This came from another list, but thought someone could use the information on the HALLS. Christy NE Oregon --Subject: HICKS in Essex, England pre-1800 >Most of those who post to this list seem to be tracing southern U.S. HICKS >families. I have no HICKS cousins in America, but a great-great-grandmother >was Susan(na) HICKS born in Little Burstead, Essex, England in 1773, the >daughter of John HICKS and Elizabeth SAVIDGE or SAVAGE, who married in 1759. >The father, John, appears to have come from outside Little Burstead, where he >was buried in 1801. > >I would like to find others tracing the HICKS line in Essex County, England. >Since HICKS seems to have a patronymic origin, I doubt very much if the many >bearers of the surname today are all descended from the same person, so I am >not interested in those from other areas, nor would HICKS in America today be >related to me except very distantly. > >The HICKS=SAVAGE marriage in 1759 afforded my relatives a little humor when >we met for our annual HALLS reunion ca. 1980, just after discovering this >marriage. (Susanna's grandson, William HALLS, was the emigrant to America). >Previously the family had thought that one Susan(na) CLEMENT was his >grandmother, but I was able to prove that Susan(na)'s surname was HICKS and >that her mother was a SAVAGE. "Thus," I quipped as the family genealogist, >"whereas we thought we were descended from the CLEMENTs, research has shown >that we are just a bunch of hicks and savages." Most laughed, except one >elderly relative, who firmly stated that nothing could make her ashamed of >her HALLS ancestry. > >Alan Phipps >Accredited in 1971 in English Research by the Family History Library >Salt Lake City, Utah >tele (801) "England" (364-5263) >fax (801) 364-2574 >e-mail: AlanPhipps@AOL.com (not to EnglandGen@AOL.com, which is often buried >in unread listmail) > >______________________________