THE BCH ARCHIVE
LOCAL HISTORY FOR
BIRTSMORTON
CASTLEMORTON
HOLLYBUSH
And The Surrounding District
Archive of Reports and Anecdotes
Reports Page 13
William Hawker
c. 22 January 1782
m.
to Mary (b. 1780, d. 25 December 1847
d. 1866
Joint grave at St Gregory
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John Hawker
b. 7 February 1785 – taken from Ancestry with no source and allocated here by me because the date fits
m.
to Sarah Berrow (died 1832)
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James Hawker
c. 14 October 1787 St Gregory
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Lucia Hawker
c. 25 December 1789 St Gregory
John and Sarah had 9 children:
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Samuel Hawker
c. 16 December 1811
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Elizabeth Hawker
c. 3 January 1813
d. 1 December 1833
She had a son Charles Hawker (c. 6 April 1834) who married Mary Ann Clark (b. 1842) and they had two children (Eliza b. 1866 and Louisa b.1868)
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John Hawker
c. 14 May 1815
br. 22 July 1832
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William Hawker
c. 15 January 1818
m. 2 June 1842 to Harriet Hodges (b. 1824)
They had three children:
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William b.1844
Henry b.1846
Jane. b.1849
In 1851, they were living with her parents at Eight Oaken Hill. I cannot identify the specific property.
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c. 9 April 1820
m. Oct-Dec 1842 Upton
to George Hooper (1818-1871
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Thomas Hawker
c. 16 November 1823
Although his age does not fit, the following account may apply to him:
10 March 1855. Worcester Assizes.
Sheep Stealing at Castlemorton. Thomas Hawker, 25, and George Powell, 19, labourers, were charged with stealing an ewe sheep, at this place, on the 20th February, the property of John Scott. Mr. Cooke prosecuted; the first prisoner was undefended. The prisoners were tried separately. A second count in the indictment charged Hawker with stealing a ram sheep, the property of George Jakeman, of Castlemorton, and a third count with stealing an ewe sheep, the property of Thomas Colston. Only the first was gone into. Supt. Checketts deposed that on the 22nd February he went to the house of the prisoner at Castlemorton in company with P.C. Mann about six o'clock in the evening. Witness told him that there had been several sheep stolen in the neighbourhood lately, and he was suspected of being concerned in the robberies. Checketts searched the house, and in a box found a cord which was stained with blood, and a steel; and in a barrel and a shed some bones and pieces of sheep skin with wool on it. He also found some sheep's entrails in a wash tub at the back of the house. Witness was afterwards shown a skin by P.S. Mann, and he did not doubt but what it was the one that the pieces of the skin and the bones belonged to. P.S. Mann proved receiving the skins from the prosecutor; and Mrs. Scott proved finding them in a wood about a quarter of a mile from the prisoner's house. One of them was the skin of her husband's sheep. Mr. Thomas Colston, a farmer, of Castlemorton, proved missing a sheep on the 9th February. He searched for it, and one of the skins shown to him by P.S. Mann was that belonging to the sheep in question, and some pieces of skin and wool produced by the policeman corresponded exactly. The Jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to four years penal servitude.
George Powell, 19, labourer, was then charged with having stolen an ewe sheep, on the same day, the property of Mr. John Scott. Mr. Cooke again prosecuted, and Mr. Huddleston defended the prisoner. The evidence in this case was of a similar description to the last. The Jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was likewise sentenced to four years' penal servitude.
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Hannah Hawker
c. 11 December 1825
Henry Hawker
c. 19 October 1828
br. 19 June 1832
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James Hawker
c. 13 March 1831
br. 30 March 1832
There are two other Hawker families in the Castlemorton Census, which do not join using the Castlemorton Parish Records:
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William Thomas Hawker from Staunton who married Jane had had two children: Ann (c. 26 January 1817) and Giles Thomas (c.14 March 1819).
In the 1839 Tithe, Giles owned Taylor’s Farm (Nos. 246-250) which he rented to James Moore. Giles’s Will, Probate Worcester 22 January 1861, leaves everything to his wife, Elizabeth, and after her death to his nephew Charles Coates and his son John Fretwell Coates.
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Richard Hawker from Pendock b. 1816. In 1851 he is a Blacksmith’s Labourer living at the Blacksmith’s Shop - The Old Smithy on Gloucester Road opposite the end of New Road.
Returning to the main family:
In the 1839 Tithe, William Hawker (1783-1866) rented three fields (Nos. 403,610,612) from the Dean and Chapter of Westminster and James Farmer
His proposed brother (John Hawker, 1785-) co-owned one field (No. 1156) with the Dean and chapter of Westminster.
William and John jointly owned Hawkes Hill (No.78), which was occupied by John and his tenant Richard Turner.
In the 1841 Census, John was an Agricultural Labourer living at Ebeneezer Cottage (No. 155) with his children Mary, Thomas, Hannah and grandson Charles. William was a Farmer living at Foothills (Druggers End) with his wife Mary and Elizabeth Matthews.
In 1851, John is still living at Ebeneezer Cottage as an Agricultural Labourer, with his son Thomas and grandson Charles. William is a Landed Proprietor still living at Foothills with Housekeeper.
In 1861, Charles is living at Hawkes Hill with the Hooper family (his aunt and her husband).
24 August 1859 Worcestershire Chronicle