it has been suggested that my Matthew's parents were William Hawkins and Priscilla Salmon...of all over Essex, unfortunately.
William and Priscilla married in Finchingfield, had a daughter Priscilla in Helion Bumpstead, a son Christopher in Chelmsford, a son John said to be born in H. B. but not found in the H. B. parish records....and then we have a hitch...there's a William Hawkins and Priscilla maiden name unknown in the Quaker records who are not William Hawkins and Priscilla Salmon, and Matthew was a Quaker...so I may be working the wrong line with William Hawkins and Priscilla Salmon.
lastly, I cannot find Matthew in either H. B. parish records or yet as born in the Quaker records...so my search continues.
I've just looked at my own post, I have since retraced my steps and the place I saw the William Hawkins who m. a Priscilla was in the IGI...not their marriage, but the birth of their daughter Priscilla.
I've requested a search in Coggeshall for the Quaker William and Priscilla and hopefully that will clear up the confusion between the two William Hawkins and Priscilla's-it doesn't help that they are close contemporaries of each other. their children were practically born in the same years. and have the same names, as well. but I haven't found whether they are one and the same couple, yet, that may be.
