Ancestors

Lydia Hicks

Lydia Hicks was baptised at St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, in Surrey, on 6 September 1612. Her father, Robert Hicks, came to Plymouth in the Fortune in 1621. His wife Margaret and the children followed in the Anne two years later, so Lydia crossed at about ten.

In May 1627 Plymouth divided the colony's cattle among its households, and the list of shares sets out who lived in each one. Lydia is listed in her father's household, unmarried, at fourteen.

By about 1633 she had married Edward Bangs, who had come in the Anne in 1623 and was about twenty years older. Their son John was born about 1634. Robert Charles Anderson writes that she "apparently died within a year or two" of the marriage. Find a Grave gives her death as May 1634, without a source. By about 1635 Edward had married again, to a woman named Rebecca, who bore the rest of his children.

For a long time Lydia was made the mother of all ten Bangs children. Savage named Edward's wife Lydia, and Freeman's History of Cape Cod named her Rebecca, and the two names were treated as a dispute about one woman. They were two women. Her father's will of 1645 names one Bangs grandchild, John, and so does the will his widow Margaret made in 1665. John married Hannah Smalley at Eastham on 23 January 1660/1.

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Cite: Heirology, "Lydia Hicks (1612-1634)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/lydia-hicks-1612-1634-b56b28.