Hickmotts of Horsmonden And Goudhurst KENT 1550-1850
Sources: IGI (M1558-1876), C (1733-1875) Horsmonden Parish Registers: B (1703-1840) KFHS Fiche 1798 (Horsmonden CMB 1558-1732, M –1837, C 1733-81 & 1813-38)
Overview
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, published in 1798, recorded that the Parish of Horsemonden, as it was then spelled, is ’full four miles in length from north to south, but its breadth is but small, in some places not more than one, and in its broadest part not more than two miles. The high road from Maidstone through Yalding to Lamberhurst and Sussex, runs through the whole length of the parish; that from Watringbury [sic] over Brandt bridge through Brenchley towards Goudhurst crosses this parish and the other road, at a small green called Horsemonden-heath, which is built round with houses, forming the only village in the parish, the rest of the houses being dispersed singly over different parts’.
The survey continued that the parish was then ‘much interspersed with coppice woods of oak … [that] grow to a large size, and become sometimes nearly equal in value to the freehold of the estates. The church stands, with the parsonage, about a quarter of a mile distant from [the village], very near the southeast boundary of the parish … A fair is held on St. Swithin's day, now by the alteration of the style on July 26, for cattle, pedlery and toys’. The manor of Horsemonden was said to be originally ‘part of the ancient possessions of the archbishopric of Canterbury’. It was subsequently owned by a number of established families including those of William de Albrincis, Hamo de Crevequer, Richard de Rokesle and his two daughters Joane and Agnes, Robert de Poynings, Stephen Darell and his wife Agnes, Richard Payne, William Beswicke of Spelmonden, and James Marriott. As the local parish registers show, the ordinary denizens of Horsmonden named many of their children after their more esteemed neighbours and patrons as well as, of course, England’s aristocratic rulers.
The parish registers, together with lists of early wills for the county of Kent, indicate that a number of families of Hickmotes, as the name was then spelled, lived in and around Horsemonden and neighbouring Goudhurst from at least the late 1400s. Heads of the earliest recorded families at Horsmonden included Richard, Bartholemew and Henry Hickmote whose wills were proven in 1500, 1517 and 1528 respectively. Exactly where these and the other first-mentioned Hickmotes sit in the overall family tree still remains to be determined. At present our detailed knowledge of the Horsmonden lines of the Hickmott clan begin with the last will and testament of William Hickmott, a clothier of Horsmonden, which was made out on 28 May 1545 (‘the twentieth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles’) and was proven shortly afterwards. This indicates that William and a number of his siblings – Thomas, John, Alexander, Stephen, Robert, Leonard and Elizabeth - were then living in the parish, that he was married to Alice, and that they had a daughter, (unnamed and who had yet to reach the age of 21) and one or possibly two sons, Thomas and William. It seems also to suggest that William may have owned a farm in the area.
Unfortunately the will gave no indication of William’s age, who his parents were, or whether or not his various siblings were married. Nevertheless, the details provided by the will, when combined with data from the parish registers (shown below) and other sources, enable us to make connections between a significant number of the Hickmotes/Hickmotts who have lived at or have
1 come from Horsmonden. These connections (some of which are best guesses and still need to be proven) are listed on my ‘Hickmotts of Horsmonden’ Family Tree on Rootsweb). They include the family and descendants of Stephan Hickmott and Joane Iden, who were married at Horsmonden in 1559 and Thomas Hickmott and Elizabeth Kingswoode, who were married there in 1568. Early individuals and families that I have not as yet been able to make connections to include Laurence Hickmott who died at Horsmonden in 1563 and had at least three children: Humphrey, who was born at Horsmonden in 1563 and probably died at Northiam in Sussex in 1593, Thomas, who died at Horsmonden in 1566, and Joane who was buried at Horsmonden in 1567.
Detailed Statistics (marriages, deaths and births/baptisms)
Date Names Place Ref
1500s c1500 Richard HICKMOTE Horsmonden will c1517 Bartholemew HICKMOTE Horsmonden will c1528 Henry HICKMOTE Horsmonden will c1541 Mathew HICKMOTE Horsmonden will c1545 William HICKMOTT, clothier Horsmonden will c1555 John HICKMOTE jnr Horsmonden will c1558 John HICKMOTE snr Horsmonden will
08 Oct 1559 Stephan HICKEMOTE/Joane IDEN Horsmonden igi
09 Jun 1559 Anne HICKMOTE Horsmonden reg
30 Mar 1560 Mylderede HICKMOTE Horsmonden reg
16 Jun 1560 Joane HICKMOTE/Thomas SEMARKE Horsmonden igi
25 Dec 1561 Agnes HICKMOTE Horsmonden reg
Humfrey (1563, Horsmonden; Laurence) reg The National Burial Index shows that an ‘Umphry’ Hickmot was buried at Northiam (near Benenden) in Sussex on 20 June1593.
