Hingham Norfolk Parish Records

Date: 1600 to 1700
Location: Hingham, Norfolk, England
Surnames/tags: Gilman, Clark Jacob Folsom

This page will include transcriptions of Hingham, Norfolk, England parish records, compiled from a variety of sources, including NEHGS Register. It also includes additional genealogical information about immigrants from Hingham, Norfolk to Hingham, Massachusetts

Digital images of the original records (or an early copy of them) can be found here: England, Norfolk Parish Registers, 1538-1900

Information on Hingham, Norfolk can be found at: History of Hingham

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An additional source for the 175 emigrants from Hingham, Norfolk, England who came to New England is Daniel Cushing, an early settler of Hingham, Massachusetts. ^[1] Another source mentions that Daniel was 17 when he emigrated, and it was another 43 years before he compiled the following list.^{[citation needed]}

"A list of the names of such persons as came out of the town of Hingham and Towns adjacent in the County of Norfolk, in the Kingdom of England, into New England, and settled in Hingham, in New England, most of them as followeth:"

1633:

1. Theophilus Cushing lived several years at Mr. Hayne's farm; he died being about 100 years old, blind for the last 25 years of his life.
2. Edmond Hobart, Sr. with wife and son Joshua, and daughters Rebekah and Sarah and their servant Henry Gibbs, settling first at Charlestown and after at Hingham (he, Gibbs, and his sons; no mention of where his daughters went)
3. Ralph Smith
4. Nicholas Jacob with wife and two children, and their cousin Thomas Lincoln, weaver
5. Edmond Hobart [Jr? or a repeat of #2 above?] and his wife
6. Thomas Hobart from Windham, with wife and 3 children
   

1634:

1. Thomas Chubbuck and his wife
   

1635:

1. Mr. Peter Hobart Minister of the Gospell, with his wife and 4 children; pastor at Hingham
2. Mr. Anthony Cooper with wife and 4 sons and 4 daughters and 4 servants
3. John Farrow and his wife and child
4. William Large and his wife
5. George Ludkin and his wife
   

1637:<BR

1. John Tower
2. Samuel Lincoln (lived some time at Salem)
   

1638 (on ship Diligent of Ipswich:

1. Mr. Robert Peck, preacher of the Gospell with wife and 2 children and 2 servants
2. Mr. Joseph Peck with wife, 3 sons and daughter, 2 men servants, 3 maid servants
3. Edward Gillman, with wife, 3 sons, 2 daughters, 3 servants
4. John Foulsham and his wife and two servants
5. Henry Chamberlin, shoemaker, with wife, his mother, and two children
6. Steven Gates, wife, 2 children
7. George Knights, wife, child from Barrow
8. Thomas Cooper, wife, 2 children, 2 servants and two other persons (next two)
9. John Tufts
10. Robert Skouling
11. Mathew Cushing, wife, 4 sons, 1 daughter, wife's sister Frances Ricroft, widow.
12. John Beale, shoemaker, with wife, 5 sons, 3 daughter, 2 servants
13. Elizabeth Sayer & Mary Sayer
14. Francis James, wife, 2 servants (next two)
15. Thomas Sucklin
16. Richard Baxter
17. Philip James, wife, 4 children, 2 servants (next two); Philip died soon after he arrived
18. William Pitts
19. Edward Michell
20. James Buck, with servant (next)
21. John Morfield
22. Steven Paine with wife, 3 sons, 4 servants from Great Ellingham
23. John Sutton, wife, 4 children from Attleboro
24. Steven Lincoln, with wife, and son Steven from Windham
25. Samuel Packer, with wife and chid from Windham
26. Thomas Lincoln from Windham
27. Jeremiah Moore, from Windham
28. Mr. Henry Smith, with wife, 3 sons, 2 daughter, 3 men servants and two maid servants from Ha**en Hall
29. Thomas Mayer from Ha**en Hall (travelling with Henry Smith)
30. Mr. Bozone Allen, with wife, and two servants from Lynn
31. William Riply, with wife and 4 children
32. Mathew Hawk

Apparently another 31 from in and around Hingham, Norfolk, came over through 1639 who also settled in "New Hingham," Massachusetts.

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Additional sources relative to the Hingham, Norfolk families of Hingham, Massachusetts (listed in chronological order by publication):

1. Arthur Gilman, The Gilman family traced in the line of Hon. John Gilman, of Exeter, N. H. : with an account of many other Gilmans in England and America, Albany, NY: 1869; p. 38. Claims that Mary Gilman, dau of Edward and Mary (Clark) Gilman, was bapt in Hingham August 1615 and that she married John Foulsham/Folsom.
2. Rev. Nathaniel S. Folsom, "The Folsom Family," in NEHGS Register, Boston, MA: NEHGS 30 (1876):207-
   This source claims that John Folsom, 23 or 24, came on the Diligent 26 Apr 1638 (sail date), landing at Boston 10 Aug 1638, with his wife, who he claims was daughter (even eldest child) of Edward and Mary (Clark) Gilman who also came on the same ship, along with additional Gilman offspring, Edward (under 21), John and Moses, Sarah and Lydia (who m. Daniel Cushin in 1645)
3. Jacob Chapman, A Genealogy of the Folsom Family, Concord, NH: Republican Press Association (1882); p 8 repeats previous claims that John Folsom married Mary, dau of Edward and Mary (Clark) Gilman.
4. Elizabeth Knowles Folsom, Genealogy of the Folsom family : a revised and extended edition, including English records 1638-1938, Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle, 1938. (Available on Ancestry.com)
5. George Sumner Mann, "Captain Albert Alonzo Folsom," in NEHGS Register Boston, MA: NEHGS, 62(1908):215. Repets that John Foulsham m. 4 Oct 1636 Mary, dau of Edward and Mary (Clark) Gilman.