Judith Hawley

JUDITH, eldest daughter of Admiral Sir Richard Hawkins, was baptized at Deptford, November 7th, 1592 - before her father was a prisoner in Spain - and was eleven years older than the five other children. She married Tristram Sture, of Marridge House, Ugborough.

Tristram Sture died in 1616 "seized of the manors of Diptford and Ashwell" (The Antiquary, vol. 15, p. 116, column 1).

Her second husband was Jerome Hawley.

In 1621 Jerome Hawley - believed, but not proven, to be the same as the Jerome Hawley who was active in the early development of Virginia and Maryland - published a broadside:

"To the honourable, the knights, citizens, and burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament : The humble petition of Ierom Hawley Esquire, for and on the behalfe of Phillip Sture an infant, the sonne and heire of Tristram Sture;

Concerning a dispute between Sture and Sir Miles Fleetwood over inheritance".