19 Mar 1563 Laurence HICKMOTE Horsmonden reg
2 06 Dec 1563 William HICKEMOTE/Marye MERRYHAM Horsmonden igi
09 Jan 1564 Godlye HICKEMOTE widow/ Richarde DOWNAR Horsmonden igi
John (1565, Horsmonden; Stephan) reg Richarde DOWNER (1566, Horsmonden; Richarde) reg Stephan (1563, Horsmonden; Stephan) reg
16 May 1566 Thomas HICKMOTE, son of Laurence Horsmonden reg
25 Dec 1566 Christian DOWNAR, son of Richarde Horsmonden reg
26 Jan 1567 Joane HICKMOTE, dau of Laurence Horsmonden reg
07 Mar 1567 Unnamed HICKMOTE, dau of John snr Horsmonden reg
08 Jul 1568 Marge HICKMOTE, wife of William Horsmonden reg My guess, still to be confirmed, is that this is William’s first wife, Maryre Kingswoode and that the name has been mis-transcribed.
08 Aug 1568 Joane HICKEMOTE/Roberte CROFTE Horsmonden igi
Marye (1568, Horsmonden; Wyllyam) reg
27 Oct 1568 Thomas HICKMOTE snr, yeoman Horsmonden reg
26 Oct 1568 Thomas HICKMOTE jnr/Eliz KINGSWOODE Horsmonden igi
22 Nov 1568 William HICKMOTE/Margarete HENELY Horsmonden igi
10 Jul 1570 Mary HICKMOTE, dau of Thomas Horsmonden reg
William (1570, Horsmonden; Thomas) reg Stephan (1570, Horsmonden; Stephan) reg William CROFTE (1570, Horsmonden; Robert) reg William (1571, Horsmonden; William) reg Elnar (1571, Horsmonden; Stephan) reg
23 Dec 1572 George HICMOTTE/Marie AUSTEN Goudhurst igi
Thomas (1573, Horsmonden; Thos & Eliz)=Elizabeth Usborne in 1597 Agnes (1574, Horsmonden; William) reg John (1574, Horsmonden; Thos & Eliz)=Ann Wragley at Horsmonden in 1605 Joane (1576, Horsmonden; Stephan) reg
14 Sep 1576 Ellinor HICKMOTE/John WATTES Horsmonden igi
Mary (1578, Horsmonden; Thomas) reg
3 c1580 Bartholemew HICKMOTE Horsmonden will
Elizabeth (1582; Thomas) reg 20 Apr 1586 Joane HICKMOTE, wife of Stephan Horsmonden reg
Margery (1586; Thomas) reg
26 Jan 1588 Stephan HICKMOTE, snr Horsmonden reg
09 Jun 1588 Martha HICKMOTE/Nicholas WALCHER Horsmonden igi
17 Jul 1590 John HICKMOTE, son of Stephan Horsmonden reg
Marge (1590, Horsmonden; dau of Frances HICKMOTT) reg
17 Jan 1591 Stephan HICKMOTE/Mary HODGEKYNE Horsmonden igi
John (1592, Horsmonden; Stephan) reg
01 Jul 1593 Anna HICKEMOTE/Richarde RYCHARDSON Horsmonden igi
09 Oct 1593 Elizabeth HICKMOTE, wife of Thomas Horsmonden reg
Wyllyam (1594, Horsmonden; Stephan) reg
04 Aug 1594 John HICKMOTE/Marye STONESTREATE Horsmonden igi
28 Nov 1594 Thomas HICKEMOTE/Ruthe BAKER wid Horsmonden igi
Robert (1595; John jnr) reg
10 Oct 1596 Joane HICKMOTE/Arthur LYDYE Horsmonden reg
08 Apr 1597 Annah HICKMOTE, wife of Thomas Horsmonden reg
11 Apr 1597 Thomas HICKMOTE/Elizabethe USBORNE Horsmonden igi
Stephan (1597, Horsmonden; Stephan) reg
26 Jul 1597 John HICKMOTE, son of John Horsmonden reg
23 Dec 1597 Alice HICKMOTE Horsmonden reg
18 Apr 1598 Elnor HICKEMOTE/Lancelot SYMONS Horsmonden igi
26 May 1598 infant HICKMOTE, son of John jnr Horsmonden reg
4 Anna (1598; John) reg Ruthe (1598, Horsmonden; Thomas jnr) reg George (1599; John the elder) reg
c1799 William HICKMOT Goudhurst will William’s last will and testament, made out in the ‘one and fortieth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth’, indicated that he was a yeoman of Goudhurst, that his wife was named Margaret, that he had at least four children at the time of his death – Mary, Thomas, Richard and William – and that he owned land at Lamberhurst and Brenchley. 1600s
