Lydia (Hicks) Bangs (bef. 1612 - bef. 1636)

Born before 6 Sep 1612 in Bermondsey, Surrey, England

Wife of Edward Bangs — married about 1630 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony [uncertain]

Died before 1636 at about age 23 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony

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Biography

Lydia (Hicks) Bangs immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Lydia Hicks, baptized St. Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, Surrey, 6 September 1612, daughter of Robert Hicks^{[1] [2] [3]}

She sailed with her mother and siblings arriving June 1622 or 1623 Anne ^[4]Emigrated with mother Margaret and siblings (Samuel, Ephraim, Lydia) in arrived June 1622 following her father by a year. ^[5]

On this same ship was Edward Bangs, said to be her husband.^[6]

But:

That she was Edward's first wife at all is circumspect. Her existence as his first wife is based solely on the fact that in 1623, Edward Bangs was allotted four acres-- one acre for each person in his household. Many have interpreted this to mean he had a wife and two children. In addition, if they were a wife and children, they were not on the same ship as he was. By 1627, he is alone in the house, implying that his first wife (if he had one) as well as both children, were dead by that time. Robert Charles Anderson (GMB) comments that the 3 additional people could have been servants.

But (again!):

The will of Robert Hicks (Lydia's father) clearly identifies a grandson John Bangs;^[7] as does the will of Robert's widow Margaret.^[8] This supports that Lydia was not only first wife of Edward Bangs, but mother of his son John.

Sources

1. ↑ London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.Original data - Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1812. London, England: London Metropolitan Archives
2. ↑ St. Mary Magdalene Parish Register image 66 by subscription at: https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1624/31280_199007-00084?pid=2885883#?imageId=31280_199007-00071
3. ↑ The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers Who came to Plymouth on the "Mayflower" in 1620, the "Fortune" in 1621, and the "Anne" and the "Little James" in 1623, by Charles Edward Banks, 2006 reprint by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., pg. 179.
4. ↑ Filby, P. William, ed.. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2009.
5. ↑ North American Family Histories - 6th Generation Hicks Family - by subscription at: https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/61157/46155_b290412-00456?pid=3312857
6. ↑ D.O.S. Lowell, A Munsey-Hopkins Genealogy, being the ancestry of Andrew Chauncey Munsey and Mary Jane Merritt Hopkins, Boston, MA: 1920, pp 57-59: 'He married after 1627 Lydia Hicks, daughter of Robert and Margaret Hicks, by whom he had a son, John Bangs. Lydia died before 1637 and Edward married Rebecca ----, who became the mother of nine children."
7. ↑ "Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories," in Mayflower Descendant, 8:143-144: "Robert Hicks Will... unto John Banges my grand child"
8. ↑ PCPR 2:2:32, abstracted in MD 16:157-58

See also:

• Wikipedia for Lydia Hicks on Anne
• "Edward Bangs," Pilgrim Hall Museum website. Accessed 6/3/2021.
• Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of ..., Volume 2 edited by William Richard (also at Google Books, p 1076