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I have a dilemma concerning the number of John Hawkins that lived in the Brackley area of Northamptonshire in the early years of the 19th Century and how they all inter-relate.
From sketchy hand written notes from now dead family members indicates that one set of my Great-Great-Grandparents were a George and Jemima Hawkins (nee Moss).
I suspect that a George HAWKINS (and the one I am researching) was born in 1838. On the FreeBMD website there is no actual record for a George, but there are 3 entries (1 in Q.1 and 2 in Q.2) for "MALE HAWKINS" and I suspect that one of these unnamed babies later becomes George Hawkins. His father John Hawkins I suspect is one of the John Hawkins that seems to have been born between 1804 and 1087 and I have a hunch (but only a hunch) that it was the John Hawkins born in 1806. A John Hawkins initially marries a Louisa Sturch (b.1815) in Oct 1837 and gives birth to George in 1838. Louisa (Sturch) dies in 1840 and there are no further children of that marriage.
There are other John Hawkins' being born around the early years of the 19th Century in the Croughton and Brackley area of Northamptonshire and they of course have children.
George Hawkins marries a Jemima Moss on 4 Feb 1862 and they have 5 children (if the 1871 Census is accurate). However, in the 1871 census both John Hawkins (b.1806) and Jemima Hawkins are both recorded as being widow/ers and living under the same roof in the Brackley area! Now I have no way of knowing whether the Widower John Hawkins is the father-in-law of the widow Jemima Hawkins or one of the other John Hawkins born at the early years of the 19th Century. There is one final complication that in 1872 there was a marriage between a John Hawkins and a Jemima Hawkins again in the Croughton/Brackley area.
The question that I have is: Is Jemima both daughter in law and later wife of the same John Hawkins or does Jemima go on to marry one of the other John Hawkins living in the Brackley area?
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