29 Jan 1600 Ruthe HICKMOTE, dau of Thomas Horsmonden reg
John (1600; John) reg Thomas (1600, Horsmonden; Stephan) reg
11 Jan 1601 John SYMONS, son of Launcellat Horsmonden reg
Thomas (1601, Horsmonden; Thos & Eliz dau of Wm Usborne) reg True (1601; John) reg Margaret (1603; John & Mary Stonestreat) Margaret (1602, Horsmonden; Thomas of ‘Rucke’) reg John (1603, Horsmonden; Stephan) reg Margaret (1603, Horsmonden; John of Ringshill) reg William (1603, Horsmonden; Thos & Eliz Usborne)=Alice Bould in 1631 reg Elizabeth (1604, Horsmonden; Thomas of Rucke) reg c1604 Thomas HICKMOTT, clothier Horsmonden will 19 Oct 1604 Thomas HICKMOTE of Rucke Horsmonden reg 14 Jul 1605 Marye HICKMOTE, wife of John Horsmonden reg 31 Aug 1605 Margaret HICKMOTE, dau of John Horsmonden reg
22 Jul 1605 Margery HICKMOTE/Nicholas MACE Horsmonden reg
05 Aug 1605 John HICKMOTE/Anna WRAGLEY Horsmonden igi
Elizabeth=Unknown Shellip (bef 1648)
John (1605, Horsmonden; Thomas jnr) reg Roberte (1605, Horsmonden; Stephan) reg Richarde SIMONS (1605; Launcellot0 reg
31 May 1606 Mary HICKMOTE/Mathew BROWN Goudhurst igi
Alexander (1606/7, Horsmonden; Thomas jnr) reg Margarete (1606, Horsmonden; John) reg Bridget SYMONS (1607, Horsmonden; Launcellot) reg
5 27 Apr 1607 Ruth HICKMOTE, wife of Thomas Horsmonden reg 09 Jan 1608 John HICKMOTE, of ‘Chewae’ Horsmonden reg
Anthony (1608, Horsmonden; John & Anna) Richard (1608, Horsmonden; Thos & Eliz Usborne) Harry (1608, Horsmonden; Stephan) reg c1608 Thomas HICKMOTT Horsmonden will 17 Jun 1609 Margarete HICKMOTE, dau of Thomas Horsmonden reg
Richarde (1609, Horsmonden; Thomas) reg Anthony (1609, Horsmonden; John) reg
27 Nov 1610 Harry HICKMOTE Horsmonden reg
Stephen (1609, Horsmonden; Thomas) reg Mary (1609, Horsmonden; Thomas) reg Robert SYMONS (1610, Horsmonden; Launcellot) reg Mary (1611, Horsmonden; Thos & Eliz Usborne) Frances (1610, Horsmonden; John) reg
03 Feb 1611 Margaret HICKMOTE Horsmonden reg
Roberte (1612, Horsmonden; Thomas) reg
31 May 1613 Mary HICKMOT/William WILKINSON Horsmonden igi
Elizabeth (1613, Horsmonden; Thomas) reg
22 Jun 1614 infant HICKMOTE, dau of Thomas Horsmonden reg
04 Jul 1614 Eliz HICKMOTE/John FURNER Horsmonden reg
Margary (1614, Horsmonden; John) reg
21 Sep 1614 Thomas HICKMOTE Horsmonden will
Leonard (1616, Horsmonden; Thomas) reg
10 Apr 1620 Elizabeth HICKMOT, wife of Thomas Horsmonden reg
15 Jun 1625 Ann HICKMOTE Horsmonden reg
19 Sep 1626 Mary HICKMOTT/Simon DARTNALL Horsmonden reg
05 Nov 1628 Thomas HICKMOT/Marie DARBY Horsmonden igi
26 Aug 1631 William HICKMOTE/Alce BOULD lic Horsmonden igi
28 Nov 1631 Thomas HICKMOT/Ann TURNER lic Horsmonden igi
6 Henry (1632, Horsmonden; Thomas) reg James (1632-1636, Horsmonden; Thomas) reg William (1632, Horsmonden) reg
17 Apr 1633 Mary HICKMOTT, fd of Stephen Horsmonden reg
Elizabeth (1633, Horsmonden; William & Alice) reg Joane (1635, Horsmonden; Thomas & Marie) Thomas (1634, Horsmonden; William & Alice) reg
10 Oct 1637 Geoffrey HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg
Martha (1637, Horsmonden; William & Alice Bould) Joane (1637, Horsmonden; Thomas & Mary) reg John (1637-1703, Horsmonden; George & Eliz) reg
13 Jan 1638 Elizabeth HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg
Martha (1638, Horsmonden; William & Alice) reg
11 Feb 1639 Alexander HICKMOTT/Jane DANIEL Horsmonden igi
