| John Cushing (Cushyn or Cushyng), the elder, son of William and Emma Cushing, was born in Hingham but lived in Hardingham, where he possessed estates. He alsoowned large properties in Lombard Street, London. Called "Gentleman" in a survey of the manor of Flockthorp in Hardingham, dated 1512. His will is dated 21 February, 1522 and proved 5 March, 1523; it mentions his wife and six children.He is mentioned in the Subsidy Rolls of Henry VIII for 1523. |
The Will of John Cussheng the elder of Hardingham 1523
The will was made 21st February 1522. He asks to be buried in the churchyard at Hardingham. He leaves various bequests to the church. He mentions his eldest son John and then his other children Thomas, William, Margaret, Isabell, Margery, Elyn and Annes. He leaves bequests to his daughters upon their marriages, he leaves 20 shillings to his servant John Pell [?], 5 shillings to his niece Joan Daly, 3s 3d to his goddaughter Christian Fuller and 13 shillings 3d to his sister Annes Cusshyn. He leaves the tenement in which he [the son John] lives in Hardingham with all its lands to his son John. He leaves the tenement in which he [the testator] lives in in Hardingham with its lands to his second son Thomas when he reaches the age of 25, but in the meantime hemay occupy and make use of it. He leaves the tenement in Hardingham called Gilberds with all its yards and stables to his third son William upon reaching the age of 25, but in the meantime he may occupy and make use of it. He makes his brother Robert andsons John and Thomas the executors. The will was proved on 5th March 1523
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CU01
CU01 follows the direct male Cushing line. Dates before 1500 are usually approximate as births and deaths were often not registered only names of children. I have used Wills, graves, encyclopaedia references, books and web sources such as Wikipedia and have only recorded on this tree plausible dates, the web is unfortunately full of impossible records!
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AL001
AL001 Leads to Abraham Lincoln. OK just a family link via a marriage, but Sarah Lincoln (an ancestor of Abraham Lincoln) married a Cushing descendant Daniel Cushing. The Cushing and Lincoln families were close friends living in Hingham and Wymondham back in the 1600s. If you explore Sarahs father he was involved in King Philip's War which was an armed conflict in 1675–1676 between indigenous inhabitants of New England and New England colonists and their indigenous allies. The war is named for Metacom, the Wampanoag chief who adopted the name Philip because of the friendly relations between his father Massasoit and the Mayflower Pilgrims. |
| Hingham has so many grand houses it was once known as Little London. Hingham Market Place boasts some particularly fine Georgian buildings. Some are even older behind fine facades, including the The White Hart Inn, with its impressive white hart statue standing guard above a columned porch. The town has long-standing royal connections too. More than 1,000 years ago it was the property of King Athelstan and from 1066 was owned by William the Conqueror. |
Lincoln legacy
The most famous son of Hingham is Abraham Lincoln, 19th century president of the USA. Friend of the Cushing family and apprentice weaver Samuel Lincoln left England for New England more than 200 years before his great, great, great, great grandson Abraham became president, but his roots are remembered in Norfolk. The town hall in Norfolk’s Hingham is called Lincoln Hall and exactly 100 years ago a bust of the American president, who led the US through the civil war and abolished slavery, was unveiled in the parish church by the American ambassador.
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Exodus
When some of the 17th century residents of Hingham, Norfolk, Including many Cushings, got fed up with what they saw as the godless ways of their country they simply created another Hingham more than 3,000 miles away across the Atlantic. So many left Hingham, Norfolk, for Hingham, USA, in the 1630s that residents who stayed in the original Hingham wrote to Parliament to complain that the town had been devastated by the exodus of ‘most of the able inhabitants.’ These included the rector Robert Peck and half his congregation, Edward Gilman, ancestor of one of the men who signed the US constitution and Samuel Lincoln, ancestor of President Abraham Lincoln. |
WILLIAM Cushing CU01
EMMA (Emme) Parnell (Cushing)
Naissance
