Pedersoli Rocky Mtn Hawken

[Mike in FL]

I was thinking about the RMH, but I am going to wait for a Kibler hawkin.

Hawken, not hawkin.

 

[Spikebuck]

Hawken, not hawkin.

IIRC, originally Hachen (I have also seen Hauchen.) Not sure which generation changed it to the "English" version, Hawken.

This is an excerpt of the family history written by Mildred Messersmith Gray, a relative from Ohio.

"The Hawkens of Miller County have traced our ancestry not to Germany but to a village named Rueggisberg in Bern, Switzerland, a province/region where German was spoken and the religion was Lutheran. Rueggisberg is a municipality in the district of Seftigen in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

Three brothers, Niclaus, Christian and Wolfgang came to America in 1750 on the ship “Sandwich,” landing at Philadelphia. The Hachen (Hawken in English) brothers made their home in Hagerstown, Maryland, where they were gunsmiths. Of the three brothers, Niclaus Hachen is our ancestor. Niclaus and his wife Anna had a son named Christian who would later be known as Christian Sr. His wife’s name was Juliana and they became the parents of nine children. Christian and Juliana’s sons were Samuel, Jacob, Christian Jr., John, George and William. It is among these sons that we find the answer to the question of how the Hawkens of Miller County are related to the famous gunsmiths of St. Louis. The daughters were Margaret, Elizabeth, Nancy and Anna, but this is not their story. The sons of our concern are Samuel, Jacob, Christian Jr., and John in particular. With the exception of John, they moved to St. Louis and in 1825, the brothers, along with a small staff, made their rifles, shotguns, and pistols in their store on Laurel Street."