Henry John HAWKINS (b circa 1835) (General)

by io2324 , Thursday, July 14, 2011, 14:42 (4885 days ago)

Is anyone able to help me locate the parents of my 2x great grandfather Henry (or in some records Hendry) John Hawkins? I have a number of fragments of possible information but nothing conclusive. Indeed the situation I find myself in is something akin to a string vest, lots of holes tied together with something pretty insubstantial... :-)

As far as I know is he was born around 1835 in Gloucestershire and was a police officer. Looking at census records there is a Henry John Hawkins with parents Thomas (b 1802) and Mary Ann (b 1801)and siblings James (1821), Thomas (1825), Arabella (1826), Ellen (1833) and Emma (1839), however there seems to be no record of Thomas and Mary Ann getting married.

Unfortunately there are no records of any Henry John Hawkins being baptised around that time.

There is a record of a Henry Hawkins (but not Henry John) being baptised 4th June 1835 (this site's record number 114933) with parents Richard and Eleanor. Several family trees on sites such as ancestry.co.uk list this family link (and there are census records confirming it) but none link him to the middle name John or have details of any of his descendants I have in my records.

So to sum up - I believe that either my Henry John (parents Thomas and Mary Ann) is correct but there are no records (or none I can find) or maybe Henry John is just plain Henry (with parents Richard and Eleanor) or of course perhaps neither!

If anyone can shed any light on this, even any suggestions which might help me show any or all of the options are wrong (so I can eliminate them) I would be extremely grateful.

Thanks

Ian