FICKUS family

[traceydiment]

Hi

I am reseaching my grandmother's maiden name FICKUS, and have found ancestors in Dorset.  I have traced back to a John Hurred Fickus (BORN 1807), but I am not sure whether he was from Dorset as Census records state that he was born in Steyning West Sussex, but christening records suggest he was christened in Salisbury, Wiltshire but I seem to be coming up with residency details in Dorset.  Is anyone researching the same family tree and if so can you help me?

Tracey

[AUSTFoulds]

Hi, Tracey

I've got a Sarah Fickus (born c. 1797 in Somersetshire) who married Daniel Burr Garling in 1830 and in the marriage notice her father was the late Lieutenant Fickus of the Somerset Militia. I've just started looking into him so I've only got scraps.

He's listed as being the John Fickus, Quartermaster in the 2nd Somerset Militia, in army lists. And in a subscriber list for a book on the history of Taunton, Somersetshire, he's living in Bath.

On the UK National Archives site, the Somerset Archive and Record Service holds a copy of probate for John Hurad Fickus of Walcot, lieutenant and quartermaster in 2nd Somerset Militia, pr.1825. The Hurad is why your posting caught my eye.

On http://www.archive.org/stream/somersetparishre10phil/somersetparishre10phil_djvu.txt
PHILLIMORES PARISH REGISTER SERIES, VOL. LXXXVni. (SOMERSET, VOL. X.) there's a John Fickus & Sarah Hurred, lie. . .


On http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Taunton/Tmar_Fe.html
Taunton St Mary's
Marriages 1728-1812
Fickus John Sarah Hurred 23 Dec 1771

Boyd's Marriage Index  1538-1840
1771  FICKUS  JN  HURRED  SARA  TAUNTON ST MARY MAGDALENE  SOMERSET 

On http://www.paulhyb.homecall.co.uk/parishes/taunmba4.txt
Taunton St Mary Magdalene 1735-1750
1740 06Nov Fickus Edmund - Edmund and Ann
1744 12Dec Fickus John - Edmund and Ann



And on http://www.cmcrp.net/phpdig/text_content/12406.txt:
A Little Bit of Ireland Connaught Journal MAy 1823 Connaught Journal Galway, Ireland Thursday, May 1, 1823 STATE OF THE COUNTRY [From the D.E. Post]
In Bath, on the 21st ult after a short ilness, Eliza, the lady of John FICKUS, Esq of the 2d Somerset Militia, and eldest daughter of Mr. John WHITAKER, of Dublin.

So your John Hurred Fickus might be some kind of relative of these Fickuses.

Regards

Olwen

[AUSTFoulds]

Hi, again.

I think now that your John Hurred Fickus is the son of my John Hurred Fickus. I found the following from the Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle etc (Portsmouth, England), Monday, November 30, 1807

Southampton.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28.
...Monday and Tuesday the second battalion of the Somerset Militia marched through this town on their route to Salisbury.

That would explain why John Hurred Fickus jun. was born in one county and baptised in another.

regards

Olwen