Parish Registers

Baptisms

(child – father – surname – mother – baptismal date – place of baptism – place of residence)

• Margaret – John – BEESON – Elizabeth – 1661 10 27 – HICKLING St Luke – Hickling  
• Elizabeth – John – BEESTON – Elizabeth – 1670 05 11 – HICKLING St Luke – Hickling            
• John – John – BEESTON – Elizabeth – 1663 12 20 – HICKLING St Luke – Hickling     
• George – John – BEESTONE – Elizabeth – 1666 12 16 – HICKLING St Luke – Hickling
• Ane – John – BESON – Elezebeth – 1657 09 10 – HICKLING St Luke – Hickling
• Jane – John – BESON – 1659 10 09 – HICKLING St Luke – Hickling

Marriages

• BEESTON – Thomas – DICKMAN – Elizabeth – 1738 04 17 – HICKLING St Luke
• BEESTON – William – HOPPER – Mary Ann – 1861 10 05 – HICKLING St Luke
• BESON – John – MAN – Elizabeth – 1655 10 18 – HICKLING St Luke

Burials

• John BEESON – 1743 09 24 – HICKLING St Luke – Hickling                              
• Elizabeth BEESTON – 1670 06 04 – HICKLING St Luke – Hickling – Wife of John
• Elizabeth BEESTON – 1670 07 04 – HICKLING St Luke – Hickling – Dau of John
• Susanna BEESTON – 1672 02 01 – HICKLING St Luke – Hickling – Widd.
• George BEESTON – 1674 12 27 – HICKLING St Luke – Hickling                              
• John BEESTON – 1675 01 03 – HICKLING St Luke – Hickling – Jnr.
• Margaret BEESTON – 1686 11 14 – HICKLING St Luke – Hickling – Nottingham – Dau of George, Maulster
• Anne BEESTON – 1699 04 29 – HICKLING St Luke – Hickling – Widd.
• Margaret BEESTONE – 1663 06 12 – HICKLING – St Luke – Hickling                
• John BEESTONE – 1685 11 01 – HICKLING St Luke – Hickling
• John BESON – 1660 01 23 – HICKLING St Luke – Hickling
• Ane BESON – 1660 02 26 – HICKLING St Luke – Hickling

(there are no surviving headstones in Hickling churchyard and no records for this family in the cemetery)          

Protestation Returns 1641

There is one listing for John Beeson (no further detail)

Wills.

A number of references in Hickling and the surrounding villages can be found by searching Beeston (etc) in the Will Index.

Including:

• Pritchard Jane 1685 of Hickling will: “Item I give unto Jane Beeston the daughter of John Beeston the sum of twenty shillings […] All the residue of my money and goods unbequeathed and my funeral charges discharged and debts payed I give and bequeath unto George Man in the Close and John Beeston whom I make soal executors of this my last will and testament.”
• Pritchard William 1680 of Hickling will: ‘sealed & delivered in the presence of John Beeson.

Census Records (1840-1921)

• 1881: Mary Ellen – Beeson – Servant – Single – Female – 75 –  born1806 – Domestic servant – born Honington, Lincolnshire. Mary Beeson is working in the Featherstone household which, at this time, was a school; the house is now known as Weir House and is located on the corner of Main Street and Clawson Lane.