Thomas Hacker (abt. 1620 - 1643)

Born about 1620 in East Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England

Ancestors

Died May 1643 at about age 23 in Colston Bassett, Nottinghamshire, England

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Biography

Thomas Hacker was the second son named in the Will of his father, Francis Hacker, which promised him a good inheritance.^[1] Sadly, he died before his father.

His birth was unrecorded but must have been around 1620, given the marriage date of his parents as 1617, with at least one older brother. In 1642, at the beginning of the English civil war, he rode to answer the summons of King Charles I, and less than a year later he was killed in combat near his home at Colston Bassett, and buried 12 May 1643 at the family's parish church at East Bridgford.^[2] He was a Captain of Horse, perhaps in Hastings' Horse^[3]a regiment in which his brother Rowland also served.

There seems to be no record of a marriage or children, if so, unsurprising considering his youth at the time of his death.

Sources

1. ↑ https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D874054
2. ↑ Brown, Cornelius. Lives of Nottinghamshire Worthies. London: H Sotheran & Co, 1882.[1]
3. ↑ http://wiki.bcw-project.org/royalist/horse-regiments/lord-loughborough?s[]=loughborough