Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1910 — A Comer in Ancestors [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A Comer in Ancestors

By ELEANOR LEXINGTON

Hoskins Family 1 tCopyright by McClure Syndlcatel

The Hoskins who bear titles spell the name Hoskyns, or Hoskyn. The difference between "i” and “y” is often a matter of dollars, and pot" rules of orthography. In other words, John Hoskins, of limited income, is John Hoskins to the end of the chapter, unless his rich aunt dies and leaves him all he!* ducats. From then on, he perhaps becomes Hoskyns. You can try a few variations of the name. There 1b Hosken. Burke’s "Peerage” gives arms for his family and they live In Cornwall, where they have been prosperous landed proprietors since time was, in Great Britain. In Surrey and Hereford, the name is usually Hoskyn or Hoskyns, also Hoskin. fn our colonial records the name is written indifferently Hoskins or Haskins. Authorities on derivation of names say that Hoskins is easily traced back to Roger, or Rogers or Rodgers. Hodge

Is a nickname of Roger, and from Hodge comes Hodges, Hodgson, Hodgkin, Hotchkiss, Hoskins. Fltzroger, the son of Roger, or the Welsh form, apRoger, are also included In this count. Prodger is traced directly back to apRoger—son of Roger. Hoskins may be regarded as a soft-

ened pronunciation of Hodgkins, and Hosking is one variation. Roger is a name unknown in Great Britain before: the conquest, 1066, but in Domesday Book, there are several tenants in chief named Rogers or Rogerus. It may be taken for granted, therefore, that Hoskins came into England from Normandy and that Its original formi was Roger, from an old word “hruod,” meaning fame, or glory. Another meaning of the word hruod is "one whose word is reliable,” and historical tradition associates the name Rogers with all that is true and noble, and by all- the- lares of logic may we not say the same ,of the name Hoskins or Haskins. Records preserved by one branch of the Hoskins, give the following account: , The family has history back to the eleventh century, when two ancestors entered England, with William the Conqueror, v 1066, one of whom was granted 13 manors in Suffolk, and married Gunreda, daughter of Henry, earl of Ferris; the other was granted seven lordships in Lincolnshire, and 9) descendant of this line married Lady] Isabel, daughter of an earl of War- 1 wlch; another of this line married' Iselda, daughter of Sir Thomas Mountjoy, and a descendant of this couplsj was a baronet in the reign of Charles h The Hoskins of the south trace back to Sir William Hoskins, whose sons 1 were Thomas and Richard. It was Thomas, son of Thomas, who settled in Tyrrell county, North Carolina; his wife was Mary Roberts and they had a number of children. Their grand* son, Thomas, died about 1780. OneL son of Thomas the Immigrant, James, left 13 children; another son, William, died 1766, and left three sons and three daughters. One of these sons, Richard Hoskins, married Winnefred Wiggins, who has a history for she was secretary of the famous “Edenton Tea Party,” and Richard was the first of the 12.8lgners of the “Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence,” May* 20, 1776. o , Richard's son Edmund was a western pioneer. Bartholomew Hoskins was living in Virginia before the departure of Sir Thomas Dale. One coat of arms, blazoned ini Burke’s for the Hoskins is: Barry o t six, or, and vert; a bordure ermine. Crest: Two limbs of a tree raguled and couped, in saltire, argent, the sinister surmounting the dexter. No motto is given with this coat armor. *

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