Joan Trelawny, Heiress of Brightorre

• Updated from WikiTree Genealogy via son John Hawkins by SmartCopy: Nov 27 2014, 19:02:01 UTC

http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/ha...

Some sources show a middle name of Towne, leading to conclusions that her mother's surname was Towne. No mother is listed in The Visitations of Cornwall. Also, neither Betham nor Collins mention the name of her mother in their works on the baronetage of England.

Given name has also been reported to be:

• only Mary (found in Visitations of Cornwall, 1620)
• Mary Towne (slapping on fictitious middle names was a bad habit of 19th and early 20th century genealogists, "the better to tell them apart")

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Joan Trelawny was the only child and sole heir of Roger Trelawny of Brightorre. She married, William Hawkyns of Tavestock, son of William Hawkyns and Joan Amados. William was a noted sea captain of the era. They had two sons, William and John.

Children of Joan Trelawny and husband William Hawkyns:

• William Amadas Hawkyns, died c.1589
• Sir John Hawkyns, also a noted sea captain, died November 12, 1595, at sea off the coast of Puerto Rico

heiress of Brightorre

If she survived Captain William Hawkins, she may have married again - but she would have been past childbearing by then.

sources

• The Baronetage of England, or, The history of the English baronets, and such Baronets of Scotland as are of English Families, by Rev. William Betham, published 1801 [available as Google e-Book]
• The English Baronetage: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Barnonets Now Existing: Their Descents, Marriages and Issues, Volume 2, By Arthur Collins, published 1741 [available as Google e-Book]
• The visitations of Cornwall: comprising the Heralds' visitations of 1530, 1573 & 1620, John Lambrick Vivian›, College of Arms, published 1887 [available as Google e-Book]
• A Sea-Dog of Devon: a life of Sir John Hawkins. With introd. by Lord Brassey. Published 1907 [available as e-Book at openlibrary.org]

links

• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=110612949
• http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db...
• FamilySearch AFN TB21-DX
• FamilySearch AFN 18P0-7GT

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Life Sketch

See book Plymouth Armand Heroes The Hawkins Family. Joan, the sole daughter of Roger Trelawney of Brightore, married William Amadas Hawkins. Joan was the wife of roger trelawney. Not the wife of Hawkins . Roger married. Mary Hawkins married William Hawkins

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Hawkins

Married to her cousin, Captain William Hawkins.

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A Brief Biography of Admiral Sir John Hawkyns Admiral Sir John Hawkins (also spelled as Hawkyns) (1532 – 12 November 1595) was an English shipbuilder, naval administrator and commander, merchant, navigator, and slave trader. As treasurer (1577)

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Wikipedia on William Hawkins

John Hawkins was born to a prominent family in Plymouth in the county of Devon. He was the second Bastard of William Hawkins (b. before 1490, d. 1554/5) and Joan Trelawny, daughter and sole heir of Roger Trelawny of Brighton, Cornwall.[1] William Hawkins was a merchant, shipowner and sea captain who successfully avoided permanent entanglement with either of the religious factions in the English Reformation, serving in Parliament under both Henry VIII and Mary I. William was especially well known in the court of Henry VIII as one of the principal sea captains, dating from his voyage to the New World in about 1527 (a first for an Englishman). The young John and his older brother grew up following their father's trade.