Thanks for your thoughts, Alan, what you suggest makes sense to me. And I'm glad that someone else agrees that I have reason, barring future contradictions, to believe all these Hawkins people were in the same family. The real treasure was Mary's surname, Moran. I had no idea what her surname might be until I found the baptismal record for her son Petrus. So, Oh Goody, now I have still another line to chase down the genealogical rabbit hole. Thanks again. PJ > Latin has different forms of the same noun for the nominative (subject) > and > genitive (possessive). Thus 'James, son of James' would be Jacobus, filius > Jacobi'.