1. C16th
1.1. 1598 Joanne Hawkings baptised (Bishop's Transcripts)
2. C17th
2.1. 1607 Flood.30 villages inundated including Berrow Mark Lympsham East and South Brent. 26 people died in Brean
2.2. 1609 William Hawkings buried
2.3. 1637 Land at Brean sold to William Cann “The down or warren called Brean Down and the newly built Brean Down famhouse”
2.4. 1685 Battle of Sedgemoor
3. C18th
3.1. 1700-1750
3.1.1. 1726 James Hawkings baptised, son of Joseph Hawkings
3.1.2. 1729 St Bridgets Church struck by lightning and the tower destroyed.
3.1.3. 1730 Hannah Hawkings buried, daughter of Joseph and wife Joan
3.1.4. 1742 Act of Parliament ordered that sand sedge be planted at Berrow to help stabilise the dunes
3.1.5. 1745 -Jacobite Rebellion - Bonnie Prince Charlie.
3.1.6. 1748 James father of Jeremiah born, son of James and Hannah
3.2. 1750-1800
3.2.1. 1769 John Wesley preached at Southfield Farm Berrow
3.2.2. 1770 Start of enclosures of Somerset Levels
3.2.3. 1773 Jeremiah, Great-Grandfather of Jesse Hawkings baptised at Berrow. - - his own Grandfather, James (the Elder) was churchwarden at the time
3.2.4. 1785 - Cornelius, the son of James and Sarah Harris was baptised he was also the Great-Grandfather of Jesse Hawkings.
3.2.5. 1789 George Washington becomes the first President of the U.S.A.
3.2.6. 1790 William Corley marries Mary Hawkins at St Albans Abbey
3.2.7. 1795 Sluice gates proposed on the Axe to prevent flooding
3.2.8. 1797 Samuel Farren Corley baptised at St Albans Abbey.
3.2.9. 1799 Bad flooding. Act of Parliament applied for to build sluice.
4. C19th
4.1. 1800's
4.1.1. 1802 Jeremiah Hawkings marries Mary Harris at Berrow.
4.1.2. 1802 Plan for flood gates at Hobbs Boat agreed
4.1.3. 1803 Jane Bridges baptised at the Parish Church of Hollesley in Suffolk.
4.1.4. 1804 Frederick, Grandfather of Jesse Hawkinqs born at Berrow.
4.1.5. 1805 Somerset Coal canal openend
4.1.6. 1809 1809 -John, son of Samuel Somner Tripp of Edithmead and Grandfather of Annie Corley baptised at Burnham. 1812
4.2. 1810's
4.2.1. 1810 In 1810, the town's very first hotel was built. Part of this original hotel can still be seen within the present-day Royal Hotel
4.2.2. 1810 Flood Gates at Hobbs Boat completed
4.2.3. 1810 Cargo boat Rebecca from the West Indies washed up at Brean with cargo of rum
4.2.4. 1812 -Sarah Harris, the Grandmother of Jesse Hawkings born on April 4th
4.2.5. 1812 Frederick Hawkings father of Edmund born, grandfather of Jesse.
4.2.6. 1812 Napoleons Retreat from Moscow - George III still King of England.
4.2.7. 1815 1815 - Battle of Waterloo - quiet year for the Hawkings Family.
4.3. 1820's
4.3.1. 1827 Bridgwater Taunton canal open
4.4. 1830's
4.4.1. 1831 Frederick Hawkings marries Sarah Harris at Berrow James Hawkings, the Great-Grandfather of Edmund, died.
4.4.2. 1832 Edmund Hawkings, father of Jesse, was born.
4.5. 1840's
4.5.1. 1840 Mary Hembry mother of Jesse born. Mary Ann Tripp, mother of Annie Corley, born in London
4.5.2. 1840 - First postage stamps issued -Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand - Queen Victoria now on the Throne.
4.5.3. 1841 Ferrand Albert Corley born.
4.5.4. 1841 Railway arrived in Weston. The train carriages had to be drawn part of the way to the station by horses, as some residents had complained that they didn't want noisy steam engines operating in the town.
4.5.5. 1847 Edward Champion, father of Ethel Champion born.
4.6. 1850's
4.6.1. 1850 Jeremiah Hawkinqs died and buried at Berrow, July 20th.
4.6.2. 1853 Railway line extended to Burnham
4.6.3. 1858 First trans-channel boat, the Taliesin, arrived
4.7. 1860's
4.7.1. 1860 Edmund Hawkings marries Mary Hembry at Burnham - Frederick Hawkings his father dies
4.7.2. 1861 Jesse Edmund Hawkings born at Berrow -son of Edmund and Mary Hembry
4.7.3. 1861 Ferrand Corley and Mary Ann Tripp are married at Islington - Start of American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln is President.
4.7.4. 1862 Annie Sarah Corley born.
4.7.5. 1867 Fort built on Brean Down -
4.8. 1870's
4.8.1. 1872 Brean Down Fort completed
4.8.2. 1875 Somerset County Cricket Club formed
4.8.3. 1877 Ethel Annie Champion born -
4.8.4. 1877 Disraeli is Prime Minister
4.9. 1880's
4.9.1. 1883 a gale brought down the sea wall at Brean
4.9.2. 1883 Land at Brean sold to William Wyndham who lived at Dinton, Salisbury
4.9.3. 1885 Jesse Hawkings marries Annie Corley in London - Mr Gladstone is the Prime Minister and Lord Selbourne 1s the Lord Chancellor with Ferrand Corley his Private Secretary.
4.9.4. 1886 Birth of Ferrand Hawkings.
4.10. 1890's
4.10.1. 1892 Edmund Hawkings dies and Jesse succeeds him at Northam.
4.10.2. 1897 Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee -
4.10.3. 1897 shipwreck of the Norwegian barque SS Nornen, which ran aground on 3 March 1897.
4.10.4. 1897 Marqaret Hawkings born this year.
5. C20th
5.1. 1900's
5.1.1. 1900 Magazine exploded at Brean Down Fort –
5.1.2. 1900 Annie Hawkings died
5.1.3. 1900 Sarah Cook, Grandmother of Jesse Hawkinqs dies aged 92.
5.1.4. 1900 Jesse Hawkings marries Ethel Champion
5.1.5. 1900 Brean Down Fort exposion
5.1.6. 1902 End of the Boer War.
5.1.7. 1904 Sarah Cook, Grandmother of Jesse Hawkinqs dies aged 92.
5.1.8. 1906 Ferrand Hawkings marries Esther Johnston in Canada -
5.1.9. 1906 Ferrand Corley Jr. appointed to Christian Colleqe, Madras. 1907 -
5.1.10. 1907 Jesse Hawkings and Family move to Brean Down following the death of Edward Champion
5.2. 1910's
5.2.1. 1912 Brean Down established as a bird sanctuary by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.-
5.2.2. 1917 Jesse Hawkings gored to death by bull at his farm. 1919
5.2.3. 1917 Burnham officially became Burnham-On-Sea
5.2.4. 1919 Ferrand Albert Corley died.
5.3. 1920's
5.4. 1930's
5.4.1. 1939 In World War Two, bombing raids on Weston Super Mare wreaked considerable havoc and this period will be remembered as a bleak time in local history. Parts of the town that were destroyed included the Boulevard and the High Street.