John Hicks (abt. 1455 - 1492)

Born about 1455 in Gloucestershire, England

Died 1492 at about age 37 in Gloucestershire, England

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Disputed Origins

Many online trees, and even some late 19th/early-mid 20th century genealogies, claim he was the son of one Sir Ellis Hicks (b 1315), but he could not have been, because John was born 140 years later.

In seeking the original source of the claim that John was son of Sir Ellis, we find an 1811 publication that says:

"From him [Sir Ellis Hicks] lineally descends John Hicks, of Titworth, in Goucestershire, Esq., who, dying in the 7th year of King Henry VII, left a son, Robert...."^[1]

Therefore, this John was not SON of Sir Ellis Hicks (if Ellis existed at all), but a DESCENDANT of Ellis.

Biography

John Hicks was born about 1455 possibly in Fortesset, Gloucester, England.^{[citation needed]}

He died in 1492 in Gloucester, England.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ William Playfair, [https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE8154299 British Family Antiquity..., vol 6, p 121.
2. ↑ Nora Estes Snow, The Snow-Estes Genealogy..., Vol. 1, p 196. Says he married Joan Damer; no mention of a wife Margaret. Also says he was father of Thomas Hicks who married Margaret Atwood.

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