Family of Admiral Sir Richard HAWKINS and Dame Judith HELE
| Husband: | Admiral Sir Richard HAWKINS (1562-1622) | |
| Wife: | Dame Judith HELE (1568?-1629) | |
| Children: | Judith HAWKINS (bef1592- ) | |
| Margaret HAWKINS (1602- ) | ||
| John Sideny HAWKINS (bef1604- ) | ||
| Joane HAWKINS (1607?- ) | ||
| Richard E. HAWKINS II (1612-1667) | ||
| Mary HAWKINS (1615?- ) | ||
| Marriage | 1591 | Plymouth, Devon, England |
Husband: Admiral Sir Richard HAWKINS
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| Admiral Sir Richard HAWKINS | ||
| Name: | Admiral Sir Richard HAWKINS | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | Admiral Sir John HAWKINS (1532-1595) | |
| Mother: | Dame Katherine Elizabeth GONSON (1538-1591) | |
| Birth | 1562 | Plymouth, Devon, England |
| Occupation | Seaman, Explorer, Soldier, Elizabethan Sea Dog, Slave Merchant, Privateer and Member of Parliament | |
| Death | 17 Apr 1622 (age 59-60) | Manor of Poole, Slapton, Plymouth, England |
Wife: Dame Judith HELE
| Name: | Dame Judith HELE | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 1568 (app) | Hele, Devon, England |
| Death | 1629 (age 60-61) | Slapton, Devon, England |
Child 1: Judith HAWKINS
| Name: | Judith HAWKINS | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Spouse: | Tristram STURE ( - ) | |
| Birth | bef 7 Nov 1592 | |
| Christening | 7 Nov 1592 (age 0) | Deptford, London, England |
Child 2: Margaret HAWKINS
| Name: | Margaret HAWKINS | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 22 Jan 1602 | Plymouth, Devon, England |
Child 3: John Sideny HAWKINS
| Name: | John Sideny HAWKINS | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | bef 16 Mar 1604 | Plymouth, Devon, England |
| Christening | 16 Mar 1604 (age 0) | St Andrews, Plymouth, England |
Child 4: Joane HAWKINS
| Name: | Joane HAWKINS | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 1607 (app) | Plymouth, Devon, England |
Child 5: Richard E. HAWKINS II
| Name: | Richard E. HAWKINS II | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse 1: | Grace CUTLAND (1616-1638) | |
| Spouse 2: | Katherine Elizabeth DRAKE (1616?-1667) | |
| Birth | 13 Jan 1612 | Slapton, Devon, England |
| Death | 22 Nov 1667 (age 55) | Westmoreland County, Virginia |
| Burial | 22 Nov 1667 | Slapton, England |
Child 6: Mary HAWKINS
| Name: | Mary HAWKINS | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 1615 (app) | |
Note on Husband: Admiral Sir Richard HAWKINS
Admiral Sir Richard Hawkins was a 17th century English seaman, explorer and Elizabethan "Sea Dog", and was the son of Admiral Sir John Hawkins.
Sir Richard Hawkins Wikipedia page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hawkins
From a boy he became his father's constant companion, and was brought up to a sea life, under great advantages, with his father and uncle, both renowned seamen, and then owning 30 good sailing ships.
In 1585 he accompanied his uncle, Sir Francis Drake, on the West Indies (the Caribbean) raid. Richard was captain of a galliot in Drake's fleet. Drake's fleet of seven large ships and 22 smaller vessels sailed from Plymouth on September 14th, 1585; stopped at Bayona and Vigo on the northwest coast of Spain (Oct. 1-11), and reached Santiago in the Cape Verde Islands on November 17th. That town was plundered and burned, and on November 29th the fleet set sail across the Atlantic. On New Year's Day, 1586, they reached Santo Domingo, which was captured and plundered, and a 25,000 ducat ransom extorted. On February 9th Cartagena was captured, and was occupied until March 26th. Here again the town was plundered, and a ransom of 110,000 ducats was collected. Thence they sailed north across the Caribbean to the coast of Florida, where St. Augustine was captured and destroyed (May 28-30).
