62. Henry Hicks
Father of Sarah Ann Hicks. Son of Henry Hicks and Harriett Hicks
He was widowed and living at 53 Plaistow Road, West Ham, Essex, at the time of the 1881 census:
| Name | Marr | Age | Sex | Birthplace |
| Harriet Hicks | M | 63 | F | Walsham Abbey, Essex |
| Henry Hicks | W | 42 | M | West Ham, Essex |
| Harriet Hicks | M | 37 | F | West Ham, Essex |
| Robert Hicks | U | 37 | M | West Ham, Essex |
| Sarah Hicks | U | 25 | F | West Ham, Essex |
| Elizabeth Hicks | U | 15 | F | West Ham, Essex |
| William Hicks | U | 10 | M | Forling, Surrey |
Witnessed his daughter's wedding to George Neaves on 22 January 1882 in Emmanuel Church in the Parish of Forest Gate. A Confectioner at that time.
[August 2003. I've just had an e-mail correspondence with Fred Hicks who has kindly sent me the following census entry for 1871 (West Ham):
8 Plaistow [Grove?]
| Name | Relationship to head of household | Age | Occupation | Birthplace | |
| Henry Hicks | Head | 63 | Labourer [Confectioner?] | Loughton, Essex | |
| Harriet Hicks | Wife | 54 | Waltham Abbey | ||
| [Ro?]bert [Al?]bert Hicks | Son | 22 | Bricklaying labourer | West Ham | |
| Thomas Hicks | Son | 18 | Clerk at docks | West Ham | |
| Jane Hicks | Daughter | 12 | Scholar | West Ham |
Based on this and evidence from his own researches, Fred Hicks has constructed the following likely scenario [my comments in brackets]:
Henry Hicks was born in 1839, to Harriet and Henry Hicks.
He married young (c17) and had Sarah (1856), Henry (c1860), and Elizabeth (1866).
The family went to Fortling, Surrey, where William was born in 1871 [this assumes the census record for 1881 is accurate, which it might not be]
His wife died, possibly in the birth of William (1871).
He moved back to West Ham.
His father, Henry, died after 1871.
His mother, Harriet, and his brother, Robert, went to live with him.
His brother, Mr X, married a Harriet, but Mr X was, say, a sailor, and the couple had no home. [or Mr X was simply away from home at the night of the census, or the couple were seperated. One candidate for Mr X might be Thomas Hicks, although he would have been about 9 years younger than the married Harriet Hicks in the 1881 census. Another explanation is that Henry Hicks is wrongly described as a widow in the 1881 census or even that I made a transription error when I copied the entry at the Family Records Centre].
[As Fred Hicks has pointed out, there are similarities and discrepancies between his family of Hicks and mine. but the similarities are so close that they must be he same family IMHO, but with a few errors in the record, which is not surprising if the censuses are the main evidence. I must dig out my documents and investigate further.
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