Emma Hawkins
7 Feb 1859–1944
Derrick's great-grandmother. Born at Aldenham, widowed at thirty-one, a stepfather's wife at St Albans, and blind in Pix Road, Letchworth, in 1939. Eighty-five years, two husbands buried, five children.
Family
Each person is marked by where that line came from, in words as well as colour.
On the individual lines:
- John Hull (spouse): a railway labourer
- John Hawkins (sibling): probably died young
What the record says
Documented Her baptism, both marriages' children, three censuses, the 1939 Register and her death are all records.
Born 7 February 1859, Aldenham· At the time: Britain and its colonies per the Record Atlas
Died Q2 1944, Hitchin, aged 85
| When | What | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Feb 1859 | Born at Aldenham | Baptised there in 1859, daughter of John and Emma Hawkins. The day comes from the 1939 Register, given by Emma herself at eighty. | Documented |
| 1871 | At the Red Lion Cottages | Aged 12, a scholar, one of six of the family's children still at home (RG10 piece 1380, folio 10). | Documented |
| Q4 1881 | Marries Robert Wear | At St Olave, Southwark. Three children follow, in 1883, 1886 and 1889. | Documented |
| Q1 1890 | Widowed | Robert Wear dies. | Documented |
| 1891 | Home to her brother's house at Watford | With her three children at 44 Ebury Road, in the household of her brother John Hawkins, a carter. | Documented |
| Q2 1894 | Marries John Hull | At St Albans, vol 3a p758, where the free index carries Wear Emma and Hull John on one page. He is a railway labourer; Albert is born in 1895 and Edith in 1897, both at St Albans. In 1901 she is 'Emma Hull' at 22 Mount Pleasant, St Albans (RG13 piece 1312). The certificate has not been read. | Documented |
| 1939 | Blind at Letchworth | At 63 Pix Road, aged 80, widowed and incapacitated, living with her daughter Louisa and her son-in-law William Shenton. Her son Henry Robert raised his own children at 72 Pix Road, in the same street. | Documented |
| Q2 1944 | Dies at Hitchin | Aged 85, registered at Hitchin. | Documented |
| 17 Sep 2026 | Once merged with her mother | This archive wrote her mother's dates and history over her entry, because mother and daughter share a forename, and published the result for part of a day. Corrected. | Corrected |
Where this comes from
Each line of the table above names the record it rests on in its third column, and the grade at the top says how well the whole is evidenced. What is not established is said under its own heading below. How the grades and the labels on the chart are decided, and every source this archive holds.
Two generations out of the Aldenham registers · The Wear line · The tree
What is not established
- The marriage certificate to John Hull has not been read.
- When John Hull died is not established.