John (1639, Horsmonden; William & Alice) reg
13 Apr 1640 Alexander HICKMOT/Elsabeth HODGE lic Horsmonden igi
Walter (1640, Horsmonden; George & Eliz) reg
04 Jun 1640 William HICKMOTT, son of William Horsmonden reg
20 Jul 1641 Elizabeth HICKMOT/George DAY Horsmonden igi
Alexander (1641-41, Horsmonden; Alexander & Eliz) reg
Alice (1641-2, Horsmonden; William & Alice) reg c1641 Thomas HICKMOTT Horsmonden will 21 Apr 1641 Robert HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg 07 May 1641 Elizabeth HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg 20 Jul 1641 Thomas HICKMOTT, an ancient yeoman Horsmonden reg
Eliz (1642, Horsmonden; George & Eliz) Mary (1643, Horsmonden; Alexander & Mary) reg
01 Apr 1643 Elizabeth HICKMOTT, widow of George Horsmonden reg
Eliz (1644, Horsmonden; Alexander & Jane) Susan (1644, Horsmonden; William & Alice) reg Eliz DAY (1644, Horsmonden; George & Eliz) reg Eliz (1645, Horsmonden; Leonard & Eliz) reg
7 Mary (1646, Horsmonden; William & Alice)=Henry Browning reg
03 Apr 1646 John HICKMOTE, husbandman Horsmonden reg 15 Jan 1647 Elizabeth HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg
Susannah DAY (1647, Horsmonden; George & Eliz) reg
05 Dec 1648 Mary HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg
Alexander (1648, Horsmonden; Alexander & Mary) reg Mary DAY (1648, Horsmonden; George & Eliz) reg Joan DAY (1649, Horsmonden; George & Eliz) reg Alice (1650, Horsmonden; Alexander) reg Eliz (1650-1706, Horsmonden; Leonard & Eliz) reg Thomas (1651, Horsmonden; John & Agnes) reg Anne (1652, Horsmonden; Alexander & Mary) reg Jone (1652, Horsmonden; John & Jone) reg
28 Apr 1652 Alexander HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg
John (1653, Horsmonden; John & Agnes) reg
22 Oct 1654 infant HICKMOTT, child of Leonard Horsmonden reg
Steven (1655, Horsmonden; John & Ann) reg Mary (1656, Horsmonden; Leonard & Eliz) reg
25 Sep 1658 Elizabeth HICKMOTT, wife of Leonard Horsmonden reg 03 Nov 1659 Ann HICKMOTT, wife of Thomas Horsmonden reg
Mary (1661, Horsmonden; John & Ann) reg George, Thomas, Joseph, Susan and June DAY (1662, Horsmonden; Sons and daughters of Geoge & Eliz DAY his former wife) reg
[c1669 John HICKMOTT of Ramshill/Elizabeth BARNES reg]
John (1669, Horsmonden; John & Eliz) reg Anthony (1670, Horsmonden; John & Elizabeth) mi/reg William (1671, Horsmonden; Thomas) reg John (1674, Horsmonden; Thomas & Mary) reg
08 May 1677 Thomas HICKMOTT/Mary MASTERS, wid lic Horsmonden igi
13 Mar 1677 the widow HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg
Stephen (1677, Horsmonden; Thos & Mary) reg
13 Apr 1678 Thomas HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg
Thomas (1678, Horsmonden; Thos of Hazell St & Mary)=Mary Russell reg
8 11 Jun 1679 Mary HICKMOTT/John MONK Horsmonden igi
Ann (1679, Horsmonden; Thomas & Mary)=Robert Jerrett reg
24 Dec 1679 John HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg 12 Jun 1680 infant HICKMOTT, child of John Horsmonden reg
Mary (1681, Horsmonden; Thomas & Mary)=Henry Styles reg John (1684, Horsmonden; Thos & Mary)=Ann Russell reg
06 Dec 1685 Richard HICKMOTT/Mercy BEECHIN Goudhurst igi
William (1685, Horsmonden; Thos & Mary) reg Leonard (1687, Horsmonden; Thos & Mary)=Margaret reg Ann (1688, Horsmonden; Thos & Mary)=John Martin reg Elizabeth (1694, Horsmonden; Thos & Mary) reg Jane (1696, Horsmonden; Thos & Mary) reg Elizabeth (1697, Horsmonden; William & Alice) reg
