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Hawking (surname)
Hawking is an English language surname with origin from falconry. Variations include '' Hawken'' and '' Hawkins''. Notable people with the surname include: * Fred Hawking (born 1909), Australian rules footballer * Jane Wilde Hawking (born 1944), first wife of Stephen Hawking * Lucy Hawking (born 1970), English journalist and novelist * Michael Hawking (b. 1952), Australian rules footballer * Stephen Hawking (1942–2018), British theoretical physicist * The Hawking Brothers The Hawking Brothers were an Australian country music band, formed in 1955 and disbanded in 1985. They initially started as a duo by the brothers Russell (1931–1976) and Alan (1933–1988). For the five-piece version, the Hawking Brothers & t ..., Australian country music band including brothers Russell and Alan Hawking Fictional characters: * Jim Hawking, character from the anime series ''Outlaw Star'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Hawking English-language surnames Occupational surnames English-language occu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawking (falconry)
Falconry is the hunting of wild animals in their natural state and habitat by means of a trained bird of prey. Small animals are hunted; squirrels and rabbits often fall prey to these birds. Two traditional terms are used to describe a person involved in falconry: a "falconer" flies a falcon; an "austringer" (Old French origin) flies a hawk (''Accipiter'', some buteos and similar) or an eagle ('' Aquila'' or similar). In modern falconry, the red-tailed hawk (''Buteo jamaicensis''), Harris's hawk (''Parabuteo unicinctus''), and the peregrine falcon (''Falco perigrinus'') are some of the more commonly used birds of prey. The practice of hunting with a conditioned falconry bird is also called "hawking" or "gamehawking", although the words hawking and hawker have become used so much to refer to petty traveling traders, that the terms "falconer" and "falconry" now apply to most use of trained birds of prey to catch game. Many contemporary practitioners still use these words in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, as the forename, or at the end; the number of surnames given to an individual also varies. As the surname indicates genetic inheritance, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations; for example, a woman might marry and have a child, but later remarry and have another child by a different father, and as such both children could have different surnames. It is common to see two or more words in a surname, such as in compound surnames. Compound surnames can be composed of separate names, such as in traditional Spanish culture, they can be hyphenated together, or may contain prefixes. Using names has been documented in even the oldest historical records. Examples of surnames are documented in the 11th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawken
The surname Hawken comes from the Nordic given name '' Haakon'', the name of seven Norwegian kings. The given name evolved to ''Hakon'', and variations include: Håkon, Haakon, Horken, Hörken, Hawkin, Hawkins, and Hawken. Hawken is a possible variation of the English language surname " Hawkins". It is also used as a first name, mostly amongst direct Norwegian lineages. People with the name Hawken include: __NOTOC__ * Dominic Hawken (born 1967), keyboard player and session musician * Jacob and Samuel Hawken (1786–1849) and (1792–1884), American gunsmiths * John Hawken (born 1940), English keyboard player * Les Hawken (born 1949), former Australian rules footballer * Nicholas Hawken (1836–1908), English-born Australian politician * Paul Hawken (born 1946) American environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, and activist * Roger Hawken (1878–1947), Australian engineer * Spencer Hawken (born 1973), British director, writer, producer and film critic Given name * Walter Hawken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawkins (name)
The English language surname Hawkins is said by FaNUK (Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland) to have three possible origins. The most usual origin is the forename Hawkin with an original genitival -s (that is, "Hawkin's son") (or else it is Hawkin used as a surname with a later excrescent -s in the early modern period to bring it into line with the predominant style of hereditary surnames with such a genitival -s). It is one of many personal names with the diminutive Middle English suffix -kin (originally from Low German or Dutch) added to a single-syllable hypocoristic form, such as Robert > Hob > Hopkin, Walter > Wat > Watkin, or William > Will > Wilkin. The Middle English personal name Haw is a rhyming fond form of Raw, that is, Ralph. Another possible origin is the placename Hawkinge, near Folkestone, in Kent, England. This was written as ''Hauekinge'' in 1204, based on Old English heafoc (hawk), or more likely this same word used as a personal name. A final 'ng' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Hawking
Fred Hawking (22 September 1909 – 8 September 1988) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the VFL during the 1930s. He was the cousin of Clyde Helmer. Hawking played his career as both a wingman and centreman. He won Geelong's best and fairest in 1935 and was a premiership player in 1937 Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into Fe .... External links * * 1909 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Geelong Football Club players Geelong Football Club Premiership players Mooroopna Football Club players Carji Greeves Medal winners 1988 deaths One-time VFL/AFL Premiership players {{AFL-bio-1909-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Wilde Hawking
Jane Beryl Wilde Hawking Jones (born 29 March 1944) is an English author and teacher. She was married to Stephen Hawking for 30 years. Early life and education Jane was born to George and Beryl Wilde (). She grew up in St Albans, Hertfordshire. She was raised in the Church of England and is an active Christian. She studied languages at the University of London's Westfield College. Jane and Stephen Hawking met through mutual college friends at a party in 1962. Hawking was diagnosed with motor neuron disease (also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS) in 1963. Even aware of his consequent shortened life expectancy and limitations, the couple became engaged in 1964 and married in 1965 in their shared hometown of St Albans. They had three children: Robert, born in 1967, Lucy, born in 1970, and Timothy, born in 1979. After years of working on her doctoral thesis through Westfield College, Hawking received her PhD in medieval Spanish poetry in April 1981. She felt compell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Hawking
Catherine Lucy Hawking (born 2 November 1970) is an English journalist, novelist, educator, and philanthropist. She is the daughter of the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and writer Jane Wilde Hawking. She lives in London, and is a children's novelist and science educator. Early life Lucy Hawking was born in England to scientist Stephen Hawking and author Jane Wilde Hawking. She has two brothers, Robert and Timothy Hawking, and was raised in Cambridge after a few years spent in Pasadena, California, as a child. She attended the Stephen Perse Foundation. As a young adult she was a carer for her father as his health declined due to motor neurone disease. Hawking studied French and Russian at the University of Oxford. During university, she spent time in Moscow to focus on her Russian studies. After completing her degree, she studied international journalism at City University of London. There she decided not to make a career of journalism, though she found it to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Hawking
Michael Hawking (born 1 June 1952) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ... (VFL). Originally from Ovens & Murray Football Netball League, Ovens and Murray Football League (O&MFL) club Rutherglen Football Club, Rutherglen, Hawking played three games for North Melbourne before transferring to Penguin Football Club in Tasmania's North West Football Union (NWFU) as a fly-in, fly-out player. He joined Victorian Football League, Victorian Football Association (VFA) club Caulfield Football Club, Caulfield in 1975, playing 87 matches for them until his retirement in 1980.Piesse, p. 72. References Sources *Piesse, K. (2010) ''The Bears Uncensored'', Cricketbooks.com.au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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