Andrew (Hawkins) Haukyn (abt. 1280 - 1321)

Born about 1280 in Kent, England [uncertain]

Died 7 Jun 1321 at about age 41 in Preston, Kent, England [uncertain]

Biography

Andrew Haukyn was a real person who is attested from several sources in the early 1300s, from which it appears that he died on 7 Jun 1321.^[1][2] He lived in the village of Preston in Holderness in the East Riding of Yorkshire, where he held a very, very small parcel of land jointly with his brother Stephen, who was a chapman. His heir at the time of his death was his 2 1/2 year old daughter Margery or Margaret, who appeared in several later writs and inquisitions associated with the property as she came of age and when her uncle Stephen died in 1350, leaving her his portion of the land, a 6/100 part of a knight's fee. Margaret was aged 30 at the time and married to a Robert de Wasingdon or Watingedon or Wavyngdon.^[3]

Andrew's birth year is not known, but from pragmatic considerations, we can estimate it was in the late 1200s (1280+-15 or 20 years).

Through a long series of careless mistakes and one probably intentional fraud, this Andrew Haukyn who died in 1321 and had one surviving daughter has gradually been transformed into an "Andrew Hawkins" who lived in the mid 1400s by a number of internet genealogy websites. It has been claimed that Andrew was born in 1421 and died in 1453, based on the authority of an Ancestry.com tree, to which the links are now dead.^[4][5] These dubious dates were probably created in order to justify making Andrew into the father of a Margaret Hawkins who lived over 100 years later. This profile also previously had him as the father of John Hawkins, which is just as impossible. At some point, someone, perhaps Burke, also managed to invent a wife for Andrew, Joan De Nash, probably in an attempt to explain how he obtained the Nash Court estate that he didn't actually possess. See the Research Notes below for additional details.

Research Notes

Burke makes an unsourced (as usual) statement:

Hawkins of Middlesex "The first person of this family of whom anything is known is Andrew Hawkins, Esq., who was resident at Nash Court, temp. Edward III. He m. Joan de Nash, by whom he had issue, two sons Richard and John. From him descended John Hawkins Esq. of Tavistock, Devon, who m. Joan, dau. of William Trelawny, Esq. of Cornwall, and grand-dau. of Sir John Trelaway, descendant of Edwin, who held the lordship of Trelawny, temp. Edward the Confessor; by her he had issue, a son, Sir John Hawkins, b. in 1520 ..." ^[6]

According to Burke, Nash Court, the residence of the Hawkins family was established by Andrew Hawkins during the reign of Edward III (1327-1377), which obviously sets the time frame of the birth of Andrew. As it turns out, though, even this is a mistake and Andrew actually died in the reign of Edward II. The final inquisition into his estate (the sole primary source underlying Burke et al.'s version of Andrew) is dated in Edward III (1340) because his only heir, his daughter Margaret, was an infant at the time of his death in 1321. There is also no indication in any of the primary sources that Andrew had any connection to Nash Court, and indeed one of the IPMs says that the extremely modest holdings in Holderness were his only lands (this conenction to Nash Court is probably an extrapolation of the pedigree discussed below, which attempts to make Andrew the ancestor of several Hawkins who did hold Nash Court).

The descent from Andrew referred to by Burke seems to come from a Harleian manuscript of unknown provenance which is given in an edition of the Visitation of Kent.^[7] The pedigree explicitly cites an inquisition post mortem of Andrew Haukyn of Holderness, which is dated 17 Edw III and says he died on 7 Jun 14 Edw. III (1340).^[8] This is probably a mistake for 14 Edw. II, however,^[9] so he probably really died in 1321. His heir was his daughter Margaret (aged 2 1/2 in 1321 and aged 24 in 1343),^[10] so he probably had no surviving sons, contrary to what the pedigree, Burke, and various secondary and N-ary sources claim. He seems to have had a brother named Stephen who jointly held the land in Preston, Holderness. Margaret married Robert de Wasingdon or Watingedon. A William and Nicholas Haukyn are mentioned as sons of Andrew who transferred land to Robert Ingram of Preston,^[11] but since Margaret was the heir, they must have predeceased their father. Stephen Haukyn is mentioned as a chapman in the same record. When Stephen died in 1350, Margaret was his heir to his 6/100 part of a knight's fee as well.^[12]

Sources

1. ↑ J E E S Sharp and A E Stamp. "Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward II, File 65," in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 6, Edward II, (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1910), 139-149. British History Online, accessed September 30, 2018, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol6/pp139-149.
2. ↑ J. E. E. S. Sharp, E. G. Atkinson and J. J. O'Reilly. "Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 69," in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 8, Edward III, (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1913), 287-308. British History Online, accessed September 30, 2018, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol8/pp287-308.
3. ↑ J. E. E. S. Sharp, E. G. Atkinson, J. J. O'Reilly and G. J. Morris. "Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 102," in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 9, Edward III, (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1916), 275-289. British History Online, accessed October 1, 2018, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol9/pp275-289.
4. ↑ http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=6676093&pid=-1040267360
5. ↑ http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=6676093&pid=-1040267360
6. ↑ A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1 by Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms, published by Harrison, Pall Mall, London, 1858, page 535
7. ↑ Philipot, J. The visitation of Kent: taken in the years 1619-1621. London, 1898, p. 203 Hathi Trust.
8. ↑ J. E. E. S. Sharp, E. G. Atkinson and J. J. O'Reilly. "Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 69," in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 8, Edward III, (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1913), 287-308. British History Online, accessed September 30, 2018, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol8/pp287-308.
9. ↑ J E E S Sharp and A E Stamp. "Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward II, File 65," in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 6, Edward II, (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1910), 139-149. British History Online, accessed September 30, 2018, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol6/pp139-149.
10. ↑ J. E. E. S. Sharp, E. G. Atkinson and J. J. O'Reilly. "Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 60," in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 8, Edward III, (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1913), 166-180. British History Online, accessed September 30, 2018, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol8/pp166-180.
11. ↑ http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7572176
12. ↑ J. E. E. S. Sharp, E. G. Atkinson, J. J. O'Reilly and G. J. Morris. "Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 102," in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 9, Edward III, (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1916), 275-289. British History Online, accessed October 1, 2018, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol9/pp275-289.

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