Ann Ram Wilson formerly Hicks (née Stubbin)

Widow of Richard Lytcott Hicks, remarrying to Robert Wilson. Under her first marriage settlement she had been entitled to an annuity of £300 p.a. on the Clayhill estate on Nevis.

1. The will of Ann Ram Wilson widow [formerly of Phillimore Place, and also of Earls Terrace in Kensington and since of Hastings in Sussex but now] of Higham Suffolk [made in 1832] was proved 02/04/1838. In the will she commented that her grandson Richard L. Hicks was well-provided for, and therefore she left him £300 and his grandfather's plate distinguished by his grandfather's arms or crest while she left the remainder of her property to her daughters Fanny Wilson and Lucy Wilson. The will identified Richard L. Hicks's mother as her [the testator's] daughter-in-law [probably step-daughter] Fanny Hicks, formerly of Brussels but then in London. Ann Ram Wilson must have been the remarried widow of Richard Lytcott Hicks Esq., and the evidence perhaps suggests that Fanny Hicks was the natural daughter of Richard Lytcott Hicks Esq.

2. Marriage settlement [dated 12/10/1780] between (1) Sarah Hicks of Titchfield Street, Middlesex, widow of Thompson Hicks late of the Island of Nevis, esq, and Richard Lytcot [sic] Hicks of Titchfield Street, esq, their only son and heir, (2) Ann Ram Stubbin of Titchfield Street, spinster, and (3) John Brownrigg Leake, jnr, of Hadleigh, Suffolk, gent, and Thomas Wall of Saint Bartholomews Hospital, London, gent, breaking the entails on property bought by Thompson Hicks from George Hatsell of the City of London, gent, viz. a plantation called Clayhill Plantation on the Island of Nevis, with all of its buildings, equipment, slaves and livestock, and creating a trust to pay an annuity of £250 per annum to Sarah Hicks and £300 per annum to Ann Ram Stubbin in lieu of dower. Annexed: affidavit by Hawkins Wall of the Inner Temple, 6 March 1781, declaring that he witnessed the parties' signatures, and certification by the Lord Mayor of London that Wall swore to the truth of the affidavit in accordance with the Act for the more easy recovery of debts in his Majesty's plantations and colonies in America'.

3. Three memorials to her and her daughters were recorded in Stoke-by-Nayland Suffolk: 'Sacred to the memory of Ann Ram Wilson, relict of Robert Wilson, Esq., of Trevalyan, in the county of Denbigh, who died at Higham, Jan. 8, 1838, in the 81st year of her age'; 'In memory of Fanny Wilson, 2nd daughter of Robert and Ann Ram Wilson, born Dec. 10, 1793, died Feb. 15, 1869. A tribute of affection from Lucy, her sorrowing and sole surviving sister'; 'In memory of Lucy Wilson, who died Aug. 4, 1876, aged 79.'

1. PROB 11/1894/280.

2. Godalming Museum, Peter Woods Collections, PWD/2, http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/bb1f667f-0020-4d89-ac1f-f880eb6ee89c [accessed 14/05/2018].

3. C.M. Torlesse, Some Account of Stoke-by-Nayland Suffolk, p. 85.