UCL

John William Hicks I

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1800

Biography

Free man of colour, natural son of William Hicks of Bath.

  1. Will of John William Hicks of Walcot Somerset proved 15/05/1800. In the will he left his freehold house at 16 Lansdowne Crescent to his wife Mary, and entailed his British and Jamaican estates for his son John William Hicks and then younger sons.

  2. 'When John William Hicks petitioned [for the privileges of white subjects] for himself [in 1765], he indicated the size of the fortune he had received from his father, as he had been, “in his infancy, sent to England by his said reputed father, and there brought up, educated, and instructed . . . at great expence.”'


Sources

  1. PROB 11/1342/145

  2. D.A. Livesay, Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-Race Migration from the West Indies to Britain, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Michigan, 2010 [forthcoming as of March 2017 from the University of North Carolina Press or the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture], p. 99, sourced to December 18, 1764, CO 140/40, f. 481, NAE.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Spouse
Married but no further details
Children
John William

Associated Estates (2)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1771 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Owner
Hick's Hall [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey ]
1770 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Owner
Pembroke [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey ]

Relationships (2)

John William Hicks I
Father → Son
John William Hicks II
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John William Hicks I
Son → Father
William Hicks of Bath
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Addresses (1)

16 Lansdowne Crescent, Bath, Somerset, South-west England, England
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