12 Dec 1699 Anthony HICKMOTT, 29 Horsmonden mi Only son of John & Eliz Hickmott
1700s
Thomas (1700, Horsmonden; Thomas & Mary)
13 Apr 1703 John HICKMOTT of Ramshill, 66 Horsmonden reg/mi Husband of Elizabeth Barnes and father of Anthony
Martha (1705-08, Horsmonden; William & Alice) reg
19 Apr 1705 Sarah HICKMOT Goudhurst nbi
09 Jul 1705 Thomas HICKMOTT of Marden Horsmonden reg
William John (1706, Horsmonden; William & Alice) reg
03 May 1706 John HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg
John (1709, Horsmonden, Leonard & Margaret) reg Stephen (1708, Horsmonden; William & Alice) reg Mary (1708/9, Horsmonden; Thomas & Ann) reg
23 Aug 1709 Thomas HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg
01 Mar 1710 Mary HICKMOT Goudhurst nbi
9 25 Aug 1710 Elizabeth HICKMOTT, widow Horsmonden reg
16 Nov 1710 Elizabeth HICKMOTT, 70 widow Horsmonden reg/mi Daughter of John Barnes, wife of John Hickmott of Ramshill and mother of Anthony Hickmott (1670-1699).
[ 1710 Leonard HICKMOTT/Margaret Horsmonden ] Leonard was born at Horsmonden in 1687, the son of Thomas and Mary Hickmott (nee Masters). Leonard and Margaret had four children we know of, all baptised at Horsmonden: John (1709), William (1711), Mary (1712) and Thomas (1714).
Frances (1710/1, Horsmonden; William & Alice) reg William (1711, Horsmonden; Leonard & Margaret)=Elizabeth Walters in 1739 reg Joan (1711, Horsmonden; John & Eliz) reg Michael (1711, Horsmonden; John & Eliz) reg
01 Jan 1711 Thomas HICKMOTT, 59 yeoman Horsmonden reg Husband of Mary Masters and father of ten children all born at Horsmonden.
11 May 1712 Mary HICKMOTT/George PEIRSON Horsmonden igi
Mary (1712, Horsmonden; Leonard & Margaret) reg
24 Feb 1712 Alice HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg
[14 Jun 1713 John HICKMOTT/Ann(e) RUSSELL both of Horsmonden East Farleigh igi] We think John was born at Horsmonden in around 1684, the son of Thomas Hickmott and Mary Masters. He and Ann had three children at Horsmonden - Susan (1714), John (1716)=Mary, and Thomas (1718)=Elizabeth Inge at Lamberhurst in 1746 - one at Pembury (William in 1720), and eight at Lamberhurst: Ann (1722); Joseph (1727); Russell (1728)=Sarah Chandler at Lamberhurst in 1763; Richard (1729); Mary (1731); Timothy (1732); Elisabeth (1734); and Elisabeth (1736)
04 Oct 1713 Frances HICKMOTT, dau of William Horsmonden reg The LDS IGI shows that a William Hickmott and Alice Tyler had two children baptized at Brenchley: Ann (1701) and Mary (1703). As shown above, an Alice Hickmott was buried at Horsmonden in 1712.
25 Feb 1713 Susan HICKMOTT, infant Horsmonden reg
Susan (1713, Horsmonden; John & Ann) reg Thomas (1714, Horsmonden; Leonard & Margaret) reg
22 Jan 1714 Leonard HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg
[03 Apr 1714 William HICKMUT (w) / Sarah YEOMANS (w) both of Yalding West Farleigh reg]
10 07 Nov 1715 Jane HICKMOTT lic Episc/Thomas LAW/LOWHorsmonden reg
Susannah (1715, Horsmonden; John & Ann) reg William (1715, Horsmonden; Wm of Buckingfielday & Sarah) reg John (1716, Horsmonden; John & Ann) reg James (1717, Horsmonden; William & Sarah) reg Thomas (1718, Horsmonden; John & Ann) reg Ann (1719, Horsmonden; Thomas & Ann) reg
