Hawkins family #6

Our project has been going through much confusion as FTDNA instituted new privacy efforts to comply with the EEA  requirements.  My theory is that we will come out stronger from this confusion as we work to fix the things that need to be fixed.  Today's blog post is an example in how we actually get better as we work to put things back to normal.  The first of the co-adminstrators that I have reinstated is Cherie Ohlsson.  The choice to ask Cherie first was serendipity.  We were chatting about something else.  Cherie contacted each of her participants in group #6 asking them to give her access to her kit results and asking other questions as well.  She copied me to all of the correspondence.

Chuck's reply caused me to decide that we needed to work on a blog post.  And here it is!  What made me particularly interested in Chuck's reply was the fact that his autosomal test with Ancestry connected him to the Bickford family in Dover, New Hampshire.  This connection would never have been found through his yDNA test since it is a ?-gr-grandmother who was a Bickford....not a ?-gr-grandfather.

Here is some of the information that Chuck has sharedwith Cherie and me.

I’ve also done the DNA test at Ancestry.  An interesting link that came up there was to the Bickfords of NH and VT.  That further cements my link to Stephen Hawkins, because Elizabeth Bickford was the spouse of William Hawkins (1757), son of Stephen Hawkins.  My gg-grandfather was Luther Hawkins, last child of William and Elizabeth.

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Here is Elizabeth's “life story” from Ancestry

"When Elizabeth Bickford was born on February 2, 1757, in Dover, New Hampshire, her father, John, was 27, and her mother, Lydia, was 32. Elizabeth married William Hawkins and they had 14 children together. She also had one child from another relationship. She died in 1810 at the age of 53.”

Some info there that I didn’t know—that she died in 1810 or had that many children.  I thought there were 14—have to check my info again!  Regardless of how many there were, Luther, was the last, born in 1805.

 Cherie's reply to Chuck was:  Her David Hawkins had following information:   David's family ended up in Michigan around the same time as some in Chuck's tree went there.  Chuck's immigrant George Hawkins stated he was going to meet a Mrs Hawkins on his entry documents and ended up in Michigan.  So I think it is possible that at least people in the Stephen branch were keeping contact with extended family in England, which helped influence David's branch into coming over.  David's branch goes back for many generations in the same place in Hampshire, England, which must be where Chuck's immigrant Stephen (and perhaps the rest of our branches) may have come from.  I looked into the history of New Hampshire, where Chuck's original Stephen (1685-1720) died.  Since New Hampshire was only settled and named in 1622, we will have to read more on its historic settlers.  There must be more information on the Hawkins who were original immigrants.

Hampshire is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom. The county town of Hampshire is Winchester, the former capital city of England.

As I pushed the button to publish this, I had the nagging thought that I had looked at this area before.  And I had! I had worked with another family group #6 member to write an earlier blog post:


http://hawkinsdna.blogspot.com/2017/11/family-group-6.html