Shropshire's Punning Heraldry -Hawkins

 

Hakins, alias Hawkins, alias Edge. (Don't ask me why so many aliases, I have absolutely no idea.)

Arms: Argent, a hawk Proper beaked and legged Or standing on the trunk of a tree Vert couped and raguled (Visitations).

The arms of Hakins, alias Hawkins, alias Edge. 

Less commonly, the name Hawkins traces back to Hawk, used either as a nickname for someone with hawklike features or as an occupational name for a falconer who bred and trained hawks for hunting. In some families, particularly in Kent in South-East England, it originated as a habitational name for someone from Hawkinge (derived from the Old English heafoc, meaning "hawk").