Re: Hawkes/Hawks, Snodland, Kent, UK
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Re: Hawkes/Hawks, Snodland, Kent, UK
6/17/01
In my earlier post I listed William born 1614, Mary born 1616, and Ellin born 1617 presumably orphans of William Hawkes and his wife Elizabeth Herbert.They sailed from Gravesend, Kent in 1635 with Thomas and Ann Swann and were indentured to their father William Swann of Swann's Point in then James City Co, VA.William Swann is thought to have been from Shorne, Kent just north of Snodland.My research is finding intermarriage between the Hawke/Hawkes and a Swan family of Newton, Cambridge more than a hundred years earlier.I am suspecting they came to Kent as part of a trading network as Gravesend become a port.It seems to be a complex story, therefore I have sought the assistance of an English researcher.