09 May 1719 Stephen HICKMOTT of Bookingfield Horsmonden reg
17 Apr 1722 Mary HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg
08 Jan 1723/4 Elizabeth HICKMOTT widow Horsmonden reg
30 Jul 1723 Elizabeth HICKMOTT, wife of John Horsmonden reg
11 Mar 1724 Mary HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg 27 Apr 1755 Richard HICKMOT Goudhurst nbi
06 Mar 1726 Mary HICKMOTT, 73 Horsmonden mi Probably Mary Masters, wife of John Hickmott.
04 Dec 1730 Thomas HICKMOT/Mary RUSSELL Horsmonden igi Thomas was probably the son of Thomas Hickmott and Mary Masters. Born at Horsmonden in 1678, he and Mary had at least three children, all born at Horsmonden: Alice (1734), Thomas (1736) and Mary (1740).
Alice (1734, Horsmonden; Thomas & Mary) igi
27 Feb 1736 Mary HICKMOTT/Thomas DUDDY Horsmonden igi
Thomas (1736, Horsmonden; Thos & Mary) igi
21 Oct 1739 William HICKMOT/Eliza WALTER(S) Horsmonden igi Born at Horsmonden in 1711, William was the son of Leonard and Margaret Hickmott of Horsmonden. He died at Horsmonden in 1765. Elizabeth was born at Hawkhurst in 1711 and died in Horsmonden in 1799. They had eight children we know of, all born at Horsmonden: John (1740), Thomas (1741), Mary (1743), Thomas (1746), Leonard (1748), Walter (1752), Henry (1755) and Margaret (1758).
John (1740, Horsmonden; Wm & Eliza Walter)=Ann Batten Mary (1740, Horsmonden; Thomas & Mary) igi Mary (1740, Horsmonden; Thos & Mary) Elizabeth (1742-3, Horsmonden; John & Suzannah) igi Thomas (1741, Horsmonden; Wm & Elizabeth) igi
27 Mar 1743 Elizabeth HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg
11 05 May 1743 John HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg
Mary (1743, Horsmonden; Wm & Eliza Walter)=Edward Apps igi Anne (1744, Brenchley; John) igi John (1744, Horsmonden; John & Susannah) igi Thomas (1745, Horsmonden; Wm & Eliza Walter) igi
08 Jun 1747 Ann HICKMOT/Richard MERWOOD of Staplehurst Horsmonden
01 Aug 1746 Thomas HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg
10 Oct 1747 Thomas HICKMOTT of Marden Horsmonden reg
Leonard (1748, Horsmonden; Wm & Eliza Walter) igi
10 Oct 1748 Thomas HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg
14 Jun 1749 Ann HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg
Frances (1750, Horsmonden; Isaac & Ann) igi James (1751, Horsmonden; Isaac) igi Walter (1752, Horsmonden; Wm & Eliza Walter) igi
09 Oct 1753 James HICKMOT Goudhurst nbi
Henry (1754, Horsmonden; William & Eliza) igi
04 Sep 1754 Elizabeth HICKMOT Goudhurst nbi
17 Oct 1756 Rachel HICKMOT Goudhurst nbi
10 Oct 1758 Mary HICKMOTT/William MERCER Horsmonden igi
Margaret (1758, Horsmonden; Wm & Eliza Walter) igi
24 Apr 1763 John HICKMOT/Anne BATTIN Horsmonden igi John was born at Horsmonden in 1740, the eldest son of William Hickmott and Elizabeth Walters of Horsmonden. Anne was from Horsmonden. They had at least six children all born at Horsmonden: Elizabeth (1763), William (1765), Mary (1767), Anne (1770), Susannah (1777) and Sarah (1781).
Elizabeth (1763, Horsmonden; John & Ann) igi
26 Mar 1763 Elizabeth HICKMOTT Goudhurst reg
27 Dec 1763 Mary HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg
William (1765, Horsmonden; John & Ann) igi Mary (1767, Horsmonden; John & Ann) igi
12 22 Oct 1768 Mary HICKMOTT Goudhurst reg
1769 Mary HICKMOTT of ‘Yalden’/David THOMAS of Horsmonden (banns)Horsmonden
Anne (1770, Horsmonden; John & Ann) igi
23 Sep 1770 Sarah HICKMOTT Goudhurst nbi
02 Jan 1773 John HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg
05 Apr 1774 Mary HICKMOTT/Edward APPS Horsmonden igi Born at Horsmonden in 1743, Mary was the daughter of William and Elizabeth Hickmott nee Walters. Edward was born at Ninfield in Sussex in 1742. They lived at Goudhurst after their marriage and had eight children there between 1775 and 1788 (Mary, William, Edward, John, Ketura, Sarah, Ann and Elizabeth Apps).
