Joseph HAWKES b. 1826 Bradford, England married in 1858 at Shelford, near Geelong, Victoria, Australia to Elizabeth MILLER b. 1834, Hamfield, Co Tipperary, Irelanda and were in the Hotspur area in the early 1860s.

Joseph died at Belfast (Port Fairy) in 1869 and Elizabeth remarried to a Frank LAWRENCE and she died in 1901 at South Melbourne.

Joseph HAWKES and Elizabeth MILLER had the following children:

  1. Patrick HAWKES b. 1860, Branxholme, Vic;
  2. Elizabeth HAWKES b. 1860, Hotspur, Vic, d. 1876;
  3. Ann HAWKES b. 1862, Hotspur, Vic, d. 1875;
  4. Mary Josephine HAWKES b. 1864, Portland, Vic, d. 1886;
  5. Patrick HAWKES b. 1866, Belfast, Vic;
  6. John Alison HAWKES b. c1866, d. 1899;
  7. Bridget Sarah HAWKES b. 1868, Belfast, Vic, d. 1872;
  8. Joseph Spencer HAWKES b. 1869, Belfast, Vic, d. 1870;
  9. Charlotte HAWKES b. 1870, Warrnambool, Vic, d. 1871.