript collections of the late rev. Thomas Streatfeild and the late rev. Lambert Blackwell Larking, the public records, and other sources. Edited by Henry H. Drake, Part I. The Hundred of Blackheath. London: Mitchell & Hughes, 1886, p. xxii, cited by A.R. Hewerdine, "The Yeomen of the King’s Guard 1485-1547," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of London, August 1998, p. 184 http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2206/1/U613438.pdf
2. ↑ https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/amadas-john-1489-155455
3. ↑ Plymouth Armada heroes... by May Wise Savery Hawkins, publsihed by William Brendon and son, George Street, Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1888, page 3
4. ↑ Philipot, J. The visitation of Kent: taken in the years 1619-1621. London, 1898, p. 203 Hathi Trust.
5. ↑ Edward Hasted. "Parishes: Boughton under the Blean," in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 7, (Canterbury: W Bristow, 1798), 2-19. British History Online, accessed October 1, 2018, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol7/pp2-19.

• http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=6676093&pid=-1040291624
• http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=6676093&pid=-1040271267

Acknowledgments

• This person was created through the import of David Rentschler Family Tree_2010-09-30.ged on 01 October 2010. The following data was included in the gedcom. You may wish to edit it for readability.

Name

Name: Margaret /Hawkins/

Source: #S48

Page: Database online.

Data:

Text: Record for Joan Amados

Birth

Birth:

Date: 1450

Place: Cornwall, England

Source: #S48

Page: Database online.

Data:

Text: Record for Joan Amados