03 Sep 1777 John HICKMOTT widower/Ann HINCKLEY Horsmonden reg (wit: John Apps)
John (1777, Horsmonden; Mary Stevens) reg Susanna (1777, Horsmonden; John & Ann) igi
30 Jun 1777 Richard HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg
12 Apr 1778 Susannah HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg
23 Sep 1781 Alice HICKMOTT sp of Brenchley/John ASHDOWN (witness: Thomas
Sarah (1781, Horsmonden; John & Ann) igi Thomas (1781, Horsmonden) ‘bastard’ reg
13 Aug 1781 Ann HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg
25 Mar 1781 Ann HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg
21 Jun 1781 Celia HICKMOTT of Brenchley Horsmonden reg
1782 Margaret HICKMOTT of Langley/Henry PEARCE of Hors (banns)Horsmonden
1784/5 William HICKMOTT/Ann HIDER (banns) Horsmonden igi
16 Nov 1787 William HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg
01 Jan 1789 Stephen HICKMOTT of Brenchley/Rebecca HOBBS Horsmonden Stephen and Rebecca had two children at Horsmonden – Stephen (1789) and Harriet (1792) – and then three at Brenchley: John (1795), Richard (1797) and David (1800). We haven’t as yet been able to
13 determine Stephen’s parents although his marriage record notes that he was from Brenchley.
03 Dec 1789 William HICKMOTT of ‘Yalden’/Eliz MACE Horsmonden igi We think William was born at Lamberhurst in 1737, the third son of James and Mary Hickmott of that village. His last will and testament states that he was a yeoman farmer who held a number of parcels of land around Horsmonden. It seems that the family later moved to Marden. The 1841 census has a William Hickmot, aged 79, said to be independent and born in the county, living at Marden with a Mary Ladams aged 58 and also both independent and born in the county.
Stephen (1789, Horsmonden; Stephen & Rebecca) igi
[03 Jul 1792 John HICKMOTT/Sarah BAILEY Lamberhurst reg Born at Lamberhurst in 1763, John was the son of James and Mary Hickmott of Lamberhurst. John and Sarah may have had one child, John (1791), before they were married. We know they had five children after their marriage, all born at Lamberhurst: James (1793)=Sarah Ticehurst at Lamberhurst in 1825, Martha (1794), Elizabeth (1797)=George Pierce at Lamberhurst in 1814, Harriet (1803)=George Farley at Lamberhurst in 1828, and Sarah (1799).
John (1791, Horsmonden; John & Sarah) igi William (1791, Horsmonden; Wm & Eliz) igi Harriet (1792, Horsmonden; Stephen & Rebecca) igi
14 Jun 1793 Hannah HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg Hannah was possibly the daughter of Stephen Hickmott and Hannah Scrace, born at Brenchley in 1791.
Thomas (1794, Horsmonden; John & Mary) igi
John (1795, Horsmonden; Wm & Elizabeth [Mace]) igi
14 Jun 1797 Ann HICKMOTT/William PERRY Horsmonden igi
Thomas (1797, Horsmonden; John & Mary) igi
05 Jul 1798 Isaac HICKMOTT Goudhurst reg
1800s
14 Dec 1800 John HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg
William (1800, Horsmonden) census James (1803, Horsmonden) census
01 Mar 1804 William HICKMOTT, 14 days Goudhurst nbi
26 May 1805 Ann HICKMOTT Horsmonden reg
14 01 Dec 1812 Mary HICKMOTT, 85 Goudhurst nbi
19 Oct 1815 John HICKMOT/Mary POTTER Horsmonden igi (witness: Edward Potter) John and Mary were born at Horsmonden in 1789 and 1798 respectively. We think John was probably a son of John Hickmott and Sarah Bailey born before they were married. John and Mary had at least six children all born at Horsmonden: William (1816), Sarah (1819), Mary (1821), Stephen (1823), Sophia (1827) and James (1830). According to Nancy Rivers, the whole family emigrated to the United States probably in 1854.
William (1816, Horsmonden; John & Mary)=Jane Hall igi
30 Sep 1818 John HICKMOTT, 74 Horsmonden reg Baptised at Horsmonden in around 1744, John was the only son of John and Susannah Hickmott and grandson of Leonard and Margaret Hickmott. We think that he married Ann Hinckley at Horsmonden in 1777 and had at least two daughters: Susannah and Sarah.