Drake's awareness of the progress of contemporary colonization caused him to linger in America even after his destructive raid on the Spanish colony in Florida. Despite contrary winds the fleet called at Roanoke Island, North Carolina, on June 26th 1586, to inquire about the welfare of the Virginia settlers.
The first English Colony of Roanoke, originally consisting of 100 householders, was founded in 1585, 22 years before Jamestown and 37 years before the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts, under the ultimate authority of Sir Walter Raleigh. In 1584 Raleigh had been granted a patent by Queen Elizabeth I to colonize America. This Colony was run by Ralph Lane after Sir Richard Grenville, who had transported the colonists to Virginia, returned to Britain for supplies. These colonists were ill-prepared and not particularly clever, because, although they depended upon the local Indians for food, they also antagonized the Indians by such tactics as kidnapping them and holding them hostage in exchange for information. Unfortunately for the colonists, who were desperately in need of supplies, Grenville's return was delayed. As a result, when Sir Francis Drake put in at Roanoke after destroying the Spanish colony of St. Augustine, the entire colony returned with Drake to England.
These events foreshadowed one of the great mysteries of North America, Roanoke's so-called "Lost Colony" of 90 men, 17 women and 9 children, founded the next year in 1587 and discovered to be missing in 1590, but for the word "Croatan" carved on a post. Although both the English and the Spanish searched for clues to the colony's disappearance for many years, the mystery has never been solved.
Drake's fleet reached England again on July 22nd 1586, when he sailed into Portsmouth.
In 1588 Hawkins commanded a queen's ship against the Spanish Armada, and in 1590 he served with his father's expedition at the coast of Portugal.
In 1593 he purchased the Dainty, a ship originally built for his father and used by him in his expeditions, and sailed for the West Indies, the Spanish Main (the mainland coast of the Spanish Empire around the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico) and the South Seas (Southern Pacific Ocean). It seems clear that his project was to prey on the oversea possessions of Spanish crown. Hawkins, however, in an account of the voyage written thirty years afterwards, maintained, and by that time perhaps had really persuaded himself, that his expedition was undertaken purely for the purpose of geographical discovery. After visiting the coast of Brazil, the Dainty passed through the Straits of Magellan, and in due course reached Valparaíso, Chile.
Having plundered the town, Hawkins pushed north, and in June 1594, a year after leaving Plymouth, he arrived in the Bay of San Mateo, at the mouth of the Esmeraldas river, now in Ecuador. Here the Dainty was attacked by two Spanish ships. Hawkins was hopelessly outmatched, but Dainty's crew defended her with gallantry. At last, when he himself had been severely wounded, 27 of his men killed, and the Dainty was nearly sinking, he surrendered on July 1st 1594 on the promise of a safe-conduct out of the country for himself and his crew. Hawkins second in command, John Oxenham, was instead put on trial and eventually executed in Lima, Peru for heresy.
Through no fault of the Spanish commander this promise was not kept and Hawkins was imprisoned in Peru for three years. In 1597, Hawkins was sent to Spain and held as hostage first in Seville and subsequently in Madrid, for Spaniards held in England. In 1602 he was ransomed for £3,000, returned to England and was knighted in 1603 by King James I.
Hawkins spent two years writing the memories of his trip under the title "Voiage into the South Sea" (1603), which became the most famous Elizabethan adventure, re-published by the Hakluyt Society and reworked in Charles Kingsley's Westward Ho! (1855). He depicts the Spaniards in the Americas in a positive way, judging them as "temperate" and "gentle".
In 1604 he became Member of Parliament for Plymouth and Vice-Admiral of Devon, a post which, as the coast was swarming with pirates, was no sinecure.
In 1620 to 1621 he was Vice-Admiral, under Sir Robert Mansell of the fleet sent into the Mediterranean to reduce the Algeriar corsairs.