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Persoonlijke gegevens Admiral Sir John Hawkins 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1532 in Of Plymouth, Devonshire, England.

  Let op: Was jonger dan 16 jaar (0) toen kind (Elizabeth Hawkins) werd geboren (??-??-1530).

• Hij is overleden op 21 november 1595 in At Sea Off Puerto Rico, hij was toen 63 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven november 1585 in At sea.

  Let op: Begraven (??-11-1585) voor overlijden (21 november 1595).

• Een kind van William Amadas Hawkins en Joan Towne Trelawney
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 4 december 2022.

Gezin van Admiral Sir John Hawkins

Hij is getrouwd met Katherine Gonson.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1559 te Of Plymouth, Devonshire, England, hij was toen 27 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Elizabeth Hawkins  1530-1595 
2. Richard Hawkins  1562-1622 
3. John Hawkins  ± 1560-1619 

Notities over Admiral Sir John Hawkins

TREASURER OF THE NAVY, MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, SEA CAPTAIN, SLAVE TRADER, PIRATE IN THE SERVICE OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, REAR ADMIRAL OF THE ENGLISH FLEET DURING THE ATTACK OF THE SPANISH ARMADA, 1588
John was a navigator and sea captain involved in the slave trade. He bought slaves in West Africa and sold them in the West Indies, raiding Spanish ships along the way and becoming very wealthy. Finally, the Spanish had had enough of his piracyand in 1567, cornered Hawkins's six ships in San Juan harbor in Mexico, destroying most of the fleet, except for the two ships carrying Hawkins and his cousin Francis Drake, which made their escape with the booty intact.
Hawkins was intensely loyal to Queen Elizabeth. By acting as a double agent, he helped to uncover the Rinaldi plot, a scheme to kill Elizabeth and replace her with Mary Stuart. In the 1580's, he took his father-in-law's job as Treasurer of theNavy, cleaned up the Navy's finances and rebuilt the fleet with faster, more heavily armed ships, a key factor in helping the English to defeat the Spanish Armada in 1588. Sir John was Rear Admiral, at the helm of the ship Victory, during thatfateful sea battle.
THE DEFEAT OF THE SPANISH ARMADA, 1588: In 1588 Spain's King Philip II, Elizabeth's brother-in-law and former suitor, assembled a great fleet of ships to invade England with the intent of overthrowing Elizabeth and re-establishing Catholicism in the realm. The ensuing naval battlelasted nine days. Finally, the English routed the Spanish, whose fleeing ships were destroyed by a storm.
Hawkins was perhaps the only sea captain concerned with hygiene and overcrowding on his ships and, as a result, lost few men to disease.
After his wife Catherine's death, John married Margaret Vaughan, who was a bedchamber woman to Queen Elizabeth.
At the end of his life, Hawkins returned to sea to plunder Spanish ships. He died of sickness while on a voyage with Francis Drake to intercept the Spanish treasure fleet.
WARNING: There is disagreement about the birthdate of John Hawkins. There is also no conclusive evidence that Sir John had a daughter Elizabeth who married a John Bourchier Sayers. That myth has been promulgated by British genealogist H. B.Somersby and David Sears, whose work in the 19th century has been shown to be of dubious merit and subject to error.
Note authored by Larry Overmire. Please credit if reproduced elsewhere.

Sources: 1) Susan Cary Database http://worldconnect.genealogy.roo tsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=poliksa&id=I21628 2) Sonya Tilley Database http://worldconnect.genealogy.roo tsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=sonyatilley&id=I3470 3) Website http://members.aol.com/jogt/gregg/d0001/g0000060.htm 4) Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 25, pp. 212-219 5) A Hawkins Family Line, by Ann Woodlief http://www.geocities.com/awoodlief/hawkins.html 6) Elizabeth's Pirates (w/ portrait of Hawkins) http://www.channel4.com/history/m icrosites/H/history/pirates/piratesjhawkins.html 7) Elizabeth's Pirates, The Armada http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/pirates/armada1.html 8) Dee Reynolds Database http://worldconnect.genealogy.roo tsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=all-my-relations&id=I32054 9) Della Steele Database http://worldconnect.genealogy.roo tsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1726030&id=I8375 10) Sears Family Association http://www.genealogy.org/~lrsears/ 11) The Descendants of RICHARD SARES (SEARS) of Yarmouth, Mass. 1638-1888 with an APPENDIX containing some notices of other families by the name of SEARS, by Samuel Pierce May, 1890, Joel Munsell's Sons, Albany, NY

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