Unknown father of Joseph Hawley

Date and place of birth have also been (erroneously?) reported to be the following:

• 1577 at Derby, Derbyshire, England
• 1594 at Parwich, Derbyshire, England

Date and place of death have also been (erroneously?) reported to be an unknown date at Parwich, Derbyshire, England.

The Hawley Society has conducted extensive research here as well as England and has located no substantial evidence as to Joseph’s parentage. DNA evidence does not yet connect the Hawleys in North America with those living in Great Britain.

Source: The Hawley Society

Joseph Hawley May be the sibling of Hannah, Elizabeth, Robert, and Thomas. He is assumed to have come to America circa 1629-1630, possibly accompanied by Thomas Hauley and Robert Haule, who may have been brothers. He may have first lived in Massachusetts, where Thomas Hauley settled permanently.

Did Captain Joseph Hawley Have Siblings? (From The Hawley Society)

" We are not sure if Joseph came with others in his family or if he came alone. There are those that he claimed as siblings, or who claimed him as a brother, although the spelling of their last name had variations. For instance there was Thomas Hauley from Roxbury, Massachusetts, mentioned above, who was killed by Native Americans at Sudbury on 21 April 1676."

"There were believed to be two sisters, Hannah and Elizabeth. Hannah married twice, in 1655 to John Ufford, whom she divorced shortly thereafter, and then to Capt. John Beard, 25 March 1657. They lived at Milford (est 1639) on the Long Island Sound a bit west of the Housatonic River from Stratford, where Joseph ultimately settled. Elizabeth married in 1641 to Richard Booth who later came and settled in Stratford at the same time as Joseph."

"A third possible sister, Miriam Hawley, claimed kinship to Joseph although Elias Sill Hawley in THE HAWLEY RECORD, does not support this claim. Miriam married Moses Wheeler and originally lived in the New Haven plantation but left after Moses was cited for a violation of that community’s strict laws regarding the Sabbath. It seems that he returned home on the Sabbath after an out-of-town absence and greeted his wife and children with kisses. Apparently, he was or felt compelled to leave. They settled in Stratford where his sister was wife to the settlement’s minister Adam Blakeman."

links

• FamilySearch AFN: 8QGT-SS
• http://boards.ancestrylibrary.com/surnames.hawley/225.325/mb.ashx
• http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=eliassillhawley&id=I1
• http://www.oxfordpast.net/oxfordpas/aqwg45.htm#2434