Sarah (1819-43, Horsmonden; John & Mary) igi Mary (1821, Horsmonden; John & Mary) igi
17 Mar 1822 Francis HICKMOTT, 72 Goudhurst reg
Stephen (1823, Horsmonden; John & Mary) igi
14 Oct 1826 James HICKMOTT/Mary STANBRIDGE Horsmonden igi Living at Newenden in Kent at the time of the 1851 census. James had been born at Horsmonden in 1803 and Mary was born at Goudhurst in 1806. No children.
Sophia (1827, Horsmonden; John & Mary)=Jas Nye in 1849 igi Henry (1829, Goudhurst) census James (1830, Horsmonden; John & Mary) igi
12 Nov 1837 John HICKMOTT, 81 Goudhurst nbi
[1838 Abraham HICKMOTT/Caroline BURTON Malling bmd] The censuses show Abraham was born at Brenchley, the son of Stephen and Hannah, and Caroline at Horsmonden. They had seven children, all born at Horsmonden: Mary Ann (1839), Ellen (1841), William (1843), Dallsey (1845=Thomas Waghorn at Brenchley in 1864), Thomas (1848), Sarah (1850), Charles (1853).
Mary Ann (1838, Horsmonden; Abraham & Caroline Burton) bdm
04 Dec 1841 William HICKMOTT Horsmonden igi
14 Dec 1841 William HICKMOTT/Jane HALL Horsmonden igi William was the eldest son of John and Mary Hickmott nee Potter of Horsmonden. He and his family were living next door to John and
15 Mary at Horsmonden at the time of the 1851 census. They had eight children at Horsmonden – Jane (1841), James (1843), Ann (1844), Alfred (1846), Sophia (1847), Stephen (1848), John (1850) and Henry John (1851) – and one, Mary Louise (1854) at sea while the family was en route to the United States. Jane died in childbirth in 1854. William died at Pontiac in Michigan in the United States in 1896.
Ellen (1841, Horsmonden; Abraham & Caroline Burton) igi William (1841, Horsmonden; Ann Hickmott) igi
08 Jan 1841 William HICKMOTT, 76 Goudhurst nbi
Jane (1842, Horsmonden; William & Jane) igi
11 Aug 1842 Jane HICKMOTT, 75 Goudhurst nbi
31 Dec 1843 Sarah HICKMOTT, 24 Horsmonden reg Sarah was born at Horsmonden in 1819, most likely the eldest daughter of John Hickmott and Mary Potter of that village.
William (1843, Horsmonden; Abraham & Caroline Burton) igi James (1843-4, Horsmonden; William & Jane) igi Ann (1844, Horsmonden; William & Jane) igi William (1843, Horsmonden; Abraham & Caroline Burton) igi James (1843, Horsmonden; William & Jane) igi Dallsey (1845, Horsmonden: Abraham & Caroline)=Thos Waghorn census
[c1845 Thomas HICKMOTT/Charlotte census Thomas was born at Lamberhurst in 1815, the fourth son of Nathaniel Hickmott and Mary Tomset. The 1851 census shows Thomas and Charlotte living at Goudhurst with their two children Eliza and Edward who were said to have been born at Wadhurst and Goudhurst.]
13 Dec 1845 Ann HICKMOTT, 82 Goudhurst nbi
Alfred (1846, Horsmonden; Wm & Jane) igi Esther (1846, Horsmonden; Thomas & Charlotte) igi James (1847, Horsmonden; Mary Hickmott) igi Sophia (1847, Horsmonden; Wm & Jane) igi Thomas (1848, Horsmonden; Abraham & Caroline Burton) census Stephen (1848, Horsmonden; William & Jane) bdm
24 Apr 1849 Sophia HICKMOTT/ James NYE Horsmonden igi Sophia was born at Horsmonden in 1829, the daughter of John and Mary Hickmott nee Potter. According to Nancy Rivers, she and James emigrated to the United States sometime before the 1851 census. They lived in Oakland County in Michigan where they had six children. James and Sophia died at West Bloomfield in Michigan in 1873 and 1915 respectively.
John (1850, Horsmonden; William & Jane) igi Sarah (1850, Horsmonden; Abraham & Caroline Burton) igi Edward (1851, Horsmonden; Thomas & Charlotte) igi Eliza (1851, Horsmonden; Thomas & Charlotte) igi Henry (1851, Horsmonden; William & Jane) bdm
16 William (1852, Horsmonden; Ann Hickmott) bdm Charles (1853, Horsmonden; Abraham & Caroline Burton) igi
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