As yet, no link has been found between the Hawkins and Howkins families of Northern Oxfordshire. All our family records in England are spelt as Howkins, the spelling did not change to Hawkins until after the family arrived in New Zealand
Thomas Howkins was born in Northern Oxfordshire about 1700. As no parish records for Ardley (see where Ardley is) prior to 1700 have survived we will probably never find the next link. One possibility is a Thomas Howkins who was born in Deddington 1698, currently I am researching this area trying to make a breakthrough.
Thomas married Elizabeth Pybus in Ambrosden Oxfordshire 5 January 1727, in the Parish Register he is listed as coming from Ardley but the Bishops Transcripts say he was from Bucknell. Elizabeth was christened in Stoke Lyne 17 November 1701, the daughter of William and Elizabeth [nee Newton]
Both were buried in Ardley, Thomas on 13 June 1772 and Elizabeth 4 July 1787.
The children of Thomas and Elizabeth were:
1. William Howkins.
Chr.Ardley 10 March 1728, buried Hethe 15 August 1795
2.Anne Howkins.
Chr. Ardley 10 June 1732.
3.Thomas Howkins.
Chr. Ardley 19 April 1730, died
4. Thomas Howkins.
Chr. Ardley 4 May 1735.
Smith descendants of this line emigrated to USA. Ancestral File on LDS web site
www.familysearch.org
5. Joseph Howkins.
Born c1735
6. Newton Howkins.
Born c1743