John Hickman
Mayor of Oxford 1827/8
John Hickman (1765–1831) was a glazier.
On 2 March 1794 Hickman married Elizabeth Ann Taylor at St Peter-in-the-East Church, and on 23 June 1794 he was admitted free for 20 guineas and the usual fees.
Hickman and his family lived and worked at 85 High Street (right).
Hickman and his wife had twelve children:
- Elizabeth Hickman (baptised baptised at St Peter-in-the-East Church on 26 January 1795, buried 16 August 1799)
- Mary Hickman (baptised baptised at St Peter-in-the-East Church in early 1796 (transcript says 30 February), buried 25 June 1796)
- John Hickman I (baptised baptised at St Peter-in-the-East Church on 21 May 1797, buried there 1 May 1799)
- Jane Hickman (baptised baptised at St Peter-in-the-East Church on 15 August 1798)
- Frances Hickman I (no obvious baptism, buried as "Fanny" on 18 July 1799)
- Mary Hickman (baptised at St Peter-in-the-East Church on 17 September 1800)
- Elizabeth Anne Hickman (baptised at St Peter-in-the-East Church on 11 June 1802)
- Charles Randall Hickman (baptised at St Peter-in-the-East Church on 4 September 1804)
- Frances Hickman II (baptised at St Peter-in-the-East Church on 13 February 1806, buried on 10 April 1807)
- Harriet Hickman (baptised at St Peter-in-the-East Church on 30 December 1807)
- Henry Hickman (baptised at St Peter-in-the-East Church on 28 December 1808, buried there 23 January 1809)
- John Hickman II (baptised at St Peter-in-the-East Church on 9 July 1810).
Hickman came on to the Common Council on 30 September 1796, and was appointed a Viewer of Nuisances in 1799. In 1800 he was named Mayor’s Chamberlain, and was made Bailiff in 1804. In 1827 he was elected Mayor (for 1827/8).
Hickman died at 85 High Street at the age of 66 and was buried at St Peter-in-the-East Church on 11 July 1831. His widow Elizabeth Ann died here three years later at the age of 64 and was buried with him on 22 February 1834.
Hickman's surviving children
- Elizabeth Anne Hickman married John Sessions Barrett of Appleton at St Peter-in-the-East Church on 17 June 1824.
- Charles Randall Hickman married Martha Simmons at St Mary Magdalen Church on 15 July 1827. He took over his father’s business and was in the house alone at the time of the 1841 census. He died in 1849, and by the time of the 1851 census, the business had been taken over by Mrs Lucy Hickman. She was born in Worcester, and in 1851 was widow of 47, so it seems likely that she was the Mayor's daughter-in-law.
- Harriet Hickman married Francis Arther of Birmingham in 1832.
- John Hickman married Elizabeth Seary at St Mary Magdalen in 1830.
See also:
- PCC Will PROB 11/1789 (Will of John Hickman of Oxford, proved 25 August 1831)
- Jackson’s Oxford Journal, 9 July 1831: Announcement of Hickman’s death
- Jackson’s Oxford Journal, 22 February 1834: Announcement of Hickman’s widow’s death