The Hicklings
in England from the 17th Century
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comparable genealogies to that of the Norfolk families have been found. From Anglo-Saxon times until the present day
most Hicklings in England still live mainly in the region which was once
Mercia.
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ICKLING families were, for the most part, slaves and
caretakers of the land that their forefathers had managed for centuries and
there was little to record their existence.
It is only in the 17th century that the records of their births,
marriages and deaths begin to appear. As the 1881 Census reveals and the 20th
Century telephone directories confirm, the majority of Hicklings still live in
the in the region of the Lincolnshire
Fens and the wide valleys of the Trent and its tributary the Soar in South Derbyshire,
South Nottinghamshire and North Leicestershire.
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the Fens the foundations of (St) Guthlac’s original church at Crowland were
found in Anchor Church Field which was owned and protected by a Hickling
farming family until 1866. In 1708 Dr
Stukely <saw a remnant of a chapel there> about a quarter of a mile NE of
Croyland Abbey.
The variant spelling HICKLIN without the G is most prolific in the west in South Derbyshire and East Staffordshire
To exchange information about specific Hicklin(g) ancestors and family groups please contact Malcolm Hickling