Family Connections
The lineages of persons marrying into the Barcham family have been included in Chris
Farrow's Barcham Family Chronicle. We carry their genes and they are an important
part of our family's heritage. The following pedigrees are of interest:
Rivers Hicks
John Pritchard has provided interesting information about his great-grandmother
Edith Barcham (b.1853) the daughter of Elizabeth (née Green) and Thomas Barcham of
Mundesley and Paston.In 1878, Edith Barcham married Rivers Hicks, an 'East India
merchant'. They lived at 10 Alwyne Road, Islington, where they had six children:
the eldest Rivers Keith Hicks (1878-1954) emigrated to Canada and died in Toronto;
the third child Peter Rivers Hicks (1881-1948) married Jesse Elizabeth Andrews. They
had two children.The second child was Peter Rivers (1909-1994). In 1936, at St Clement
Danes in the Strand, Peter Rivers Hicks married Felicity Hughes. From 1931 to 1976,
Peter was a stockbroker; and a member of the London Stock Exchange Council from 1949
to 1961. At the outbreak of World War II, he went to the Royal Military Academy at
Sandhurst; and in 1940 he was commissioned into the Royal West Kent Regiment and
served ‘with gallantry and distinction in France, West Africa, North Africa and Italy.
On 8 June 1944 the London Gazette reported: 'The King has been graciously pleased
on the occasion of His Majesty’s Birthday to give orders for the following promotions
in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire: Major (temporary
Lieutenant-Colonel) Peter Rivers Hicks (126452), The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent
Regiment'.
The Browning Connection
Don Montague, Malcolm Walker-Kinnear and Clare Eagle have
provided more information about another limb of Elizabeth (née Lacy) and William
Barcham’s branch: the family of Edith (née Barcham) Hicks' cousin Robert William
Barcham (1859-1913) who married Constance Eliza de la Mare (1866-1956). Constance
was the daughter of Lucy Sophia Browning and James Edward de la Mare. One of her
grandfathers was Colin Arrott Browning (1791-1856) who had a distinguished career.
At the age of 22, he was appointed assistant surgeon in the Royal Navy. In 1815 he
was awarded the Waterloo Medal for care of the wounded; he served in the Battle of
Algiers in 1816; and was promoted surgeon in 1815. In 1831, he became surgeon-superintendent
aboard ships transporting convicts to Australia. He was a reformer of conditions
aboard these ships and wrote two books: England's Exiles and The Convict Ship. Colin
Arrott Browning married Eliza Green (1800-1863) at Sevenoaks, Kent, in 1800, daughter
of Hannah and Samuel Green of Sevenoaks, Kent. Eliza’s stepmother (Samuel’s second
wife) was Rachel Barcham (1788-1868) of Edingthorpe, the widow of James Beard, a
watchmaker residing in Tonbridge, Kent, who died in 1813: thus there is another link
between branches of the Barcham family.
