Introduction

A free genealogy website for the Dawkins name and variants. Most of the Family Trees are held in a searchable database.. That is because the software used here (The Next Generation) dynamically generates all the trees and reports you could wish for, automatically updating the pages as the information in the underlying database changes. You will always see the most up to date information! You can view the BMD, Census and Parish Register information without registering but you will need to register to view the family data as this has been donated by several kind folk. Most of the families here .are from England, I have very few Dawkins families from the USA. Please consider letting me have a copy of your family file. If you wish to add your family to the database, contact me and I will grant you permission to upload your file. Don't forget this is a work in progress and there are new additions on a regular basis.

Dawkins families were predominantly found in the counties of Devon, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and South Wales. See the distribution maps for more information.

What you will find

Once registered you can search and view the data. You will find my own Essex and Warwickshire families. Other Dawkins families from Essex, London and from various counties that have either been contributed or have been found by me. Dawkins names extracted from the BMD Indexes and those who served in the Military in WW1 along with those names extracted from the census. Also to be found are Dawkins from various Parish Registers. But these are far and few between. They consist mainly of those from Essex and a few from London.

Once you have selected an individual you can display their information as part of an Individual fact sheet or switch to a Pedigree or Descendancy view whichever suits you. Clicking on a Group Sheet ID Number will give you the Family Group report. In any of these views you can follow the links through earlier and later generations: the pages are all dynamic so feel free to roam.

There is also a Surname search. It comes as no surprise that Dawkins heads the most popular surname list, but I have quite a bit of information on related families that hopefully will be of use to you.

Where no country is given in place names this may be assumed to be England, UK, for no other reason than this is where I live. Places in the rest of the world should be given in full and in time I will try to "globalise" all place names. I have also tried to avoid abbreviations in place names wherever possible, as people outside of the local area may not be familiar with these, but please point out any that persist! However I have used the standard Chapman codes for English counties.

Can you help?

I have done my best to ensure that the information has been entered accurately and have cross-checked it wherever possible, but as always if you spot any errors or omissions please let me know and I will correct them. The database is by no means complete: there is still a lot of tidying up to do, particularly on the sources and notes side. More information about existing and new individuals is being added regularly. If you have any information or queries about your Dawkins ancestors, or indeed on any Dawkins anywhere, then I will be pleased to hear from you. Any volunteers for transcriptions will also be welcomed.

Database Statistics People: 2917 (83 Living) Males: 1465 (50.22%) Females: 1449 (49.67%) Unknown: 3 (0.1%) Families: 850 Number of Surnames: 582 Average Lifespan: 62 years 284 days Earliest Born: William DUTTON Born: ABT 1635

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank my Mother for starting me on all of this by encouraging me to research the Dutton line from Snitterfield in Warwickshire.............

Many thanks also to Peter Goodchild for permission to post his Dawkins family from Stapleford Abbots in Essex. Also to Peter Hall and Rita Norris for their Dawkins family from the Rodings in Essex, and to Geoff Pearson for his contribution in tying up some of the loose ends in my own Dawkins family tree. More thanks to Bill Dawkins for his Tottenham Dawkins family maybe they tie up somewhere!!! Also to Neil Dawkins for his St. Pancras Dawkins and to Peter Goodwin for his Dawkins from Moreton in Essex. Thanks to also to Ross Dawkins and Lindsay Reid for their Dawkins family connections in Australia..

Also please visit my websites on the village of Langley near Saffron Walden in Essex, where there are numerous names and families available for viewing and if you are a Dawkins male please consider joining the Dawkins DNA Project.