However Mr. Thomas Hawkins acquired Trewinnard, the property has now been possessed by his family above a century and a half.
The first of his ancestors who settled in Cornwall was Mr. John Hawkins, who is said to have come from Kent in the year 1554. He married a daughter of the officiating Minister of Blisland.
Second, John Hawkins, their son, designated merchant, married Jane Rother or Williams, of Grampound.
Third, John Hawkins, gent, married Paschas, daughter of Joseph Cooke, of Mevagissey.
Fourth, Thomas Hawkins, who died in the lifetime of his father, married Adry, daughter of Crudge.
Fifth, John Hawkins, gent, married Loveday, daughter of George Trenhayle.
Sixth, Thomas Hawkins, their son, married, first, Florence, daughter of James Praed, esq. of Trevethow, by whom he had one daughter, married to John Williams, of Helston, merchant. He married, secondly, Ann, daughter and coheir of Christopher Bellott, of Bochym, and died in 1716, leaving one son and one daughter.
Seventh, Christopher Hawkins, esq, barrister-at-law, married Mary, daughter and coheir of Philip Hawkins, of Pennance, esq. and practically his sole heiress, as well as of her brother Philip Hawkins, D.D. sometime Master of Pembroke college, Cambridge.
They resided during several years in London, where Mr. Hawkins practised as a lawyer; but, having lost several children, they determined on removing into the country, and finally settled at Trewinnard about the year 1750. They had one daughter, Jane, married to Sir Richard Vyvyan, of Trelo warren. And
Eighth, Thomas Hawkins, esq. who married Anne, daughter of James Heywood, esq. a merchant of London. He represented Grampound in Parliament, and died in 1766, leaving four sons and one daughter.
Philip died at Eton.
