My most elusive HAWKINS relative: Samuel HAWKINS first child & s/o John & Sarah HAWKINS born 1848 Hampshire. His parents married 9 Nov. 1847 in the parish church Sopley, Christchurch Parish, Hampshire. I think it's Samuel's baptism 20 Oct. 1848 Bransgore, where his father & aunts & uncles seem to have been baptised. The family story is that he went to the U.S. - Lake Michigan area. I have not been able to find anything on him in the U.S. to date. As he was probably an ag.lab. he may have worked in this field or mining. As far as I know, none of his siblings followed him to the U.S. and four of them immigrated to Qld. Australia where they were engaged in farming & mining. Thanks, Heather