Anyone with the name Hicinbothem is probably related to the rest of us. I’ve been interested in the genealogy of our name for many years. Here’s what we know:

The Hicinbothems in the US came from Ireland, but we have no information about their early days.

The first arrivals were probably brothers, David, Robert, and William, possibly along with their father or uncle, also a David. They arrived by ship from Liverpool, England, in 1840. At least one more came over somewhat later; there are records of a Sidney Hicinbothem in the early 1850s, but she did not settle in the NYC area with the rest of them. The 1840 date is interesting; it predates the Irish potato famine by several years, so one has to wonder what prompted their exodus. There may also have been yet another arrival; we’ve found a branch of the family in Idaho that has no known connection to the rest of us. Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to get any information from them so far.

The original male Hicinbothems settled in the Morrisania section of New York in what is now the Bronx. Quite a few of them are buried in Greenwood Cemetery there. All of the brothers married and had families, and their sons had families, and so on through six or seven generations, so there are now probably a couple of hundred Hicinbothems spread out all over the world. We have extensive records of most of them here.

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