William Hawkins

   Other names for William were William Charles and William George.

  General Notes:

ADDRESSES
1857 - Weston, Somerset
1871 - Weston, Somerset

OCCUPATIONS
1871 - Labourer

  Noted events in his life were:

• Birth: Born, 15 Jun 1857, Weston, Somerset.
Birth certificate held

• Military Service: Grenadier Guards, 29 Nov 1877, Bath, Somerset.
Military records held

• Military Discharge: Transferred to Reserve, 28 Nov 1883, London, England.

• Military Reserve: Transferred from Grenadier Gusrds, 29 Nov 1883, London, England.
Transferred firstly to the West London Reserve and later, on 28 February 1884 to the Oxford District Reserve

• Military Reserve Discharge, 28 Nov 1889, London, England.

• Obituary: Dorchester Abbey Magazine, 1909, Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
Item in the Dorchester Abbey magazine

In Memorium

There has been a great deal of sickness in the Village since Christmas, and death has come very close to us, taking away several of our neighbours, without much warning. John Jeffries and his wife, Edwin Hutton, George H. Young, William Hawkins, Charles Read, and Mrs Honeybone, all gone within a month, and others are still very ill. Old age, heart failure, bronchitis, influenza, and pneumonia, are greatly the causes of this mortality. Each of these cases brought its sorrow, but perhaps the saddest of all was that of William Hawkins, a comparatively young man, who leaves a widow and six children, of whom three are quite young. His end was very quick, taken ill on the Saturday, though he had every attention, pneumonia set in and he died on the following Friday evening. He was a good husband and father, hard working and honest, one who was seldom known to lose his temper, and who, though keeping a public house, had been a total abstainer for several years past. Thus he leaves behind him in many ways the example of a good life, and we sympathise much with his sorrowful family, which he has left to struggle on in this world. R.I.P.

• Burial: Gravestone, 1909, Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
Dorchester with Burcot Cemetery, Oxfordshire
The gravestone is now in bad repair, but reads -
In loving memory of
William Charles Hawkins died 2 April 1909 aged 51 RIP
also
Emily Thirza Hawkins passed away 21 December 1937 aged 78 RIP

William married Emily Thirza Greenaway, daughter of James Greenaway and Ellen Bacon, on 10 Jun 1883 in St Margaret's, Westminster, London. (Emily Thirza Greenaway was born on 15 Mar 1859 in Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, died on 21 Dec 1937 in Reading, Berkshire and was buried in Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage: Married, 10 Jun 1883, Westminster, London.
Marriage certificate held