Mike, I promise myself that I am going to leave my Hawkins family on the back burner until I am able to go to Orange/Louisa/Culpeper and the Library of VA (this summer---I hope) to do some land research....but then I see your Marshall name and I can't help but ask if you research the Marshall name....and if it is a Northern Neck name..... Where was this family in the mid to late 1700's and early to mid 1800's. I believe it quite likely that my name comes from the Marshall family that I find in Orange County in the early 1800's....Coleman Marshall was a Tanner by trade and was closely connected to my T.R. Hawkins who was also a Tanner. They had a family connection in that T.R. Hawkins's uncle was married to Mary/Polly Bickers who was the sister to Coleman's wife---Joanna Bickers. It is possible that there were other family connections. I believe that it is quite likely that T.R. Hawkins's grandson, Jesse Marshall Hawkins, was named after either Coleman Marshall or the family name in general....my dad (James Marshall Hawkins) was named after his grandfathers (one of which was Jesse Marshall Hawkins)....and I was named after my dad--female version....Marsha Hawkins Moses. On Apr 16, 2011, at 8:55 PM, mike marshall wrote: