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Sir William Hickman, Knt (1549 - 1625)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England
Death: 1625 (70-80)
Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England
Immediate Family:

Son of Anthony Hickman, Esq. and Rose Throckmorton
Husband of Elizabeth Hickman
Father of Sir Willoughby Hickman, 1st Baronet of Gainsborough; Frances Rokeby and Benjamin Hickman
Brother of Henry Hickman, MP; Margory Blackmore; Walter Hickman, Esq., MP; Mary Phelips; Anthony Hickman and 2 others

Managed by: Woodman Mark Lowes Dickinson, OBE
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About Sir William Hickman

The Hickmans and The Pilgrim Fathers

From http://www.gainsborougholdhall.com/about-the-old-hall/pilgrim-fathers

Although wealthy and well-connected, William Hickman and his redoubtable mother, Rose, who owned the Old Hall from 1596, did have something that put them outside of the establishment. Something they kept quiet about – their religious beliefs.

William and Rose were ardent Puritans. They were protestants in the firmly protestant England of Queen Elizabeth I, but they were unhappy within the Church of England. For them the English Church was still too Catholic in practice and as Puritans they wished to reform the church from within. Consequently they are believed to have become sympathetic to the more radical “Separatists” – a group of English religious dissenters who were considered to be enemies of the Crown. Separatists formed covert networks to worship in secret and to help those trying to flee the country to escape fines, prison or worse. There is plenty of circumstantial evidence to suggest that the Hickmans allowed the Separatist congregation of local preacher John Smyth to worship in secret in the Old Hall. This was a very dangerous path because the monarch was supreme head of the Church and to oppose the monarch was regarded as treason.

Eventually some of the Separatists in the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire areas later became “Pilgrim Fathers” and as religious dissenters, sailed across the Atlantic in the ship “Mayflower” in 1620.

Family

Sir William Hickman1

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Last Edited=29 Dec 2008

    Sir William Hickman is the son of Anthony Hickman and Rose Lock.1

Citations

1.[S229] Burke John and John Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England (1841, reprint; Baltimore, Maryland, USA: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1985), page 263. Hereinafter cited as Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England.
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Sir William Hickman's Timeline

1549
1549
Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England
1575
1575
1602
1602
1604
May 24, 1604
Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England
1625
September 25, 1625
Age 76
1625
Age 76
Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England