Joseph Hawke (1855 - 1934)

Born 7 May 1855 in Gawler Plains, Colony of South Australia

Ancestors

Husband of Martha (Pasfield) Hawke — married 22 Mar 1876 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Died 11 Dec 1934 at age 79 in Albert Park, South Australia, Australia

Biography

Death

Joseph died on 11 Dec 1934 and is buried at Cheltenham Cemetery, Cheltenham, Charles Sturt City, South Australia, Australia. ^[1]

Research Notes

Joseph was my grandfather, Frederick Gower Hawke's youngest paternal uncle. His (Joseph's) father was William Hawke (13/11/1811-5/11/1872) who was born in the parish of Bere Ferrers, Devon and died in Redruth , Cornwall. His death is the mystery we would like to solve. Returning to Joseph, his siblings were:

Mary 19/9/1835-perhaps 8/3/1840,

Joseph 4/2/1837 -perhaps 20/2/1840,

Mary perhaps 6/7/1840 - died a young infant

Emma Benney 5/9/1841-1923 m. Porter,

Ellen Jane27/8/1844,

Emily Frances 19/12/1846,

William Henry 5/3/1849 at North Kapunda 20/1/1933 at Adelaide m. Sarah Anne Gower

Susan (Hawke) Edgecombe 7/5/1851-18/5/1908

and lastly Joseph himself.

The "perhaps" with the first three children come about because we, the family of Frederick Gower, 8th child of William Henry and Sarah (née Gower), had assumed from records at the Maritime Museum at Port Adelaide, that William and his wife Susanna (née Benney) came on a ship called the "John" and that the first three children died as a result of a cholera outbreak but we now find that William was called to give evidence at a Medical Inquest about his voyage on an earlier ship "The Java", and that the children were among 55 passengers who died of starvation en route. Joseph's grandparents were Nathaniel 1770 and Mary Metters, his ggf was Nathaniel 1750 d. 1778 in Gwennap, Cornwall and his wife also Mary. ^[2]

• Ancestry Family Trees, Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.
• South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society. South Australian Births Registrations 1842 to 1906, CD-ROM. (Adelaide, SA, Australia: SAGHS and Macbeth Genealogy Services, 1998), database entry for Joseph HAWKE, book/page: 5/164.
• Genealogy South Australia. Online database entry: Joseph Hawke, death, 11 Dec 1934 at Albert Park. Registration number: 565/5276

Sources

1. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 15 February 2021), memorial page for Joseph Hawke (unknown–11 Dec 1934), Find a Grave Memorial no. 38721102, citing Cheltenham Cemetery, Cheltenham, Charles Sturt City, South Australia, Australia ; Maintained by Grave search (contributor 47123636) .
2. ↑ Message received by Pam Cormac Smith via private message from Joseph's granddaughter on 15 Feb 2021. Posted with permission.

Acknowledgements

This person was created through the import of Tonkes_Morris_Ryles_Ellis.ged on 16 March 2011.